3 Star Ratings

Book Review: Coming in Third by Amber Kell

Reviewed by Morgan 

27799643Title: Coming in Third
Author: Amber Kell
Heroes: Niall/Jovan/Luka
Genre: MMM Paranormal
Length: 63 Pages
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Love sometimes comes in threes.

With his mother plotting to have him wed, Niall decides to sneak out of the fae palace and fulfill one of his greatest fantasies. At the Unconventional bar, he finds a pair of lion shifters looking to spice up their love life. Unable to resist the strong attraction between them, Niall lets the persuasive pair take him home.

Jovan and Luka have been searching for their third for years. When Niall stumbles into the bar, their shifter instincts tell them the innocent fae could be their long sought mate. After a sensual night together, they’re certain the beautiful man was fated to be theirs.

His guards fetch him from the shifters’ bed and Niall is taken away from the pair. Upset about Niall’s return to the palace and a possible arranged marriage, the lion shifters battle to decide their future—should they go and fetch their mate or let it only be the one-night stand Niall promised them?

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Book Review: Pent Up by Damon Suede

Reviewed by JustJen

27245490Title: Pent Up
Author: Damon Suede
Heroes: Ruben Oso/Andy Bauer
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 290 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  PENT UP: Mix business with pleasure and take cover.

Ruben Oso moves to Manhattan to start his life over as a low-rent bodyguard and stumbles into a gig in a swanky Park Avenue penthouse. What begins as executive protection turns personal working for a debonair zillionaire who makes Ruben question everything about himself.

Watching over financial hotshot Andy Bauer puts Ruben in an impossible position. He knows zero about shady trading and his cocky boss lives barricaded in a glass tower with wall-to-wall secrets and hot-and-cold-running paranoia. Can the danger be real? Is Andy for real?

What’s a bullet catcher to do? Ruben knows his emotions are out of control even as he races to untangle a high-priced conspiracy and his crazy feelings before somebody gets dead. If his suspicions are right, Andy will pay a price neither can afford, and Ruben may discover there’s no way to guard a heart.
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Audio Review: Horizons by Mickie B. Ashling

Reviewed by Morgan

HorizonsAUDMEDTitle: Horizons
Author: Mickie B. Ashling
Narrator: John Solo
Series: Horizons #1
Heroes: Clark Stevens/Jody Williams
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 6 hours, 48 minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Available at: Amazon, Audible and iTunes
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: College football player Clark Stevens, a popular wide receiver with a potential NFL contract, has a few problems. He’s got a jealous girlfriend, a narrow-minded and controlling father, an attention problem, and an unexpected and powerful attraction to the trauma doctor—the male trauma doctor—who treats him for a broken bone.

Dr. Jody Williams is getting some really mixed signals. He can’t ignore how much he wants Clark, because it’s obvious Clark feels the same way. For the out and proud doctor, the solution seems very simple. For Clark, it’s not! His world is not gay-friendly, and the obstacles he’s faced have led him to deny his sexuality for years.

It’s the Super Bowl of disasters, no matter how you look at it. In the end, Clark has to decide if he’s going to stick with the only life he’s ever known or take a chance on a new one with Jody.

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Book Review: Another Shot by J.H. Knight

Reviewed by Susan65

27056340Title: Another Shot
Author: J.H. Knight
Series: Heartsville
Heroes: Aaron Forester/Brad Collins
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 74 Pages
Publisher: J.H. Knight
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Available at:  Amazon
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Blurb: The town of Heartsville means something different to everyone who lives there. For Aaron Forester, it’s a gay-friendly buffer between himself and the rest of the world. After being outed in high school and bullied to the point of violence, his family uprooted their lives and relocated to the small hamlet. He’s moved on from all that and now owns a popular café in the bustling shopping district. But after twenty years of happy living, Aaron’s past creeps up on him in the most unexpected way.

Brad Collins only has one regret and he’s carried it with him since he was a teenager. When he moves to Heartsville and gets set up on a blind date with the most adorable, engaging man he’s met in a long time, he couldn’t be happier. But Brad didn’t expect the guy to be the person he outed in high school—whom he’s now falling in love with.
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Book Review: Innocence to the Max by SJD Peterson

Reviewed by JustJen

25564023Title: Innocence to the Max
Author: SJD Peterson
Series: Iunctiō Cōpula #1
Heroes: Francisco “Cisco” Aguilar/Maximilian De Ferrari
Genre: MM Paranormal BDSM
Length: 220 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  On his sixteenth birthday, Francisco “Cisco” Aguilar first sets eyes on Maximilian De Ferrari, owner of Wicked Grounds, an exclusive BDSM club. Cisco has been lost, unsure of what is missing in his life. Over a century old, Max leads a vampire clan, and Cisco is drawn to him in a way he can’t explain. The moment he sees Max he knows his quest isn’t about what he’s been missing, but who.

Five years’ wait seems more than Cisco can bear, but he perseveres and on his twenty-first birthday he walks into Wicked Ground. He’s unafraid to meet the vampire he’s sure is his destiny. Max has been waiting for him, too.

What Max has known all these years, and what Cisco soon discovers, is that more than fate is drawing them together. Iunctiō Cōpula is a powerful binding link capable of restoring cold, dead hearts. With Max and Cisco bound, Cisco will be Max’s greatest weakness. Unable to let Max go, Cisco is thrust into a dark world, where he’s nearly powerless, left to fight for his life and his future with Max. Worse, he’s at the mercy of those who will use him—and hurt him—just to get to the powerful vampire king.
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Book Review: Silverfall by Raven de Hart

Guest Reviewed by Morgan 

27316199Title: Silverfall
Author: Raven de Hart
Heroes: Anthony Gates/Leon Phillips
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 148 Pages
Publisher: Loose Id
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Anthony Gates has been alone since he broke up with his boyfriend two years ago, and his best friend convinces him to go out on a blind date. But that turns sour, leaving Anthony to walk the streets rather than head home and face his friend. That’s when he sees the unthinkable: a unicorn killing a man. Fantasy collides with Anthony’s reality, and he can’t seem to escape the currents pulling him deeper.

Leon Phillips is the strongest of those currents. When he and Anthony meet at the club, they have immediate chemistry and can hardly keep their hands off each other. But Leon’s hiding a secret. He’s the unicorn Anthony saw that night, charged with guarding the local population from hunters. As their romance blooms, the secrets leak out until, finally, the unicorn hunters capture Anthony as bait. To keep Anthony safe, as well as the rest of the unicorns, Leon allows himself to be captured instead.

Now, perfectly-normal Anthony will have to save Leon from his hideous paranormal fate–because that unicorn is his soulmate.
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Book Review: Gay for His Cowboy Vampire by Tabatha Austin

Reviewed by Susan65

27417370Title: Gay for His Cowboy Vampire
Author: Tabatha Austin
Series: Supernatural Gay Romance
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 82 Pages
Publisher: Tabatha Austin
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: James is slim, built, and a vampire death over his limit. After one too many kills, the local vampire nest sends him an ultimatum.

“Work with us, or you won’t see morning.”

Working with a vamp isn’t ideal, even if his new partner is awfully cute – and an authentic Old-West cowboy to boot.

Can a too eager vampire hunter and Old West cowboy work together to complete their mission and more?

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Book Review: The Prince’s Consort by Antonia Aquilante

Reviewed by Nikyta

PrincesConsort[The]Title: The Prince’s Consort
Author: Antonia Aquilante
Series: Chronicles of Tournai #1
Heroes: Phillip & Amory
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 290 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Legends tell of large cats defending the principality of Tournai, but such creatures have been lost to time.

Or have they?

Prince Philip inherited the throne at a young age, and since then, his life has centered around ruling his country and resisting those pressuring him to take a wife and conceive an heir—forcing him to hide his attraction to men. When kind-hearted Amory is offered to the prince in exchange for more time for Amory’s father to complete a commission, both Philip and Amory are horrified. But Philip agrees to keep Amory at the palace, where they gradually become friends, then lovers. For the first time in his life, Philip is free to share not only his heart, but the magical shape-shifting ability that runs in the royal bloodline.

Neither Amory nor Philip imagined falling in love, and they certainly don’t expect the lengths those who oppose their relationship will go to keep them apart—maybe even resorting to murder.
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Book Review: Taste in Men by Douglas Black

Reviewed by Morgan

26804411Title: Taste in Men
Author: Douglas Black
Heroes: Taylor/Charles
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 152 Pages
Publisher: Loose Id
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Taylor Dale is terrified of getting tied down. After years working a job he doesn’t like in a city he’s always wanted to leave, he is finally on the verge of starting over. He just has to make it through his two-week’s notice.

A team-building weekend throws a spanner in the works when Taylor meets Charles. Charles is definitely not Taylor’s type, but attraction sparks hard and fast between them. Against his better judgment Taylor decides there might not be any harm in a weekend of no-strings-attached fun.

But Taylor never was very lucky.

One night with Charles threatens to turn his world upside down, if Taylor is willing to let it. In a panic, Taylor pushes Charles away, but distance isn’t enough to stop him wanting the man. Soon, Taylor realizes he has to take a chance and see if there might be a future between him and Charles. But for that to happen he’s going to have to hope Charles will answer his call.
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Early Book Review: Autumn Thorns by Yasmine Galenorn

Guest Reviewed by Ami

24586291Title: Autumn Thorns
Author: Yasmine Galenorn
Series: Whisper Hollow #1
Heroine/Hero: Kerris/Bryan
Genre: MF Urban Fantasy
Length: 336 Pages
Publisher: Berkley/Jove
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Fifteen years ago, I ran away from Whisper Hollow, Washington, a small town on Crescent Lake in the Olympic Peninsula. But truth is, if you were born here, you can never really leave. I’m Kerris Fellwater, and when I returned, I inherited my grandmother’s house—and her gift. As a spirit shaman, it’s my responsibility to drive the dead back to their graves, because around Whisper Hollow, people—and secrets—don’t always stay buried.

When I was little, I was told my mother ran off. But now it looks like she was murdered. With the help of my mysterious neighbor Bryan, we begin to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, and in doing so, unearth a dark force seeking to bury Whisper Hollow. Now I must work with the dead, rather than against them, because our enemy will do whatever she can to destroy the town, and she means to start with me.
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