3.5 Star Ratings

Book Review: Buried Secrets by Hank Edwards

Posted on June 24, 2016 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

30371525Title: Buried Secrets
Author: Hank Edwards
Heroes: Bryson Franklin/Sam LeClaire/Deniel Riggs
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 153 Pages
Publisher: Wilde City Press
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: Bryson Franklin made bad choices in his past. When he inherits his grandparents’ farm outside the small town of Willow River, however, he sees it as a chance for a fresh start. But patterns from his past resurface when Bryson takes up with Daniel Riggs, his bad boy neighbor, and he soon finds himself helping Daniel cover up a murder. After Bryson breaks things off with Daniel, the kindness and attention of handsome sheriff’s deputy Sam LeClaire gives him hope, but when Daniel shows up on Bryson’s doorstep a year later, will Bryson be able to resist temptation?
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Book Review: Cosmo by April Kelley

Posted on June 20, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan 

30131248Title: Cosmo
Author: April Kelley
Series: Demon Elite #3
Heroes: Cosmo Ruckman/Derek Kyle
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 112 Pages
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Release Date: May 8, 2016
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Cosmo Ruckman is very good at breaking and entering. He’s had years of practice, starting from the time he was a child. Despite his criminal past, he manages to earn a spot on the Demon Elite team. Cosmo has had a mad crush on Derek Kyle from the first moment he met him. Since Derek never gave him the time of day, moving on was easy when Demon Elite left the agency. Cosmo hasn’t thought about Derek in months. Now, he’s assigned the task of breaking into the man’s house and office. He just hopes that Derek has nothing to hide, because it could mean the man’s death.
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Book Review: The Private Secretary by Summer Devon

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

30291876Title: The Private Secretary
Author: Summer Devon
Heroes: Robert Demme/Ezra Seton
Genre: MM Historical Romance
Length: 44,ooo words
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb: Down on his luck and desperate for employment, Ezra Seton is offered only one job: to work in the house of a heartless bully, the very man who drove Ezra’s lover away. Gritting his teeth, Ezra takes the position. But neither the new job nor the master of house are close to what he expected. Still, he vows to keep his distance, no matter how difficult maintaining his composure in the face of relentless drollery becomes.

Robert Demme’s pleasure-seeking days are over. Having rescued his cousin Ambrose from a lunatic asylum, he expends much of his energy pacifying the fragile eccentric. Hiring an assistant offers some relief—and also intriguing temptation. Unfortunately, the fascinating Seton apparently loathes him. Determined to discover the reason, Robert uses his considerable wit to get under the man’s skin, stunned when his plan backfires. Instead of unraveling the stalwart secretary, Robert has undone himself. All he’s accomplished is a deepening his own interest. Perhaps he senses Robert’s not-so-innocent attraction.

When the two spend the night together in an inn, their mutual desire proves too strong. The secretary and the gentleman succumb to lust. But when Ezra’s old flame reappears and the cousin’s experiments go awry, it’s a battle to discover which will win the day: love or lunacy.
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Book Review: The Second Half: A Gay American Football Story by Scott Pomfret

Posted on June 12, 2016 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

29901429Title: The Second Half: A Gay American Football Story
Author: Scott Pomfret
Heroes: Peyton/Brady
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 286 Pages
Publisher: Lethe Press
Release Date: June 12, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Division I college football coach Peyton Stone has a secret. It’s not so much that he’s gay. It’s that he’s fallen in love with his older Iraq-War-vet-turned-starting-QB Brady Winter. Willing to deny himself for the sake of the Golden Eagles football team, Peyton focuses helping his team score touchdowns, but when he discovers the attraction is mutual, he jumps in with both feet.

For each, the stakes are high: bowls, limelight, press, and the NFL. But Peyton and Brady find time during the season to carve out their own private and sexy refuge. Only jealous whispers force the head coach to see what he didn’t want to see and he tears the two apart. It’s only when Brady’s war injuries threaten his health that Peyton reluctantly returns to the team — under cover! The two concoct a plan to pass off Peyton as Brady at the bowl game, thereby preserving Brady’s health and perhaps earning a national championship. Will anyone notice the difference? Does anyone really want to? Most of all, can the pair’s sense of honor outlast the deception?
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Dual Book Review: Bye-Bye Birdie by Lex Chase

Posted on June 11, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan and Nikyta

30285029Title: Bye-Bye Birdie
Author: Lex Chase
Series: 2016 Daily Dose – A Walk on the Wild Side
Heroes: Christopher Robin/Dashiell Hammond
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 39 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Christopher Robin and Dashiell Hammond couldn’t be more different. Dash is an iguana shifter who provides aid for natural disasters far and wide, but Chris is a flighty parakeet shifter who can’t find his way across town without Google Maps. To Chris, Dash is a superhero, but he spent more time saving the world than saving their relationship.

To conquer his heartache, Chris books a cruise, determined to meet Mr. Right Now instead of Mr. Right. But he doesn’t expect the cabin steward responsible for his adorable towel animals to be none other than his ex-boyfriend. When the pair fall overboard and take refuge on a deserted island, old feelings resurface. With Dash’s hardnosed survival skills and Chris’s fickle insecurities, they’ll have to learn to compromise if they want to get back to slamming daiquiris at the tiki bar.
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Book Review: 24/7 by J.A. Rock

Posted on June 10, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by JustJen

26174748Title: 24/7
Author: J.A. Rock
Series: The Subs Club #4
Heroes: Gould/Kel/GK
Genre: MFM BDSM
Length: 283 Pages
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  We started the Subs Club to make the kink community safer for subs. Except now the others are so busy chasing their happy endings, it’s like they’ve forgotten what Bill did to Hal and the fact that he got away with it. They used to think I was betraying Hal’s memory by hooking up with the owners of the club where he died. Now they don’t seem to care about any of it anymore.

Maybe I am sometimes angry with GK and Kel for giving Bill a second chance, but they’ve been mentoring me for a year now, and whatever else they’ve done, they make me feel incredibly safe. So I want to try something: I want to offer them my complete submission, 24/7. To serve the people who forgave Bill. That’s the way I want to hurt.

Except I’m starting to care about them in a way I never meant to—and I think they feel the same way. But after Hal, I don’t know if I want to be in love again. Because what I really need, more than anything, is to see Bill brought to justice. Even if I have to do it myself. Even if it means losing GK and Kel.
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Book Review: Edge of Desperation by Nat Kennedy

Posted on June 7, 2016 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

30046092Title: Edge of Desperation
Author: Nat Kennedy
Series: Wielder World #1
Heroes: Reggie/Kyle
Genre: MM Sci-Fi/Paranormal
Length: 106 Pages
Publisher: Lagomorth Press
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb:  Assistant Professor Reggie Wolfe has simple goals: to help his engineering students succeed and to stop male Wielders from falling into Taint without drawing attention from the Bureau of Wielder Services. A select few can Wield the Nerve of the World. Women Wielders do so freely, without any repercussions. For men, it’s another story. They fight Taint and Corruption for the same power.

Reggie’s easy life upends when Kyle, a young male Wielder, lands at his feet, trapped in his Taint and pursued by the very criminal Wielder cults the Bureau is fighting. As the two work to control Kyle’s Taint, Reggie realizes he will do everything he can to help Kyle, even follow him into darkness.

Edge of Desperation is the opening novella to the Wielder World series—gay romantic urban fantasy full of magic, suspense, and dedication born of trial and blood.
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