Posts Tagged With: deception

Book Review: The Fallen by Kay Ellis

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: The Fallen
Author: Kay Ellis
Series: Evolin #2
Heroes: Tylan & Sully
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 133 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Defying their orders of exile, Tylan and Sully return to Evolin to face King Acipor. But two against the kingdom’s forces requires more planning. In the forest surrounding the city, Tylan and Sully find a group of young men hiding to escape persecution. Sully is pleased to discover his former comrade, Gannon, leads this ragtag set. Soon, they find refuge and shelter from the dark clouds quickly gathering on the horizon. Worried over strengthening bonds between old friends, Tylan grows distrustful. When a boy with the gift of foresight warns Tylan he will be betrayed, the fire within him grows stronger, waiting for its chance to take control of the prince’s body and claim Sully for its own.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, Age Gap, betrayal, deception, Dreamspinner Press, existing relationships, fantasy, Kay Ellis, M/M, magic, royalty, series, Series - Evolin, The Blogger Girls, The Fallen, warriors, working together | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Shape of Honey by Ki Brightly

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: The Shape of Honey
Author: Ki Brightly
Heroes: Yulian & Rolly
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 350 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Yulian Volkov is an entrepreneur and lone werewolf who hates the city. At a pack meeting, he learns the only member he’s attracted to is being expelled for crimes unspecified. Yulian strikes a deal with the pack leader to allow Rolly Witten to live on his farm and work in his Meadery. Although enjoying handsome Rolly’s company, Yulian must tread carefully, since Rolly doesn’t trust him and the pack doesn’t acknowledge homosexuality exists. Meanwhile, Yulian stealthily courts Rolly by teaching him the value of his wolf side.

Rolly, who’s known he was gay since he was a teen, has accepted a life of solitude—and a life of crime. He has no desire to relocate. Yet Yulian’s trust in his ability to do honest work builds his confidence. As life is settling well for them, Rolly learns a friend from his old pack had a crush on him, and he’s torn between returning his friend’s feelings or pursuing the budding relationship with Yulian. But that’s not their worst problem. Assassins are trying to take out both wolves, and they need to figure out who wants them dead or all the trust and happiness they’re building together won’t matter.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: assholes, closet cases, criminals, deception, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, grieving, injury/recovery, Ki Brightly, M/M, paranormal, Shifters, slow burn, sweet, taken, The Blogger Girls, The Shape of Honey, unrequited, UST, working together, yearning | 1 Comment

Book Review: Shifting Chaos by Elizabeth Noble

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Shifting Chaos
Author: Elizabeth Noble
Series: The Sleepless City #4
Heroes: Forge/Blair & Declan/Lucas
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 216 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Chaos reigns in The Sleepless City, and it’s really beginning to piss Detective Jonas Forge off. He’s got inner demons to battle and a life to build with his new soul mate, Blair Turner. Nothing is going right, and he already feels the universe is conspiring against him when a turn of events he never saw coming flips his world upside down.

Hallucinations grip the town and everyone in it, threatening to tear their precariously built family apart, and the only way forward is to bare all to each other. This means Declan and Blair need to learn to accept one another. Lucas Coate has to move forward without ties to his werewolf pack and live a monogamous life with Declan.

But while Forge and Declan confront horrors from their shared past, Simon learns a terrible truth about vampires—one he couldn’t have imagined in his worst nightmares.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, Cops, criminals, deception, demons, Doctors, Dreamspinner Press, Elizabeth Noble, existing relationships, injury/recovery, M/M, mates, paranormal, Pets, series, Series - The Sleepless City, Shifting Chaos, The Blogger Girls, vampires, wolf shifters, working together | Leave a comment

Book Review: Prickly Business by Piper Vaughn & Kenzie Cade

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Prickly Business
Author: Piper Vaughn & Kenzie Cade
Series: Portland Pack Chronicles #1
Heroes: Avery & Dylan
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 280 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Some people might call Avery Babineaux a prick. He’s a hedgehog shifter from an old-money Louisiana family, with a penchant for expensive shoes and a reputation for being a judgmental snob. His attitude is why he and his fated mate are estranged. Not that Avery cares. He doesn’t want to be mated to some blue-collar werewolf anyway. Or so he keeps telling himself.

No werewolf likes to be looked down upon, least of all Dylan Green. He doesn’t need a mate, especially not some snotty hedgehog who sneers at his custom motorcycle shop and calls him a grease monkey. But when Avery gets into trouble with a shady loan shark, Dylan can’t stand by and let him be hurt—whether he wants the brat or not.

Yet once Dylan steps into Avery’s world, he realizes there’s more to Avery than his prickly exterior, and that unexpected vulnerability calls to Dylan’s protective instincts. The sassy little hedgehog needs a keeper, and despite their horrible first impressions, Dylan starts to believe he might be the wolf for the job.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: assholes, betrayal, deception, injury/recovery, Kenzie Cade, kidnapped, M/M, mates, mystery, paranormal, Piper Vaughn, Prickly Business, Series: Portland Pack Chronicles, Shifters, The Blogger Girls, wolf shifters | 1 Comment

Book Review: Family and Reflection by Anne Barwell

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Family and Reflection
Author: Anne Barwell
Series: The Sleepless City #3
Heroes: Lucas & Declan
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 226 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: For as long as Lucas Coate can remember, werewolves have been taught to mistrust vampires. Lucas is an exception—he has close friends who are vampires. The werewolf pack in Flint—and their leader, Jacob Coate—have made it clear that Lucas’s association with vampires is barely tolerated, and another transgression will be his last. When Lucas finds out about the plague of werewolf deaths in the area, he wants to help even though his own life may already be in danger.

Declan has been away from Flint for ten years, but he isn’t surprised to learn that the internal politics of the Supernatural Council haven’t changed for the better. When a series of burglaries hit close to home soon after he arrives, Declan—a vampire and professional thief—is their prime suspect, although for once, he isn’t responsible. With the council keeping secrets, no one is safe. Time is running out, and for Lucas and Declan, everything is about to change.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, Anne Barwell, coronor, criminals, deception, Dreamspinner Press, ex lovers as secondary characters, Family and Reflection, Friends to Lovers, injury/recovery, M/M, mates, mystery, paranormal, series, Series - The Sleepless City, The Blogger Girls, vampires, wolf shifters | 1 Comment

Book Review: Strange Bedfellows by Cardeno C.

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Strange Bedfellows
Author: Cardeno C.
Heroes: Ford & Trevor
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 57,995 words
Publisher: The Romance Authors
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Available at: Amazon
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Blurb: Can the billionaire son of a Democratic president build a family with the congressman son of a Republican senator? Forget politics, love makes strange bedfellows.

As the sole offspring of the Democratic United States president and his political operative wife, Trevor Moga was raised in an environment driven by the election cycle. During childhood, he fantasized about living in a made-for-television family, and as an adult, he rejected all things politics and built a highly successful career as far from his parents as possible.

Newly elected congressman Ford Hollingsworth is Republican royalty. The grandson of a revered governor and son of a respected senator, he was bred to value faith, family, and the goal of seeing a Hollingsworth in the White House.

When Trevor and Ford meet, sparks fly and a strong friendship is formed. But can the billionaire son of a Democratic president build a family with the congressman son of a Republican senator? Forget politics, love makes strange bedfellows.

**WARNING: THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS – PROCEED WITH CAUTION**
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, Cardeno C., closet cases, Contemporary, cute, deception, lots of sex, M/M, politicians, politics, Religion, son of politicians, Strange Bedfellows, sweet, The Blogger Girls | 8 Comments

Book Review: Murder and Mayhem by Rhys Ford

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Murder and Mayhem
Author: Rhys Ford
Series: Murder and Mayhem #1
Heroes: Rook & Dante
Genre: M/M Contemporary/Mystery
Length: 236 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Dead women tell no tales.

Former cat burglar Rook Stevens stole many a priceless thing in the past, but he’s never been accused of taking a life—until now. It was one thing to find a former associate inside Potter’s Field, his pop culture memorabilia shop, but quite another to stumble across her dead body.

Detective Dante Montoya thought he’d never see Rook Stevens again—not after his former partner falsified evidence to entrap the jewelry thief and Stevens walked off scot-free. So when he tackled a fleeing murder suspect, Dante was shocked to discover the blood-covered man was none other than the thief he’d fought to put in prison and who still makes his blood sing.

Rook is determined to shake loose the murder charge against him, even if it means putting distance between him and the rugged Cuban-Mexican detective who brought him down. If one dead con artist wasn’t bad enough, others soon follow, and as the bodies pile up around Rook’s feet, he’s forced to reach out to the last man he’d expect to believe in his innocence—and the only man who’s ever gotten under Rook’s skin.
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, betrayal, Contemporary, Cops, deception, Dreamspinner Press, enemies to lovers, ex-cons, favorites, injury/recovery, M/M, Murder and Mayhem, mystery, Rhys Ford, series, Series - Murder and Mayhem, The Blogger Girls, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Short-Circuit His Soul by Alana Ankh

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Short-Circuit His Soul
Author: Alana Ankh
Series: Microchips and Purity #2
Heroes: Noah & Logan
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Noah wasn’t born. He was created, a clone of Guiding Light Uriel, someone superior to him in every way. Noah is an instrument, and he knows it. He believes it, sees it in his mind and in his skin, breathes it every single day of his life—except for the moments he spends with Logan Maxfield. Logan makes him feel loved, makes him think he might have worth beyond being his brother’s copy, and allows him to hope that his secrets and sins might not own him. Even if he knows he has no right to Logan’s affection, he cannot help but seek refuge in Logan’s arms. He cannot help but love Logan.

Against all odds, Logan feels the same. But when Noah’s nightmares start to come true, when the images haunting his dreams invade his reality, their love threatens to be extinguished before it can fully flare into being. Noah is a clone, fading away like the imperfect copy he is. But Logan isn’t about to give up so easily. He belongs to Noah, and he will do everything in his power to save his lover, even if it means short-circuiting his own soul.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, Alana Ankh, betrayal, cyborgs, deception, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, fantasy, favorites, futuristic, Illness, injury/recovery, kidnapped, M/M, magic, separated for a bit, series, Series - Microchips and Purity, Short-Circuit His Soul, The Blogger Girls, warriors, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: To Be Human by Pearl Love

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: To Be Human
Author: Pearl Love
Series: To Be Human #1
Heroes: Tim & David
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 326 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: TM 05637 was created to be a killer. Genetically engineered for superiority, he was facing a life of missions, blood, and death until his creator decides to set him free. On the run from those holding his leash, he is found by David Conley, an ordinary store owner who stumbles upon a remarkable find. Renaming himself “Tim,” TM 05637 sets out to discover what it means to have a normal life.

Through his friendships with a young boy dealing with a nightmarish family life, and David’s mother, who decides Tim is perfect for her son, Tim slowly discovers his humanity. Even more importantly, David teaches Tim about the power of love. But General Woodard, leader of the project that created Tim, threatens their happiness with his determination to bring his evasive quarry permanently to heel.

As the search net closes ever tighter around him, Tim must find a way to thwart his pursuers so he can stay with David and live out his dream.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: cliffhanger, Contemporary, cute, deception, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, injury/recovery, just barely legal, Little to No Sex, M/M, military, Pearl Love, series, sweet, The Blogger Girls, To Be Human, warriors | Leave a comment

Book Review: Adverse Effects by Alicia Nordwell

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Adverse Effects
Author: Alicia Nordwell
Series: Saving Caeorleia #2
Heroes: Dade & Yaseke
Genre: M/M Sci-fi/Fantasy
Length: 290 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Dade, human-Caeorleian hybrid and ex-military grunt, doesn’t fit in—not with humans, not with aliens, not anywhere. He’s always on the outskirts, angry, and people aren’t sure they can trust him. When he encounters a compatible tziu named Yaseke, secrets, misunderstandings, and attacks nearly prevent the two from making a connection Dade sorely needs. Even after they unite, Dade and Yaseke face challenges that two newly joined males should never have to endure.

From traitorous council members, to sadistic aliens who plan to sell them as slaves, to meeting a mysterious race of revered aliens called Collectors, Dade and Yaseke manage to stay together—and even rescue two youths related to Yaseke, who’ve lost their parents to the same betrayer.

Someone from Dade’s past is at the root of everything he’s suffered. No way can he let them get away with what they’re planning, but Dade isn’t sure he can stop them on his own. If he doesn’t let go of his isolation and risk the pain letting others in will bring, he’ll never save Caeorleia in time.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: Adverse Effects, against all odds, Alicia Nordwell, deception, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, empaths, fantasy, injury/recovery, kidnapped, kids, M/M, mates, military, otherworld, Past Abuse, sci-fi, series, Series - Saving Caeorleia, space, The Blogger Girls, warriors | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: deception

Book Review: The Fallen by Kay Ellis

Book Review: The Shape of Honey by Ki Brightly

Book Review: Shifting Chaos by Elizabeth Noble

Book Review: Prickly Business by Piper Vaughn & Kenzie Cade

Book Review: Family and Reflection by Anne Barwell

Book Review: Strange Bedfellows by Cardeno C.

Book Review: Murder and Mayhem by Rhys Ford

Book Review: Short-Circuit His Soul by Alana Ankh

Book Review: To Be Human by Pearl Love

Book Review: Adverse Effects by Alicia Nordwell

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