Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Black Blades by Ginn Hale My rating: 5 of 5 stars And the plot thickens. Prophesies broken, awesome powers revealed, an assassination thwarted, and former allies who apparently have become enemies, these are some of the enticements Ginn Hale offers up in episode three of the Rifter saga. Told in a non-linear fashion, this installment... Continue Reading →
Delsyn's Blues by Lou Sylvre My rating: 4 of 5 stars ”Sonny James and Luki Vasquez are living proof that the course of love never runs smoothly.” If ever there was a single sentence that set the tone for a novel, this is it. Not only does the course of love never run smoothly for... Continue Reading →
Delsyn's Blues by Lou Sylvre My rating: 4 of 5 stars ”Sonny James and Luki Vasquez are living proof that the course of love never runs smoothly.” If ever there was a single sentence that set the tone for a novel, this is it. Not only does the course of love never run smoothly for... Continue Reading →
4.5/5 stars Servant of the Crossed Arrows by Ginn Hale My rating: 5 of 5 stars Reading Servant of the Crossed Arrows was a little bit like watching the movie Inception. In other words, I labored under a pervading sense of “what the hell?” for a good portion of the time. But then I realized... Continue Reading →
The Shattered Gates by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars And so it begins, another Ginn Hale inspired addiction, this one woven somewhere between the contemporary and an alternate reality that is only just starting to take shape as a place of extreme danger, a place where being an outsider might mean a... Continue Reading →
The Heart's Greater Silence by Anne Brooke My rating: 5 of 5 stars Mark is a man who burns his candle at both ends. And he did so quite successfully for a while, until the two ends ultimately met and he got burnt in a most painful and consequential way. Mark is a man whose... Continue Reading →
The Heart's Greater Silence by Anne Brooke My rating: 5 of 5 stars Mark is a man who burns his candle at both ends. And he did so quite successfully for a while, until the two ends ultimately met and he got burnt in a most painful and consequential way. Mark is a man whose... Continue Reading →
Cherish Your Name by Mary Calmes My rating: 5 of 5 stars 4.5/5 stars Cherish Your Name is a special holiday story starring my all time favorite warder/hearth couple. Make no mistake, I love all the couples in this series, and I especially love Raphael, but as couples go, Malic and Dylan have always been... Continue Reading →
Bad Boyfriend by K.A. Mitchell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Quinn Maloney spent ten years in a monogamous relationship with a straight man. Well, at least Quinn was monogamous. Peter? No, Peter was just an ass who’s “not gay,” and who used Quinn until something different came along; then he made like Houdini and... Continue Reading →
Marathon Cowboys by Sarah Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars Drama and romance tangle in a wonderful way in Marathon Cowboys, the story of two very different men who meet through little more than chance and who find a common bond in the love of their respective art. Jesse Clayton is a brilliant artist... Continue Reading →
Flamingo by Sarah Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sixty-one year old William has spent a good portion of his life as a near recluse, taking sanctuary in the bookshop he opened in 1971, a mere couple of years after the Stonewall uprising that brought the gay rights movement out of the closet and... Continue Reading →
Santa Vic by J.M. Snyder My rating: 4 of 5 stars Beneath Vic Braunson’s tattooed, pierced, and buff exterior lies a gooey marshmallowy middle. Vic might look tough, but the man has a heart of gold, and it beats only for Matt di Lorenzo. It’s Christmastime in Richmond and Vic has been asked by his... Continue Reading →
Let There Be Light by R. Cooper My rating: 4 of 5 stars There was an amazing chemistry between the two characters in this book that was fairly visceral, knowing there was a history there that brought them together and, at the same time, tore them apart. It was deliciously aggravating because they were trying... Continue Reading →
A Summit City Christmas by Ethan Day My rating: 5 of 5 stars Go ahead and say it with me: Awwww. Seriously, that’s exactly what you’ll want to say when you finish reading A Summit City Christmas, as this is Wade Walker and Boone Daniels at their finest. With their eclectic group of friends and... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Soul: Vol. Three Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: The Dark Soul serial is Voinov doing what he does best—daring his readers to think outside the paradigm of romance and venture into the realms of the forbidden erotic, to find... Continue Reading →
Dark Soul by Aleksandr Voinov My rating: 5 of 5 stars I do believe Aleksandr Voinov is the only author who can push my comfort level to its very limits—and make me love it, every salacious, kinky, erotic step of the way. Anyone who’s been following this series knows that Silvio Spadaro is an entity... Continue Reading →
The Forester by Blaine D. Arden My rating: 5 of 5 stars 4.5/5 Stars I so wish this novella had been titled The Forester: BOOK #1 because, let me tell you, there’d better be a BOOK #2 in the works or else. Or else I just might cry. Blaine D. Arden knocks this one right... Continue Reading →
When Angels Fall by Z.A. Maxfield My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you’ve read the special project Wishing on a Blue Star, then this story is going to be familiar to you, as it is Z.A. Maxfield’s outstanding contribution to that anthology. But whether you have read the entire anthology or not, do yourself... Continue Reading →
Title: The Scottish Prisoner: A Lord John Novel Author: Diana Gabaldon Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Pages: 400 (Hardcover) Characters: Lord John Grey, Jamie Fraser POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Historical/Fantasy Rating: 4 Blurb: London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District, life could be worse: He’s not cutting sugar cane in... Continue Reading →
Title: The Scottish Prisoner: A Lord John Novel Author: Diana Gabaldon Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Pages: 400 (Hardcover) Characters: Lord John Grey, Jamie Fraser POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Historical/Fantasy Rating: 4 Blurb: London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District, life could be worse: He’s not cutting sugar cane in... 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: Infected: Freefall (Infected #4) Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 350 Characters: Roan McKichan, Dylan Harlow POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Urban Fantasy Kisses: 4.5 Blurb: In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other... Continue Reading →
Title: Boats in the Night Author: Josephine Myles Publisher: Self-Published Pages: 164 (.pdf) Characters: Smutty, Giles POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Contemporary Romance Kisses: 5 Blurb: Like two ships passing in the night—if one was a narrowboat and the other a luxury yacht. Disgraced private school teacher Giles Rathbourne has been sent home on extended sick-leave... Continue Reading →
Title: Boats in the Night Author: Josephine Myles Publisher: Self-Published Pages: 164 (.pdf) Characters: Smutty, Giles POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Contemporary Romance Kisses: 5 Blurb: Like two ships passing in the night—if one was a narrowboat and the other a luxury yacht. Disgraced private school teacher Giles Rathbourne has been sent home on extended sick-leave... Continue Reading →
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