Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert Released: November 12, 2018M/M RomanceCarina Press Reviewed by Mandi First, let me say - there is actual holiday stuff in this "holiday" romance. How many times have I read a holiday romance, with the holiday cover and title, and then be left with MAYBE one snowfall or one mention of a Christmas dinner??? Too many times to count! Better Not Pout has a hero wearing a santa suit! Thanksgiving! Lots of snow! An elf! Christmas presents! It got me in the Continue Reading
Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts
Hate Notes by Vi Keeland and Penelope WardContemporary RomanceReleased: November 6, 2018Montlake After walking in on her fiance getting a blow job from his secretary, Charlotte cancels her wedding and quits her job. Needing money, she decides to sell her wedding dress and head to a consignment shop. While there she comes across a beautiful wedding dress and can’t stop herself from trying it on. A custom made dress, it was exactly just the right amount of over the top with the Continue Reading
Review: Saddle Up by A.M. Arthur
Saddle Up by A.M. Arthur (Clean Slate Ranch #3)Released: September 17, 2018M/M RomanceCarina Press Reviewed by Mandi Although there are some darker subject matters in this book, I still found it to be a very sweet, and feel good book. And with that being said, I also found it a little hard to get totally engaged - as everything was just too predictable...and well...a little too sweet. (Am I a jaded and bitter reader????) Miles is a sous chef with an obsessive, stalker ex-boyfriend. This Continue Reading
Angela’s Monday Morning Reflections- 8/13
Happy Monday y'all, hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! What I read this week: To See the Sun by Kelly JensenM/M Sci/Fi RomanceAugust 13, 2018 by Riptide Favorite Quote: "I want to show you everything. One day, I'm going to show you everything." This is probably one of the most low-key science fiction romances I've ever read. I anticipated a whole lot of angsty conflict after reading the first chapter, but.. there really wasn't too Continue Reading
Mandi’s Monday Musings
Imperial Stout by Layla Reyne (Trouble Brewing #1) Released: July 23, 2018 M/M Suspense Carina Press This is a spin-off series from Reyne's Whiskey series and I saw some reviews that said it's probably best if you read the Whiskey series before reading this. I did not and I was confused at the beginning of the book. There are a lot of characters besides our two leading men, and it was hard to keep track of names and who was bad or good or a double agent etc.. I did settle in after a while Continue Reading
Helyce’s Thursday Thoughts
Sin and Tonic by Rhys Ford (Sinners #6 - series finale) MM Romance May 15, 2018 Dreamspinner Press I have had a soft spot for Miki St. John from the beginning of this series. One of the most tragic and angst ridden characters I’ve read to date, this poor kid, found wandering in an alley at the age of 3, placed in the foster system for a time, somehow gets placed with a guy at the age of 12 who sexually abuses him and also prostitutes him out to other men. He survives years of this abuse Continue Reading
Review: Soul to Keep by Garrett Leigh
Soul to Keep by Garrett Leigh Rented Heart, #2 Contemporary Romance/MM March 24, 2018 Riptide Favorite Quote: Getting clean had saved him, but in turn his so-called life had become a dedication to his addiction-a necessary homage that he’d never be free of. Reviewed by Tori Recovering addict Jamie Yorke has returned to England from California. With no home or family to speak of, he sticks a pin in a map and finds a small town in the Derbyshire Peak District. Matlock Bath is a quiet Continue Reading
Review: Squared Away by Annabeth Albert
Squared Away by Annabeth Albert (Out of Uniform #5) Released: April 16, 2018 Contemporary M/M Romance Carina Press Reviewed by Mandi Guys - I've never read Annabeth Albert. What the heck, self??? I think a publicist reached out about this book asking for a guest post, and when I read the blurb I thought - ooooh, I'll give this one a try. And I ended up really enjoying this author's voice. She gives us Isaiah, biracial, and younger than Mark. And Mark, a Navy SEAL who working out his Continue Reading
Review: Invitation to the Blues by Roan Parrish
Invitation to the Blues by Roan Parrish (Small Change #2) M/M Romance March 28, 2018 Self-Published Reviewed by Helyce Favorite Quote: “I’m not perfect. I don’t want you out of generosity. Or because I’m some kind of angel or savior. I want you because something inside you vibrates just so with something inside me.” I only recently found Roan Parrish and I’m so glad I did. I read her Middle of Somewhere series and fell in love with the characters there. I didn’t even know she’d Continue Reading
Review: Happily Ever Alfie by K. Sterling
Happily Ever Alfie by K. Sterling M/M Contemporary Released: January 25, 2018 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi In Happily Ever After, we have Church, retired from the Army who is fifty, and Alfie, a twenty-nine year old whose mom and step-dad died, so he has stepped in as a father/guardian to several young kids. He supports himself by writing romance books, but is completely overwhelmed with caring for a houseful of kids. Alfie meets Church in a library, and when Alfie's car won't Continue Reading