2.5 Star Ratings

Early Review: One Kiss More by Mandy Baxter

Posted on February 10, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Ami

1Title: One Kiss More
Author: Mandy Baxter
Series: U.S. Marshalls #2
Heroine/Hero: Emma Ruiz/Landon McCabe
Genre: M/F Contemporary Romance
Length: 352 Pages
Publisher: Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Emma Ruiz knows her father is innocent. But that doesn’t help her convince the law—not even smoking hot U.S. Marshal Landon McCabe. When McCabe bangs on her door demanding information about how her cancer-stricken father escaped from federal prison, she’ll have to distract him somehow—it may as well be with a stolen kiss.

Landon gets why Emma isn’t saying all she knows. What he doesn’t understand is why he’s putting his reputation, his case, and his badge on the line for a gorgeous person of interest. Much as he’d love to, he can’t let Emma play him. The stakes are higher than either of them can guess. The only way to survive is to trust their instincts. But their instincts want more than one kiss…
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Book Review: Cream by Sean Michael

Posted on January 4, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: Cream
Author: Sean Michael
Series: Hammer
Heroes: Storm/Zeb
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 204 Pages
Publisher: Torquere Press
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Available at: Torquere Press, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Storm owns the Beat & Cream bakery, popular with the Hammer Club members for its name, the amazing pastries Storm bakes, and his willingness to make all sorts of naughty creations. Not into the lifestyle himself, Storm loves the punny nature of the name of his establishment and everyone he’s met have been nice.

Zeb, an unattached Top and Hammer Club member hears about the bakery and knows he must check it out for himself, given he has the world’s biggest sweet tooth. He finds the pastries delicious, but he’s even more taken with the owner himself, and sets out to woo Storm.

It’s easy to fall in love with someone who makes you laugh and brings your life joy, but what happens when that happens with someone who isn’t into the same things you are? Zeb and Storm are about to find out if they can find some mutual ground, or if Zeb’s lifestyle will keep them apart.
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Audio Review: More Than Friends by Aria Grace

Posted on December 2, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

1Title: More Than Friends
Author: Aria Grace
Narrator: Douglas Dale
Series: More Than Friends #1
Heroes: Zach and Ryan
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: Book – 76 Pages / Audio – 1 Hour, 26 Minutes
Publisher: Aria Grace
Release Date: Book – December 2, 2013 / Audio – November 17, 2014
Available at: Amazon and Audible
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Tired of moping around after the breakup of his long term girlfriend, Ryan knew he needed a hookup to get him out of his funk. When he met Drea, he hoped she might be the one. But when he felt more chemistry with her gay cousin Zach, Ryan felt more confused and terrified than he had in his life. He wasn’t gay but he wanted to be with Zach. How could it possibly work?
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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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Book Review: Paused by Bryan Keating

Posted on September 20, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by JustJen

3Title: Paused
Author: Bryan Keating
Heroes: Taylor Quinn/
Genre: MM/FF Contemporary
Length: 320 Pages
Publisher: Bryan Keating
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb:  After ditching a flight for a new adventure, former, reality television star, Taylor Quinn, is scrambling the colorful streets of Chicago with notorious addictions. Taylor quickly begins dating a privileged drug dealer who unknowingly provides him with the necessities he desires. Just as he starts to better his future, Taylor’s destructive roommate reenters his life and the two struggle to feed their addiction to addictions. Unfortunately, Taylor consistently causes chaos into the lives of his loved ones as he strives for an escape.

In separate but intertwined stories, Taylor’s best friend, Adrienne Ponziano and his favorite frenemy, Lynn Riley, have impulsive adventures of their own. Adrienne, while unhappily engaged, romances numerous men in hopes of gaining the true love she desires. Her actions activate her hidden family history sending her on a chase around Illinois. Closet, lipstick lesbian Lynn turns towards online dating websites to explore her hidden sexuality. Her double life leads her to a mischievous woman connected to everyone she seems to know.
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Book Review: Hero by Heidi Cullinan

Posted on September 15, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Karen

3Title: Hero
Author: Heidi Cullinan
Heroes: Hal Porter/Morgan
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 220 Pages
Publisher: Wilde City Press
Release Date: May 27, 2014 (2nd Ed.)
Available at: Wilde City Press, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Construction worker Hal Porter knows he’s nobody special. But when strange events draw him into a magical world, he becomes the only man who can free Morgan, a lonely, long-enchanted shape-shifter. Whether he feels he’s worthy or not, Hal is the hero Morgan has been waiting for.

However, Hal’s task becomes personal as he and Morgan fall in love. Now, to save Morgan and give himself the happily ever after he’s always longed for, Hal will need to do something far more daunting than face Morgan’s captor or finally come out of the closet…

He’ll have to believe in himself.

This title has been previously published and has been revised from its original release.
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