Posts Tagged With: favorites

Early Review: Alliance by Annabelle Jacobs

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Alliance
Author: Annabelle Jacobs
Series: Torsere #3
Heroes: Ryneq/Nykin
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 284 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press and Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: King Ryneq and his dragon rider consort, Nykin, return to Torsere to defend the kingdom against the lowland armies already camped along Torsere’s borders. Seran wants the dragons, and with a new witch in his ranks, war is inevitable.

With the elves of Hervath now helping them, Ryneq has a chance at holding Seran at bay. But the witch is using old dark magic, and as Nykin and the dragon riders battle her deadly attack, unexpected betrayal forces Ryneq to make a difficult decision.

Faced with the prospect of losing his kingdom, Ryneq gambles on a plan that could ultimately save Torsere, if they can stay alive long enough to see it through. With Ryneq standing against Seran and his witch, time is of the essence, and Nykin must make a sacrifice to end the war. Only then will Ryneq and Nykin be able to start a life together.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: against all odds, Alliance, Annabelle Jacobs, betrayal, captured, death, dragons, Dreamspinner Press, elves, existing relationships, fantasy, favorites, injury/recovery, M/M, magic, royalty, series, Series - Torsere, The Blogger Girls, war, warriors | Leave a comment

Book Review: Made for You by Lauren Layne

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Made for You
Author: Lauren Layne
Series: The Best Mistake #2
Heroine/Hero: Brynn/Will
Genre: M/F Contemporary Romance
Length: 260 Pages
Publisher: Forever
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Available at: Forever, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Three years ago, Brynn Dalton made a rare error in judgment and had a one-night stand with the one man she swore would never get into her designer panties. Will Thatcher was exactly the type of sexy playboy that good girls like Brynn stayed away from. And when Will moved across the country just days after their fling, Brynn vowed to put him behind her, even as the memories haunt her.

Now Will Thatcher is back, and just in time to see Brynn’s perfectly structured life begin to crumble. Her job is dull, her social life is tedious, and Brynn’s perfect cardiologist boyfriend doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to get to Tiffany & Co. More than ever, Brynn needs her childhood nemesis to keep his distance.

But Will isn’t content to be Brynn’s dirty little secret any longer. This time, he’s out to show Brynn Dalton that the imperfect man might just be the best mistake of her life.

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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Angst, assholes, Contemporary, deception, enemies to lovers, favorites, Forever, fuck buddies, Lauren Layne, Made for You, MF, Opposites Attract, romance, second chances, separated for a bit, series, Series - The Best Mistake, sexual tension, sweet, tear jerker, The Blogger Girls, unrequited, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Stand by You by A.M. Arthur

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Stand by You
Author: A.M. Arthur
Series: Belonging #3
Heroes: Romy Myers/Brendan Walker
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 76,000 words
Publisher: Carina Press
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Available at: Carina Press and Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Three months after his rescue from an abusive boyfriend, twenty-two-year-old Romy Myers has landed his first legitimate job – bussing tables at his friend’s new coffee shop. The job has brought him some stability after years of abuse have left him feeling damaged and broken. He’s working hard on his panic and social anxiety, and those things are often tempered by the big, burly presence of Brendan Walker.

From the moment ex-football player Brendan helped rescue Romy from his ex’s abuse, he’s wanted to protect him. And he does, from a distance, with joking text messages, a new gym routine to toughen him up and a genuine friendship. So far it’s been easy – but Brendan’s feelings aren’t just friendly anymore…

When an argument spirals out of control, a hot and heavy make-out session causes Romy’s friendship with supposedly straight Brendan to reach a new level. The last thing Romy wants is to fall for another guy who could potentially shatter him, but Brendan also wakes up a part of him he thought had been destroyed by violence – his heart.

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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: A.M. Arthur, Angst, Carina Press, closet cases, Contemporary, emotionally damaged, favorites, Friends to Lovers, healing, injury/recovery, M/M, OFY, omissions, Past Abuse, PTSD, separated for a bit, series, Series - Belonging, Stand by You, The Blogger Girls, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Gray Bishop by Kelly Meade

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Gray Bishop
Author: Kelly Meade
Series: Cornerstone Run Trilogy #2
Heroine/Hero: Jillian Reynolds/Bishop McQueen
Genre: M/F Paranormal
Length: 313 Pages
Publisher: Intermix
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Available at: Intermix, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Some people need something to fight for…

With the attacks on their homes escalating and human half-breeds seeking sanctuary among them, the loup garou are reaching their breaking point. Two, in particular.

After failing to stop his little brother’s kidnapping years ago, Bishop McQueen angrily broods on his shame, though no one else blames him.

Jillian Reynolds is still dealing with a tragic accident that took everything she ever wanted from life. And her attraction to Bishop is only making things more difficult.

When word reaches them that Jillian’s hometown is under attack, the Alpha takes Bishop, Jillian, and a group of enforcers to assist in the battle. And it is in this chaos that both Bishop and Jillian will have to face their pasts—and the true feelings they have for each other—if they are going to survive…
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Action/Suspense, against all odds, death, emotionally damaged, favorites, Gray Bishop, grieving, Intermix, Kelly Meade, m/f, paranormal, Penguin, series, Series - Cornerstone Run Trilogy, The Blogger Girls, warriors, wolf shifters, working together, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Fever Pitch by Heidi Cullinan

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Fever Pitch
Author: Heidi Cullinan
Series: Love Lessons #2
Heroes: Aaron Seavers/Giles Mulder
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 339 Pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Available at: Samhain Publishing and Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Sometimes you have to play love by ear.

Aaron Seavers is a pathetic mess, and he knows it. He lives in terror of incurring his father’s wrath and disappointing his mother, and he can’t stop dithering about where to go to college—with fall term only weeks away. Ditched by a friend at a miserable summer farewell party, all he can do is get drunk in the laundry room and regret he was ever born. Until a geeky-cute classmate lifts his spirits, leaving him confident of two things: his sexual orientation, and where he’s headed to school.

Giles Mulder can’t wait to get the hell out of Oak Grove, Minnesota, and off to college, where he plans to play his violin and figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. But when Aaron appears on campus, memories of hometown hazing threaten what he’d hoped would be his haven. As the semester wears on, their attraction crescendos from double-cautious to a rich, swelling chord. But if more than one set of controlling parents have their way, the music of their love could come to a shattering end.

Warning: Contains showmances, bad parenting, Walter Lucas, and a cappella.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Angst, assholes, College, Contemporary, cute, emotionally damaged, favorites, Fever Pitch, grieving, Heidi Cullinan, just barely legal, M/M, musicians, Samhain Publishing, school, second chances, series, Series - Love Lessons, sex outside the main couple, sweet, The Blogger Girls, unrequited, virgins, working together, yearning | 2 Comments

Early Review: Bloodline by Jordan L. Hawk

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Heather C

Reviewed by Heather C

Title: Bloodline
Author: Jordan L. Hawk
Series: Whyborne & Griffin #5
Heroes: Whyborne/Griffin
Genre: M/M Historical
Length: 299 Pages
Publisher: Jordan L. Hawk
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Available at: Amazon and Smashwords
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Blurb: Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a derelict ship, Whyborne is reluctant to get involved. Until, that is, a brutal murderer strikes, leaving Whyborne and his lover Griffin no choice but to take the case.

The investigation leads them deep into a conspiracy of blackmail, murder, and darkest sorcery. But worst of all are the secrets held within the family itself, one of which will destroy everything Whyborne believed to be true, not only about his family, but about himself.
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, Heather C's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: blackmail, Bloodline, Family Drama, family secrets, favorites, Historical, Horror, Jordan L. Hawk, M/M, magic, mystery, Mythology, paranormal, romance, secrets, Self-Published, Series - Whyborne & Griffin, sorcery, The Blogger Girls, Victorian, Widdershins | Leave a comment

Book Review: For a Reason by Jessie G.

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: For a Reason
Author: Jessie G.
Series: The Sizzling Miami #2
Heroes: Bull Connor/Ian “Red” Jones
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 297 Pages
Publisher: Jessie G. Books
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Available at: Jessie G. Books and Amazon
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Blurb: Former Marine and full time big brother, Bull Connor spends his days helping those in need of a second chance and his nights fighting the inner demons that won’t let go. During a routine tow he comes face to face with the only person who refuses to need him and the one man he wishes would.

As a throw away, Ian Jones is used to being alternately overlooked or ridiculed but hasn’t given up on the idea that with just one chance he could turn it all around. Rescued by the one person who neither overlooks nor ridicules him, he longs to be seen as more than just a man in need.

Ian isn’t pining for the family he’s never known but when they descend, unwanted and uninvited, Bull must prove that he’s the man who will protect Ian’s long neglected heart by sharing the demons that torment his wounded soul.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: artists, bad situations, Contemporary, cute, Dominance, emotionally damaged, ex-military, favorites, For a Reason, Ginger-lovin, Jessie G., Jessie G. Books, long lost family, M/M, PTSD, Self-Published, series, Series - The Sizzling Miami, sweet, The Blogger Girls, virgin, working together | Leave a comment

Book Review: Electrify His Heart by Alana Ankh

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Electrify His Heart
Author: Alana Ankh
Series: Microchips & Purity #1
Heroes: Uriel Noah/Raze Hartman
Genre: M/M Sci-Fi/Futuristic/Post Apocalyptic
Length: 200 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: It is the year 2441. A deadly virus has swept over the planet, short-circuiting cybernetic implants, killing billions. In the aftermath, the newly formed state of Eden is led by the one newborn that survived that dreadful day, Uriel Noah of the House of Zion—the Guiding Light. Unbeknownst to all, Uriel lives in a gilded cage, deprived of basic affection, used as a pawn, craving freedom and love.

Cyborg Raze Hartman is the leader of the resistance. His kind—cyborgs with a high cybernetic coefficient—were hit hardest by the virus, the few survivors crippled and enslaved by the purist system. Struggling to keep his father alive, Raze resorts to investigating the Guiding Light, the symbol of cyborg oppression. What he finds changes his life, and Uriel’s.

After sneaking into a purist ceremony, Raze sees past Uriel’s facade of strength and aloofness. He sees the lonely young man behind the mask of the Guiding Light. The instantaneous attraction between them is literally electric. But a chasm separates them, as wide as the difference between flesh and metal, and the secrets of Uriel’s past may be the undoing of them all.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Alana Ankh, deception, Dreamspinner Press, Electrify His Heart, enemies to lovers, favorites, futuristic, injury/recovery, M/M, post apocalyptic, resistance, sci-fi, series, Series - Microchips & Purity, taken, The Blogger Girls, warriors, working together | Leave a comment

Book Review: Midnight Everlasting by S.M. Stelmack

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Midnight Everlasting
Author: S.M. Stelmack
Series: The UnderCity Chronicles #2
Heroine/Hero: Zephanie Sweetly/Thomas Coyle
Genre: M/F Urban Fantasy
Length: 325 Pages
Publisher: Self-published
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: When a brutal massacre rocks London’s underworld, Zephanie Sweetly must uncover why the legendary Rawheads have suddenly reappeared, shattering the age old truce with her bloodline.

Ten years ago Thomas Coyle’s son disappeared, the trail leading beneath the city’s streets to a shadow world ruled by secret clans.

Now, bound by the prophesy of an ancient lineage, the two must fight their way through a web of lies to save those they love from the wrath of an unknown enemy. But sometimes the deadliest enemies are the ones closest to our hearts.

London’s Rat Queen arises, and it’s time to pay the piper.
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Action/Suspense, betrayal, Contemporary, criminals, deception, emotionally damaged, favorites, grieving, injury/recovery, lies, MF, Midnight Everlasting, Missing Children, Missing Persons, mystery, paranormal, Pets, pregnancy, private investigators, romantic suspense, S.M. Stelmack, Self-Published, separated for a bit, series, Series - The UnderCity Chronicles, The Blogger Girls, unrequited, urban fantasy, working together, yearning | 1 Comment

Mobster Week Review: Yakuza Courage by H.J. Brues

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Yakuza Courage
Author: H.J. Brues
Series: The Way of the Yakuza #2
Heroes: Kinosuke/Brendan & Kotaro
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 336 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Available at: Dreamspinner Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and All Romance eBooks
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Ex-Navy SEAL Brendan O’Farrihy enrolls in kendo classes to investigate a Honolulu dojo acting as a front for a yakuza syndicate. Or at least that’s what Brendan’s client, Senator Harris, believes. Through his kendo instructor, the cocky, short-fused, gorgeous Kinosuke Yonekawa, Brendan learns the criminals who are supposedly using the senator’s son, Kenneth, to expand their activities into the US, seem to have severed any yakuza connections. The jaded, soul-scarred former soldier is captivated by the loyalty these gangsters show each other and the way they protect Ken like a tight military unit. Brendan wonders why the senator lied to him, and what the yakuza are shielding Ken from.

When Ken disappears, Brendan suspects foul play and decides to help the man he is falling for, Kinosuke, and his friends, find Ken. But when Kinosuke discovers Brendan has been on the senator’s payroll, all bets are off.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: assholes, betrayal, Bullying, closet cases, Contemporary, dependent family, Dreamspinner Press, ex-military, favorites, GFY, Ginger-lovin, H.J. Brues, injury/recovery, interracial, M/M, minors, Mystery/Suspense, separated for a bit, series, Series - The Way of the Yakuza, son of politicians, The Blogger Girls, Theme Week - Mobsters, warriors, working together, yakuza, Yakuza Courage, yearning | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: favorites

Early Review: Alliance by Annabelle Jacobs

Book Review: Made for You by Lauren Layne

Book Review: Stand by You by A.M. Arthur

Book Review: Gray Bishop by Kelly Meade

Book Review: Fever Pitch by Heidi Cullinan

Early Review: Bloodline by Jordan L. Hawk

Book Review: For a Reason by Jessie G.

Book Review: Electrify His Heart by Alana Ankh

Book Review: Midnight Everlasting by S.M. Stelmack

Mobster Week Review: Yakuza Courage by H.J. Brues

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