Posts Tagged With: injury/recovery

Book Review: A Fine Romance by T. Neilson

Posted on December 5, 2015 by thebloggergirls

Reviewed by Morgan

Title: A Fine Romance
Author: T. Neilson
Heroes: Benji Rao/Jamie Durham
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 121 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Benji Rao, a hard-working welder from the Pacific Northwest, is recovering from a life-threatening and life-changing injury at a posh California resort. Trouble is, he’s miserable. His friends are worried, his panic attacks are getting worse, and the guy in the bungalow next to his is none other than Jamie Durham—the kind of neighbor who plays music loud, blows everybody’s breakers, and doesn’t care what people think of him.

But there’s more to Jamie than late nights, a huge inheritance, and a wild reputation. After endless bad press, Jamie longs for a chance to live a normal life, without the rumors and innuendo, and without his growing concern that he might be going crazy.

When Ben finds himself desperate for a date and Jamie is the only option, Jamie can’t believe his luck—a date with Ben would be as normal as it gets. But when the date doesn’t exactly go as planned, Ben and Jamie must overcome their personal demons to find their way to love.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: A Fine Romance, actor, Blue-collar, Contemporary, crazy, Dreamspinner Press, enemies to lovers, Evil Family, HEA, Humorous, injury/recovery, Location - California, M/M, T. Neilson, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Warrior and Priest by Katie Howe

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Warrior and Priest
Author: Katie Howe
Heroes: Nico & Alex
Genre: M/M Scifi/Fantasy
Length: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: On an earthlike planet ruled by the Elite, a rite called “the Gleaning” is used to select suitable spouses for those of merit. Nico Stamford is a member of the Geisha class. Though he has been trained for marriage all his life, becoming a healer and a priest in the process, all he wants is to cook and open a restaurant. Instead he becomes a candidate for the ritual. He hopes the Goddess will look kindly on him and eliminate him before the final choices are made. Alex DeVrie is a member of the Warrior class who has recently returned triumphant from a clash with an alien enemy. Made a duke of the Sixth Land as a reward, all Alex needs now is a husband. As soon as Alex sets eyes on Nico, he refuses to settle for anyone else.

Tradition says they can part ways after a year and a day. But love begins to grow as they unravel the mystery behind tragic events in the Sixth Land, and they uncover a conspiracy that could change their society.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: arranged bonding, Dreamspinner Press, fantasy, injury/recovery, Katie Howe, M/M, Nobility/Royalty, Pets, Scifi, series, The Blogger Girls, Warrior and Priest, warriors | Leave a comment

Book Review: Blood for Magic by Aundrea Singer

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Blood for Magic
Author: Aundrea Singer
Heroes: Tarquin & Five
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 234 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Twenty-year-old Tarquin is smart, tactless, and braver than he knows. He’s also been Mage of the Realm of Kelor for two years, taking the title from his mother after she died protecting Kelor from a terrible threat.

While on a quest to heal his dying brother, Tarquin is attacked by a horrific, flesh-eating monster. He’s saved by an enigmatic and mute young soldier, cursed with a terrifying form that conceals the heart of a knight. There’s an almost instant attraction between the two men, but no time to explore it. The monster’s attack is the harbinger of a new invasion.

With Kelor helpless, the realm’s only hope lies with Tarquin. As Mage of the Realm, he alone can sacrifice himself, the way his mother did, in exchange for unimaginably powerful magic. He’s prepared to give up his life to defeat the coming evil, but before the battle is over, he’ll be faced not just with his own death, but the death of everyone he cares about.

Including the monster he’s come to love.
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: Action/Suspense, Aundrea Singer, Blood for Magic, curses, dragons, Dreamspinner Press, fantasy, favorites, injury/recovery, M/M, magic, military, royalty, The Blogger Girls, warriors, yearning | Leave a comment

Audio Review: Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux

Posted on November 28, 2015 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Shock & Awe
Author: Abigail Roux
Narrator: Brock Thompson
Series: Sidewinder #1
Heroes: Kelly Abbott/Nick O’Flaherty
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 3 hours, 57 minutes
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Audible
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: After barely surviving a shootout in New Orleans, Sidewinder medic Kelly Abbott has to suffer through a month of recovery before he can return home to Colorado. He’s not surprised when fellow Sidewinder Nick O’Flaherty stays with him in New Orleans. Nor is he surprised when Nick travels home with him to help him get back on his feet—after all, years on the same Marine Force Recon team bonded the men in ways that only bleeding for a brother can. He’s very surprised, though, when Nick humors his moment of curiosity and kisses him.

Nick knows all of Kelly’s quirks and caprices, so the kiss was a low-risk move on his part . . . or so he thought. But what should’ve been a simple moment unleashes a flood of confusing emotions and urges that neither man is prepared to address.

Now, Kelly and Nick must figure out what they mean to each other—friends and brothers in arms, or something even deeper?—before the past can come back to ruin their tenuous future.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Audio Review, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Abigail Roux, Alpha Males, audio book, bisexual, Brock Thompson, Drug Use, ex-military, Existing Characters, First-Time, Friends to Lovers, humor, Hurt/Comfort, injury/recovery, Riptide Publishing, Roaad Trip, Series - Sidewinder, Shock & Awe, Spinoff, The Blogger Girls, Violence | Leave a comment

Book Review: Something Like a Love Song by Becca Burton

Posted on November 27, 2015 by susan65coug Miss Behaving

Reviewed by Susan65

Title: Something Like a Love Song
Author: Becca Burton
Heroes: Landon/Dylan
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 308 Pages
Publisher: Interlude Press
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: One tragic night left Landon and Dylan’s dreams of happily ever after in apparent ruin. Forced to overcome physical and emotional trauma, the young lovers turn to a network of family and friends as they attempt to rebuild their lives. Can their one constant—their love—survive the changes both undergo on the road to recovery?
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: Becca Burton, Contemporary, Family Drama, Hate Crime, Homophobia, Hurt/Comfort, injury/recovery, Interlude Press, M/M, New Beginnings, no sex, Something Like a Love Song, sweet, The Blogger Girls, YA | Leave a comment

Book Review: Sub-Mission by Sage Marlowe

Posted on November 26, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Sub-Mission
Author: Sage Marlowe
Series: Sub-Mission #1
Heroes: Pierce Hollister/Noah Conway
Genre: MM Contemporary BDSM
Length: 152 Pages
Publisher: Me and the Muse Publishing
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: How far would you go to save the one you love? Pierce Hollister is a down-to-earth businessman. Most of the time. His romantic side has him secretly dreaming of Mr Right, a family and happy ever after. Noah Conway is a single father who doesn’t believe in happy families anymore. When his daughter’s life is at stake, he would sell his soul to save her but as a sadistic Dom takes an interest in him, he sells his body instead. A shared session at a BDSM club leaves Pierce intrigued and soon he finds himself willing to do anything in his power to heal the wounds that life has left on Noah’s soul. When he realises that the very thing Noah dreads the most might just be what he needs, Pierce sets out on a mission – but maybe it’s just not in his power to save Noah. Will Noah be able to battle the demons that haunt him and find the happy ever after Pierce has dreamed up for them?
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2014 | Tags: BDSM, Businessman, Contemporary, Evil Parents, Hurt/Comfort, Illness/Disease, Infidelity, injury/recovery, M/M, Me and the Muse Publishing, Past Abuse, Sage Marlowe, Series - Sub-Mission, Single Parent, Sub-Mission, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Don’t Touch Me by Bey Deckard

Posted on November 24, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Bey Deckard
Author: Don’t Touch Me
Series: UnCommon Bodies Anthology
Hero: Beau
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Fighting Monkey Press
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Fighting is what Beau does best, because the very thing he dreads is exactly what lends him the extraordinary strength to defeat even the worst odds. And he does it all with the help of his angel, the woman he longs desperately to hold…but can’t.

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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, M/F, Published in 2015 | Tags: Bey Deckard, Don't Touch Me, Fiction, Fighting, Fighting Monkey Press, Hurt/Comfort, Illness, Illness/Disorders, injury/recovery, Little to No Sex, MMA, No HEA, Phobia, Short Story, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Pent Up by Damon Suede

Posted on November 20, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Pent Up
Author: Damon Suede
Heroes: Ruben Oso/Andy Bauer
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 290 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: PENT UP: Mix business with pleasure and take cover.

Ruben Oso moves to Manhattan to start his life over as a low-rent bodyguard and stumbles into a gig in a swanky Park Avenue penthouse. What begins as executive protection turns personal working for a debonair zillionaire who makes Ruben question everything about himself.

Watching over financial hotshot Andy Bauer puts Ruben in an impossible position. He knows zero about shady trading and his cocky boss lives barricaded in a glass tower with wall-to-wall secrets and hot-and-cold-running paranoia. Can the danger be real? Is Andy for real?

What’s a bullet catcher to do? Ruben knows his emotions are out of control even as he races to untangle a high-priced conspiracy and his crazy feelings before somebody gets dead. If his suspicions are right, Andy will pay a price neither can afford, and Ruben may discover there’s no way to guard a heart.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Alcoholic, bisexual, Bodytuard, Class Differences, Contemporary, Crime, Damon Suede, Depression, Dreamspinner Press, Family Drama, First-Time, GFY, injury/recovery, interracial, Location - NYC, M/M, Mystery/Suspense, Pent Up, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Sun and Shadow by Dirk Greyson

Posted on November 14, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Sun and Shadow
Author: Dirk Greyson
Series: Day and Knight #2
Heroes: Day and Knight
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 210 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Dayton “Day” Ingram is recovering from an injury suffered in Mexico—and from his failed relationship with fellow Scorpion agent, Knight. While researching an old government document, Day realizes he might be holding the key to finding an artistic masterpiece lost since WWII.

But the Russians are looking for it too, and have a team in place in Eastern Europe hunting it down. Day and Knight are brought back together when they are charged with getting to the painting first.

Knight wants to leave Mexico and everything that happened there behind, and return to the life he had—except it wasn’t much of a life. When he’s partnered up with Day, keeping his distance proves to be challenging. But Day is as stubborn as Knight and isn’t willing to let him walk away.

Their assignment leads them through Germany and Austria with agents hot on their tail—agents willing to do whatever it takes to get to the masterpiece first. If Day and Knight can live long enough to find the painting, they might also discover something even more precious—each other.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Adventure, Art, Contemporary, danger, Detectives, Dirk Greyson, Dreamspinner Press, Existing Characters, History, injury/recovery, Law Enforcement, M/M, mystery, Reunited, Road trip, Series - Day and Knight, Sun and Shadow, The Blogger Girls | Leave a comment

Book Review: Flesh Market by Kate Lowell

Posted on November 6, 2015 by justjenbo

Reviewed by JustJen

Title: Flesh Market
Author: Kate Lowell
Series: Bodies and Souls #1
Heroes: Leo/Julian
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: Novel
Publisher: Loose Id
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Available at: Loose Id

Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Special Agent Leo Gale is up a creek. A year and a half of deep cover is about to go up in flames. He needs help – something, someone to salvage the operation and save the lives of untold numbers of trafficked teenagers.

But he wasn’t expecting the partner they sent, or his own gut-punch of a response to the man.

Julian worked hard for that FBI Honors Internship. It was supposed to be a foot in the door. He’d never expected it to catapult him into the middle of a major undercover operation. Yet here he is, sleeping on a filthy mattress and using every trick in the book to avoid torture–and worse. He’s never felt so scared, or so alive, in his entire life, and he’s not sure if it’s the danger, or Leo, that’s making his heart race.

There’s no time to think about it, though. The operation is heating up, and Leo and Julian are running out of time and options. As choices become more difficult, they must find a way to take the traffickers down, or risk becoming just another set of organs for sale.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: Abuse, Age Gap, Contemporary, Crime/Thriller/Mystery, FBI, Flesh Market, HFN, injury/recovery, Kate Lowell, Law Enforcement, Loose Id, M/M, Murder, Non/Con, Organ Harvesting, Rape, Reunited, Sex Market, Sex Slaves, Sex Trafficking, The Blogger Girls, undercover, Violence | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: injury/recovery

Book Review: A Fine Romance by T. Neilson

Book Review: Warrior and Priest by Katie Howe

Book Review: Blood for Magic by Aundrea Singer

Audio Review: Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux

Book Review: Something Like a Love Song by Becca Burton

Book Review: Sub-Mission by Sage Marlowe

Book Review: Don’t Touch Me by Bey Deckard

Book Review: Pent Up by Damon Suede

Book Review: Sun and Shadow by Dirk Greyson

Book Review: Flesh Market by Kate Lowell

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