Book Review

Debut Author Book Review: Demons Within by Rhiannon Ayers

Posted on June 18, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: Demons Within
Author: Rhiannon Ayers
Series: For Love of Authority #1
Heroes: Allen/Sidri/Tatum
Genre: M/M/F Contemporary
Length: 283 pages
Publisher: Siren Bookstrand
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Available at:  Bookstrand
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Allen Heras just landed his dream job, and he’s determined to make the most of this chance for a new life. Only there’s a problem: he can’t seem to stop lusting after his bosses. After suppressing his bisexuality his whole life, he can’t afford to let his hormones ruin his chances for success. Now, if he could just get his big head to convince the little one of that, he’d be just fine.

Sidri McKenna and Tatum McAlister have always known there was something missing between them: another man, one who could bear the love of two Doms. And they’ve chosen Allen to be that man. They’d always known it would be an uphill battle, convincing Allen that three people could make it in a long-term triad. But when the demons from Allen’s horrible past threaten their relationship, they realize that the real battle isn’t convincing Allen to love them—it’s convincing him he’s worth loving in the first place.

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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Debut Authors, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, M/F, Published in 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

1Title:  Heart of Iron
Author: Bec McMaster
Series: London Steampunk #2
Hero  & Heroine: Will Carver & Lena Todd
Genre: MF Steampunk
Length: 437 Pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Available at: Sourcebooks Casablanca, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance eBooks and Kobo
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: In Victorian London, if you’re not a blue blood of the Echelon then you’re nothing at all. The Great Houses rule the city with an iron fist, imposing their strict ‘blood taxes’ on the nation, and the Queen is merely a puppet on a string…

Lena Todd makes the perfect spy. Nobody suspects the flirtatious debutante could be a sympathizer for the humanist movement haunting London’s vicious blue blood elite. Not even the ruthless Will Carver, the one man she can’t twist around her little finger, and the one man whose kiss she can’t forget…

Stricken with the loupe and considered little more than a slave-without-a-collar to the blue bloods, Will wants nothing to do with the Echelon or the dangerous beauty who drives him to the very edge of control. But when he finds a coded letter on Lena—a code that matches one he saw on a fire-bombing suspect—he realizes she’s in trouble. To protect her, he must seduce the truth from her.

With the humanists looking to start a war with the Echelon, Lena and Will must race against time—and an automaton army—to stop the humanist plot before it’s too late. But as they fight to save a city on the brink of revolution, the greatest danger might just be to their hearts…
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Book Review: Blades of the Old Empire by Anna Kashina

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Blades of the Old Empire (Majat Code #1)Title: Blades of the Old Empire
Author: Anna Kashina
Series: Majat Code #1
Heroes/Heroines: Kythar, Ellah, Evan, Egey (main POVs)
Genre: M/F Fantasy
Length: 496 pages (or thereabouts)
Publisher: Angry Robot
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Available at: Angry Robot, Amazon & Barnes and Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Kara is a mercenary – a Diamond warrior, the best of the best, and a member of the notorious Majat Guild. When her tenure as protector to Prince Kythar comes to an end, custom dictates he accompany her back to her Guild to negotiate her continued protection.

But when they arrive they discover that the Prince’s sworn enemy, the Kaddim, have already paid the Guild to engage her services – to capture and hand over Kythar, himself.

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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Spirit Sanguine by Lou Harper

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

1Title: Spirit Sanguine
Author: Lou Harper
Series: Sanguine #1
Heroes: Henry/Gabe
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 298 Pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Available at: Samhain Publishing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and All Romance eBooks
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Is that a wooden stake in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

After five years in eastern Europe using his unique, inborn skills to slay bloodsuckers, Gabe is back in his hometown Chicago and feeling adrift. Until he’s kidnapped by a young, sexy vampire who seems more interested in getting into his pants than biting into his neck.

Harvey Feng is one-half Chinese, one-hundred-percent vampire. He warns Gabe to stay out of the Windy City, but somehow he isn’t surprised when the young slayer winds up on his doorstep. And why shouldn’t Gabe be curious? A vegetarian vampire isn’t something one sees every day.

Against their better judgment, slayer and vampire succumb to temptation. But their affair attracts unexpected attention.

When Chicago’s Vampire Boss makes Gabe an offer he can’t refuse, the unlikely lovers are thrust into peril and mystery in the dark heart of the Windy City. Together they hunt for kidnappers, a killer preying on young humans, and vicious vampire junkies.

However, dealing with murderous humans and vampires alike is easy compared to figuring out if there’s more to their relationship than hot, kinky sex.

Warning: Fangalicious man-on-man action, a troublesome twink, cross-dressing vampiress, and role-playing involving a fedora.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Heather C's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Challenge Week Review: The Parting Glass by Josh Lanyon

Posted on June 17, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: The Parting Glass
Author: Josh Lanyon
Series: In a Dark Wood #2
Heroes: Tim/Luke
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 76 Pages
Publisher: Josh Lanyon
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Available at:  Josh Lanyon, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks, Kobo, Smashwords
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Two and a half years ago, travel writer Timothy O’Shay let NYPD Detective Luke O’Brien talk him into hiking into the New Jersey Pine Barrens to face down a monster.

Now Tim and Luke meet again under very different circumstances. The old attraction is still there — but so are some of Tim’s monsters. Is it too late to find their way back to each other?
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Challenge Book Week, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Wolf Run by B.A. Tortuga

Posted on June 16, 2014 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: Wolf Run
Author: B.A. Tortuga
Heroes: Mick/Scotty/Danny
Genre: MMM Paranormal
Length: 118 Pages
Publisher: Resplendence Publishing
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Available at:  Resplendence Publishing, Amazon and All Romance Ebooks
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Mick is a lone wolf in all ways. He’s left his pack, he’s left his homelands and he’s on the road, footloose and fancy free. Well, at least until he wanders up to a fence and finds a little wolf running his ass off behind it. Mick stops to let the pup out and is stunned to hear the young wolf, Scotty, tell him “no”. Scotty’s mate and best friend, Danny, asked Scotty to stay behind the fence, so he will be safe while Danny fights to support them both. All this leaves Mick’s fur standing on end. Maybe, Mick doesn’t need one mate to bring him home. Maybe, he needs two.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Early Review: Flibbertigibbet by Willa Okati

Posted on June 16, 2014 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

1Title: Flibbertigibett
Author: Willa Okati
Heroes: Donovan/Leaf
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 26,367 words
Publisher: Totally Bound
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Available at: Totally Bound
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Is Donovan ready to leave routine behind and take a chance on a flirtatious flibbertigibbet?

Donovan thought he had his life all planned out. He knew where he was headed, and how he’d get there. Might not have been the most exciting life, but it was safe. Sensible. Practical. Just what he wanted.

That was before his house burned down in a freak accident. Now, Donovan’s life is all about crash space on a friend’s houseboat and entertaining the antics of his new neighbour and marina maintenance man Leaf. If Leaf ever took anything seriously in his life, he shows no signs of it. He’s loquacious, outrageous, and not even a little shy. Absolutely not the kind of man Donovan had thought he’d fall for before he tipped head over heels for the flibbertigibbet’s offbeat charm.

When it comes down to a choice between sensible and scandalous, is Donovan really ready to leave routine behind and take the plunge into deep water?
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Categories: 2.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2014, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Early Review: For the Longest Time by Kendra Leigh Castle

Posted on June 15, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Ami

1Title: For the Longest Time
Author: Kendra Leigh Castle
Series: Harvest Cove #1
Heroes: Samantha Henry/Jake Smith
Genre: M/F Contemporary Romance
Length: 352 Pages
Publisher: Signet
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Available at:  Signet, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iBooks
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  For Samantha Henry, it took a ten-year absence to appreciate the close-knit New England town with an appeal all its own….

After a perfect storm of events leaves Sam high, dry, and jobless, she has to head home to Harvest Cove to regroup. Growing up, she was the town misfit, and a brief high school romance that resulted in heartbreak made her realize she was never going to fit in. But now with the support of her mother and an unexpected circle of allies, Sam starts to wonder if she’s misjudged the town all these years.

Life’s been good to Jake Smith. He transitioned from popular jock to town veterinarian without any trouble. But Sam’s homecoming makes him question his choices. The sharp-tongued beauty was never a good fit for the small community, but he’s never forgotten her—or how good they were together. While she makes it clear she’s not about to repeat the past, Jake’s determined to convince her to give him—and Harvest Cove—a second chance.

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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, M/F, Published in 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment