Ami’s Reviews

Book Review: I Heart Boston Terriers by Rick R. Reed

Posted on September 20, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: I Heart Boston Terriers
Author: Rick R. Reed
Heroes: Aaron/Christian
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 54 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: When Aaron finds Mavis, an emaciated and shy Boston terrier, at a pet adoption fair, his heart goes out to her—completely.

When Christian, manning the adoption fair for the Humane Society that autumn Saturday, finds Aaron, his heart goes out to him—completely.

This is a story about embracing love, whether it’s for someone who walks on four legs or on two. Mavis’s journey back to wholeness and finding her forever home parallels the story of two men discovering each other at the perfect moment—a moment that defies logic, propriety, and common sense. But when did love ever follow a rational course?
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Categories: 2 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Family Drama, HFN, I Heart Boston Terriers, M/M, Men with pets, Rick R. Reed, Short Story, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Off the Beaten Path by Cari Z.

Posted on September 17, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: Off the Beaten Path
Author: Cari Z.
Heroes: Ward Johannsen/Henry Dormer
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 200 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: When Ward Johannsen’s little girl Ava shifted into a werewolf, she was taken into custody by the feds and shipped off to the nearest pack, all ties between father and daughter severed. Ward burned every bridge he had discovering her location, and then almost froze to death in the Colorado mountains tracking her new pack down. And that’s just the beginning of his struggle.

Henry Dormer is an alpha werewolf and an elite black ops soldier who failed his last mission. He returns home, hoping for some time to recuperate and help settle the pack’s newest member, a little pup named Ava who can’t shift back to her human form. Instead he meets Ward, who refuses to leave his daughter without a fight. The two men are as different as night and day, but their respect for each other strikes a spark of mutual interest that quickly grows into a flame. They might find something special together—love, passion, and even a family—if they can survive trigger-happy pack guardians, violent werewolf politics, and meddling government agencies that are just as likely to get their alpha soldiers killed as bring them home safely.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: alpha male, Cari Z., Dreamspinner Press, Interspecies, M/M, Men with kids, military, Off the Beaten Path, paranormal, PTSD, Shifters, Single Dad, slow burn, The Blogger Girls, urban fantasy, Werewolves | Leave a comment

Book Review: Earning His Trust by Alicia Nordwell

Posted on September 6, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: Earning His Trust
Author: Alicia Nordwell
Heroes: Evin/Ben
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 112 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Evin lost the only two men he ever loved. But he might get a second chance with one of them—if he’s willing to take the risk.

Following the death of his husband, Evin is living in Portland and raising the infant son they had through a surrogate. Six-month-old Micah is his life, and if it means no time for activities or friendships beyond his minuscule support network, that’s a sacrifice Evin is willing to make. When he suffers a burn baking teething biscuits, the last person Evin expects to encounter in the ER is Ben, his lover from college—and the man who left him without a word of explanation.

Ben knows it won’t be easy to earn Evin’s trust and prove he’s not the same man Evin once knew, but he can’t bear to watch Evin struggle to care for Micah, hurting and alone. He wants back in Evin’s life, as a friend and hopefully more, but Evin’s heart is fragile, and the years have changed him too.
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Categories: 2.5 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: Alicia Nordwell, Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Earning His Trust, M/M, Men with kids, Novella, Reunited, Second Chance, Single Dad, The Blogger Girls, widower | Leave a comment

Book Review: Like Two Parting Seas by Zhara Freytes

Posted on August 31, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: Like Two Parting Seas
Author: Zhara Freytes
Series: States of Love
Heroes: Nathan/Leonardo
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 57 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: After two years of internet chats and crappy video calls, Nathan and Leonardo will finally meet face-to-face, and the anticipation is killing them both. Their slow-simmering desire to be together soon boils over as Nathan shows Leo around his hometown of Boise, Idaho. Witty conversation fills their days, passion fills their nights, and both young men know they belong in each other’s lives. But how can a romance, let alone a relationship, work when Nathan’s career is in Boise and Leo must soon return to his home in Italy? Since neither is ready to say goodbye to the budding love affair, they’re determined to find a solution before the end of Leo’s holiday.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Friends to Lovers, Internet Friends, Like Two Parting Seas, Location - Idaho, Long-Distance Romance, M/M, Series - States of Love, Short Story, The Blogger Girls, vacation, Zhara Freytes | Leave a comment

Book Review: Coasting by Yvonne Trent

Posted on August 22, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: Coasting
Author: Yvonne Trent
Series: States of Love
Heroes: Cal Hamilton/Billy Labarre
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 112 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: What happens when you need something but don’t know what it is? Why not look in a place you never heard of?

Out and proud elementary school teacher Cal Hamilton thought he was happy in Philadelphia, but after a breakup, he steps back to reassess his life and discovers something is missing. He gets in his car and drives south with no idea what he hopes to find. The flip of a coin leads him to a small town in Mississippi—practically a different world from the city where he grew up.

Police officer Billy Labarre keeps his sexuality mostly to himself, but he knows just what he needs to fill the hole in his quiet small-town life: the right man. Unfortunately attitudes toward gay men still leave a lot to be desired in the rural South, and it’s hard to meet someone. It’s not likely his perfect match is just going to show up out of the blue….
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: Closeted, Coasting, Contemporary, Cop, Dreamspinner Press, Location - Mississippi, M/M, Novella, Series - States of Love, Teacher, The Blogger Girls, vacation, Yvonne Trent | Leave a comment

Book Review: Feather and Scroll by M.D. Grimm

Posted on August 9, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: Feather and Scroll
Author: M.D. Grimm
Series: The Shifters #11
Heroes: Pan/Viktor
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 176 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Agent Pan has spent most of his adult life protecting shape-shifters from the Knights—an organization bent on their annihilation—and keeping the secret war in the shadows where it belongs. But the Knights are growing bolder, and a new threat has resurfaced after being buried in the ocean for decades.

An ancient scroll, a key to a devastating weapon, is now in the hands of a recalcitrant Russian hawk shifter named Viktor. As a bird shifter, he knows his duty is to protect the scroll, but he wants nothing to do with the war. He leads a quiet life and wants to keep it that way. But when agents come knocking on his door, he finds it difficult to resist the charms of Agent Pan, especially since this isn’t their first meeting.

Two years earlier they spent a passionate weekend together, neither aware of the other’s true identity. Viktor never really got over Pan. Now with sexual tension at its peak, they must learn to trust each other and work as a team to protect not only their loved ones, but every shifter in the world.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: action, agents, bird shifters, danger, Dreamspinner Press, Feather and Scroll, Kidnapping, M.D. Grimm, M/M, mates, Mystery/Suspense, paranormal, Shifters, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Valentine’s Day Resolution by Ava Hayden

Posted on August 1, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: The Valentine’s Day Resolution
Author: Ava Hayden
Heroes: Huxley/Paul
Genre: MM contemporary
Length: 140 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Huxley carries invisible scars from a near-fatal car accident. He sleepwalks through a job at his father’s company, marking time until he can quit and pursue his own dreams.

Everything changes the moment he makes eye contact with a stranger while riding to work. It’s as if he’s been shaken out of his stupor, and Huxley vows to find the man.

Thanks to a thieving ex-lover, Paul’s florist shop is on the brink of closing down. He needs to milk Valentine’s Day for all it’s worth—and the irony that a day dedicated to love might help undo the damage of a failed relationship is not lost on him.

When Huxley finds Paul at his shop, both men feel an instant attraction. Before long, they’re falling hard, but Huxley holds back. If Paul knew all the baggage he’s carrying, he might run.

Paul’s gut tells him Huxley is hiding something. Huxley looks like a keeper, but Paul can’t go through another disastrous romance.

When Valentine’s Day arrives, will they have anything to celebrate?
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: Amaxophobia, Ava Hayden, CEO, Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Florist, Holiday - Valentine's Day, M/M, Novella, Phobia, The Blogger Girls, The Valentine's Day Resolution | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Layover by Roe Horvat

Posted on July 19, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: The Layover
Author: Roe Horvat
Heroes: Ondro/Jamie
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 104 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Eight years ago, Ondro Smrek fled Slovakia and the bigotry that drove his first lover to take his own life. The demons proved impossible to outrun, though, and now, desperate for somewhere to belong, Ondro is returning to start over. During a layover in Basel, Switzerland, he meets Jamie, an American living in Scotland who is as brilliant as he is beautiful.

Jaded Ondro never would have guessed he could fall in love during a brief layover—until now. When he is put in a position to offer Jamie comfort without hope of recompense, Ondro doesn’t hesitate. Soon, he catches a glimpse of the home he longs for. But with their separation looming, confessing his feelings would only lead to pain and humiliation. Life has taught Ondro not to hope, but then, he never believed in love at first sight either….
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Homophobia, Hurt/Comfort, Location - Europe, M/M, Mythology, Novella, Roe Horvat, Stranded, The Blogger Girls, The Layover | Leave a comment

Book Review: A New Leash on Love by Debbie Burns

Posted on July 3, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: A New Leash on Love
Author: Debbie Burns
Series: Rescue Me #1
Heroine/Hero: Megan Anderson/Craig Williams
Genre: MF Contemporary
Length: 352 Pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: When Craig Williams draws the short straw and has to take his daughter’s adorable new puppy to a shelter after the holidays, it’s just another painful episode in the fall-out of a miserable divorce. He needs to pick up the pieces of his life, and, after a fiery confrontation with Megan Anderson, the young woman running the shelter, he wants to put the whole episode behind him. However, when he keeps finding new ways to reconnect with her, he realizes Megan’s compassionate and caring nature just might be the perfect salve for his broken heart.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, M/F, Published in 2017 | Tags: A New Leash on Love, Animals, Contemporary, Debbie Burns, Divorcee, Family Tragedy, Men with kids, Men with pets, MF, romance, Series - Rescue Me, Sourcebooks Casablanca, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Patron by C.B. Lewis

Posted on June 21, 2017 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Ami

Title: Patron
Author: C.B. Lewis
Heroes: Theodore/Alexander
Genre: MM Historical
Length: 78 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Theodore Wentworth, who possesses little more than a sharp and well-educated mind, is trying to solicit a sponsor for his studies of Greek antiquity by performing recitations at gatherings of collectors. Desperate for luck and better skills in oratory, in jest, he places a coin at the feet of a statue of Hermes. It seems like coincidence when his fortune turns and a gentleman calling himself Alexander becomes his benefactor. Despite his friend John teasing him about it, Theodore continues to offer tokens to Hermes and sinks himself into his study of the classics.

Alexander encourages Theodore’s interest, prompting Theodore to face desires he tried to put aside years before. As Theodore embraces the knowledge, he must also resist his attraction to Alexander—knowing his feelings are a serious crime in Victorian England.

But the secret Alexander keeps will change everything in a love story for the ages, steeped in taboo, temptation, history, and myth.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Ami's Reviews, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2017 | Tags: Age Gap, C.B. Lewis, Dreamspinner Press, fantasy, Historical, M/M, Mythology, Nerd/Geek, Patron, Scholar, Short Story, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Ami’s Reviews

Book Review: I Heart Boston Terriers by Rick R. Reed

Book Review: Off the Beaten Path by Cari Z.

Book Review: Earning His Trust by Alicia Nordwell

Book Review: Like Two Parting Seas by Zhara Freytes

Book Review: Coasting by Yvonne Trent

Book Review: Feather and Scroll by M.D. Grimm

Book Review: The Valentine’s Day Resolution by Ava Hayden

Book Review: The Layover by Roe Horvat

Book Review: A New Leash on Love by Debbie Burns

Book Review: Patron by C.B. Lewis

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