Audio Review: Just What the Truth is by Cardeno C.

Posted on November 13, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by

Title: Just What the Truth Is
Author: Cardeno C.
Narrator: Alexander Collins
Series: Home #5
Heroes: Ben Forman/Micah Trains
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 6 Hours, 19 Minutes
Publisher: The Romance Authors
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Audible
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: People-pleaser Ben Forman has been in the closet so long he has almost convinced himself he is straight, but his denial train gets derailed when hotshot lawyer Micah Trains walks into his life. Micah is brilliant, funny, driven…and he assumes Ben is gay and starts dating him. Finding himself truly happy for the first time, Ben doesn’t have the willpower to resist Micah’s affection.

When his relationship with Micah heats up, Ben realizes has a problem: his parents won’t tolerate a gay son and self-confident Micah isn’t the type to hide. If Ben wants to maintain his hold on his happiness, he’ll have to decide what’s important and own up to the truth of who he is. The trouble is figuring out just what that truth is.

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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Audio Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Adoption, Alexander Collins, audio book, Bigotry, Cardeno C. Series - Home, Children, Closeted, co-workers, Coming Out, Contemporary, First-Time, Gay Marriage, Gay Virgin, gfy/ofy, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, Homophobia, Jewish, Just What the Truth Is, Lawyers, M/M, Older MCs, The Blogger Girls, The Romance Authors | Leave a comment

Book Review: Innocence to the Max by SJD Peterson

Posted on November 12, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: 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
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

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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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Age Gap, BDSM, Innocence to the Max, Iunctiō Cōpula, kidnapped, M/M, mates, paranormal, SJD Peterson, The Blogger Girls, vampires | Leave a comment

Book Review: Dark Soul by A.M. Snead

Posted on November 12, 2015 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Dark Soul
Author: A.M. Snead
Series: Soulscape #1
Heroes: Dr. Frank Harlan/Alec Strom
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 41 Pages
Publisher: A.M. Snead
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: When Dr. Frank Harlan, the head psychiatrist at Black Moon Asylum, took in six-year-old Alec Strom, he knew the child was evil. Yet despite the dark soul residing within Alec, Frank felt bonded to the child –compelled to save him from the darkness consuming him. After 13 years of striving to help Alec, Frank is startled to realize that the care he feels for his patient has stealthily developed into something deeper, stronger, than a mere doctor/patient relationship. But when Alec attacks and murders a visiting psychiatrist, Frank is terrified of what will become of Alec –and even more terrified of his own feelings for the disturbed and dangerous young man.

Now, Frank sits alone in his office at the Asylum on the night of Alec’s execution, awaiting news of Alec’s death – alone with his memories of a troubled child he watched grow into a troubled young man…and somehow fell in love with along the way. When the fated call comes in, he is consumed with sadness and a sense of failure. But the awful night turns to horror when Frank is suddenly faced with the terrifying reality that evil isn’t so easily extinguished…or predictable.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: dark, Dark Soul, Demonic, Doctor/Patient, Evil, Grief, M/M, paranormal, Physician, Revenge, Self-Published, Series - Soulscapes, Short Story, The Blogger Girls, Violence | Leave a comment

Book Review: Silverfall by Raven de Hart

Posted on November 12, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Morgan

Title: 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
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

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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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Bigotry, Cop, danger, Evil Ex, fantasy, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, Loose Id, M/M, paranormal, Raven de Hart, security guard, Silverfall, The Blogger Girls, Unicorn Shifters | Leave a comment

Book Review: Gay for His Cowboy Vampire by Tabatha Austin

Posted on November 11, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: 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
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

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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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: Gay for His Gay Cowboy, Hunters, M/M, paranormal, Revenge, Short Story, Tabatha Austin, The Blogger Girls, vampires, Western | Leave a comment

Audio Book Review: In Your Eyes by Cardeno C.

Posted on November 11, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: In Your Eyes
Author: Cardeno C.
Narrator: Charlie David
Series: Mates #3
Heroes: Samuel Goodwin/Korban Keller
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 200 Pages
Publisher: The Romance Authors
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Audible
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Raised to become Alpha of the Yafenack pack, Samuel Goodwin dedicates his life to studying shifter laws, strengthening his body, and learning from his father. But despite his best efforts, Samuel can’t relate to people, including those he’s supposed to lead.

When Samuel meets Korban Keller, the son of a neighboring pack’s Alpha, he reacts with emotion instead of intellect for the first time in his life. Resenting the other shifter for throwing him off-balance, Samuel first tries to intimidate Korban and then desperately avoids him. What he can’t do is forget Korban’s warm eyes, easy smile, and happy personality.

When a battle between their fathers ends tragically, Samuel struggles to lead his pack while Korban works to break through Samuel’s emotional barriers. Two very different men with a tumultuous history must overcome challenges from all sides and see past their society’s rules to realize they are destined for one another.

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Categories: Audio Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Alpha Males, audio book, Cardeno C., Charlie David, enemies to lovers, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, In Your Eyes, M/M, mates, Murder, Pack Laws, paranormal, Series - Mates, Shifters, The Blogger Girls, Werewolves, Young Love | 1 Comment

Book Blast: Second Chances by Rain Carrington + Giveaway!

Posted on November 10, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Denver Diaries

Second Chances

by Rain Carrington

27427849 Having everything he needed and wanted in his life for the first time, Brian Lauder was perfectly happy. He had a career that he loved, a home, friends and a submissive that he adored. One he thought he’d held at a big enough distance from to protect his heart. That was all before Morgan stepped back into his house and his life.

Morgan Cherik was everything a man could want. Beautiful, driven and eager to kneel for his Master, but he’d left without a word two years before to follow his dream, leaving Brian to pick up the pieces of a shattered heart.

Now he was back and Brian was torn between wanting to feel that love he’d never been able to shake for Morgan, or punish him and let him go. Then there was Pez, the young college student who had helped him heal. How could Brian let him go?

As Morgan begins to make amends, Brian knows that he cannot get over the other man who’d left his life for Brian’s happiness. Will the memory of Pez come between them, or bring them closer together?

Note from the Author: This book is part of a serial, the following installments coming out every four to six weeks. They are part of a larger collection I lovingly call the Denver Diaries. Each serial in the Denver Diaries will focus on a new couple or triple, and will play out over the next year or so. I hope you enjoy this first book!

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Teasers from Second Chances

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About Rain Carrington

612KRDs4nnL._UY200_ Hi I’m Rain and I write contemporary M/M romance some with a BDSM slant. My book Honky Tonk, is the first I am publishing but not the first I’ve written. I have a whole library full that are about to be rewritten and revamped a bit and published as well. Please enjoy my books and let me know what you think!

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Rain has graciously offered up FIVE eBook copies of Second Chances!! The giveaway starts now and ends November 16, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. To enter, just click the link below!

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Don’t forget to check out JustJen’s review of Second Chances to see what she thought of it!

Good luck!

Categories: Book Promo, Giveaways, LGBT | Tags: M/M, Rain Carrington, second chances, The Blogger Girls | 7 Comments

Book Review: Second Chances by Rain Carrington

Posted on November 10, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Second Chances
Author: Rain Carrington
Series: Second Chances #1
Heroes: Brian/Morgan
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 197 Pages
Publisher: AAS Publishing
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Having everything he needed and wanted in his life for the first time, Brian Lauder was perfectly happy. He had a career that he loved, a home, friends and a submissive that he adored. One he thought he’d held at a big enough distance from to protect his heart. That was all before Morgan stepped back into his house and his life.

Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: AAS Publishing, BDSM, Contemporary, Counsellor, M/M, Rain Carrington, Reunited, second chances, Series - Second Chances, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Midnight Gardener by R.G. Thomas

Posted on November 10, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Ami

Title: The Midnight Gardener
Author: R.G. Thomas
Series: The Town of Superstition #1
Heroes: Thaddeus/Teofil
Genre: MM YA Fantasy
Length: 130 Pages
Publisher: Harmony Ink Press
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: At fifteen, Thaddeus Cane has moved thirty-two times with his father. Each time he’s displaced without explanation, Thaddeus loses any friends he’s made. The name of their latest town is Superstition, but it seems normal enough, with one exception.

Thaddeus’s bedroom window gives him a view into the beautiful gardens next door. Every night after dark, an attractive guy around Thaddeus’s age appears to tend the plants. When Thaddeus visits his neighbor, he discovers not only how deep his interest in the other man runs, but also that Teofil, the midnight gardener, isn’t human. He’s a garden gnome, a revelation that will lead to more secrets coming to light and an adventure unlike anything Thaddeus ever imagined.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: dragons, fantasy, Guest Reviewer - Ami, Harmony Ink Press, M/M, magic, Novella, paranormal, R.G. Thomas, The Blogger Girls, The Midnight Gardener, urban fantasy, Witches, Wizards, YA | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Half of Us by Cardeno C.

Posted on November 10, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: The Half of Us
Author: Cardeno C.
Series: Family #4
Heroes: Jason Garcia/Abe Green
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 224Pages
Publisher: The Romance Authors
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Short-tempered, arrogant heart surgeon Jason Garcia grew up wanting a close-knit family, but believes he ruined those dreams when he broke up his marriage. The benefit of divorce is having as much random sex as he wants, and it’s a benefit Jason is exploiting when he meets a sweet, shy man at a bar and convinces him to go home for a no-strings-attached night of fun.

Eight years living in Las Vegas hasn’t dimmed Abe Green’s optimism, earnestness, or desire to find the one. When a sexy man with lonely eyes propositions him, Abe decides to give himself a birthday present—one night of spontaneous fun with no thoughts of the future. But one night turns into two and then three, and Abe realizes his heart is involved.

For the first time, Abe feels safe enough with someone he respects and adores to let go of his inhibitions in the bedroom. If Jason can get past his own inhibitions and open his heart and his life to Abe, he might finally find the family he craves.

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