Friday, June 27, 2025

Luxuries of Lust (Passing Through Cafe #3)


Here's Nik Knight's "Luxuries of Lust." Its the third novel in their Passing Through Cafe series. 

["When it came to love, Rusty had resigned himself to never being enough, and Gem knew he would always be too much. Turns out, they were both wrong.

As a Pyclon from Lust, Rusty learned early the cruel rules of the Pentagram. Happiness is for the privileged. Hope for the weak. And absolutely nothing comes free. So he accepts a life of happy enough, of good enough, of just… enough. Anything more is impossible for someone like him.

That is, until he meets Gemae Akyllo.

With a brain that never rests and an ass that won’t quit, Gem is objectively a lot. His physical size is rivaled only by that of his personality—neither of which he will ever apologize for—but there’s a cost. He’s fun for a night, chosen first for a good time, but come morning, his bed is cold and empty. Always wanted, but never kept.

That is, until he meets Rusty Róisyn.

Rusty never wanted love, and Gem doesn’t need it. But together, they find it all the same."]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, but I looove that this series takes place along the same timeline. It's fun to see the same scenes from different POVs, see the before and the after. 

I also love that's we've been waiting for this couple since the first book. The second one just kept teasing us for more. It also made watching them slowly fall in love all the more pining and angsty and sad. 

Because of course their story had tons of sad parts in it. As the blurb says, Rusty never wanted love, and Gem doesn't need it. They were both so seemingly happy with their lives, but when their friendship grew and then grew again, they realized they were happier now, together.

Trigger Warnings: on-page grief, death of a parent (past), discussions/inner monologue about previous sex work and the aftermath thereof—including allusions to sexual assault/abuse (past), themes of classism, speciesism, and bigotry, non-consensual drugging/spiking of a drink, and more.

#gayromancereviews #grr #arcs #arcteammember
#passingthroughpurgatory #gratificationingluttony #luxuriesoflust #nikknight #passingthroughcafe #passingthroughcafeseries #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

No comments:

Post a Comment

Bad Habits (Hitters MC #1)

I'm in a dark-romance-era (yes, again), and I'm working through the Mayhem Universe (including authors as such as Skylar Snow and Br...