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Early Review: Creature Feature 2 by Rhys Ford and Poppy Dennison

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Creature Feature 2
Authors: Rhys Ford and Poppy Dennison
Series: Creature Feature 2 (but not related to Creature Feature)
Heroes: Taz/Darren & Ciarnan/Javi
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 66k words
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Two Men. One Apocalypse.

Rise of the Revenants by Poppy Dennison
Vampyres are on the loose in Detroit, and novice hunter Taz Cohen is on the job. The mission seems simple: stop the vamps. But Taz knows nothing about the mythical creatures, so he’s in for the fight of his life. Then he meets insanely attractive construction worker Darren Foster, who jumps into the battle with both feet. Sparks and bullets fly as they struggle against the vampyre horde and their attraction to each other. Avoiding gruesome death from the undead might be easier than shielding their hearts from each other.

Legacy of Blood and Death by Rhys Ford
For Javi Navarro, Detroit will become another blood-splattered city in his rearview mirror after he puts its dead back into the ground. Expecting an easy hunting job, Javi instead finds a kiss of ancient vampyres on the hunt for a descendent of their long-dead creator.

Reclusive Ciarnan Mac Gerailt abandoned his family legacy of blood and death magic after it nearly destroyed him. Unfortunately, the Motor City can only be saved if Ciarnan resumes his dark arts and joins forces with Javi Navarro, the hunter who brought the vampyre apocalypse—and hope for the future—straight to Ciarnan’s front door.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Action/Suspense, Anthology, Creature Feature 2, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, Fae, ghosts, injury/recovery, M/M, magic, paranormal, Poppy Dennison, Rhys Ford, Series - Creature Feature, The Blogger Girls, vampires, warriors, working together | Leave a comment

Book Review: Half a Man by Scarlet Blackwell

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

Title: Half a Man
Author: Scarlet Blackwell
Series: War Tales #1
Heroes: Robert Blake/Jack Anderson
Genre: MM Historical Romance
Length: 99 Pages
Publisher: Totally Bound
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Available at: Totally Bound
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Traumatised by the nightmare of trench warfare in France, Robert Blake turns to rent boy Jack Anderson for solace. Neither man expects their business relationship to go quite so far.

It is 1919, less than a year after the end of the First World War with a recovering Britain in the grip of the influenza pandemic. Crippled veteran of the Somme battle, Robert Blake, is looking for someone to ease his nightmares of France and his guilt over what happened to his commanding officer. He turns to educated rent boy Jack Anderson for physical solace, not expecting how deeply the two soon become immersed in each other’s lives.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, Heather C's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: disability, Half a Man, Historical, M/M, M/M Historical Romance, rent boy, Scarlet Blackwell, Series - War Tales, The Blogger Girls, Totally Bound, war injury | Leave a comment

Book Review: Wood, Screws & Nails by Piper Vaughn and Kade Boehme

Posted on September 28, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Morgan

Title: Wood, Screws & Nails
Author: Piper Vaughn and Kade Boehme
Series: Hard Hats #1
Heroes: Aaron Costa/Malachi Pereira
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 176 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Aaron Costa’s summer was all planned. Despite having to remodel the family lake house, it would be a vacation of sorts, and he had every intention of enjoying it—until the friend who was supposed to help him got injured and left him in a lurch. He decides to take the opportunity to bond with his son and hires Julian and his roommate, Malachi, to assist.

As a broke college student, Malachi could use the money, and spending the summer with Aaron for eye candy sounds like a dream. “Look but don’t touch” becomes his motto. But when Julian starts flaking on his responsibilities and Malachi and Aaron are forced to spend long hours alone together, their mutual attraction is impossible to resist.

Aaron can’t fight the temptation sexy Malachi presents. But more than their age difference stands in their way, not the least of which is Aaron’s semi-closeted status and the fact that he’s never openly discussed his sexuality with his son. He has no idea how Julian will react when he learns his father is not only gay, he’s also dating his best friend.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: Construction, Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Father's Friend, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, Kade Boehme, M/M, May/December, Piper Vaughn, Series - Hard Hats, The Blogger Girls, Wood Screws & Nails | Leave a comment

Book Review: Temptations of Desire by Tempeste O’Riley

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Temptations of Desire
Author: Tempeste O’Riley
Series: Desires Entwined #3
Heroes: Alexander James Noble/Dal Sayer
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 200 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press and Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Alexander James Noble is a gender fluid gay man who gave up on finding Mister Right a long time ago. He’s not asking for much, though. He just wants a guy who loves all of him and appreciates his feminine form too.

At the local LGBTQ center where Alex regularly volunteers, he meets Dal Sayer, an officer of the Milwaukee PD. Because he’s been rejected one too many times, Alex doesn’t trust the huge cop and the interest he shows in him, but once Dal sets his mind on something, he goes all out. Pushing aside his preconceived notions, Alex opens up just a little and soon caves.

From their first date—while dealing with his father’s failing health and his parents’ demands for him to settle down and have children—Dal never takes his eyes off his goal of making Alex his. But proving to Alex he isn’t like all the men who couldn’t see him for who he truly was and only wanted to hide him away is harder than he thought.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Bi-Sexual, chefs, Contemporary, Cop, crazy meddling family, cute, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, Gender Fluid, Ginger-lovin, injury/recovery, insta love, lies, M/M, secrets, series, Series - Desires Entwined, sweet, Tempeste O'Riley, Temptations of Desire, The Blogger Girls | 2 Comments

Book Review: Sweetwater by Lisa Henry

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

Title: Sweetwater
Author: Lisa Henry
Heroes: Elijah Carter/Grady Mullins
Genre: MM Historical
Length: 240 Pages
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Available at: Riptide Publishing and Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Wyoming Territory, 1870.

Elijah Carter is afflicted. Most of the townsfolk of South Pass City treat him as a simpleton because he’s deaf, but that’s not his only problem. Something in Elijah runs contrary to nature and to God. Something that Elijah desperately tries to keep hidden.

Harlan Crane, owner of the Empire saloon, knows Elijah for what he is—and for all the ungodly things he wants. But Crane isn’t the only one. Grady Mullins desires Elijah too, but unlike Crane, he refuses to push the kid.

When violence shatters Elijah’s world, he is caught between two very different men and two devastating urges: revenge, and despair. In a boomtown teetering on the edge of a bust, Elijah must face what it means to be a man in control of his own destiny, and choose a course that might end his life . . . or truly begin it for the very first time
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, Heather C's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: Abuse, Angst, BDSM, bondage, Coming-of-Age, cowboys, dark, disability, Drug Use, dubious consent, first love, First-Time, Historical, humiliation, Hurt/Comfort, Lisa Henry, Location - Wyoming, M/M, Riptide Publishing, S/m, sadomasochism, Sweetwater, The Blogger Girls, Western | 2 Comments

Book Review: Frankie & Al by Sue Brown

Posted on September 27, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Morgan

Title: Frankie & Al
Author: Sue Brown
Narrator: Max Lehnen
Heroes: Frankie/Al
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 158 Pages / 3 Hours, 33 Minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: Book – March 21, 2014 / Audio – August 27, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, Audible and iTunes
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Dumped by his boyfriend, Frankie Mason goes out with the girls, gets totally trashed, and ends his night by falling in front of a taxi. He’s rescued by a man with beautiful green eyes who takes care of him until he’s put into an ambulance. Frankie curses himself as he realizes he doesn’t have the man’s phone number. Still in pain a few days later, he is dragged out to a club only to be saved by Green Eyes once more. This time, he isn’t letting the man go.

Unfortunately Frankie has to attend a team-building exercise, nicknamed Womb Weekend, organized by his company. Al is working so he doesn’t mind, until he discovers who the team leader is. Al has a lot of explaining to do!
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Audio Review, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: audio book, British, Contemporary, Death of a Mother, Dreamspinner Press, Frankie & Al, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, Hurt/Comfort, M/M, Max Lehnen, Rebound, Retreat, Sue Brown, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Icebound by Corinna Rogers

Posted on September 26, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Tina(MsMiz)

Title: Icebound
Author: Corinna Rogers
Series: Mortals & Myths Volume 1
Heroes: Shane Conell/Drake Young
Genre: M/M Urban Fantasy
Length: 156 Pages
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Available at: Harper Collins, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: It’s been ten years since Shane Conell sold his soul to the Ice King in order to save the life of the man he loves. Correction, loved.

After ten years, it’s growing difficult to remember love, and hate, and laughter – until a chance appears to get back the only thing his frozen heart still wants…

Drake Young is doing fine. Really. He’s got a good job, nice benefits, and the soulless husk of his old lover only comes by to torment him every so often. However, it only takes the appearance of a creature from the Etherworld wreaking havoc on the decidedly nonmagical city streets to drag him out of retirement, forcing him to team up with the one person he can’t bear even to look at!

Now, Drake and Shane must race against the clock to keep their city from being destroyed, even if it means working together. And no matter how difficult it is to catch the creature, it’s a hell of a lot more difficult to resist the urges that ten years haven’t managed to kill.
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Categories: 2 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: Corinna Rogers, Fae, Guest Reviewer - Tina, Harper Collins Publishers, Icebound, Lost Loves, M/M, magic, Rape, Sacrifice, Series - Mortals & Myths, The Blogger Girls, urban fantasy | Leave a comment

J.L. Merrow Week Review: Trick of Time

Posted on September 26, 2014 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Trick of Time
Author: J.L. Merrow
Heroes: Ted/Jem
Genre: MM Historical
Length: 80 Pages
Publisher: Carina Press
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Available at: Carina Press, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: A lover from another time

When Ted Ennis steps out the doors of the Criterion Theatre for a cigarette and finds himself in Victorian London, he begins to doubt his sanity. At first he thinks it’s all a film set, and is sure that the strikingly handsome young man leaning against a lamppost must be the leading man…

What starts as a sordid transaction with a beautiful rent boy quickly turns into something much deeper, drawing him back again and again as he gets to know Jem and craves meaningful encounters with him.

But Ted doesn’t understand the exact conditions necessary for his trips through time—and for Jem, time may actually be running out. Now Ted has one last shot to get back to Jem and save their relationship, before it’s too late…
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Author Week, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2013, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: Alternate Universe, Author Week - J.L. Merrow, Carina Press, ghosts, Grief, Historical, Hurt/Comfort, J.L. Merrow, M/M, Novella, Public activity, rent boy, The Blogger Girls, Theatre, time travel, Trick of Time | Leave a comment

J.L. Merrow Week Review: Keeper’s Pledge

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

Title: Keeper’s Pledge
Author: J.L. Merrow
Series: Midwinter Manor #2
Heroes: Philip/Danny
Genre: MM Historical Romance
Length: 116 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Available at: Dreamspinner Press, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: A sequel to Poacher’s Fall, set four years later, in 1926.

Landowner Philip Luccombe has been enjoying a passionate relationship with young poacher turned gamekeeper Danny Costessey for four years now. Danny’s love has brought him out of the shell he retreated into when his first lover died after the Great War. But this Christmas, visitors to the manor threaten their happiness. Philip’s young cousin Matthew is artistic, vivacious, and flirtatious: just the sort to remind him of his long-dead first love—and to emphasise the social gulf between Philip and Danny.

But the worst danger comes from much nearer home. An old flame of Danny’s is discovered in incriminating circumstances, forcing the lovers to keep their distance for fear of being tarred with the same brush. Meanwhile, Danny’s younger brother, Toby, has grown to resent the connection between his brother and the lord of the manor. Danny wants to do the right thing—but that could divide the lovers forever
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Author Week, Book Review, Heather C's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2013 | Tags: Author Week - J.L. Merrow, Dreamspinner Press, established lovers, Historical, Holiday - Christmas, J.L. Merrow, Keeper's Pledge, M/M, M/M Historical Romance, Novella, separated for a bit, Series - Midwinter Manor, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Love and Punishment by Susan Mac Nicol

Posted on September 25, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Love and Punishment
Author: Susan Mac Nicol
Heroes: Anthony Parglietto/Flynn Parker
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 261 Pages
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Available at: Boroughs Publishing, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: FROM DARKNESS AND LIGHT

Someone is leaving a trail of bodies throughout London, and Detective Anthony Parglietto is determined to end the violence. Then he’ll return to the man he loves.

Tough, street-savvy, and used to dealing with lowlifes, Flynn Parker is the last person Anthony thinks he has to protect. Then the Bow-Tie Killer strikes close to home and the world turns upside down. Right is wrong, black is white, and a policeman might become a monster. But in the name of love, justice must be served. In the name of love, pain can be endured. In the name of love, a man can taste the very essence that defines him.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: Abuse, Angst, Boroughs Publishing, Contemporary, Detectives, Emotional, Hurt/Comfort, Kidnapping, Law Enforcement, Love and Punishment, M/M, Murder/Mystery, Reunited, serial killer, Susan Mac Nicol, Suspense/Thriller, The Blogger Girls, torture | Leave a comment

Reviewers

Early Review: Creature Feature 2 by Rhys Ford and Poppy Dennison

Book Review: Half a Man by Scarlet Blackwell

Book Review: Wood, Screws & Nails by Piper Vaughn and Kade Boehme

Book Review: Temptations of Desire by Tempeste O’Riley

Book Review: Frankie & Al by Sue Brown

Book Review: Icebound by Corinna Rogers

J.L. Merrow Week Review: Trick of Time

J.L. Merrow Week Review: Keeper’s Pledge

Book Review: Love and Punishment by Susan Mac Nicol

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