REIVEW: Comforting the Grump by Nora Phoenix (Forestville Silver Foxes #5)

COMFORTING THE GRUMP

Forestville Silver Foxes - Book Five

by Nora Pheonix

Release Date: January 17, 2025

Review

There is always something about someone finding love later in life, which is why I love this series. And it’s extra special when that someone has spent a lifetime believing they are not worthy, discovering they absolutely are.

Marning and Ennio may seem like an unexpected pairing; the sunshiney romantic and the grumpy playboy but what they share is loyalty and balance. Marnin’s cancer scare gives him a fresh perspective which helps to open him to Ennio’s presence and the prospect of love.

What they both discover is a person who will be there for them through anything (and some really good sex!).

It’s a thoughtful and warm story that has a lot of depth, and it was wonderful to finally get their story.

And oh man, that scene with Marnin and Sheriff Frant senior - gah, crying

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Synopsis

I don’t do emotions or romantic entanglements.

My life is simple: I work hard and I play hard, with anyone willing. I’m not discriminatory. And then I go home…alone.

Until my body decides to stop cooperating. Nothing is stirring anymore, and it scares me to death.

While navigating this issue, support comes from an unlikely source. Ennio, my best friend’s little brother, is sweet and sassy but also stubborn in his decision to be there for me. He’s the vibrant glittery sunshine to my grumpy black heart.

I don’t need him, of course, but I can’t deny it’s nice to have him around to comfort me. He has his own challenges to deal with, and somehow, we become friends. With excellent benefits.

But I’m not the right man for him. I’m too old, too dark, too set in my ways, Right?

Comforting the Grump is a small town, age gap MM romance in which the grumpiest grump falls for his best friend’s sunshiny little brother. This gay romance novel is the fifth book in the Forestville Silver Foxes series, a contemporary small town MM romance series featuring hot silver foxes and the men who fall in love with them. Each book can be read as a standalone.

About Nora Phoenix

Would you like the long or the short version of my bio?

The short? You got it.

I write steamy gay romance books, and I love it. I also love reading books. Books are everything.

How was that?

A little more detail? Gotcha.

I started writing my first stories when I was a teen…on a freaking typewriter. I still have these, and they’re adorably romantic. And bad, haha. Fear of failing kept me from following my dream to become a romance author, so you can imagine how proud and ecstatic I am that I finally overcame my fears and self doubt and did it. I adore my genre because I love writing and reading about flawed, strong men who are just a tad broken..but find their happy ever after anyway.

My favorite books to read are pretty much all MM/gay romances as long as it has a happy end. Kink is a plus… Aside from that, I also read a lot of nonfiction and not just books on writing. Popular psychology is a favorite topic of mine and so are self help and sociology.

Hobbies? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Just kidding. I love traveling, spending time near the ocean, and hiking. But I love books more.

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