Up All Night: Mount Hope, Book 1

Good story. Good author. It's worth reading this book and all of her other books too. Binge read everything. Enjoy 🥂 💞

This was a lot of fun. Very engaging main characters, guys I’d love to have as friends. Looking g forward to the next one in the series.

Firefighter, Sean Murphy, 43, has returned to his hometown of Mount Hope, Oregon, after a twenty year marriage, subsequent divorce and raising two children. He has a lot unanswered questions about his life. His parents are thrilled he’s back and he immediately reconnected with his old friends but he still isn’t sure what direction he wants this new era of his life to take. He does know he’s very interested in the burly overnight short order cook at the diner, and that’s certainly new.Denver Rucker, 39, is a nomad. Travels town to town and job to job never putting down roots. Raised in foster care and burned by bad relationships, Denver knows he’s not long for Mount Hope. It’s a nice enough little town, but if you stay too long somewhere you’re bound to form attachments and that just leads to heartache. But even so, a quick little one and done or maybe even casual fling with the ginger-haired new firefighter might be fun.Sexy, romantic, a new series and fantastic new characters. Can’t wait for more!

I have read books by this author and they were pretty good. I barely managed to get about halfway through this one. It was just multiple sex scenes joined by a few pages of flimsy plot. It was just not something I could continue with.

Up All Night is the first book in Annabeth Albert's brand-new small-town M/M romance series, Mount Hope, which is set in a fictional Oregonian town by the same name. The series is about a close-knit group of friends who come together after one of them becomes a widow and single father to four kids. One of those friends is Sean Murphy, a forty-three-year-old divorced man with two adult children and a former fire captain back in Seattle. Moving back to Mount Hope allowed him to be closer to his parents while also being there for one of his closest friends and his family. When Denver Rucker, the thirty-eight-year-old short-order cook at Honey's Hotcake Hut, offers him a ride and a shower, Sean can't refuse--not when he wants to explore the draw between the two of them. Knowing that being in Mount Hope is temporary for both of them, Denver and Sean decide to engage in a fling. But then feelings start to creep in--the kind of feelings that are more about forever than just for now. Will they choose to stay and fight for it?As always, Annabeth Albert delivers the feels with her latest series starter, and she's given the series a cast of characters that make it easy to want more from them. Sean and Denver were an interesting pair, and it was clear why they were as hesitant as they were to engage in anything past a one-time hook-up, especially on Denver's end. I liked seeing them forge a friendship amidst the non-platonic feelings they had developing between them. As good as the one-on-one time they had was, I also thought that their interactions with those who were closest to them were great because it helped firm up the foundation of the series as a whole. My hesitation in giving this book a higher rating has to do with how easily Sean jumped into the initial hook-up with Denver and then everything else that followed. Then there was Sean's relationships with his son and daughter, which was supposedly close but there wasn't much of it on the page. Still, Up All Night was an entertaining beginning to this new series and garners four stars.

I love that the characters are in their 40s was getting tired of reading about 20 something’s I wanted to read something different. I loved the concept love the town. I love a man in uniform too 🤭🤭. Pretty good book. I just hated that the kids never seemed to get any type of punishment for their behavior (specifically wren) like I understand letting ur kid explore and stuff and have their freedom to like conduct experiments or whatever but that scene with the grill someone could have gotten seriously hurt and it seems no one really did anything about it. But maybe that’s cause they were just background characters but still I would have loved a lecture from Sean to wren about fire safety.

Two men coming together to help secure a future together. Gay love blooms quickly for one while the other takes time to heal old emotional wounds and scars. A lovely tale of two beautiful souls and men coming tighter for a truly HEA. Thank you, Annabeth!

This could be Ian and Mickey in a very different world. IYKYK i hope the series continues to be good.

❤️ 🔥 A good start to the book with Sean and Denver very briefly bumping into each other at a town event.Sean was new back in his home town after years of being away and exploring what to do next with his life. Sean, 43 years, was single again after his marriage to his wife ended. He was born into the fire fighting career as his father was the town’s Captain before his upcoming retirement.Denver, 39 years, worked at Honey’s and admired a certain hot fireman back in town.Things heat up with a quick hookup with Denver being gay.This is a fast romance for Sean as he was a V card holder for the guys, we don’t get all the angst for being with another man. I kinda missed that in this.Denver has self imposed rules that he doesn't break, but they tumble down with the connection he has for Sean.They're perfect for each other, I loved their puns they use for sexy times, a shower, a ride etc. They needed to sort out what they were doing together. I loved Sean’s cockiness as he teases Denver but Denver’s always in charge😉🔥, he’s bossy that one lol.Trigger warning of an accident deaths told as a result with firefighting duties. When two drifters meet and end up finding love. A really great ending to the book for an HEA, I really loved this one and look forward to the next in the series.

4/5 I’ve come to realise that closeted/coming out is one of my least favourite tropes in MM romance, I think because the journey is often so angsty and uncertain about sense of self, plus it’s often damaging to the relationship (plus it can often have people reacting badly. I know this is a sad reality, but I want sunshine, rainbows, and good behaviour for everyone).That being said, I found that this novel dealt with it quite well. Just as I worried we were going to get too mired in angst, things started to resolve. Sean had uncertain moments, but he was actually pretty confident in himself and just had to figure out how to share with the world. Denver was worried, but a lot of it was tied up more with himself than with Sean.I liked how the two of them *behaved* with feelings even if they spent a while not able to admit either to themselves or one another that they were feeling them. I liked how they just seemed to click with one another, and how they fit into one another’s lives, even when there were a lot of differences between them. I appreciated Sean sticking with his guns about not needing to sow wild oats to know what he wanted.I enjoyed the tight-knit group of friends who came together to make sure that Eric and the kids would be okay. (Similarly, the town showing its support for Honeys.) I’m looking forward to seeing more couple get together and getting to see all these people we’ve met here in future books. This seems like a really nice place to live.

Annabeth Albert always writes a sweet story and this was another gorgeous read. Sean and Denver had many hurdles to jump over with Denver mostly, in not trusting in himself. But having a determined lover to push him, made him appreciate the little things in life. I’m really looking forward to Off The Clock and have already pre ordered it. 😍📚🥰

What is interesting about this story is the tension between a loner with a non-existent family background and a man who has family in spades, and long existing ties to them, his firefighting job and small town. How Denver and Sean overcome their barriers with humour, patience and of course raging sex, makes for an entertaining read and a HEA. Well done.

Denver is a nomad with no ties until Sean bumps into him at a wake. Sean temporarily moves back to his hometown after his divorce to help his friend learn to become a single parent after loosing his husband. Denver is the cook at the 24hr diner where all the first responders go after a shift.