Posts Tagged With: Cancer

Book Review: Love Comes Silently by Andrew Grey

Posted on July 8, 2017 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Love Comes Silently
Author: Andrew Grey
Series: Senses #1
Heroes: Ken Brighton/Patrick Flaherty
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 200 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Caring for a loved one with cancer is tough. Doing it alone is overwhelming-especially when that loved one is a child. But ever since Ken Brighton’s partner left him, Ken has spent his days at the hospital with his daughter, Hanna, hoping for a miracle. Maybe the mysterious care packages that appear for Hanna don’t qualify, but they bring a spark of hope into his and Hanna’s tired life-and so does Ken’s neighbor, former singer Patrick Flaherty.

For two years Patrick hasn’t been able to focus on anything but the life he should have had. An injury robbed him of his voice, and the idea of introducing himself to new people intimidates him. But over the past months, he’s watched as his neighbor nursed his sick child, and once he meets Ken, Patrick starts to crave a life with him-a life he isn’t sure he can have.

Ken doesn’t realize he’s fallen in love until the doctors send Hanna home, saying there’s nothing more they can do: Hanna will either recover or succumb. Ken’s heart is set on a new beginning-with both Patrick and Hanna. But Patrick’s silence leaves Ken wondering what Patrick wants.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2012, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: Andrew Grey, Artist, Cancer, Contemporary, disability, Dreamspinner Press, Heartbreaking, Hospital, Hurt/Comfort, Illness of a Child, Leukemia, Love Comes Silently, M/M, Men with kids, Musician, Mute, neighbors, Professional Singer, Series - Senses, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Take a Chance on It by K.A. Mitchell

Posted on May 7, 2017 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Take a Chance on It
Author: K.A. Mitchell
Series: Ready or Knot #3
Heroes: Dane Archer/Gideon DeLuca
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 160 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Left at the altar by his long-time lover, Spencer, and in desperate need of quality health insurance, Dane Archer can’t say no when his best man and best friend, Gideon DeLuca, steps in. But Dane and Gideon have history, tangled and passionate and complicated.

After seventeen years of cat and mouse, Gideon has realized Dane isn’t the kind of man who ever wants to be caught, and he’s stopped playing Dane’s game.

For Dane, it’s never been a game, but sexual fidelity isn’t his strong suit. Love is too beautiful for limits, something he’s never been able to get Gideon the control freak to understand. Now Dane has nothing but limits, including the timeline on his paper-only marriage to Gideon.

Gideon’s the only person Dane trusts enough to lean on, and Gideon will do anything to get Dane through this crisis. Anything but fall for Dane again.

Living together forces Dane and Gideon to stop circling and face what’s been between them all these years. They just don’t know if they have the power or the time to make things right.

What they do know is that they’re not ready for it to be over.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2016, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: Cancer, Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Four Friends, Friends to Lovers, Friends with Benefits, Hurt/Comfort, Illness/Disease, Jilted, K.A. Mitchell, M/M, Marriage, open relationship, Rebound Relationships, Second Chance, Series - Ready or Knot, Take a Chance on It, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: A Wild Wicked Weekend by Layla Wolfe

Posted on July 21, 2016 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: A Wild Wicked Weekend
Author: Layla Wolfe
Series: The Bent Zealots MC #4
Heroes: Haven/Ogden
Genre: MM Contemporary BDSM
Length: 310 Pages
Publisher: Quicksilver Books
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: When they do right, no one remembers.
When they do wrong, no one forgets.

HAVEN: At forty-five, I was a washed-up racecar driver, a Daddy Dom who had searched the world over for his power bottom, his submissive. Fuck, I was still a Prospect for the Bent Zealots MC. That’s how I came to be in the clubhouse while most of them were raising hell at a Vegas rally. Word came there was a stiff down on the Rez, and the Zealots were getting blamed for it. My mission included a clownish reject from a rival club name of Mike Drop, and a mysterious half-breed who would change my life forever.

OGDEN: I met Haven there in the desert, standing over the disemboweled corpse of a tourist. After I made a sleazy deal that would help solve the mystery and clear the Zealots’ name, that muscle daddy gave me a tongue-lashing of a lifetime. Have more self-respect, Haven said. As the bastard half-Navajo basketballer who had frittered away a scholarship, I was a bad penny. Haven, with his powerful mastery at training and molding me, gave shape to my form.

HAVEN: Ogden is my forever toy, a morsel for me to savor. He says you can’t see the future with tears in your eyes. If we make it through this hell together, we’ll see clearly. The club will know I’ve made my bones when I bring them the killer’s head on a platter.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: A Wild and Wicked Weekend, Age Gap, Age Play, BDSM, Cancer, Contemporary, Disability/disfigurement, Domestic Violence, Drug Cartel, Hurt/Comfort, Illness/Disease, Instalove, interracial, Layla Wolfe, M/M, May/December, Motorcycle Club, Quicksilver Books, Series - The Bent Zealots MC, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Friends with Benefits by Francis Gideon

Posted on July 2, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: Friends with Benefits
Author: Francis Gideon
Heroes: Devon Gangon/Jace Perez
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 90 Pages
Publisher: Nine Star Press
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: When stock boy Devon Gangon finds out he has to train a new employee at the grocery store where he works, Jace Perez is not what he expected. Jace is shy but talkative about all the right things, including Devon’s favourite punk band, Nine Volt Start. Over the course of a few weeks, they become closer and closer, and their stray touches finally build up to a tryst in the back room.

Nine Volt Start announces a reunion tour, and Devon thinks Jace is the perfect person to go with him. But Jace tells him he’d much rather keep his work and personal life separate and leaves Devon in the cold. With Jace drawing a line, Devon’s left wondering if spending his time idolizing a band and not doing anything with his art degree has been worthwhile. He’ll be twenty-nine in less than a month and hasn’t had a serious relationship in years.

Leaning on his brother and best friend for support, Devon realizes he either has to settle for random hook-ups with Jace or push for something more, even if it may hurt in the end.
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Categories: 2.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: Cancer, Contemporary, Francis Gideon, Friends with Benefits, Hidden Lovers, Illness/Disease, M/M, Misunderstanding, Nine Star Press, second chances, secrets, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Music of the Spheres by Chase Potter

Posted on March 26, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: The Music of the Spheres
Author: Chase Potter
Heroes: Ryan/Adam
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 216 Pages
Publisher: Chase Potter Books
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: An athlete and introvert from a family touched by loss, Ryan Mattson splits his life between reading and spending time with his dad and precocious younger sister. With the wounds of his past almost healed, high school is simple, and so is everything else.

But that changes when Ryan is paired with Adam for a class project. Adam, the guy with birthmarks like flecks of mud and compost-brown eyes that hide behind dorky glasses. Grudgingly, the two young men work together, and as they do, an unlikely friendship is formed.

With the passing college years, their bond deepens and grows. Even Ryan’s sister and dad take a liking to Adam, and the family – always missing a voice – seems to gain another. But just as Ryan is forced to confront what Adam really means to him, his family is dragged toward crisis. And beneath the silent snows and starlit sky of a Minnesota winter, their friendship will be tested more than ever before.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: Athlete, Cancer, Chase Potter, Chase Potter Books, College, Contemporary, death, Family Drama, First Person, Friends to Lovers, Grief, Jock, Little to No Sex, Loss of a Loved One, Low Steam, M/M, NA, OFY, Opposites Attract, Present Tense, The Blogger Girls, The Music of the Spheres, YA | Leave a comment

Book Review: Sleeping ’til Sunrise by Mary Calmes

Posted on December 27, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: Sleeping ’til Sunrise
Author: Mary Calmes
Series: Mangrove Stories #5
Heroes: Essien Dodd/Roark Hammond
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 90 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Everyone in Mangrove, Florida, knows Fire Chief Essien Dodd is a saint. He took care of his ex-wife until she died, is raising his teenage daughter alone, and is the kind of man who pulls kittens from trees. All in all, the man’s a catch. But Roark Hammond has sworn off getting involved with a man who’s been hurt before because he can’t guarantee he won’t hurt his prospective love again. If only he could get Essien out of his mind long enough to focus on anyone, or anything, else.

Strong emotions are in play. Essien is lonely but determined to focus on Ivy; Ivy wants her father to have a new life so much that, to his horror, she’s trying to find him a man; and Roark is so scared of the present and past, he won’t allow himself to commit. To have any chance of sleeping ’til sunrise and greeting each new day together, Essien and Roark will have to rethink how they’re living their lives and focus on what’s most important.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Cancer, Contemporary, Doctor, Dreamspinner Press, Fireman, Friends to Lovers, Inheritance, interracial, M/M, Mary Calmes, Novella, Series - Mangrove Stories, Single Father, Sleeping 'til Sunrise, The Blogger Girls, widower | Leave a comment

Audio Review: Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward

Posted on December 26, 2015 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Lover Eternal
Author: J.R. Ward
Narrator: Jim Frangione
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood #2
Hero/Heroine: Rhage/Mary
Genre: MF Paranormal
Length: 14 Hours, 11 Minues
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Available at: Amazon and Audible
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly turf war raging between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Possessed by a deadly beast, Rhage is the most dangerous of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetites. He’s the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover-for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. Owned by this dark side, Rhage fears the time when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him.

Mary Luce, a survivor of many hardships is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world and reliant on Rhage’s protection. With a life-threatening curse of her own, Mary is not looking for love. She lost her faith in miracles years ago. But when Rhage’s intense animal attraction turns into something more emotional, he knows that he must make Mary his alone. And while their enemies close in, Mary fights desperately to gain life eternal with the one she loves…
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Audio Review, M/F, Published in 2010 | Tags: audio book, Beast, Cancer, Existing Characters, Fade, Grief, Hurt/Comfort, injury/recovery, J.R. Ward, Kidnapping, LLC, Lover Eternal, MF, paranormal, Rape, Recorded Books, Series - Black Dagger Brotherhood, The Blogger Girls, Theme - Vampires, Undead, Violence | Leave a comment

Book Review: A Way Home by Keira Andrews

Posted on April 14, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Morgan

Title: A Way Home
Author: Keira Andrews
Series: Gay Amish Romance #3
Heroes: Isaac/David
Genre: MM contemporary
Length: 210 Pages
Publisher: KA Books
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Will returning to their Amish roots renew their faith in each other?

Isaac and David never thought they’d go back to the Amish world. But when Isaac’s younger brother is stricken with cancer, they don’t hesitate to return. Their relationship is on the rocks after insecurity and fear drove a wedge between them in San Francisco, and David is determined to make things right. Yet if they thought navigating “English” life was confusing, being back in Zebulon is even more complicated.

Their families are desperate to bring them back into the fold, and pressure from the community builds. Isaac and David yearn for a future together, but each day it becomes harder to hide the truth about who they really are. They’re caught between two worlds, and if they’re not careful it could tear them further apart.

Can Isaac and David make their way back to each other—and find a place to call home?

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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: A Way Home, Amish, Cancer, Closure, Contemporary, Established couple, Friends to Lovers, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, Homophobia, KA Books, Keira Andrews, M/M, Religion, Series - Gay Amish Romance, Series Finale, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: A Clean Break by Keira Andrews

Posted on February 16, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Guest Reviewed by Morgan

Title: A Clean Break
Author: Keira Andrews
Series: Gay Amish Romance #2
Heroes: David/Isaac
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 245 Pages
Publisher: KA Books
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: They’ve escaped to the outside world—but can they really be free?
David and Isaac have found happiness in each other’s arms. In faraway San Francisco, Isaac’s brother Aaron helps them explore confusing “English” life and move beyond the looming shadow of their Amish roots. For the first time, David and Isaac can be openly gay, yet they struggle to reconcile their sexuality with their faith. At least they don’t have to hide their relationship, which should make everything easier. Right?

But while Isaac thrives at school and makes new friends, David wrestles to come to terms with the reality of the outside world. Haunted by guilt at leaving his mother and sisters behind in Zebulon, he’s overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the city as he works to get his carpentry business off the ground.

While David and Isaac finally sleep side by side each night, fear and insecurity could drive them miles apart.

This is the second chapter in a trilogy of forbidden Amish love. This book features explicit sex and is not an inspirational/Christian novel.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: A Clean Break, addiction, Amish, Angst, Cancer, cliffhanger, Contemporary, Crises, Established couple, Exploration, Faith, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, KA Books, Keira Andrews, M/M, Only Love, Series - Gay Amish Romance, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Audio Review: In Another Life by Cardeno C.

Posted on November 12, 2014 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: In Another Life
Author: Cardeno C.
Narrator: Jeff Gelder
Series: Heartwarming
Heroes: Shiloh Raben and Travis Kahn
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: Book – 84 Pages / Audio – 1 Hour, 50 Minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Dates: Book – December 1, 2013 / Audio – November 3, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, Audible and iTunes
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: At age 18, Shiloh Raben is tired. He no longer has the energy to deal with mean classmates, inner doubt, and fear of familial rejection, so he takes a razor to his wrist. When he wakes up in the hospital, Shiloh meets Travis Kahn, the EMT who saved him and didn’t leave his side.

Travis is handsome, smart, and funny – the type of guy Shiloh would never be brave enough to approach. But his near-death experience has an unusual side effect: the life that flashed before his eyes wasn’t the one he had already lived, but rather the one he could live. With visions of a future by Travis’s side, will Shiloh find the strength to confront his fears and build a life worth fighting for?
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Audio Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: audio book, Bullying, Cancer, Cardeno C., Contemporary, Counselor, Dreamspinner Press, Fork on the Road, Guest Reviewer - Morgan, Holiday - Jewish, In Another Life, Jeff Gelder, Love at First Sight, M/M, paranormal, Physician, second chances, Series - Heartwarming, Short Story, Suicide, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: Cancer

Book Review: Love Comes Silently by Andrew Grey

Book Review: Take a Chance on It by K.A. Mitchell

Book Review: A Wild Wicked Weekend by Layla Wolfe

Book Review: Friends with Benefits by Francis Gideon

Book Review: The Music of the Spheres by Chase Potter

Book Review: Sleeping ’til Sunrise by Mary Calmes

Audio Review: Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward

Book Review: A Way Home by Keira Andrews

Book Review: A Clean Break by Keira Andrews

Audio Review: In Another Life by Cardeno C.

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