Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Glitterland (Spires: Book One) Author: Alexis Hall Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Publisher: Riptide Publishing Run Time: 6 hours and 42 minutes At a Glance: Nicholas Boulton’s voice is like butter. The timbre and the cadence are almost hypnotic. Reviewed By: Jules Blurb: Ash Winters is barely holding on, near drowning in his own darkness and... Continue Reading →
Title: Pain Slut (Subs Club: Book Two) Author: J.A. Rock Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 320 Pages At a Glance: J.A. Rock set out to write a realistic set of BDSM novels, and the Subs Club was born... Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Honestly, I’m ready to take a step back from the Subs Club. Making... Continue Reading →
Title: Pickup Men Author: L.C. Chase Narrator: Dorian Bane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Run Time: 4 hours and 54 minutes At a Glance: All my “musts” were met by Mr. Bane’s narration. Reviewed By: Kim Blurb: It takes a pissed-off Brahma bull named Shockwave to show rodeo pickup man Marty Fairgrave the cold hard truth about... Continue Reading →
Title: Part & Parcel: A Sidewinder Novel Author: Abigail Roux Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 321 Pages At a Glance: I recommend this book to all the hardcore fans of these men. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Nick O'Flaherty and Kelly Abbott had their happy ending in sight when a friend’s call for help almost ended with them... Continue Reading →
Title: Cross & Crown Author: Abigail Roux Narrator: Brock Thompson Publisher: Riptide Publishing Run Time: 6 hours and 50 minutes At a Glance: I enjoyed this narration just as much as I did listening to the first book, but the story missed the mark for me a little bit. Reviewed By: Karen Blurb: When Nick... Continue Reading →
Today we're so pleased to welcome author LB Gregg to on the tour for the newest installment in the Romano and Albright series, With This Bling. Enjoy LB's guest post, and then be sure to check out the great giveaway! Details below. Good luck! Hi. My name is LB Gregg and I write gay romance.... Continue Reading →
Title: The Subs Club (The Subs Club: Book One) Author: J.A. Rock Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 297 Pages At a Glance: I highly recommend this book and cannot wait for Pain Slut, coming out in February of 2016. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: A year ago, my best friend Hal died at the hands of... Continue Reading →
Title: With This Bling (Romano and Albright: Book Three) Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 264 Pages At a Glance: Dan Albright and Caesar Romano are back and better than ever! Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Caesar Romano’s catering career is doing better than he’d ever dreamed. And so is his love life—even if... Continue Reading →
Title: A Fortunate Blizzard Author: L.C. Chase Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 179 Pages At a Glance: Grab this book and curl up by the fire one weekend soon! You’ll be so glad you did! Reviewed By: Jules Blurb: There are worse things than being stranded in a blizzard.... Artist Trevor Morrison has always appreciated... Continue Reading →
Title: Shock & Awe (Sidewinder: Book One) Author: Abigail Roux Narrator: Brock Thompson Publisher: Riptide Publishing Run Time: 3 hours and 59 minutes At a Glance: Brock Thompson was a new to me narrator, and I was pleasantly surprised by his performance. Reviewed By: Karen Blurb: After barely surviving a shootout in New Orleans, Sidewinder medic... Continue Reading →
Title: Stranded Author: HelenKay Dimon Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 155 Pages At a Glance: Oh heavens, this was a good book! Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Brax Hughes lived hard and retired young to a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Well, that was the plan, but before he can hang up his sniper rifle,... Continue Reading →
Title: Rain Shadow (A Bluewater Bay Novel) Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Riptide Publishing At a Glance: All in all, another solid addition to the Bluewater Bay series. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Jeremy Rose came to Bluewater Bay to work as Anna Maxwell's bodyguard, not to escape his increasingly bitter relationship with his estranged kids. He... Continue Reading →
Title: Rebound Remedy Author: Christine d’Abo Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 155 Pages At a Glance: Despite the few misgivings I had about it, Rebound Remedy is a sweet holiday story that I think many will enjoy. Reviewed By: Jules Blurb: The last thing Cole expects to get for the holidays is dumped. But there he... Continue Reading →
Title: Between Ghosts Author: Garrett Leigh Publisher: Riptide Publishing Length: 226 Pages Genre: Contemporary Cover Artist: G.D. Leigh Release Date: March 14, 2016 Pre-Order Link: Riptide Publishing 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,... Continue Reading →
Title: Lessons for Sleeping Dogs (Cambridge Fellows Mysteries) Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 208 Pages At a Glance: If you like period appropriate verbiage and staging, REALLY GOOD mysteries, and colorful and witty characters, then this series is for you. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Cambridge, 1921 When amateur sleuth Jonty Stewart comes... Continue Reading →
Title: Light a Candle Author: VJ Summers Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 136 Pages At a Glance: Enjoyable story with BDSM, former friends getting reacquainted, and a man desperate to show how much he’s changed. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Will broke Dusty’s heart their senior year. One unexpected moment of passion between them, and Will freaked out.... Continue Reading →
Title: Base Instincts (A Demonica Story) Author: Larissa Ione Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 150 Pages At a Glance: Larissa Ione has once again turned our ideas of good and evil on an axis and challenged our thinking about what love means. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: As a Seminus demon, Raze’s life literally depends on... Continue Reading →
Title: When to Hold Them (A Bluewater Bay Novel) Author: G.B. Gordon Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 213 Pages At a Glance: There is a complicated bit of character building that is skillfully done by the author, though I did have some issues with the time jumping around, and days passing with the POV changes.... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue Eyed Stranger (Trowchester Blues: Book Two) Author: Alex Beecroft Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 246 Pages At a Glance: An exquisitely written novel. Reviewed By: Maryann Blurb: Billy Wright has a problem: he’s only visible when he’s wearing a mask. That’s fine when he’s performing at country fairs with the rest of his... Continue Reading →
Title: Lessons for Idle Tongues Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 247 Pages At a Glance: Just when you think you might have it all figured out… That would be a no. I love it! Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: Cambridge, 1910 Amateur detectives Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith seem to have nothing more... Continue Reading →
Title: The Dom Around the Corner (Escape #1) Author: Christine d’Abo Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 111 Pages At a Glance: For such a short book, one thing it’s not short on is angst and two hot men. Reviewed By: Jennifer Blurb: Simon is jaded. His bookstore is failing, his personal life is nonexistent, and... Continue Reading →
We're so pleased to welcome author Alex Beecroft back to The Novel Approach today, on the Blue Steel Chain tour. Enjoy Alex's guest post and then be sure to leave a comment to enter in Riptide Press's tour-wide giveaway of a signed paperback from Alex Beecroft's backlist (Any title which has a paperback edition, excluding... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue Steel Chain Author: Alex Beecroft Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages At a Glance: This book challenges you to reconsider how you feel about love and companionship, your needs versus your wants in a partner and soulmate. Reviewed By: Carrie Blurb: At sixteen, Aidan Swift was swept off his feet by a... Continue Reading →
Title: Where There's Fire (Panopolis: Book Two) Author: Cari Z. Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 119 pages At a Glance: Cari Z delivers another excellent, action packed adventure from Panopolis! Reviewed By: Angel Blurb: Making a name for myself as a Villain in Panopolis is hard work. Six months ago, my boyfriend broke me out... Continue Reading →
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