Posts Tagged With: yearning

Book Review: Murder and Mayhem by Rhys Ford

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Murder and Mayhem
Author: Rhys Ford
Series: Murder and Mayhem #1
Heroes: Rook & Dante
Genre: M/M Contemporary/Mystery
Length: 236 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Dead women tell no tales.

Former cat burglar Rook Stevens stole many a priceless thing in the past, but he’s never been accused of taking a life—until now. It was one thing to find a former associate inside Potter’s Field, his pop culture memorabilia shop, but quite another to stumble across her dead body.

Detective Dante Montoya thought he’d never see Rook Stevens again—not after his former partner falsified evidence to entrap the jewelry thief and Stevens walked off scot-free. So when he tackled a fleeing murder suspect, Dante was shocked to discover the blood-covered man was none other than the thief he’d fought to put in prison and who still makes his blood sing.

Rook is determined to shake loose the murder charge against him, even if it means putting distance between him and the rugged Cuban-Mexican detective who brought him down. If one dead con artist wasn’t bad enough, others soon follow, and as the bodies pile up around Rook’s feet, he’s forced to reach out to the last man he’d expect to believe in his innocence—and the only man who’s ever gotten under Rook’s skin.
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Categories: 5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, betrayal, Contemporary, Cops, deception, Dreamspinner Press, enemies to lovers, ex-cons, favorites, injury/recovery, M/M, Murder and Mayhem, mystery, Rhys Ford, series, Series - Murder and Mayhem, The Blogger Girls, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Altered 2 by Annabelle Jacobs

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: The Altered 2
Author: Annabelle Jacobs
Series: Lycanaeris #2
Heroes: Ash & Sam
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 37k words
Publisher: Self-published
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: A remote farmhouse in Cornwall seems the perfect place for Ash to settle into his recently altered status. Starting a new life there with Sam—the shifter he can’t stay away from—should be easy this far from London where they faced so much danger. So why does adjusting seem impossible?

Sam has issues of his own. He has to get used to his human form again after living the last eight years as a wolf. It’s hard when human worries weigh so heavily on his shoulders. Life is much more straightforward from a wolf’s perspective, until Ash needs his human support.

Ash’s problem is simple: he’s fearful of shifting fully. How can he believe he won’t hurt Sam when his genes were altered to create a killer? Despite repeated reassurance, his anger and resentment increase. Only one thing is certain: if Ash can’t learn to trust himself soon, he’s in danger of proving himself right.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: Annabelle Jacobs, cute, emotionally damaged, injury/recovery, M/M, mates, paranormal, series, Series - Lycanaeris, sweet, The Altered 2, The Blogger Girls, virgins, wolf shifters, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Art Criticism by Celeste Spettro

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Art Criticism
Author: Celeste Spettro
Heroes: James & Turkish
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 61k words
Publisher: Less Than Three Press
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Available at: Less Than Three Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: James has no idea what he’s going to do with his art history degree, but for the moment he’s managing as a lowly gallery assistant… until he has to deal with an aggravating photographer. Turkish is a lot like his photographs: vapid, popular, and over the top—the perfect target for James’ snarky criticism, but somehow James is unable to reject the man as easily he rejects his art.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Art Criticism, artists, assholes, Celeste Spettro, Contemporary, Less Than Three Press, M/M, separated for a bit, The Blogger Girls, working together, yearning | Leave a comment

Early Review: Sultry Sunset by Mary Calmes

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Sultry Sunset
Author: Mary Calmes
Series: Mangrove Stories #3
Heroes: Hutch & Mike
Genre: M/M Contemporary
Length: 78 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Hutch Crowley is well-liked in the small resort town of Mangrove—he’s got friends in his new neighbors, he’s the owner of the town grocery, and he’s building a community center—but he’s still unlucky at love. Every man he’s attracted to is either taken or simply not interested, including his best friend, Mike Rojas.

When Mike came to Mangrove two years ago, Hutch gave him a job and a place to stay in his guesthouse, where Mike has remained ever since. Despite the rumors circulating about them, Hutch knows Mike is straight and looking for the right woman. But his friends disagree, and after some hints to the contrary, even Hutch finally has to admit that maybe the rest of the town sees something he’s been missing. If Hutch wants to spend each sultry sunset with the man of his dreams, it might be time to figure out what’s going on with his best friend’s heart.

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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: Contemporary, cute, Dreamspinner Press, Friends to Lovers, GFY, M/M, Mary Calmes, neighbors, Pets, series, Series - Mangrove Stories, Sultry Sunset, sweet, The Blogger Girls, working together, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: A Counselor Among Wolves by Liv Olteano

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: A Counselor Among Wolves
Author: Liv Olteano
Series: Leader Murders #2
Heroes: Tim & Weiss
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 230 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Five dead leaders, their bodies arranged in a pentagram. Treason, lies, and backstabbing. A make-believe affair that turns into a real mating.

Timothy Sands is a PBI counselor, half-fey, half-elf, with a secret crush on Herman Weiss, PBI director. As a new chapter is added to the Leader Murders, it is Weiss’s responsibility to investigate what seems an impossible-to-solve case. The other problem? Weiss is suffering from rages, and his only salvation lies in Tim’s emotional-grid-balancing skills. They only have to pretend to be a couple for Tim to use his talents, and he owes Weiss a big favor. Piece of cake, right?

The fey might be involved in the Leader Murders. Someone on the Council might be their ally, and another prominent PBI figure looks more and more suspicious as they investigate. The stakes are upped when Timothy’s father, the Fey King, threatens to leave the Council destitute if they don’t hand Timothy over to him. Weiss’s brilliant solution? Mating Timothy and forcing the Council into protecting him.

There’s only one small hitch in that plan: instead of protecting one, the Council might decide to get rid of two.
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Categories: 4.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: A Counselor Among Wolves, against all odds, assholes, betrayal, curses, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, empaths, favorites, Friends to Lovers, injury/recovery, kids, Liv Olteano, M/M, magic, mates, paranormal, secret agency, series, Series - Leader Murders, The Blogger Girls, warriors, wolf shifters, yearning | 6 Comments

Book Review: Short-Circuit His Soul by Alana Ankh

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Short-Circuit His Soul
Author: Alana Ankh
Series: Microchips and Purity #2
Heroes: Noah & Logan
Genre: M/M Fantasy
Length: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Noah wasn’t born. He was created, a clone of Guiding Light Uriel, someone superior to him in every way. Noah is an instrument, and he knows it. He believes it, sees it in his mind and in his skin, breathes it every single day of his life—except for the moments he spends with Logan Maxfield. Logan makes him feel loved, makes him think he might have worth beyond being his brother’s copy, and allows him to hope that his secrets and sins might not own him. Even if he knows he has no right to Logan’s affection, he cannot help but seek refuge in Logan’s arms. He cannot help but love Logan.

Against all odds, Logan feels the same. But when Noah’s nightmares start to come true, when the images haunting his dreams invade his reality, their love threatens to be extinguished before it can fully flare into being. Noah is a clone, fading away like the imperfect copy he is. But Logan isn’t about to give up so easily. He belongs to Noah, and he will do everything in his power to save his lover, even if it means short-circuiting his own soul.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, Alana Ankh, betrayal, cyborgs, deception, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, fantasy, favorites, futuristic, Illness, injury/recovery, kidnapped, M/M, magic, separated for a bit, series, Series - Microchips and Purity, Short-Circuit His Soul, The Blogger Girls, warriors, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Healing Hunter’s Heart by Charlie Cochet

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Healing Hunter’s Heart
Author: Charlie Cochet
Series: A Little Bite of Love #2
Heroes: Ari & Hunter
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: Months after being forced to leave his lover and mate Ari Jannsen behind, Hunter Devin settles into his role as Enforcer for the newly formed Deagan Clan under the rule of his new Alpha and best friend Tristan “Trip” Hagan. Along with Hunter’s brother Boone, their nephews, sister, and mother, Hunter finally has the family he’s always wanted, but without his little rebel Ari, his heart is incomplete.

The Hagan Clan is unable to accept the Deagan Clan’s betrayal for walking away and taking the clan’s pups with them. War looms. As both clans plan their attack, a greater enemy plots against them. But Hunter is determined to get his Ari back. Bonds are put to the test and unexpected alliances are made as Hunter and his clan set out to protect their own and end the spreading heartache.

**This review contains spoilers, please proceed with caution**
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: against all odds, Age Gap, betrayal, Charlie Cochet, crazy meddling family, cute, dog shifters, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, Healing Hunter's Heart, hostage, injury/recovery, kids, M/M, mates, paranormal, separated for a bit, series, Series - A Little Bite of Love, sweet, The Blogger Girls, warriors, wolf shifters, yearning | 3 Comments

Book Review: Under Glass by Rebecca Cohen

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Under Glass
Author: Rebecca Cohen
Heroes: Kai & Ollie
Genre: M/M Scifi/Fantasy
Length: 306 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Available at: Dreamspinner Press & Amazon
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Blurb: Creating planets and guarding the stars leaves novice planet builder Kai Faewiva lonely. For members of Kai’s species who are born with an organ called a caerellon, their true love, their Sun or Moon, is identified at birth. But the novices are people who have lost their perfect love, and Kai’s Sun is long dead, killed in an accident when he was five years old. Or so everyone thought.

After recovering from another bout of the unidentified illness he has battled for years, Kai returns to work. But his quiet day at the planetarium is thrown into chaos when scans of Goka Prime, one of the planets in the Sol-Alpha2 system, picks up a life-form that shouldn’t be there. Kai’s Sun, Oliver Gyin, is alive and well, but how he got to be on Goka Prime, no one knows. Now he needs to be brought home.

Ollie has lived most of his life in the City of Harrea, never guessing he is from another planet. Surprised to find a stranger means the world to him, Ollie wrestles with his loyalties and the drive to return with Kai. To leave Goka Prime, he must give up everything and everyone he knows. But twenty years apart means Kai and Ollie face a fight to secure their destined future.
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Categories: 3 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: assholes, Dreamspinner Press, emotionally damaged, ex lovers as secondary characters, fantasy, illnesses, injury/recovery, M/M, mates, Rebecca Cohen, scientists, Scifi, The Blogger Girls, Under Glass, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Johnnie by Cardeno C.

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Johnnie
Author: Cardeno C.
Series: Siphon #1
Heroes: Johnnie & Hugh
Genre: M/M Paranormal
Length: 56,233 words
Publisher: The Romance Authors, LLC
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: A Premier lion shifter, Hugh Landry dedicates his life to leading the Berk pride with strength and confidence. Hundreds of people depend on Hugh for safety, success, and happiness. And at over a century old, with more power than can be contained in one body, Hugh relies on a Siphon lion shifter to carry his excess force.

When the Siphon endangers himself and therefore the pride, Hugh must pay attention to the man who has been his silent shadow for a decade. What he learns surprises him, but what he feels astounds him even more.

Two lions, each born to serve, rely on one another to survive. After years by each other’s side, they’ll finally realize the depth of their potential, the joy in their passion, and a connection their kind has never known.
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Categories: 4 Star Ratings, Book Review, LGBT, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2015 | Tags: assholes, Cardeno C., cat shifters, cute, emotionally broken, injury/recovery, Johnnie, M/M, paranormal, series, Series - Siphon, sex outside the main couple, suicide attempt, sweet, The Blogger Girls, warriors, yearning | Leave a comment

Book Review: Beauty & the Vet by Kitt Cassidy

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Nikyta

Reviewed by Nikyta

Title: Beauty & the Vet
Author: Kitt Cassidy
Hero/Heroine: Alan & Hannah
Genre: M/F Contemporary
Length: 64 pages
Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Available at: Amazon
Add it to your shelf: Goodreads

Blurb: For the past three years, Dr. Alan Booth has been watching his office manager Hannah Owens, wishing he was able to find a way to tell her how he feels about her. Fear of rejection and risking their friendship has kept him quiet. That is, until he overhears one very naughty phone call.

Hannah has been in love with her boss for years. The quiet doctor who takes care of his mother and is so good with the animals in his care has had her melting since day one, but issues with her curvy body keep her blind to Alan’s gentle advances. Tired of her sister’s constant moping, Candice Owens hatches a crazed plan to get the two love birds together if it kills them. When their plans are overheard by the good doctor himself it’s a race to see who comes out on top, the Beauty or the Vet.
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Categories: 3.5 Star Ratings, Book Review, M/F, Nikyta's Reviews, Published in 2014 | Tags: Beauty & the Vet, Boss/Employee Relationship, Contemporary, cute, Kitt Cassidy, m/f, Pets, Siren-Bookstrand, sweet, The Blogger Girls, unrequited, working together, yearning | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: yearning

Book Review: Murder and Mayhem by Rhys Ford

Book Review: The Altered 2 by Annabelle Jacobs

Book Review: Art Criticism by Celeste Spettro

Early Review: Sultry Sunset by Mary Calmes

Book Review: A Counselor Among Wolves by Liv Olteano

Book Review: Short-Circuit His Soul by Alana Ankh

Book Review: Healing Hunter’s Heart by Charlie Cochet

Book Review: Under Glass by Rebecca Cohen

Book Review: Johnnie by Cardeno C.

Book Review: Beauty & the Vet by Kitt Cassidy

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