Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson Do you remember in the movie Jurassic Park, when Dr. Ian Malcolm is talking to Dr. Alan Grant about Chaos Theory? In science, chaos means something only slightly different than the typical utter confusion, madness, and mayhem we mean when... Continue Reading →
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. – Billy Crystal Warning: I’m about to say stuff, so rather than assault your unguarded and delicate sensibilities, I thought I’d give you a heads up first. Please, excuse my crudely crudeishness. And now… the naughty bits… George Michael once sang the praises... Continue Reading →
Sarcasm isn't just a way to mask your emotions and distance yourself from others. It's also super-duper satisfying. – Unknown. Howie Jenkins is a man with a plan. Yeah, that’s right, his plan is to work at the locally owned Artie Kraft’s Arts and Crafts store so he can increase his odds of getting laid... Continue Reading →
Title: The Other Guy Author: Cary Atwell Publisher: Self-Published Length: 233 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: This book is charming and clever, and I adored it so much that I couldn’t put it down. In fact, I may just go ahead and read it again. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Emory... Continue Reading →
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together. – Marcus Aurelius Have you ever just wanted to hug a book really hard and then kiss it and then thank it for giving you hours of bliss? Oh. Well, maybe it’s just me. But, gaaaah, I... Continue Reading →
If you have and you loved it, go check out Double Trouble, the incredibly naughty little treat she's offered up to her readers for the holidays. Evan, Rai, and Josh are up to all good in this steamy vignette starring my favorite threesome, wrapped up together in some sexy, sparkly and stripey goodness. Click on... Continue Reading →
If you have and you loved it, go check out Double Trouble, the incredibly naughty little treat she's offered up to her readers for the holidays. Evan, Rai, and Josh are up to all good in this steamy vignette starring my favorite threesome, wrapped up together in some sexy, sparkly and stripey goodness. Click on... Continue Reading →
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain. – Jonathan Swift Dusk Peterson’s Pleasure (Master/Other) is a story of slavery set in an alternate universe, though the setting isn’t really as important as the fact that it’s a story based around men and women whose lives include little more than working... Continue Reading →
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca I first became familiar with Dusk Peterson’s work a couple of years ago when I read the book Life Prison. It’s more than a bit of an understatement to say I was impressed with it. It’s more closely accurate to say I was... Continue Reading →
Title: How to Repair a Mechanical Heart Series: Mechanical Hearts: Book One Author: J.C. Lillis Publisher: Self-Published Length: 298 Pages Category: YA Romance Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Just when I’ve become complacent in the belief there can’t possibly be any more original ways to tell me a coming-of-age story, J.C. Lillis happens along... Continue Reading →
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare Nearly a century ago, humans and vampires lived together peacefully, even amidst the religious prophesying that their integration would most certainly bring about Armageddon one day. When a great plague swept across the globe and decimated nearly all the world’s population, it appeared... Continue Reading →
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare Nearly a century ago, humans and vampires lived together peacefully, even amidst the religious prophesying that their integration would most certainly bring about Armageddon one day. When a great plague swept across the globe and decimated nearly all the world’s population, it appeared... Continue Reading →
“Death is like a minor speed bump in the journey of our souls.” – Ansh Das Always and Forever is an intimate and personal journey, one of self-discovery and spirituality, of grief and grace for the author, who met the love of his life but was sadly deprived of a lifetime with his love. It... Continue Reading →
“Death is like a minor speed bump in the journey of our souls.” – Ansh Das Always and Forever is an intimate and personal journey, one of self-discovery and spirituality, of grief and grace for the author, who met the love of his life but was sadly deprived of a lifetime with his love. It... Continue Reading →
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt More than twenty-three-hundred people lost their lives, but there were figurative casualties as well, because even those who survived the attack were stripped of all the absolutes they’d known up to that now infamous day. It was the death of peace,... Continue Reading →
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy…” – Franklin D. Roosevelt More than twenty-three-hundred people lost their lives, but there were figurative casualties as well, because even those who survived the attack were stripped of all the absolutes they’d known up to that now infamous day. It was the death of peace,... Continue Reading →
“One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love.” – Unknown Trey Holgersen and Josh Campbell were inseparable for a while, but slowly drifted apart when Josh’s family moved to the East Coast after a horrific event that left its share of scars all over Josh, his family, and Trey as well. It was a... Continue Reading →
“One kiss breaches the distance between friendship and love.” – Unknown Trey Holgersen and Josh Campbell were inseparable for a while, but slowly drifted apart when Josh’s family moved to the East Coast after a horrific event that left its share of scars all over Josh, his family, and Trey as well. It was a... Continue Reading →
“Lovers may be—and indeed generally are—enemies…” – Lord Byron Shane and Trey, book one in Anyta Sunday’s Enemies to Lovers series, begins as a story of unrequited love and ends as a story of unexpected love between two young men who began as anything but friends. Outing himself in front of his best friend Ryan—the... Continue Reading →
“Lovers may be—and indeed generally are—enemies…” – Lord Byron Shane and Trey, book one in Anyta Sunday’s Enemies to Lovers series, begins as a story of unrequited love and ends as a story of unexpected love between two young men who began as anything but friends. Outing himself in front of his best friend Ryan—the... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Soul: Volume Five Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published (Second Edition) Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: Aleksandr Voinov was the master of my education, from start to finish. He led me by the senses and tweaked at my emotional boundaries; then, when he got me... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Soul: Volume Four Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published (Second Edition) Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: This installment in the Dark Soul series felt like progress, but that's also a dangerous feeling; there's always a sense of one step forward and two steps back when... Continue Reading →
Title: Infected: Freefall Series: Infected: Book Four Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Self-Published Length: 350 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: In spite of the sense of doom and gloom in this installment, Andrea Speed manages to infuse the story with plenty of her trademark humor—gotta love the fact that, regardless of... Continue Reading →
Title: Renfred's Masquerade Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Self-Published Length: 216 Pages Category: Young Adult Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Hayden Thorne’s work is a celebration of storytelling, and Renfred’s Masquerade is a novel that made me realize how terribly insignificant a numerical rating can be on a book that exceeds my ability to... Continue Reading →
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