Book Review

Book Review: Wickedly Wonderful by Deborah Blake

Posted on December 2, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Ami

1Title: Wickedly Wonderful
Author: Deborah Blake
Series: Baba Yaga #2
Heroine/Hero: Beka Yancy/Marcus Dermott
Genre: MF Paranormal
Length: 352 Pages
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Available at:  Berkley, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Known as the wicked witch of Russian fairy tales, Baba Yaga is not one woman, but rather a title carried by a chosen few. They keep the balance of nature and guard the borders of our world, but don’t make the mistake of crossing one of them…
Though she looks like a typical California surfer girl, Beka Yancy is in fact a powerful yet inexperienced witch who’s struggling with her duties as a Baba Yaga. Luckily she has her faithful dragon-turned-dog for moral support, especially when faced with her biggest job yet…

A mysterious toxin is driving the Selkie and Mer from their homes deep in the trenches of Monterey Bay. To investigate, Beka buys her way onto the boat of Marcus Dermott, a battle-scarred former U.S. Marine, and his ailing fisherman father.

While diving for clues, Beka drives Marcus crazy with her flaky New Age ideas and dazzling blue eyes. She thinks he’s rigid and cranky (and way too attractive). Meanwhile, a charming Selkie prince has plans that include Beka. Only by trusting her powers can Beka save the underwater races, pick the right man, and choose the path she’ll follow for the rest of her life…
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Book Review: Jason by Laurell K. Hamilton

Posted on December 2, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: Jason
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #23
Heroes: Jason Schuyler
Genre: Paranormal
Length: 304 Pages
Publisher: Jove
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Available at: Penguin Group/Jove, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  “Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you either get, or you don’t. If you get it, then you don’t really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don’t get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it makes sense.”

But sometimes you have to explain the unexplainable, especially if the love of your life needs to understand, or she’ll leave you. Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake’s best friends and favorite werewolves, with benefits. J.J. is his lady love, an old flame from childhood who dances at one of the top ballet companies in New York. She’s accomplished, beautiful, and she’s crazy about him, too. Neither of them wants to be monogamous, so what could go wrong?

J.J. is enthusiastically bisexual, with an emphasis on the female side of things. She plans to keep sleeping with women, because Jason can’t meet that need, just like she can’t meet Jason’s need for rough sex and bondage. J.J. doesn’t understand why Jason isn’t content to go elsewhere for a need she can’t fulfil, so Jason asks Anita to help him explain.

Anita is having her own relationship growing pains with her only female lover ever, Jade. Jason suggests that J.J. might be able to help Anita with her girl problem, while she helps him with his kinky explanations. With some encouragement from a few other lovers in Anita’s life she reluctantly agrees, and J. J. makes plans to fly into town for an experience that none of them will ever forget.
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Categories: 2.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, M/F, Published in 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Book Review: Hunter of Demons by Jordan L. Hawk

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

16281053Title: Hunter of Demons
Author: Jordan L. Hawk
Series: SPECTR #1
Heroes: Caleb/Gray & John
Genre: MM Paranormal Romance
Length: 33,643 words
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Unregistered paranormal Caleb Jansen only wants a normal life. But when a demon murders his brother, Caleb knows he has to avenge Ben’s death, no matter what the cost. Unfortunately, his only allies belong to an extremist group who would kill Caleb if they found out about his talent.

Gray is a wandering spirit, summoned to hunt and destroy demons by drinking their blood. This hunt goes horribly wrong, and for the first time in his existence Gray is trapped in a living, human body. Caleb’s body…and Caleb is still in it.

Hotshot federal agent John Starkweather thinks he’s seen it all. But when he’s called to exorcise Caleb, he finds a creature which isn’t supposed to exist outside of stories. For Gray is a drakul: a vampire.

Having spent his life avoiding the government as an unregistered ‘mal, Caleb can’t let himself trust a federal exorcist, no matter how sexy. And he certainly isn’t going to give into the heat growing between them and sleep with Starkweather.

Can Starkweather win Caleb’s trust and convince him he isn’t the enemy? Can Caleb keep Gray under control, as the drakul experiences the temptation of a living body for the first time?

Because if he fails and Gray gives in to bloodlust, Starkweather will have no choice but to kill them both
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Book Review: The Dream Alchemist by Joanna Chambers

Posted on December 1, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Gyn

1Title:  The Dream Alchemist
Author: Joanna Chambers
Series: Somnus #1
Heroes: Bryn Llewelyn/Laszlo Grimm
Genre: MM Fantasy
Length: 223 Pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Available at: Samhain Publishing, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: When the sun goes down, their passion awakens…and so do their nightmares.

Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn’s dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he’s merely exhausted, strung out on too much caffeine and too little sleep.

Sleep means descent into Somnus—an alternate reality constructed of the combined dreaming consciousness of ordinary humans. A place he’d rather avoid. Trouble is, his powers don’t include the ability to go without sleep indefinitely. At some point his eyes close…and his nightmare begins.

As a teen, the treatment that cured Laszlo Grimm’s sleep disorder stole his dreams—and his ability to feel emotion. Petrified of needing more “treatment”, he clings to familiar rituals and habits. But lately his nightly terror has returned, and when he meets Bryn in the real world, the man seems hauntingly familiar. Not only that, Bryn awakens feelings in Laszlo for the first time in years…

Slowly Bryn and Laszlo realize they are both unknowing pawns in a plan of unspeakable evil. And that their powerful attraction could release the destinies locked within them—or be the instrument of their doom.
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Book Review: Teach Me by Sloan Johnson

Posted on December 1, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000446_00066]Title: Teach Me
Author: Sloan Johnson
Heroes: Austin Pritchard/David Becker
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 245 Pages
Publisher: Sloan Johnson
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Two words stripped Austin Pritchard of the privileged life he’s used to. The moment he uttered the words, “I’m gay,” he realized there is no such thing as unconditional love. Now, he’s gone from traveling the world with his family to living on the streets trying to figure out how he’s going to stay in school.

A chance opportunity changes everything. Austin impresses the foreman and lands a job, but even more, he catches the eye of David Becker, who is determined to teach him that true love doesn’t come with strings.

The only thing David had as a child was love. His family struggled to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. That has driven him to stay focused on his goals; become a tenured professor at a university and save enough money to build a home of his own. It’s not until he sees an insecure college student working on his new house that he realizes that he hasn’t planned on someone to share his life with. He’s about to learn that everything he’s already accomplished is nothing compared to the task of making Austin see that he is worthy of love.
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Book Review: Third Eye by Rick R. Reed

Posted on November 30, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by Susan65

hTitle: Third Eye
Author: Rick R. Reed
Heroes: Cayce D’Amico/Dave Newton
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 264 Pages
Publisher: DSP Publications
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Who knew that a summer thunderstorm and his lost little boy would conspire to change single dad Cayce D’Amico’s life in an instant? With Luke missing, Cayce ventures into the woods near their house to find his son, only to have lightning strike a tree near him, sending a branch down on his head. When he awakens the next day in the hospital, he discovers he has been blessed or cursed—he isn’t sure which—with psychic ability. Along with unfathomable glimpses into the lives of those around him, he’s getting visions of a missing teenage girl.

When a second girl disappears soon after the first, Cayce realizes his visions are leading him to their grisly fates. Cayce wants to help, but no one believes him. The police are suspicious. The press wants to exploit him. And the girls’ parents have mixed feelings about the young man with the “third eye.”

Cayce turns to local reporter Dave Newton and, while searching for clues to the string of disappearances and possible murders, a spark ignites between the two. Little do they know that nearby, another couple—dark and murderous—are plotting more crimes and wondering how to silence the man who knows too much about them.
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Book Review: Love and the Real Boy by J.K. Hogan

Posted on November 30, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Sadonna

1Title:    Love and the Real Boy
Author:  J.K. Hogan
Series:  Coming About #2
Heroes: Rich Langston/Patrick O’Dowd
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 196 Pages
Publisher: Wilde City Press
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Available at:  Wilde City Press, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  How­­ much heartache can one man take before he breaks? Rich Langston asks himself that question every day.

A Seattle advertising exec who uses his designer suit and showy car like a suit of armor, Rich refuses to let the world get to him. His traumatic childhood has ruined any faith he had in people, friendship, and love. After a meltdown that led to him alienating everyone in his life, Rich agrees to help with the restoration of an antique sailboat as a form of penance.

Roped into heading up with the boat repair by his mother, marine restorer Patrick O’Dowd finds himself having to babysit a moody, spoiled rich boy with absolutely no carpentry experience. His easy-going nature is sorely tested, but he quickly realizes that things are not always what they seem; sometimes a fancy suit is nothing but an elaborate deflection from what’s real.

Through unavoidable personality clashes and fierce attraction, both Rich and Patrick explore their hidden pain and inner demons, and they end up finding with what really matters—love.
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Book Review: Talk About Happy Endings by Kol Anderson

Posted on November 30, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: Talk About Happy Endings
Author: Kol Anderson
Heroes: The Elves
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 102 Pages
Publisher: Kol Anderson
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Five couples try to find love on Christmas and in the process discover themselves.
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Josh Lanyon Week Review: Stranger Things Have Happened: An Adrien English Write Your Own Damn Story

Posted on November 29, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

5Title:  Stranger Things Have Happened: An Adrien English Write Your Own Damn Story
Author: Josh Lanyon
Series: Adrien English
Hero: Adrien English
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 248 Pages
Publisher: Josh Lanyon
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: WHO KILLED ROBERT HERSEY?

Book store assistant and all around bad boy Robert Hersey has been murdered — and you are the #1 suspect! To clear your name and get your life back, you must figure out who killed your best friend and first love.

What happens next in the story all depends on the choices YOU make. How will the story end? It’s all up to YOU. And the best part is you can keep reading and choosing until you’ve written your perfect ending.
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