Reviews

Held for Ransom by Layla M. Wier

siria's review against another edition

4.0

A fast-paced, light read. DJ Lanning lives in a tiny, quiet town in rural Illinois, where the only job he can scrounge up is part-time in the local gas station and where his romantic prospects as a gay man are slim. Then, while helping to set up for the town's annual winter carnival, he runs into a mysterious stranger called Ransom, who may just be the kind of guy DJ's been looking for. Wier's scene-setting was great—I really bought Osmar as a fading Midwestern small town, populated with some quirky characters (including Amber, one of the POV characters, whom I adored). I would have liked a couple more scenes between DJ and Ransom where we got a little more chemistry between them, got to see a little more of them getting to know one another, but I get how plot reasons made that difficult to do. Still, very enjoyable, and I look forward to further books in the series.