Posts Tagged With: injury/recovery

Book Review: Choosing Home by Alexa Milne

Posted on July 13, 2016 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

30212537Title: Choosing Home
Author: Alexa Milne
Series: The Call of Home #1
Heroes: Zac McKenzie/Seth Prithcard
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 187 Pages
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  You can never escape from yourself.

Zac McKenzie is an ex-professional footballer with a secret he gave up his career to protect. Several years ago, he fled to his home in the North East of Scotland to avoid being outed as gay. Now, he owns a successful hotel and restaurant, but is it time to finally come out into the open?

Seth Pritchard feels he is damaged goods. He comes to Scotland to escape memories of the accident that left him injured, his bullying step-brothers and a life of lies.

For their whole lives, Zac and Seth have denied who they truly are to themselves as well as to others. When they meet, each man is forced to confront his fears and tear them down one by one.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Code Name Jack Rabbit by Elizabeth Noble

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

code-name-jack-rabbitTitle: Code Name Jack Rabbit
Author: Elizabeth Noble
Series: The Vampire Guard #1 (spin-off from The Sleepless City)
Heroes: Forge/Blair & Declan/Lucas
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 200 pages
Publisher: Publications
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Available at: DSP Publications & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Meet the newest members of the Vampire Guard, where legend and myth meet science and technology.

Jonas Forge, vampire. Once a spy and soldier, now a cop, Forge enjoys the life he’s built with his friends in Flint, Ohio.

Blair Turner, PhD. Blair, a vampire and computer hacker with exceptional skills, shares a powerful empathic bond with Forge, his soul mate.

Declan, vampire, ex-pirate, ex-fur trapper, thief, and con man. Declan is Forge’s former lover and soul mate to Lucas Coate.

Lucas Coate, MD, Flint’s medical examiner. A werewolf living among vampires, Lucas is also one of Forge’s best friends.

Their lives become complicated when an impending Presidential visit throws them headlong into a world of high-tech vampire spies and espionage. Recruited into the Vampire Guard by the secret society of the Akhkharu Nasaru, they uncover a werewolf terrorist organization known as the Qiguan.

Together they must thwart a murder attempt on the open waters of Lake Superior while tracking a previously unknown biological weapon controlled by the Qiquan—a weapon which may very well mean death for one of them.

****Please be aware this story contains spoilers. Proceed with caution****
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Book Review: Damaged by Noah Willoughby

Posted on July 9, 2016 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

30761895Title: Damaged
Author: Noah Willoughby
Heroes: Tom Otso/Eric Kontio
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 74 Pages
Publisher: Noah Willoughby
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Nobody is invincible…

On a seemingly ordinary night, Tom Otso’s life changes forever when he is ambushed, attacked and left for dead. Though he survives the ordeal, Tom finds out at the hospital that the gravity of his injuries has left him permanently disabled.

Eric Kontio is a physical therapist who is assigned to Tom’s case to help rehabilitate and adapt Tom to his new way of living. In helping people for over 20 years, Eric has never met anyone with such an incredible spirit and positive attitude as Tom. Eric becomes infatuated with him and marvels at his incredible progress.

Being together every day, the two men grow closer as friends, but things become complicated by Tom’s jealous and moody boyfriend, Adrian, and Eric’s professionalism being doubted by his superior. When the true feelings of both men come to the surface, so do their painful pasts which could make or break their relationship.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2016, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: A Cowboy’s Home by R.J. Scott

Posted on July 8, 2016 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

29424694Title: A Cowboy’s Home
Author: R.J. Scott
Series: Montana #3
Heroes: Justin/Sam
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 218 Pages
Publisher: Love Lane Books
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Available at:  Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: One burned and broken man finds his way home. Can he find peace in the arms of a man easy to love?

Justin made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, battling domestic terrorism, never the man he really was, using hate to avenge the death of his best friend. The friend he’d killed.

What he doesn’t count on is getting shot, and if he’s going to die he wants it to be on Crooked Tree soil. Home.

Sam is as much a part of Crooked Tree as any of the families, and the offer to buy into the ranch is a dream come true. But falling for a hidden, secretive, injured man isn’t the way to keep his head in the game.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2016, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: What Remains by Garrett Leigh

Posted on July 5, 2016 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

29317012Title: What Remains
Author: Garrett Leigh
Heroes: Jodi Peters/Rupert O’Neil
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 278 Pages
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb:  Web designer Jodi Peters is a solitary creature. Lunch twice a week with his ex-girlfriend-turned-BFF and the occasional messy venture to a dodgy gay bar is all the company he needs, right?

Then one night he stumbles across newly divorced firefighter Rupert O’Neil. Rupert is lost and lonely, but just about the sweetest bloke Jodi has ever known. Add in the heady current between them, and Jodi can’t help falling hard in love. He offers Rupert a home within the walls of his cosy Tottenham flat—a sanctuary to nurture their own brand of family—and for four blissful years, life is never sweeter.

Until a cruel twist of fate snatches it all away. A moment of distraction leaves Jodi fighting for a life he can’t remember and shatters Rupert’s heart. Jodi doesn’t know him—or want to. With little left of the man he adores, Rupert must cling to what remains of his shaky faith and pray that Jodi can learn to love him again.
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Audio Review: Home Again by Cardeno C.

Posted on June 30, 2016 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

61RMIsKsp5L._AA300_Title: Home Again
Author: Cardeno C.
Narrator: Alexander Collins
Series: Home #1
Heroes: Noah Forman/Clark Lehman
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 5 Hours, 26 Minutes
Publisher: The Romance Authors
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Available at: Amazon, Audible and iTunes
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Imposing, temperamental Noah Forman wakes up in a hospital and can’t remember how he got there. He holds it together, taking comfort in the fact that the man he has loved since childhood is on the way. But when his one and only finally arrives, Noah is horrified to discover that he doesn’t remember anything from the past three years.

Loyal, serious Clark Lehman built a life around the person who insisted from their first meeting that they were meant to be together. Now, years later, two men whose love has never faltered must relive their most treasured and most painful moments in order to recover lost memories and secure their future.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Audio Review, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment