Jovan’s Reviews

Audiobook Review: Variable Onset by Layla Reyne

Apr 7, 2021 | 0 comments

Story Rating: 4.25 stars Audio Rating: 3.75 stars Narrator: Tristan James Length: 8 hours, 34 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks After 15 years in the FBI (ten of them as an instructor at Quantico), Special Agent...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, 4.25 stars, Audiobook, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: bisexual, coworkers, fake relationship, forced proximity, law enforcement, Layla Reyne, murder, mystery, orphan, serial killer, small town, Tantor Audio, Tristan James

Audiobook Review: Stripped Love by Baylin Crow

Mar 23, 2021 | 0 comments

Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4.25 stars Narrator: Iggy Toma Length: 7 hours, 41 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Once upon a time, Phoenix Ryan believed in fairy tales—living in Nashville and baring his soul...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Audiobook, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: artist, Baylin Crow, college, geeky hero, Guys Next Door series, Iggy Toma, instalove, new adult, parent death, sex worker, Tantor Audio, virgin hero

Review: Bar None by Tia Fielding

Mar 11, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In the fifteen years Josiah has been in love with Denny, he’s become a pro at being there for his best friend after the demise of a marriage. Offer to hang out for the weekend at...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: ableism, bisexual, coming out, forced proximity, found family, friends to lovers, homophobia, Hoppy Hare series, older hero, self published, Tia Fielding

Review: Must Love Demons by Meghan Maslow

Feb 25, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Nico Azertiran is a soft-hearted romantic who loves love and HEAs. The problem? As an incubus whose magic is based in love and not lust, he’s seen as worthless. After being kicked out of his clan,...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Fantasy, Jovan's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: demon, forced proximity, incubus, law enforcement, magic, Magic Emporium collection, Meghan Maslow, murder, opposites attract, phoenix, self published, shifter, soul mates

Audiobook Review: Upside Down by N.R. Walker

Feb 2, 2021 | 2 comments

Story Rating: 4.5 stars Audio Rating: 4.5 stars Narrator: Glen Lloyd Length: 6 hours, 17 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks Jordan O’Neil has fought hard to own his many, MANY, labels—gay, introvert, anxious, quirky...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Audiobook, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: asexual, found family, friends first, geeky hero, Glen Lloyd, humor, librarian, Love Lane Books, N.R. Walker

Review: Give Way by Valentine Wheeler

Jan 4, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Kevin McMamara is taken off guard, not only by the fact that his mail carrier is an attractive, fit man (instead of the same woman he’s seen for the last ten years), but also his instant and intense...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: age gap, BIPOC, bisexual, divorce, found family, Jewish, Muslim, NineStar Press, older hero, small town, Swanley Signs series, Valentine Wheeler

Review: The Magic Returns by S. Park

Dec 11, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella More than a hundred years ago, magic returned to the world in a devastating surge of power akin to a nuclear explosion, killing all technology and filling the world with mythical beings whose...

FILED UNDER: 3 stars, Alternate World, Jovan's Reviews, Menage/Polyamory, Paranormal
TAGGED: bestiality, JMS Books, magic, post-apocalyptic, S. Park, shifter, vampire, vampire/shifter pairing

Review: Soul Survivor by Daniel de Lorne

Nov 27, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel The year is 2141—65 years after the world as we know it has ended. A combination of tragedies, caused and/or exacerbated by the ravages on the world’s environment and resources from climate change,...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Jovan's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: assassin, Daniel de Lorne, dystopian, Immortals of the Apocalypse series, military, post-apocalyptic, Scarlo Media