BBNYA Spotlight | The Strange Grey Everything

The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it to the semi-finals with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title.

BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 15 (17 in 2025) finalists and one overall winner.

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The Strange Grey Everything
Rebecca Crunden

Damien Giles hasn’t seen his husband in twelve years. Not since Carlisle left him on their honeymoon. All Damien got was his father-in-law telling him that Carlisle wasn’t coming back. (Twice.) And yet divorce papers never arrived.

Now Carlisle’s back in town for his brother’s wedding and keeps crossing Damien’s path. More baffling to Damien is how little Carlisle’s changed – and how much he still seems to care for Damien. Which, after twelve years of silence, is more than a little ridiculous.

As tensions rise and secrets resurface, Damien begins re-examining their relationship for all the things he missed and soon learns that there is far more to his husband and their history than he knows. But the more he learns about the reasons behind his husband’s disappearance, the more Damien realises that leaving him the first time might just have been the kindest thing Carlisle could have done for him.

Page Count: 256 Pages
Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Mystery
Age Category: Adult
Date Published: January 8, 2025

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This was one of the excerpts that I read this year and I really enjoyed it. It had a very mysterious quality to it and a lot had been introduced that I thought was going to be very exciting as the story continued. I could definitely see a lot of drama and tension between the characters and had high hopes for that getting even better further into the story.