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I really enjoyed reading the first book in the Crowhill Cove series. Both Keaton and Olly were likeable and developed characters, each with their own issues and vulnerabilities that came to light throughout the novel. Their transition from enemies to lovers was gradual, which I appreciated as time was taken for them to heal from the past and truly get to know each other.
If you love college romances, then you will certainly enjoy Don’t Move Out and the Crowhill Cove series!
I was so disappointed with this novel. I went in with such high hopes. Vampires, zombies and a solid space opera. Sign me up. The reality was that it was just dull. Nothing happened. The characters were uninteresting and none seemed to like each other very much let alone form any kind of connection with each other.
When there was a need for an action scene, it was so poorly written that you blink and you’ve missed it. I did not even realise a character had died until pages later as the description was so lacking. I am surprised I managed to finish this to be honest. Such a shame as it could have been a really amazing novel.
NEW RELEASE
Book Title: Best Wrong Thing
Author and Publisher: Colette Davison
Cover Artist: Covers by Jo
Release Date: August 23, 2024
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Tropes: Forbidden romance, secret relationship, one-night stand to lovers, age-gap
Themes: Being true to yourself
Heat Rating: 3.5-4 flames
Length: 56 000 words
It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links – Available in Kindle Unlimited
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How can something that feels so right be wrong?
Blurb
What do you do when your dad tells you he’s married the woman he had an affair with? Go out and get drunk.
At least, that’s my plan until the cute guy behind the bar chats me up. One thing leads to another, and we end up in bed together, only for me to discover he’s the last person on earth I should be fooling around with.
The problem? I can’t keep away, even though I know I should.
The more time I spend with Archer, the deeper I fall for him.
But when everyone around us will judge us for being together, can I be brave enough to admit he’s the best wrong thing to ever happen to me?
Best Wrong Thing is a one-night stand-to-lovers forbidden romance, with an age gap relationship, a strained holiday, and parents behaving badly.
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BOX SET RELEASE BLITZ
Book Title: Town Bronze Regency Box Set Trilogy
Author: Ellie Thomas
Publisher: JMS Books
Release Date: August 10, 2024
Genre: Historical Regency M/M Romance
Tropes: Hurt/comfort, Younger/older
Themes: Cross-dressing, Spanking, Coming of age, Society of men
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: 66 677 words
It Is the complete trilogy in a box set and does not end on a cliffhanger.
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This Regency box set comprises the three Town Bronze novellas by Ellie Thomas; Town Bronze, Pantaloons and Petticoats and Impeccable Credentials, with three young men, each unexpectedly finding love.
Blurb
All three novellas in Ellie Thomas’ Regency Town Bronze series are gathered together in this box set. A trio of young gentlemen, former university friends, Jasper, Barney and Julian, are set loose in Regency London to pursue carefree pleasure. Instead, they find unexpected romance and follow their individual paths to true love. Contains the stories:
Town Bronze: In 1812, Jasper Goodhew departs from sleepy Somerset for his first London season, anticipating fun, frolics and drunken debauchery. But to his consternation, he finds that a spanking from the firm hand of a particular older man sets him ablaze.
Can Jasper and Sir Mortimer Cleverly overlook their unorthodox introduction to become friends? Or is Jasper unable to resist his deepest instincts?
Pantaloons and Petticoats: In the autumn of 1812, Barney Marshall is a carefree young man, able to afford every variety of entertainment in Regency London while remaining heart-whole and fancy-free. All that changes after a passionate encounter with Rose, who by day is Ross, a clerk at Coutts Bank. Can Barney persuade Rose to trust him? And might their connection blossom into love?
Impeccable Credentials: In the autumn of 1812, aristocrat Julian Buchanan faces a crisis. He must choose between the trappings of his privileged life or the man he loves. Will Julian submit to his father’s decree and marry to further the family name? Or can he find the strength to break free?
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I have been eagerly awaiting the penultimate book in this series and The Simurgh did not disappoint. Right from the first page I was hooked, both by the fallout from book 6 and Silas’ determination to save Pitch no matter what. Their relationship and love for each other deepens with every adventure and, despite the fast pace of this novel, the author still was able to include the touching moments and dialogue that I love so much.
The next book will be the last and I cannot wait, although I will be sad that the series is coming to an end.
BOOK BLAST
Book Title: The Amphitheater of Souls
Author: Patrick Bryce Wright
Publisher: JMS Books, LLC
Cover Artist: Written Ink Designs
Release Date: July 13, 2024
Genres: M/M Romance, Dark Fantasy
Tropes: Found family, soul mates, gay male virgin, sexy elf lover, human and elf lovers
Themes: initiation into adulthood
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: 56 000 words/104 pages
It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links – Sale Price – 50% off
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When a plague hits his village, the shaman Cian travels to dwarves and centaurs for a cure. He allies with Thanyan, a lovely male elf, falling in love. Can they save the village and their own lives?
Blurb
When a plague ravages his village, the shaman Cian sails to the land of the dwarves for a cure. During the voyage, he meets and allies with Thanyan, a beautiful male elf who is a bard. Upon reaching the dwarven cleric whom Cian has been tasked with consulting, they uncover a dangerous secret: the plague resulted from blood magic. To undo this forbidden magic, they must travel to the island nation of the centaurs and visit The Amphitheater of Souls, the ancient temple where the blood magic was cast.
Cian and Thanyan hire a female dwarven warrior, Loquin, as a bodyguard for protection against the instigator of the plague. However, they still find themselves stalked, assaulted with magic, and tangled in secrets. On the voyage to the island, a sea serpent attacks, nearly destroying their ship, and when they arrive at the island, the spellcaster launches further attempts to kill them so they can’t lift the blood curse causing the plague. With the help of centaur priestesses, the group fights to untangle a dark affair that is revealed to span decades.
As Cian and Thanyan become embroiled in this dangerous mission to capture the rogue spellcaster, they grow to love each other. But with their lives at risk, can they save the village and live out their lives together in love?
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NEW RELEASE
Book Title: Hunt In The Night (Blood and Bonds series #3)
Author: S. J. Coles
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Release Date: August 6, 2024
Genre: Contemporary Paranormal Mystery/Cop
Tropes: Bi Awakening, Vampire, Men In Uniform, Gay For You
Themes: Coming out, forgiveness
Length: 71 136 words/282 pages
Heat Rating: 4 flames
It is book 3 of 3. It does not end on a cliffhanger.
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Hunting killers is Mason’s job. But falling for a vampire is the scariest thing he’s ever done.
Blurb
Detective Inspector Mason Walker is good at his job. He has never focused on much else in his life. Women come and go. Friends take time he doesn’t have to spare. The job is constant. He works hard and has built a reputation for determination and integrity.
Now his skills are needed more than ever. The level of violence in York has risen, involving both the haemophile and human communities. These are unexplored waters for Mason, with both political and professional implications, and Mason is afraid to lose his way.
But there’s been a murder—a haemophile—and Mason’s facing the question of not only who committed the dreadful crime but how? Nothing seems to be adding up. And being assigned a haemophile partner, Special Officer Cai Bracken, a freelance detective working for the Met Police, only increases his tension.
What’s really unnerving is that Cai is not only making Mason question his professional convictions, but his personal preferences, too…his most personal preferences.
With so much at stake, can Mason really cope with overhauling his police work and his personal life all at once?
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Title: The Quicks, The Deads, and Me
Author: Don Hilton
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 07/19/2024
Heat Level: 2 – Fade to Black Sex
Pairing: Female/Female
Length: 58600
Genre: Horror/Thriller, Paranormal, new adult, interracial, nonbinary, trans, questioning, serial killer, ghosts, mythical creature
Mazie’s a serial killer. She’s been one for a while. She knows that, of course, and does an excellent job of hiding it.
Then, there’s Sk’doo. Something less than a ghost, it’s doing its thing, zooming around its cemetery, listening to Deads. Its routine changes when a body is placed in a nearby pond. In learning how it hap-pened, Sk’doo discovers its Quick friend, Kaz, is in danger.
Who’s Kaz? She’s lonely, afraid, and confused. She’s ghosting her way through life, preferring the peace of a cemetery to the pain of living. At least until Sk’doo causes her to meet Mazie who brings light and excitement.
Mazie is manipulative, opinionated, and cunning. She decides to “”educate”” Kaz, taking delight in creat-ing a series of uncomfortable situations for her more-than-willing victim. Kaz begins to blossom and falls hard for her new friend.
All the same, Sk’doo must warn Kaz of the danger Mazie brings. The problem is how, when Kaz has no idea Sk’doo exists.
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Title: Siphany and the Whale
Series: Siphany and Lurbira, Book One
Author: Susan Jane Bigelow
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 06/25/2024
Heat Level: 1 – No Sex
Pairing: No Romance
Length: 93700
Genre: Science Fiction, sci-fi, lit/genre fiction, action/adventure, trans, cyborg/undead/altered beings, space battles, kidnapping/abduction, social anxiety, violence
You blow up one crappy little space drone, and everything goes to hell.
Siphany was just trying to be nice when she returned the drone she’d sort-of-accidentally blasted a hole in. But when its owner tries to kidnap the reclusive space mapper and steal her beloved ship, Siphany teams up with pint-sized robotic psychopath, Lurbira Call, to make a daring escape.
Soon Siphany and Lurbira, along with unwanted passengers Isan, the undead teenage cyborg; Siphany’s enigmatic former lover and Sovene spymaster, Qas; and moody, electrically beautiful fighter pilot, Pati, are all caught up in a deadly game of spies, starships, and interstellar war. When everything comes to a head, Siphany and Lurbira must find a way to face their tumultuous pasts in order to really, truly find freedom at last.
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Title: Witch in the Wind
Author: Damian Serbu
Publisher: NineStar Press
Release Date: 06/11/2024
Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 87400
Genre: Fantasy, witches, pirates, Royal Navy, military, action/adventure, magic/magic users, religious extremism (Puritans)
A winter storm blows through Salem, Massachusetts, setting young witch Alexander MacBeth on a perilous path to adulthood as his dying mother gifts him an heirloom and pleads for him to use it to survive.
To do so, he will need to perfect his inherited witchcraft to protect himself from those who want him dead. In his journey to adulthood, he falls in love with dashing nobleman Crispin Nottingham. Abandoned by Crispin and pursued by the Puritans, he finds he must harness the wind to assist his escape and flee his homeland aboard a pirate ship led by the handsome captain, Henri the Twisted.
Struggling against distrustful pirates, an evil witch, and his continued longing for Crispin, Alexander sharpens his magical skills and falls into a romance with Henri. Chaos and danger confront him at every turn, even as he searches for love and belonging. A new sail on the horizon may signal hope or more danger than ever before—if Alexander can survive to meet his future.
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