Melanie’s Reviews

Review: Riding Tall by Kate Sherwood

Mar 4, 2014 | 1 comment

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novel Before I run this review, I just wanted to take a moment to mention that this is Melanie’s final review for Joyfully Jay. Melanie has been a part of the blog for two years and has contributed many...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Contemporary, Melanie's Reviews
TAGGED: Dreamspinner Press, HFN, Kate Sherwood, kids, model, ranch, The Fall series

Review: Come to Me by Megan Derr

Feb 19, 2014 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Short Story Upon their return to the kingdom, the Lord High Paladin and High Necromancer have found precious little time to spend with each other as the duties of the kingdom and the battles against the...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Fantasy, Melanie's Reviews
TAGGED: Black Magic series, Less Than Three Press, mage, Megan Derr, necromancer, royalty

Review: The Experiment by Alicia Nordwell

Feb 17, 2014 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novel Humans have poisoned the Earth and are desperate for other worlds to colonize. Now at war with Caeorleia, a rich world whose resources they covet, Earth forces will use anything and anyone to reach their...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Melanie's Reviews
TAGGED: abuse, Alicia Nordwell, alien, Dreamspinner Press, prisoner, torture

Review: Kept Tears by Jana Denardo

Feb 14, 2014 | 1 comment

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novel Army vet Aaron Santori’s time in Afghanistan almost broke him. An explosion while on duty cost him his arm and killed many of his friends. Now home, Aaron is trying to deal with his PTSD, his scars...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Fantasy, Melanie's Reviews
TAGGED: bisexual, Dreamspinner Press, fae, HFN, Jana Denardo, PTSD, veteran

Review: Lofty Dreams of Earthbound Men by Susan Laine

Feb 11, 2014 | 0 comments

Rating: 3 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novella Obadai Bashim is walking through one of the city’s parks on his way to the solstice celebration when he hears someone calling him. That voice belongs to a young man, clothes in tatters, who begs...

FILED UNDER: 3 stars, Fantasy, Melanie's Reviews
TAGGED: Dreamspinner Press, Isleshire Chronicles, mage, Susan Laine

Review: Acting Out by Sharon Maria Bidwell

Jan 28, 2014 | 1 comment

Rating: 3 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novel Nicholas Sandford and Alexander Lasseter were friends for years before their mutual agent partnered them in a film that would bring them success as actors and link them together in the public’s...

FILED UNDER: 3 stars, Contemporary, Melanie's Reviews
TAGGED: actor, Calm and Chaos series, coming out, friends to lovers, Musa Publishing, Sharon Maria Bidwell

Review: The Fall by Kate Sherwood

Jan 23, 2014 | 2 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novel After his boyfriend dumps him for a younger man, Scott Mackenzie must figure out the mess his life has become. A part-time model, Mackenzie had allowed his ex to completely take over his life. Mackenzie...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Contemporary, Melanie's Reviews
TAGGED: Dreamspinner Press, Kate Sherwood, kids, The Fall series

Review: Ghosts of Bourbon Street by Rowan Speedwell

Jan 21, 2014 | 1 comment

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novella Paul Thibodeaux is stuck, his life in stasis and he doesn’t know how to break out of the funk he is in. Paul spends his nights tending bar at the New Orleans family-owned and run gay bar and his...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Melanie's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: bartender, ghost, HFN, MLR Press, Rowan Speedwell, stripper

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