Innocence on Film by Lilith Duvalier

innocenceonfilm1l__94304.1427134058.300.450Title: Innocence on Film

Series: Selling Out, #1

Author: Lilith Duvalier

Genre: Contemporary/ Erotic Romance

Length: 114 pages

Publisher: Evernight Publishing (March 24th, 2015)

Heat Level: Explicit

Heart Rating: ♥♥♥3 Hearts

Blurb: It’s a rich man’s world. Shawn and Fletcher are just trying to survive in it. Unemployed, down on their luck, and three months behind on their rent, the two of them realize that it’s time to throw in the towel. Their dream of escaping Ainsworth, Iowa (pop. 658) is dead. Within the week, they’ll be evicted, shipped back to their respective parent’s houses to drown in student debt they can’t pay back, and watch their high school girlfriends raise other men’s’ children.

But when they take the last of their money to a bar to drown their sorrows, a well-dressed man with a big wad of cash and a little website offers them a life line. A jaunt across town, a quick tryst for the cameras and the cash is theirs.

The outrageous proposition is their only hope, but each enters the studio with secrets. What will it cost them to bare it all?

ISBN: 978-1-77233-290-2

Evernight: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/innocence-on-film-by-lilith-duvalier/

Reviewer: Kenna

Review: “Innocence on Film” is a short, sweet, and to the point erotic romance. However, I’m not sure if I’d call it “sweet” per se. Let me explain.

Shawn and Fletcher are broke…hopelessly, haplessly, broker than broke. They’re months behind on their rent, and neither of them have a job at the moment. They resign themselves to moving back to Iowa and being miserable. The boys decide to take their last 40 dollars, go to a bar, and get drunk. While they’re there, the bartender says he knows someone who can help them out and points them to man on the other end of the bar.

That man approaches them with an offer they pretty much can’t refuse (in a hilariously written German dialect, no less). He pays men to have sex on camera. At this point, I should mention that Shawn and Fletcher are straight. They’ve been with women all their lives and they don’t really have much inclination to change, except the money can pay their back rent and keep them in the big city for several months while they try to get back on their feet.

According to the German man, straight men having gay sex for the first time is very popular on the internet right now, and he’s got a website that caters to those who love that type of film.

As you can guess, Shawn and Fletcher take the man up on his offer. They’re nervous, but they figure that, since they’re best friends, everything would be alright in the long run. The German man gives them a rundown on what he’d like them to do, then turns the camera on and tells the boys to get on with it. It’s awkward at first, but soon, they give themselves over to the passion, and they have really great sex. They leave the building with their cash, but there are feelings between them they didn’t expect.

The rest of the story focuses on Shawn and Fletcher coming to terms with what they did. Shawn hides out in his room for weeks, not really wanting to see Fletcher. Meanwhile, Fletcher goes and gets a job helping to design a certain gay movie company’s website. They keep thinking about each other and that night. They’re confused and even a little scared. Finally, it’s the day when their movie is to debut on the site. How do they feel about that?

I liked “Innocence on Film”. I didn’t love it. I wanted to because the blurb really grabbed me. I usually fall in love with at least one of the MC’s, but Shawn and Fletcher never really moved me. Their personalities rubbed me the wrong way, and I was getting so angry with Shawn for not facing Fletcher and talking things out. He was cowardly, in my opinion, and I just can’t get past that.

The single sex scene was off the charts hot, but the romance that I wanted to see develop never really came about. As I mentioned, they thought about each other a lot, but that just wasn’t enough for me.

This was a very short read. It took me just over an hour to get through it, and I’m not sorry I read it, but I just felt like there should have been more…more romance, more sex, and more communication.

Just more.

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

Spread and Howl by Lilith Duvalier

spreadandhowl1l__05884.1428630598.300.450Title: Spread and Howl
Series: N/A
Author: Lilith Duvalier
Genre: Paranormal / Historical / Fantasy / Dark Romance
Length: Novella (120 pages)
Publisher: Evernight Publishing (April 10th 2015)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥ 3 Hearts
Blurb: Gardenne-Sur-Seine is an unlucky village. A monster known only as The Beast stalks the village by night, leaving bodies and widows in its path. Marius Lemarque, the village stonemason, has lost his family and his lover to this terror, and is determined to learn what The Beast is before he kills it himself.

Guillaume Bissette, the King’s Master of Hunt, also wants to find and kill The Beast. The King would like the head for his trophy room, and fulfilling the King’s wish will strengthen Guillaume’s position at court.

But when Marius and Guillaume join forces to save Gardenne-Sur-Seine from The Beast, they quickly find themselves entangled in a hunt that neither could have imagined, embroiled in a secret neither can disclose, and engulfed by a passion neither expected.

ISBN: 978-1-77233-324-4

Product Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/spread-and-howl-by-lilith-duvalier/

Reviewer: Lisa

Review: This is the first story that I have read by Lilith and I have to admit that it is a good story. It was however not for me. There was too much darkness and it just came off wrong. I am also not much for historical stories. I want happy stories with danger but this was not hitting the mark with me.

Marius knows that his village is in trouble. It is in the time where a king led but was not a good one. They have had a monster going after everyone and killing those he gets. They had asked the king for help but until the New Year they had been ignored. Now they have sent the Master of Hunt to help. The monster had killed his lover and he was not sure he wanted to go on. That ended when he met the hunter.

Guillaume was sent by the king to kill the monster and bring back its head. He had not expected to meet and actually be attracted to Marius. Things start to heat up with them both, but it is not what I thought or expected. Neither was the beast what the men thought.

I know that Marius was missing his love, but the way he took Guillaume was not right in my book. I was not impressed with that part of the story. It is a love story and you see it in the end but most of the time I was more confused than anything. It is a good story in its way.

If you like historicals and fantasy, then this is going to be your type of story.

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

We Wander Far From Home by Lilith Duvalier

wwffh__05242.1407808489.300.450Title: We Wander Far From Home

Author: Lilith Duvalier

Genre: Westerns/Cowboys/Historical

Length: Novel (173 pages)

ISBN: 978-1-77130-954-7

Publisher: Evernight Publishing (August 12th, 2014)

Heat Level: Moderate

Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts

Reviewer: Cat

Blurb: A crack shot best gal, a former criminal lover, a sudden ejection from everything he’s ever known, and the faintest taste of freedom. That’s what drives Will Kearny out of the comfort of a normal life and out into the Nebraska wilderness. Soon the sweet, quiet cattle rancher from Minnesota is robbing stagecoaches, knocking over banks, and running off into the mountains to celebrate in Henry Fitzpatrick’s arms. But winter’s coming on, the stagecoach routes are drying up, and the law is onto them. Life on the edge is the only way Will and Henry can be together, but life on the edge is short. Can forbidden love survive in a harsh world?

Purchase Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/we-wander-far-from-home-by-lilith-duvalier/

Review: This is a very good book set in the old west. Let me clarify my heat rating. There is quite a bit of sex, but to me it wasn’t overly descriptive and well done, so I chose moderate. I thought it was very hot, yet sensual, even though some of the sex is very hungry.

The story is about Will a young gay man and his best friend Annie.
Will is from a good ranching family. His brother has been injured in the war and is getting married the other brother is expecting, his father is dead and his mother is courting. He is made aware at His brother’s wedding that he will be expected to marry very soon and one of the town daughters has her eye on him.

Annie and he have been friends forever. Her father is abusing her, so she runs to Will and they meet up in the barn a lot where he also has a secret stash of porn he’ secretly inherited’ from a deceased uncle. Annie knows he is gay and asks him to marry her and run off so she can get away. When he realizes the other girl is going to pursue him he accepts his best friends offer and they head to Nebraska to work on a farm, Annie has already sent letters to.

There he meets Henry and sparks fly. A neighbouring rancher is trying to take the owner’s ranch and one night steps in, sets fire, and kills the owner, sending Will Henry and Annie fleeing. This sets in motions a lot of interesting twists and turns.

I absolutely loved this story. I loved the old west feel and felt as if I was sucked back in time. Once you start, you won’t want to stop until it’s done! I found it a real page-turner. The characters were very interesting too. I loved how Annie, though abused was strong and a take charge girl even though her plans really got them into trouble. I loved the chemistry and sex between Will and Henry.

I highly recommend this if you like old west setting, historical western romance, robbers, ranchers, strong women characters (no girly bits it is an mm story), twists and turns, and some steamy man-sex.

The Out of Towner by Lilith Duvalier

TOOT__07527.1389657051.300.450Title: The Out of Towner
Author: Lilith Duvalier
Genre: Contemporary/Ménage
Length: Novella (53 pages)
Publisher: Evernight Publishing (01-13-2014)
Heat Level: Moderate to Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4.5Hearts
Reviewer: Tams
Blurb: Carlos and Thomas need one night when they don’t talk about planning their wedding.

Carlos’ family keeps butting in, big chunks of Thomas’ family refuse to be involved, and the stress of planning this huge celebration for this many people—many of whom don’t speak the same language—is too much.

Carlos declares that they are going to spend one night together without wedding planning. To sweeten the pot, they play a little game by pretending to meet for the first time at an expensive restaurant downtown.

But at the restaurant, Thomas runs into Jimmy Colton, an old college crush who is in town for business. By the time Carlos arrives, the game has changed, and the three of them are heading back to Jimmy’s hotel room to fulfill a long-held fantasy.
Purchase Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/the-out-of-towner-by-lilith-duvalier/
Review: There is nothing like a sexy little short to send you off to bed with sweet dreams. And that is just what this book was. Short, Sexy and Steamy, my three favorite colors!

High School sweethearts Thomas and Carlos are planning their wedding, and the pressure is getting to them in more ways than one. Carols sister’s constant nagging about their choice for flower girl is just a tiny drop in the pond of insanity that has become their wedding planning. In an attempt to get away for a night and reconnect, Carlos decides a little role-playing is in order. So he dresses his fiancé up in his finest suit and sends him off to a trendy bar to wait for him, “the stranger” to come pick him up.

Not long after arriving at the pre-determined destination, Thomas is at the bar drink in hand when he see’s Carols waving. Only it isn’t Carlos, it’s a friend from high school that all the boys crushed on, Jimmy. Once Jimmy is let in on the little secret behind tonight’s outing, he decides to deepen the intrigue and throw himself into the mix, so to speak. Will Carlos and Thomas take a chance at crossing an item off their bucket list by allowing another man into their bed? Even if it is a man, they’ve known since high school.

This story was so realistic and intriguing. Before I knew it, I was finished. Duvalier delivered a well-written, well-paced novella guaranteed to spice up about an hour in anyone’s day. The characters just clicked and the story flowed so well. Very steamy but sensual, and the ending leaves me hoping that there may be more to come from this daring trio. Just one little hiccup, toward the end Jimmy is doing something to himself that I’m certain is not humanly possible, and he does this a couple of times. After going back and reading that sentence again I figured out that should have been Thomas.

Like I said… short, sexy and steamy!

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January Thaw by Lilith Duvalier

18813163Title: January Thaw

Author: Lilith Duvalier

Genre: BDSM/Contemporary/Erotic Romance

Length: Short (33 pages)

ISBN: 9781771306454

Publisher: Evernight Publishing (November 16th, 2013)

Heat Level: Explicit

Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts

Reviewer: Eric

Blurb: Thatcher knows exactly what is expected of him. Good grades, good job, good wife. He’s supposed to check off the boxes to get the perfect life. Too bad he’s fallen for Peter, the big strong basketball star that can reduce him to a babbling, rock hard mess just by holding him down. It’s also too bad that Thatcher’s about to go too far to hide Peter, and Peter’s about to teach him what happens when he does.

Purchase Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/january-thaw-by-lilith-duvalier/

Review: I found this book to be entirely sexy. I loved this book so much I’d read it twice. It was that great. I am not one for BDSM, but this book got me interested big tie. The way the characters went together was great. The creation and the strength of characters was a major strength in this book. The way the story flowed was more than good enough for my interest.

As far as the plot, solid. It was sexy, amazing, and then some. I found the plot to be a bit unoriginal but it worked out for the characters.