Posts Tagged With: Violence

Book Review: Clouded Hell by J.R. Gray

Reviewed by JustJen

29146326Title: Clouded Hell
Author: J.R. Gray
Heroes: Remi/Dante
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 300 Pages
Publisher: J.R. Gray
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  I survive on avoidance. Physical pain to avoid the mental. Disposable flesh to avoid relationships. Work to avoid attachment.

My club became my empire of avoidance. Inside the ring millions are won and lost. The fight is confined to breaths, actions and reactions, fists and pain. Rules don’t exist. Only my opponent exists.

I’d been avoiding my needs for far too long when Remi stumbles into the Inferno and I’m hungry. The promise of a submissive with no attachment is far too tempting. I can’t resist him.

He was only supposed to be a distraction, but I know I’ll never get over him. There isn’t a chance in this clouded hell.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Audio Review: A Marked Man by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

Reviewed by Morgan

51KhSYPmH2L__AA300_Title: A Marked Man
Author: Sandrine Gasq-Dion
Narrator: Greg Boudreaux
Series: Assassin/Shifter #1
Heroes: Mateo Esposito/Riley Flynn
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 4 Hours, 1 Minute
Publisher: Skull Blasters Publishing
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Audible
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Blurb: Mateo Esposito loves his job. Hired assassin for the U.S. Government, he takes lives and he kicks ass with no mercy. When a job lands in his lap that’s just not quite right, Mateo finds himself questioning for the first time in his career. Who would have known he’d be undone by a purple hippo…

Riley Flynn is CEO of Flynn Electronics. Deep in his closet, Riley wonders what it would feel like to be with a man. When his path crosses with Mateo’s, their lives will never be the same.

Because Riley is Mateo’s next target…….
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Audio Review, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Altered Heart by Kate Steele

Reviewed by Morgan 

6288033Title: Altered Heart
Author: Kate Steele
Series: Mated Heart and Soul #1
Heroes: Mick Matranga/Rio Hardin
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 220 Pages
Publisher: Loose Id
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  As a werewolf and an enforcer for the Committee for Supernatural Behavioral Enforcement, Mick Matranga has seen his share of lowlifes, but Kevin Sutter, pack alpha, is one of the lowest. He has forcibly turned and taken prisoner a young human. Mick has been assigned to affect a rescue and bring Sutter to justice.

Dispatching the bad guy turns out to be the easy part of his assignment. Sutter’s prisoner, Rio Hardin, turns out to be a smart-mouthed, sassy brat with the face of an angel who takes Mick’s heart by storm. He’s also a runaway turned hustler who has suffered numerous abuses in the course of his tumultuous life.

Bound by his code of honor and determined that Rio be protected at all costs, Mick makes it his personal duty to see to it that no one hurts Rio again. If that includes ignoring the instinctual knowledge that Rio is his mate and Rio’s own desire to be with him, so be it.

There’s only one flaw in his plan. Rio is about to go through his first shift, a very painful process which can only be made tolerable by applying a certain amount of distraction–sexual distraction. Mick has two choices. He can leave Rio in the hands of his very capable brother or he can give in to the mutual heat and need between them and indoctrinate his young charge into the ways of the werewolf.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published Before 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Exchange of Power by Tricia Owens

Reviewed by JustJen

29364768Title: Exchange of Power
Author: Tricia Owens
Series: Juxtapose City #8
Heroes: Black/Calyx
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 213 Pages
Publisher: Tricia Owens
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Taking sides and striking bargains with sex…

In the clutches of Captain Dickerson once again, Black suddenly finds a reason to remain in the employ of the JCPD: his team has been handed over to another lieutenant, and it’s not Lieutenant Sundhill. Alarmed by the identity of this man, Black knows he can’t leave his teammates to fend for themselves, especially now that the lines of war are finally being drawn in the sand. Worse, Dickerson’s experiments appear to be expanding their focus. Forced to take a side, Black does what Calyx believes is the unthinkable and agrees to lead an army. Is Black leading them all to war? Or is he playing a game with Genesis that could change everything, and which might leave Calyx as the last psypath standing?

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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Rancher’s Son by R.J. Scott

Reviewed by Susan65

21841440Title: The Rancher’s Son
Author: R.J. Scott
Series: Montana #2
Heroes: Ethan/Adam
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 200 Pages
Publisher: Love Lane Books Limited
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Available at:  Amazon and All Romance Ebooks
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Blurb: A man without memories, and the cop who never gave up hope.

When he wakes up in the hospital, the victim of a brutal beating, John Doe has no memories of who he is or who hurt him. The cops can find nothing to identify him and he can’t remember anything to help… except the name Ethan and one recurring place from his dreams. Two words, and they’re not much, but it’s a start: Crooked Tree.

Detective Ethan Allens has never stopped searching for the two boys who vanished. When a report lands on Ethan’s desk that may give new leads, he jumps at the chance to follow them up. The man he finds isn’t his brother, but it’s someone who could maybe help him discover what happened twelve years ago.

What neither man can know is that facing the very real demons of the past could destroy any kind of future they may have together.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2016, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Book Review: Manuel by Caitlin Ricci and A.J. Marcus

Reviewed by Morgan 

29406770Title: Manuel
Authors: Caitlin Ricci and A.J. Marcus
Series: Watchers #4
Heroes: Manuel/Sydney
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 44 Pages
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Available at:  Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Manuel doesn’t much care about what humans do to each other, but when a shifter drug lord risks exposing all of them, he knows he has to step in. While trying to find the man’s weaknesses, Manuel runs across Sydney, the drug lord’s son.

Sydney has always lived under his father’s control. He’s seen too much, and he only wants a chance to have his own life. It isn’t what his father wants for him at all, though, and Sydney has been looking for a way out.

Their attraction is instant, but before they can make sense of the pull between them, Sydney’s home is attacked by a rival drug lord. Sydney is taken and Manuel will need the help of the other Watchers to mount a rescue operation.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Morgan's Reviews, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Book Review: Wounded by Maggie Walsh

Reviewed by Susan65

29484965Title: Maggie Walsh
Author: Maggie Walsh
Series: The Angel Pack #9
Heroes: Shelby/Xander
Genre: MM Paranormal
Length: 229 Pages
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Available at:  Siren Publishing
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Blurb: King Dante places Shelby in the protective custody of the Angel Pack to guard the secret of who he truly is and what he is capable of. Shelby has known who his mate is since before he was kidnapped by his psycho father six months ago. But now he fears that being in the same house as his mate will finally show Xander who he is. He has been hiding from his mate, but now that they are face-to-face Shelby needs to stay strong and reject Xander. He can’t afford to get attached to anyone and have them turn on him when they find out the truth.

But Xander won’t give up on his mate and does everything he can to show the gorgeous man that he wants him for who he is and will never try to control him or tell him what to do. The battle to save their world explodes at the same time the battle to save his mating puts Shelby in danger.

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Book Review: Between Ghosts by Garrett Leigh

Reviewed by JustJen

27010837Title: Between Ghosts
Author: Garrett Leigh
Heroes: Connor Regan/Nat Thompson
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 226 Pages
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  In 2003, journalist Connor Regan marched through London to add his voice to a million others, decrying the imminent invasion of Iraq. Eight months later, his brother, James, was killed in action in Mosul.

Three years on, Connor finds himself bound for Iraq to embed with an elite SAS team. He sets his boots on the ground looking for closure and solace—anything to ease the pain of his brother’s death. Instead he finds Sergeant Nathan Thompson.

Nat Thompson is a veteran commander, hardened by years of combat and haunted by the loss of his best friend. Being lumbered with a civilian is a hassle Nat doesn’t need, and he vows to do nothing more than keep the hapless hack from harm’s way.

But Connor proves far from hapless, and too compelling to ignore for long. He walks straight through the steel wall Nat’s built around his heart, and when their mission puts him in mortal danger, Nat must lay old ghosts to rest and fight to the death for the only man he’s ever truly loved.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, JustJen's Reviews, LGBT, Published in 2016 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Book Review: His Favorite Color is Blood: Coffin Nails MC by K.A. Merikan

Reviewed by Susan65

28111327Title: His Favorite Color is Blood: Coffin Nails MC
Author: K.A. Merikan
Series: Sex & Mayhem #8
Heroes: Grim/Misha
Genre: MM Contemporary
Length: 329 Pages
Publisher: Acerbi & Villani ltd
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Available at:  Amazon
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Blurb: — When life gives you blood, make mayhem. —

Grim. Assassin. Leather-clad sex god. Has the most unusual taste in men.
Misha. Mutilated. Afraid. Will never trust again.

Grim is a bloodthirsty killer, and he owns it. Gay in a world of outlaw bikers, he firmly stands his ground if anyone dares to cross him. He takes pleasure in showing homophobes their place and fucking his way through a life of carnage.

But there is a part of him always aching for something he cannot get. When by chance he saves the most perfect guy he’s ever met, he is not about to let him go. Even if it means he needs to smother his broken bird.

When a masked, bloodstained man rescues Misha from captivity, he doesn’t know if he should thank the menacing stranger or stab him and run. Grim is not the kind of man who takes no for an answer, and Misha might now be in more danger than when he was trapped as a sex slave.

Misha cannot deny though that Grim is as alluring as he is frightening, and once Misha realizes what power his body holds over Grim, he understands that taming the beast of a man could be within his reach.

But any possibility of a future together is like a house of cards when Zero, the sadistic crime lord who destroyed Misha’s life, sets out to get him back.

Will the ruthless biker assassin at Misha’s side be enough to conquer the monsters from his past?

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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Published in 2016, Susan65's Reviews | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Dual Book Review: Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs

Reviewed by Ami and JustJen

25776210Title: Fire Touched
Author: Patricia Briggs
Series: Mercy Thompson #9
Heroine/Hero: Mercy/Adam
Genre: MF Paranormal
Length: 352 Pages
Publisher: Penguin/Ace
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Available at: Amazon and Barnes & Noble
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Blurb:  Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.

Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched?
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