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Book Review: 500 Miles by Parker Williams

Posted on March 16, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: 500 Miles
Author: Parker Williams
Series: MLR Mixed Tape Anthology
Heroes: Mark/Jase
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 37 Pages
Publisher: MLR Press
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Since he was fourteen, Mark knew he loved Jase, his brother Eric’s best friend. As Jase and Eric leave for the Army, Jase leaves Mark something to hold onto, but when the two men are shipped to Kuwait, things change when Jase tells Mark he’s met someone.

Confused and hurt, Mark is left to wonder what happened. Eric returns, but with devastating news – and needing Mark’s help. Can Mark help the man who broke his heart? Or will he let Jase push him away – for the second time?
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Book Review: Journey to Lobster Cove by Carol Lynne

Posted on March 14, 2015 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

1Title: Journey to Lobster Cove
Author: Carol Lynne
Series: Cattle Valey #32
Heroes: Asa/Mario, Cullen/Joseph
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 104 Pages
Publisher: Totally Bound
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Spreading acceptance one town at a time.
When the town of Cattle Valley runs out of room for new construction, Asa Montgomery begins to look into alternative locations. He discovers a small fishing village in Maine for sale and begins to make plans to purchase the picturesque town of Lobster Cove. Unfortunately, setting up a new community takes him away from his partner, Mario, who isn’t pleased about being left behind.

Meanwhile, after years of dancing around their mutual attraction, Cullen Bryant decides the time has come to lay his feelings for Joseph Allenbrand on the line. Unfortunately, his plan is cut short when Joseph sends him away with no other explanation than he should move on.

Joseph knew sending Cullen away was the kindest thing to do for the younger man, but when he hears Cullen truly may be moving on, he realizes it’s time to reevaluate his life. Will he work out his issues in time to save what he’s spent years denying?
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Book Review: Scrap by Josephine Myles

Posted on March 10, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Gyn 

1Title: Scrap
Author: Josephine Myles
Series: The Bristol Collection #3
Heroes: Derek Nelson/Grant Matravers
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 263 Pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  When things come to a head, there’s nowhere to go but down…

On the surface, Derek “Call Me Dare” Nelson’s life is simple, doing up custom campervans while living in a slightly illegal caravan in his riverfront yard. When a handsome, smooth-talking developer offers to buy the land out from under his feet, Dare realizes it’s the same man he had to escort home from a party months ago for causing a drunken scene.

Grant Matravers lives a double life, attempting to adjust to weekends as a single, divorced gay man while staying closeted at work. The strain of keeping up the part-time pretense, missing his kids, and now a problematic attraction to the shave-headed, tattooed Dare, has worn his emotional barriers dangerously thin.

Dare blasts through those barriers in a way Grant isn’t prepared for, challenging everything he thought he knew about himself as a gay man. But as their chemistry heats up and the intimacy between them grows, Grant edges toward a decision that could blow up in his face. Exposing a hornet’s nest of complications that could destroy any chance for happily ever after.
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Book Review: Jackdaw by K.J. Charles

Posted on March 8, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Gyn

1Title: Jackdaw
Author: K.J. Charles
Series: A Charm of Magpies,
Heroes: Jonah Pastern/Ben Spenser
Genre: MM Historical
Length: 189 Pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  If you stop running, you fall.

Jonah Pastern is a magician, a liar, a windwalker, a professional thief…and for six months, he was the love of police constable Ben Spenser’s life. Until his betrayal left Ben jailed, ruined, alone, and looking for revenge.

Ben is determined to make Jonah pay. But he can’t seem to forget what they once shared, and Jonah refuses to let him. Soon Ben is entangled in Jonah’s chaotic existence all over again, and they’re running together—from the police, the justiciary, and some dangerous people with a lethal grudge against them.

Threatened on all sides by betrayals, secrets, and the laws of the land, can they find a way to live and love before the past catches up with them?

This story is set in the world of the Charm of Magpies series.

Warning: Contains a policeman who should know better, a thief who may never learn, Victorian morals, heated encounters, and a very annoyed Stephen Day.
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Book Review: First Time in Forever by Sarah Morgan

Posted on March 1, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Ami

1Title: First Time in Forever
Author: Sarah Morgan
Series: Puffin Island #1
Heroine/Hero: Emily Donovan/Ryan Cooper
Genre: MF Contemporary Romance
Length: 384 Pages
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Available at:  Harlequin, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Windswept, isolated and ruggedly beautiful, Puffin Island is a haven for day-trippers and daydreamers alike. But this charming community has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected ways…
It’s been a summer of firsts for Emily Donovan. From becoming a stand-in mom to her niece Lizzie to arriving on Puffin Island, her life has become virtually unrecognizable. Between desperately safeguarding Lizzie and her overwhelming fear of the ocean—which surrounds her everywhere she goes!—Emily has lost count of the number of “just breathe” pep talks she’s given herself. And that’s before charismatic local yacht club owner Ryan Cooper kisses her…

Ryan knows all about secrets. And it’s clear that newcomer Emily—with her haunted eyes and the little girl she won’t let out of her sight—is hiding from something besides the crazy chemistry between them. So Ryan decides he’s going to make it his personal mission to help her unwind and enjoy the sparks! But can Puffin Island work its magic on Emily and get her to take the biggest leap of trust of all—putting her heart in someone else’s hands?
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Book Review: PURE Indulgence by Victoria Sue

Posted on February 28, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

1Title: PURE Indulgence
Author: Victoria Sue
Series: Pure #2
Heroes: Joe/Adam
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 120 Pages
Publisher: Dark Hollows Press
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Joe, an ex-detective and a popular Dom, wasn’t gay. Not one little bit. He told himself that all the time he fought the inexplicable attraction he had for the gorgeous young submissive, Adam. Yet when he learns a psychopath responsible for two murders has set his sights on Adam, and Adam disappears, it suddenly seemed far more important to tell him something else.

Joe realizes Adam has become more important to him than his next breath, but if he can’t track down the psycho that was torturing and murdering submissives, Joe won’t ever be able to tell Adam anything else again, it will be far too late.
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