Day: November 13, 2014

Betrayal by Maggie Walsh

betrayalTitle: Betrayal
Series: The Angel Pack, #1
Author: Maggie Walsh
Genre: Paranormal
Length: Novella (166 pages)
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc (August 6th 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 Hearts
Blurb: When Jesse and Taylor get kicked out of their homes they take off and end up in New York City. Jesse’s voice lands him a singing job at an all male club. When the owner discovers their secret, he offers to help them. That kind gesture turns into the biggest mistake of their lives.

When Micah hears the angelic voice coming from the beautiful man, his world turns upside down. Micah realizes that the angel is his mate. Now that he’s found him, he may never get to claim him.
Someone is trying to kill Jesse. At the same time, someone from Micah’s past comes back to claim Micah as their own. Is it coincidence or a set up? When the person trying to kill Jesse accidentally gets Micah instead, can Jesse find the culprit and the cure before it’s too late? And if Micah survives, will he be able to move past the betrayal of one of his own?

ISBN: 978-1-63258-143-3

Purchase Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/betrayal

Reviewer: Leigh

Review: This book is part of a series and should be read in order.
Micah is the Alpha of the Angel pack. A pack he started 200 years ago that is made up of wolves that either were kicked out or left their home packs for being gay. On a night out with his pack mates, he hears Jesse singing for the first time at a strip club. But Jesse is a slow to give in right away, as he is leery. Just when things seem to be moving along threats from others, try to destroy the mating before it can happen.

There are the normal elements of shifter mating. Instant attraction and need to mate. Micah is the typical larger than life alpha and wants it all now. Micah pushes Jesse to hard and he gets skittish and almost leaves. So it is not a unique take on the werewolf world. Yes, Micah is the big tough Alpha but all he really does want to love and take care of this mate and make Jesse happy. Jesse has been hurt badly in the past, first by his family, and then by others he thought he could trust. So trusting Micah takes some doing.

What drives this book are the characters, the conflicts, and connections that happen among them. The secondary characters are just as interesting as the MCs. Taylor is off the wall crazy and I loved him the first time he jumped off the page. The friendship Jesse and Taylor have is as important as the mating between Micah and Jesse. The other packs members are just as memorable. They leave you wanting them to get a HEA too.

This was a great start to the series. There are moments of laughter and a few that may make a tear or two leak. There are some good twists thrown in that keep things moving along nicely. I enjoyed it a great

The High Dragon Takes a Wolf by Marcy Jacks

thedragontakesawolfTitle: The High Dragon Takes a Wolf
Series: Of Dragons and Wolves, #12
Author: Marcy Jacks
Genre: Erotic Romance/Paranormal/ Shape-Shifter/ Vampires/ Werewolves
Length: Novella (115 Pages)
Publisher: Siren Publishing (November 1, 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts
Blurb: Duncan McTavish is the high dragon of his clan that he fought and paid for with blood. Now he wants peace, and he will start with the wolf pack at the bottom of his mountain. He will unite his clan with Clyde’s pack by mating with an omega.

But a betrayal is revealed when a handsome young omega runs to Duncan, revealing everything. Clyde intended to go back on the peace treaty and kill the dragons while their guard was down.
Duncan won’t align himself with Clyde, but he can’t leave the omega behind to face punishment either, especially since the much younger man is his mate.

Joey Litman is just happy he was able to save himself and his friends before anything worse could happen to them, and when he’s brought to a fancy room, he assumes Duncan wants to mate with him. He’s not wrong, and he intends on letting the handsome man seduce him all he wants.

ISBN: 978-1-63258-572-1

Product Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/the-high-dragon-takes-a-wolf

Reviewer: Lisa

Review: This is part of Dragons and Werewolves series and they need to be read in order. Each story gives you a new romancing couple to fall in love with. It also gives you an insight into their world.

Now usually my favorite paranormals are the ones with wolves, but dragons also make a great hit. This one comes off a bit different from the others. However, it was a blast to read. In this story, I really wanted to skin the alpha wolf and his men. Joey had been eighteen when he had been caught by his alpha having sex with another omega, and the man had decided he was going to be his mate. Joey did manage to talk the alpha out of having sex with him for the whole year. However, when he found out what was up he knew he had to interfere.

Joey had found out that the peace treaty coming up was to betray the dragons and he had to help them. However, in doing so he would be killed for his betrayal. The dragons came down to mate with omegas in exchange for peace. However, Joey’s sick alpha had plans to kill them. It was up to Joey to stop it.

Duncan had agreed with the other dragons that it was indeed time for peace. However when a little omega came to warn him, he knew he couldn’t leave him behind. He couldn’t leave him behind for more than just the reason known. Joey was in fact his mate. Now all he had to do is to help his mate understand that he would always be safe with him. Now if only he can get his best friend to go along with everything. Turns out dragons are more prickly than humans.

This was an amazing story although I do admit that for me it was missing something but not enough to make me not love the story. It does come off as if it had been rushed a bit but it was still perfect. I loved it and cannot wait to get my hands on the next book. If you love dragon shifters, wolf shifters, sexy men, strong alphas, quirky mates, excitement, action and danger then you should check out this book. I would recommend reading this if you love that and so much more. It caught my attention the moment I started reading and kept it all the way to the end.

* I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review through http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com *

Sporting Chance by Alexa Milne

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Author: Alexa Milne
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Super-Novel (312 pages)
Publisher: Totally Bound (November 6th, 2014)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts
Blurb: Sometimes keeping hold of love is just as hard as finding it.
Dan and Iestyn are looking for romance. A school trip, a love of history, a wedding, a tango and the game of chess, and their friends and family all help the two men to realise that they’ve finally found true love.

Iestyn thinks that he’s completely ordinary and that Dan is the only out and currently gay rugby player anywhere. Being gay can be difficult enough. Being famous also has its problems. But being gay, famous and a sportsman can make finding love complicated. So when Dan Morgan meets Iestyn Jones and gives him his phone number, their road ahead has more than a few bumps to overcome.

Will Iestyn and Dan overcome the obstacles thrown in their paths? Or will fame destroy their lives as well as their love?

ISBN: 978-1-78430-270-2

Product Link: https://www.totallybound.com/sporting-chance-print

Reviewer: Prime

Review: If you’ve read some of my previous reviews, it may well look like I’m on a bit of a sporting kick with my reading at the moment. That could possibly be true – this is the third or fourth sport based romance I’ve read in the past week, pretty good for someone who only actually follows basketball. What was immediately interesting to me is that rugby is the sport of focus – certainly different. I don’t follow rugby but I don’t live under a rock to not know some of the terminology that I couldn’t help but show an interest.

Then throwing in some hot Welshmen doesn’t hurt either. In fact, this book brought to mind a couple things, Russel Crowe movie called the Sum of Us where Rusty played a gay rugby player. Also, I was reminded of retired Australian rugby league player, Ian Roberts, who came out a few years before he retired from the game.

Which leads me to my next point: I had to Google how to pronounce Iestyn, no matter how much fantasy I read that commonly uses Welsh, Scots and Irish language for fairies, etc. I could not get the syllable breakdown. (FYI, it’s Yes-Tin, if you’re interested).

Iestyn is a teacher, openly gay, and his classroom is certainly full of some interesting characters. Besides the crazy kids, he also has a crazy family and an equally quirky and crazy group of friends. He’s a sci-fi nerd and he loves playing online chess. Completely the opposite to the object of his desire, Dan Morgan, he is a professional rugby player who doesn’t hide his sexuality.

Unlike Iestyn, Dan only has his Nan for family and has a few good friends on the rugby team. Iestyn is completely clueless about Dan and rugby, so it’s a bit of a comedy of errors, one that I have sympathy for. I was charmed by Iestyn’s naivety, as much as Dan was charmed. Iestyn may be thirty-four or five, but he is cute, naive and intelligent. Whereas Dan is twenty-four and sometimes he acts it, so much so I wanted to cuff him on the head to knock some sense into him.

I was pleased to find that unlike many books, the author chose not to dwell on the ten-year age gap, which is fairly common in many stories and usually the number one reason why one of the pair tries to keep his distance. Instead this is played out as normal as possible. The other thing that I found interesting was that both characters were out as gay and were pretty well accepted in their places of work. Instead, the focus was on Iestyn and Dan as a couple where contending with Dan’s fame is one of the most important issues that come up between them almost immediately. The poor sods couldn’t get away too easily!

The story is absolutely filled with a range of emotion. I laughed, smiled, cried, got irritated and then got angry – I also feared that the story could not be contained within the two hundred-odd pages. The story is well paced, though two-thirds in I thought that Dan and Iestyn were ready for a happily ever after until Alexa Milne trips us up and gives us another brief roller coaster of drama.

A quick side note: since this is set in Cardiff, Wales, Doctor Who fans will be more than a little amused by the references to Doctor Who and Torchwood. Any reference to Capt. Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones is a good reference!

* I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review through http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com *

All Kinds of Tied Down by Mary Calmes ~ Audiobook

619rXe7oYEL._SL500_AA300_PIaudible,BottomRight,13,73_AA300_Title: All Kinds of Tied Down
Series: A story in the Matter of Time universe
Author: Mary Calmes
Narrator: Tristan James
Genre: Contemporary
Length: 9 hours and 1 minute
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (09-24-14)
Heat Level: Moderate to Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts
Blurb: Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they’ve gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more.

As a marshal and a soldier, Ian’s expected to lead. But the power and control that brings Ian success and fulfillment in the field isn’t working anywhere else. Ian’s always resisted all kinds of tied down, but having no home—and no one to come home to—is slowly eating him up inside. Over time, Ian has grudgingly accepted that going anywhere without his partner simply doesn’t work. Now Miro just has to convince him that getting tangled up in heartstrings isn’t being tied down at all.

Product Link: http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/All-Kinds-of-Tied-Down-Audiobook/B00NU6UDGW

Reviewer: Tams

Review: Miro Jones and Ian Doyle are just two of the men that work on an elite team of US Marshalls led by Sam Kage. Miro was in and out of foster homes as a child, got into a little trouble but he always looked up to the men in uniform. He could have gone in a completely different direction with his life, but instead of lashing out at the lot life dealt him, he wanted to be like the men that protected him.
Ian is a seasoned soldier first, and a US Marshall second.

He spends almost as much time away and on top-secret missions as he does at home. Over the past few years as partners, they’ve built a unique partnership based on friendship, mutual admiration and the ability to trust each other with their lives. While Miro fell for Ian a long time ago, he knows that Ian is straight, so he locks away those feelings behind a door so thick that when Ian starts acting different toward him, Miro doesn’t even notice.

While Ian is away on a mission, Miro is injured while transporting a witness and Ian is less than pleased when he finally finds out about it. You see, while Ian could test the patience of a saint, Miro should buy stock in an insurance company, he gets injured on the job THAT much! When Miro heads out to transport their next witness, he’s a little surprised to find Ian waiting at the airport for him. What is completely unexpected is the way Ian looks at him and visibly shudders when Miro touches him.

From here these two pretty much hit the ground running, going from partners and best friends to lovers in the blink of an eye. The pompous ass with more money than common sense that also happens to be the homophobic father of their current witness’s lover threatens to get them both killed before the sweat that drenched them just a few hours ago even dries.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story from start to finish. Very nice to catch up with where Sam Kage is after the series of events in the Matter of Times books, but the main focus of this story is Miro and Ian. Miro has spent three years learning how to navigate his intense feelings for his partner. Convinced that Ian is straight and will never be his, he gets so good at ignoring his reaction to Ian that he misses Ian’s change in feelings toward him. Ian, lovingly referred to by their fellow Marshall’s as Captain America, doesn’t even try to avoid his feelings for Miro. What Ian struggles with is the urge to stake his claim on Miro, and how to express those feelings and that need out loud.

Narrated by Tristan James, his voice was the perfect complement to the characters Calmes created for this story. There was a push and pull between them as partners that bleed over into their sexual relationship, but in a role reversal of sorts. While Ian is very protective and demanding at work, Miro takes the lead in the bedroom. Ian has to be on his game 24/7 at work and when he is on a mission, what he wants, no needs in his personal life is for someone else to take that control. And Miro gladly accepts the challenge.

This was a very sexy and steamy read, full of action and suspense and James did a splendid job of conveying all those emotions and circumstances, and then some. From the camaraderie between Miro and Ian in the beginning to the foreplay in the middle, and then finally the passion in the end. I highly recommend this audible to fans of Calmes writing and/or James narration. I am crossing my fingers that there will be another book for these guys, Calmes wrote in enough scenarios to comfortably give them a sequel, if not their own series.

* I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review through http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com *

Pleasing Master by Stormy Glenn

pleasingmasterTitle: Pleasing Master
Series: Sir, #4
Author: Stormy Glenn
Genre: Erotic Romance/BDSM
Length: Novella (106 Page)
Publisher: Siren Publishing (November 6, 2014)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts
Blurb: Jackson Davis is considered a gay man’s wet dream but he’s tired of finding lovers that only seemed to want him for his looks and not a real relationship. One night at a bar, Jackson discovers a man watching him. The man never approaches him, never speaks to him. When Jackson finally confronts the man, he is astounded by his reaction.

Thus begins Jackson’s obsession with pleasing Michael.
And what follows is a story of frustration and confusion for Jackson as Michael commands and dictates to him, rewarding Jackson when he’s good and punishing him when he’s bad. Jackson is confused that he lets Michael dominate him, wondering if it makes him less of a man. Can Jackson accept the fact that pleasing Michael makes him happy or will he lose the best thing that ever happened to him?

NOTE: This book was previously at 13,000 words published as Pleasing Michael with another publisher. This version has been extensively revised and expanded to 29,249 words.
ISBN: 978-1-63258-603-2
Product Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/pleasing-master
Reviewer: Lisa
Review: This is part of the Sir Series and should be read in order. Each story talks about a new romancing couple. It gives you an insight into their amazing world and their lives. I was fascinated with this book and cannot wait to get my hands on the future books.

I always thought that books with BDSM in them were more about controlling someone in such a way that made it feel like they had no say in it. However, this story shows me that it was not the way I thought. I am glad to have read it and even gladder that I found it more enticing then I have many other stories. I fell in love with the men in this story and would love to hear more about them.

Jackson was a gorgeous man who seemed to be taken advantage of. He was never sure of what he wanted, that is until a very sexy Dom came up to him. He didn’t know what to make of the way Michael seemed to control him but then wasn’t too sure if he liked it or not. All he knew was the time apart, due to miscommunication tore his heart out.

Michael had fallen in love with Jackson the moment he saw him. That was the major part to, that he saw Jackson for who he was not just his looks. He however realized he had made a mistake in how he started the relationship and now he had some serious thinking to do to get his sub back in his life. Not to mention keeping him safe from a so-called best friend that wanted to keep him away from Michael. Now all he had to do is to show him that in controlling him, he was showing Jackson that Jackson was the one in who was really in charge.

I loved this story and can’t wait to read more from Stormy. It was an amazing story and I had a blast reading it. It caught my attention from the moment I started reading it and kept it all the way to the end. It gave me everything I could possibly want in a story. If you love the BDSM scene, sexy men, dominate men, quirky subs, feisty attitudes, a bit of danger and happily ever after than I would recommend reading this story.

* I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review through http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com *

Shake, Rattle and Roll by Stormy Glenn

511ljR7-STLTitle: Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Series: N/A
Author: Stormy Glenn
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novella (132 Pages)
Publisher: Siren Publishing (July 18, 2011)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥5Hearts
Blurb: Mickey, a male prostitute, needed some way to survive on the streets. But after a few years in the business, he grows tired of sleeping with nameless strangers. After getting smacked around by someone he thought cared about him, Mickey decides to quit the business, take his nest egg, and leave town. He just doesn’t expect the huge earthquake that hits the city.

When his neighbor and adopted grandmother, Ms. Dixie, is stuck in the rubble of what used to be their apartment building, Mickey knows he needs help to rescue her. He flags down a group of bikers trying to get out of the city before the aftermath chaos hits. Mickey tries to make a deal with the lead biker to save Ms. Dixie. He’s disappointed when Vinnie agrees to take the deal out in trade rather than cold hard cash, but he agrees.

Mickey will do anything to save Ms. Dixie, even let the sexiest biker he has ever seen have him. Hell, he might even enjoy it.

ISBN: 1-61034-711-0

Product Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/shake-rattle-and-roll

Reviewer: Lisa

Review: I had a blast reading this story and I sure hope this is not the only one. I want to hear about all of the guys in this book. The characters were perfect and I absolutely fell in love with them. The way they not only cared about each other but how they cared for Mickey and his adopted grandmother. The way Vinnie is so protective of him made my whole week.

Micky had been a prostitute, that is until his ex hit him, then he decided to retire. He didn’t mind leaving the people behind, except for a little old woman who lived in the building. Ms. Dixie was a feisty old woman with a heart of gold. She loved Micky and knew all about his life. She knew he did what he did to survive. However, it would seem he waited one day too late. An earthquake hit and Ms. Dixie needed his help. Finding some big bikers, he offered what he had for their help.

Vinnie and his friends knew that it was time to get the hell out of dodge after the earthquake. It was a strong one and he knew what people would do afterwards. However, he was propositioned by a very sexy little man who wanted help to get his grandmother out. He just wasn’t so sure about what to do but once he helped, he knew he was going to have a hard time keeping his hands to himself. Now all he had to do is to get over Micky’s past and show him what kind of future they could have.

I loved this book and I can’t wait to read more of Stormy’s books. This particular story just has you in tears. It had so much love put into it, that it made it even more special. I felt like I was right there with them through it all. It caught my attention from the moment I started reading and kept it all the way to the end.

I would recommend reading this if you love sexy men, best friends, quirky grandmothers, danger and a happily ever after.

* I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review through http://mmgoodbookreviews.wordpress.com *