Posts Tagged With: Dreamspinner Press

Audio Review: Wild and Precious by CJane Elliott

Posted on February 24, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: Wild and Precious
Author: CJane Elliott
Narrator: K.C. Kelly
Series: Wild and Precious #1
Heroes: Brent Granger/Cody Bellstrom/Graham Stoneford
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 2 Hours, 34 Minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Available at: Amazon, Audible and iTunes
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Aspiring writer Brent Granger has good friends and a great job at an arts magazine in DC, but he’s batting zero in the arena of love. Brent begins to get a clue why things aren’t working with women from his strong attraction to his gorgeous, gay, and already attached boss, Graham Stoneford. When he sees a personal ad from a man that quotes his favorite poet, Brent decides to do something wild and answer.

Enter Cody Bellstrom, easygoing bisexual musician, who is happy to initiate Brent in the ways of gay sex. Brent now has a new problem: he realizes he’s gay and no one in his life knows it. Cody tires of hiding their relationship, but Brent finds it challenging to come out to family, friends, and especially to Graham. In the end, Brent must confront the truth of where—and with whom—his heart lies.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Audio Review, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: audio book, bisexual, CJane Elliott, Coming Out, Coming-of-Age, Contemporary, Coworkers, Denial, Dreamspinner Press, Experimentation, First-Time, Gay Virgin, gfy/ofy, Infidelity, K.C. Kelly, Location - Washington DC, Love Triangle, M/M, Musician, Series - Wild and Precious, Short Story, The Blogger Girls, Wild and Precious, Writer | Leave a comment

Audio Review: Prickly Business by Piper Vaughn and Kenzie Cade

Posted on February 24, 2016 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Prickly Business
Authors: Piper Vaughn and Kenzie Cade
Narrator: Iggy Toma
Series: Portland Pack Chronicles #1
Heroes: Avery Babineaux/Dylan Green
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 11 Hours, 10 Minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Available at: Amazon, Audible and iTunes
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: 4 Star Ratings, Audio Review, LGBT, Published in 2015, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: audio book, Blue Collar/White Collar, Class Differences, Cops, Dreamspinner Press, enemies to lovers, Flamoboyant, Hedgehog Shifter, Homophobia, Hurt/Comfort, Iggy Toma, Interspecies, Kenzie Cade, Kidnapping, M/M, mates, mystery, paranormal, Piper Vaughn, Prickly Business, Series: Portland Pack Chronicles, Slavery, The Blogger Girls, Unique Shifters, Violence, Werewolves | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Winter Prince by R. Cooper

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: The Winter Prince
Author: R. Cooper
Heroes: Razin & Kisin
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 147 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: His heart stolen by a powerful pari’s magic, a young prince’s veins slowly fill with ice. That is what the stories say. Three years have passed since, and all efforts to save Kisin have failed. He won’t survive another winter. To save the prince’s life, Razin, the court wizard and Kisin’s childhood friend, plans to seek out the pari. But unbeknownst to Razin, Kisin’s heart was never stolen; he gave it freely to escape the pain of impossible love—his love for Razin.

Razin won’t accept Kisin’s fate, for reasons obvious to anyone who knows anything of love. Kisin agrees to the desperate quest, out of duty and a need to protect Razin. But it isn’t long before Razin realizes saving his prince will require more than simply retrieving his heart. Razin will have to convince him to want it.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: against all odds, arranged marriage, assholes, cat shifters, curses, cute, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, fantasy, favorites, Friends to Lovers, injury/recovery, M/M, magic, R. Cooper, sweet, The Blogger Girls, The Winter Prince, unrequited, warriors, yearning | 1 Comment

Early Review: Wolf, Becoming by Rory Ni Coileain

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Wolf, Becoming
Author: Rory Ni Coileain
Heroes: Volyk & Ilya
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 91 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Volyk learns very young that he has to hide what he is—oboroten’, shape-shifter—after his father is killed and skinned by a hunter, and the pack that takes in his pregnant mother is hostile to his kind. When Volyk is ordered to fight the pack’s beta to prove his fitness, but instead obeys his hormones and tries to mount him, he’s declared an abomination and forced to flee.

Ilya, too, hides a secret. Being young and gay in modern Russia is dangerous, and he knows it. But the truth eventually gets out, and his brothers lure him into the forest to kill him. They’re stopped by Volyk, who hides the mortally wounded Ilya in his den. The only way to heal the human is to turn him into an oboroten’.

Unfortunately, Ilya’s gentle nature is ill-suited to the life of a wolf. But when Volyk’s old pack returns, seeking to take away Volyk’s magickal den, Ilya will have to embrace—truly become—the wolf Volyk made him to save both his mate’s life and his own.

First Edition published as “Ilya and the Wolf” by Dreamspinner Press, 2014.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: Becoming, closet cases, Dreamspinner Press, injury/recovery, M/M, mates, paranormal, Rory Ni Coileain, The Blogger Girls, Wolf, wolf shifteres | Leave a comment

Book Review: Go Tell It On the Mountains by Nick Wilgus

Posted on February 20, 2016 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Go Tell It on the Mountains
Author: Nick Wilgus
Series: Sugar Tree #3
Heroes: Wiley Cantrell/Jackson Ledbetter
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 336 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Years have gone by since the death of Noah, his special needs son, and Wiley Cantrell realizes it’s time to move on. He and his husband, Jackson Ledbetter, try to adopt little Tony Gorzola, a deaf boy with HIV who is emotionally traumatized.

Difficulties quickly set in. Tony is a sweet boy but very damaged by abuse and neglect. And Tony’s mother, in prison, is unwilling to relinquish her parental rights. No sooner do they get the go ahead to foster Tony when another child they had considered becomes available—the daughter Jackson always wanted.

With two children on their hands, life is complicated—wonderfully so. But just as things begin to settle down, Tony, his immune system compromised, falls ill with pneumonia—and Wiley and Jackson find their little family faced with crisis once again.

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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2016, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: Contemporary, death, Dreamspinner Press, Existing Couple, Family Drama, Go Tell It on the Mountains, Grief, Heartbreaking, HIV, Homophobia, humor, Hurt/Comfort, Illness/Disease, Loss of Child, M/M, Men with kids, Nick Wilgus, Orphans, Second Chance, Series - Sugar Tree, The Blogger Girls | 2 Comments

Book Review: Love Complicated by Teegan Loy

Posted on February 19, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: Love Complicated
Author: Teegan Loy
Series: Game, Set, Match #1
Heroes: Jalen Martin/Austin Suter
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 280 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Life is all about making choices. Some are complicated. Some are simple. But for eighteen-year-old Jalen Marten, none are easy. Jalen has managed to stay invisible for his entire high school career. He has a small group of friends, and it’s enough for him. He doesn’t want or crave attention from his peers. All Jalen wants is to survive high school.

Austin Suter is the hot, talented tennis player who has the entire school bowing at his feet. Girls routinely throw themselves at him, and boys like Jalen stay the hell out of his way. Austin is destined for greatness on the world stage of professional tennis.

The kiss between them wasn’t supposed to happen. Falling in love definitely hadn’t been part of Jalen’s plan.

And when Austin turns pro, Jalen begins to realize that the choices he makes will affect Austin’s life. One wrong choice and Austin’s career could be over before it really begins. Jalen is not sure where he fits, or even if he fits at all in Austin’s life. But the more complicated things become, the less the idea of being apart appeals. Love should simplify things, not complicate them.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: Athlete, Closeted, Contemporary, Dreamspinner Press, Geek/Jock, HFN, Love Complicated, M/M, Musician, Series - Game Set Match, Sports - Tennis, Teegan Loy, teenage angst, The Blogger Girls, YA, YA Sex | 1 Comment

Book Review: Conversation Hearts by Avon Gale

Posted on February 17, 2016 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Conversation Hearts
Author: Avon Gale
Heroes: Levi/Sinjin
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 31 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: It’s Valentine’s Day, and grad student—and male escort—Levi Barron expects to spend his evening with a client who’s paying him for his services in bed… not an assassin who needs to borrow the view from his hotel room in the morning.

With nothing to do but endure the company of his unwanted guest, Levi and the assassin, Sinjin, spend some time bonding over HGTV, minibar beverages, Flannery O’Connor short stories, terrible Valentine’s candy, and the necessity of lying about their jobs.

Their evening takes an unexpected turn when they decide to indulge in their mutual attraction, and in the morning Levi doesn’t know if he’s spent the night with a hired killer or a hydraulic engineer with a very specific fantasy. Either way, the two have enough chemistry—in and out of bed—that Levi isn’t sure one night with Sinjin will be enough.

And a message left in candy suggests the feeling is mutual.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: Assassin, Avon Gale, Contemporary, Conversation Hearts, Dreamspinner Press, Holiday - Valentine's Day, humor, M/M, rent boy, Sex Worker, Short Story, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Fire King by Kay Ellis

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: The Fire King
Author: Kay Ellis
Series: Evolin #3
Heroes: Sully/Okhela
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 118 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Sully is summoned back to Maestraad by the entity who took control of Tylan’s body when Tylan perished. This Fire King—now calling himself Okhela—offers Sully a bargain he cannot refuse: if, after six months, Sully fails to fall in love with him, Okhela will return Tylan. The trouble is, as much as Sully wants to hate Okhela, the Fire King rules with wisdom and generosity… and Sully cannot resist the attraction he feels toward the handsome king. Though his heart will always belong to Tylan, Sully gives in to his body’s demands.

But can Sully trust Okhela to keep his word? With assassins on the loose, can Sully keep the Fire King alive long enough to find out? With the future of the kingdom—as well as his heart—at stake, Sully must call upon old friends and new to protect the Fire King, who might hold the keys to both.

***BEWARE – THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS***
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: against all odds, assholes, Cheating, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, fantasy, injury/recovery, Kay Ellis, M/M, magic, royalty, series, Series - Evolin, suspense, The Blogger Girls, The Fire King, warriors, yearning | Leave a comment

Cover Reveal: Mending the Rift by Chris T. Kat + Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway!

Posted on February 15, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Mending the Rift

by Chris T. Kat

Blurb: In a future where man’s ability to reproduce is severely compromised, humanity has adapted to survive. Breeders—male and female—have become precious commodities, and they are strictly guarded and subject to limitations.

Luca Walker is a breeder. Though he knows what’s expected of him as the youngest son of the Northern Confederacy’s Vice President, he’s held out against the pressures of an arranged marriage because he longs to marry for love, not duty. But he’s been promised to Colonel Liam Smith and there’s little he can do about it, no matter that Luca is secretly in love with his bodyguard, Marcus Gray.

When Luca finds himself pregnant with Marcus’s baby, Smith is furious and vows to take what is his—by force, if necessary. Now Luca must fight for his life and the life of his unborn child… as well as the love of Marcus and the happily ever after he’s always dreamed of.

Mending the Rift is scheduled to release March 14, 2016!

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Categories: Book Promo, Cover Reveals, Excerpts, Giveaways, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: Chris T. Kat, Dreamspinner Press, Mending the Rift, The Blogger Girls | 2 Comments

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
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

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

Posts Tagged With: Dreamspinner Press

Audio Review: Wild and Precious by CJane Elliott

Audio Review: Prickly Business by Piper Vaughn and Kenzie Cade

Book Review: The Winter Prince by R. Cooper

Early Review: Wolf, Becoming by Rory Ni Coileain

Book Review: Go Tell It On the Mountains by Nick Wilgus

Book Review: Love Complicated by Teegan Loy

Book Review: Conversation Hearts by Avon Gale

Book Review: The Fire King by Kay Ellis

Book Review: The Fallen by Kay Ellis

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