Posts Tagged With: Short Story

Book Review: The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever by B.G. Thomas

Reviewed by Morgan 

28053323Title: The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever
Author: B.G. Thomas
Series: Sleigh Ride – 2015 Advent Calendar
Heroes: Ron Corbin/Paddy Brennan
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 81 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Before he discovered the Heartland Bear Clan, Ron Corbin figured no one could ever love a “fatass” like him. But the big group of big men accepts him, and likes him just the way he is. Having finally found a place he belongs, he works hard to get elected president of the club—and wins. He’s the happiest he’s ever been.

But Paddy Brennan, a sexy bear cub who blew into town and became Mr. Popular overnight, is elected vice-president. Ron doesn’t think Paddy has earned the honor, and now he’ll have to work shoulder to shoulder (and belly to belly) with the guy for a year.

Ron will do what’s best for the club even if that means setting his personal feeling—that Paddy is a jerk—aside. But then as the two men get to know each other, Ron reluctantly finds he not only likes the guy, but is growing more and more attracted to him.

Deep down, Ron still worries he isn’t good enough, but maybe Paddy can show him there’s a beary happy ending waiting for them after all.

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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Book Review: The Lost Otter and At a Bear’s Mercy by Caitlin Ricci and A.J. Marcus

Reviewed by Morgan 

27238473Title: The Lost Otter
Authors: Caitlin Ricci, A.J. Marcus
Series: Patching Up #1
Heroes: Aedan/Brody
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 40 Pages
Publisher: Extasy Books
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  When Aedan disappeared six years ago, his boyfriend, Brody, was devastated. Now Aedan is back, and they both must face the secrets that once tore them apart.

On a tiny island off the coast of Washington, Brody has made a successful life for himself as a veterinarian. The highlight of his practice is when he’s able to help wild animals and rehab them to be released back to the wild. It’s a simple, quiet life, which is exactly what he needs to be able to piece himself back together after Aedan, the man he loves, disappeared six years earlier. He had given up hope of ever seeing Aedan alive again, until one night after an otter shows up on his doorstep, Aedan comes in to take the otter away. Even if Brody didn’t want to smack the sexy grin off his face, he still wouldn’t let Aedan just walk out with the otter. He’s responsible for its safety, and Aedan hasn’t given him nearly enough answers to make the past six years all better.

Aedan doesn’t have time to answer Brody’s questions though. He’s got bigger problems, primarily a clan of bear shifters who claim the otter, Aedan’s little brother, stole something from them. He lives in a dangerous world he never wanted Brody to be mixed up in, but it seems Brody can’t help but get into trouble all on his own. His brother invites danger, Brody stumbles into it, and Aedan just wants to keep them both safe without losing his mind.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Lifeline by Brynn Stein

Reviewed by Susan65

27423117Title: Lifeline
Author: Brynn Stein
Heroes: Eric Duncan/Dennis Hayden
Genre: MM Contemporary/Paranormal
Length: 65 Pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: Eric Duncan rolls into a quaint Upstate New York town to sell medical supplies. He doesn’t intend to stay long, but an apparently homeless man whom he keeps running into catches his attention. While passersby ignore the man, Eric can’t leave the situation alone.

Dennis Hayden’s last memory is of hiking in the mountains. He doesn’t know how he ended up in town, nor how he keeps popping up in various places. He walks around aimlessly, trying to recall something as simple as his name. He’s not sure what to think of the stranger he sees repeatedly, and who keeps trying to talk to him.

While meeting a potential client at the hospital, Eric overhears a young lady looking for her brother who went missing several days ago, while hiking. Eric recognizes the picture of Dennis on the flyer and sets out to reunite him with his sister.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Dual Book Review: Not Every Time by Alexa Milne

Reviewed by Susan65 and Morgan

27465477Title: Not Every Time
Author: Alexa Milne
Heroes: Raziel Slade/Jack Hastings
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 54 Pages
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb: What would you give up for love?

Raziel Slade and Jack Hastings have been best friends since Raz saved Jack’s life twelve years ago. Jack has spent years searching for the perfect woman with the help of his wingman, Raz, the man he thinks of as his guardian angel. At a company Christmas party, the world Jack thought he knew turns on its axis, and feelings he didn’t know he had punch him right between the eyes. Can Jack learn to see his friend in an entirely different way?

Openly gay, Raz loves his best friend and has given up more than Jack will ever know to be with him, but he’s never dared to tell Jack how he truly feels, or to reveal his true identity. For twelve years, he has waited in the wings.

Now, with Jack’s sudden epiphany, can these two best friends work out if they have a future together?
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Audio Review: Stardust by Andrew Grey

Reviewed by Morgan 

StardustAUDTitle: Stardust
Author: Andrew Grey
Narrator: Andrew McFerrin
Series: Celebrate! – 2014 Advent Calendar
Heroes: Duncan/Georg
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 1 Hour, 50 Minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Available at: Amazon, Audible and iTunes
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Blurb: Duncan is an ocean from home over the holidays and expects to spend them alone. To his pleasant surprise, one of his European co-workers, Georg, befriends him and includes Duncan in the holiday traditions of his homeland: cutting a Christmas tree under starry skies at Georg’s country estate, decorating it at the family’s city home, and shopping at the Christmas market in Munich. Both men are lonely and realize they have much in common. But Georg’s life is in Germany and Duncan’s is in Boston. With the project they’re working on nearing completion, any chance for more than a holiday fling seems as elusive as stardust.

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2014 Advent Calendar package “Celebrate!”.

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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Audio Review, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Coming in Third by Amber Kell

Reviewed by Morgan 

27799643Title: Coming in Third
Author: Amber Kell
Heroes: Niall/Jovan/Luka
Genre: MMM Paranormal
Length: 63 Pages
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Love sometimes comes in threes.

With his mother plotting to have him wed, Niall decides to sneak out of the fae palace and fulfill one of his greatest fantasies. At the Unconventional bar, he finds a pair of lion shifters looking to spice up their love life. Unable to resist the strong attraction between them, Niall lets the persuasive pair take him home.

Jovan and Luka have been searching for their third for years. When Niall stumbles into the bar, their shifter instincts tell them the innocent fae could be their long sought mate. After a sensual night together, they’re certain the beautiful man was fated to be theirs.

His guards fetch him from the shifters’ bed and Niall is taken away from the pair. Upset about Niall’s return to the palace and a possible arranged marriage, the lion shifters battle to decide their future—should they go and fetch their mate or let it only be the one-night stand Niall promised them?

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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Don’t Touch Me by Bey Deckard

Reviewed by JustJen

donttouchme-promoTitle: 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
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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: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Fate’s Bridge by Carol Lynne

Reviewed by Morgan 

27799610Title: Fate’s Bridge
Author: Carol Lynne
Heroes: Roman/Bodi/Alexi
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 52 Pages
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Is it possible for a soul to be reborn inside another?

What would you do if you discovered someone harboring a soul you recognized as one from a deceased loved one? For vampire Roman Gschwind, the scenario becomes a reality when he meets Bodi Rain.

Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that Roman must share Bodi with another vampire if he has any chance of rekindling the love that he’d lost so long ago.

Publisher’s Note: This book was previously published as part of the Unconventional in San Diego anthology by Pride Publishing.
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Categories: 2 Star Ratings, LGBT, Published in 2015, Reviewers | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Halloween Mix Up by Jackie Nacht

Guest Reviewed by Morgan 

27427214Title: Halloween Mix Up
Author: Jackie Nacht
Heroes: Marshal/Brandon
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 34 Pages
Publisher: Extasy Books
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Available at:  Amazon
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Blurb:  One guy with a bad nose and the other unable to taste blood, this werewolf and vampire have one awkward mix up.

Marshal is just having a good time at an abandoned house near his pack territory. When he’s shoved in the darkened den for a childish game, seven minutes in heaven, he decides what the hell and has some fun with the guy accompanying him in the darkness.

Brandon wasn’t sure what happened. One minute, he’s getting a moment alone, the next, he’s getting real close to a guy that stumbled into his solitude. Not all is as it seems, and when the lights come on, all hell breaks loose.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, Guest Reviewer, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Celebrate by Kim Dare

Reviewed by JustJen

27406944Title: Celebrate
Author: Kim Dare
Series: Avian Shifters #1.5
Heroes: Ori/Raynard
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 34 Pages
Publisher: Kim Dare
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  It’s not easy learning how to be a swan, but Ori Jones has worked hard to embrace a role that still doesn’t come entirely naturally to him. Now, almost a year after his first full shift, he finally feels as if he is making a difference at the Anderson nest.

Ori’s happier than he’d ever been, until a few words from his master, Raynard, suddenly bring all of Ori’s old fears rushing back to the surface.

The nest’s elders want to have a party for Ori’s birthday, but Ori can’t see any reason to celebrate in it being a year since he reached his avian maturity. After all, what’s the use in learning to be a good swan when Raynard never wanted a swan in the first place?

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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2015 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment