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Review: The Other Side of Here by E.M. Lindsey

Mar 30, 2021 | 2 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Four years ago, Alexander Thomas thought he found love for the first time. It was a year after his parents’ death and Xan was still struggling to figure out his life in the wake of...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Contemporary, Jay's Reviews, Menage/Polyamory
TAGGED: age gap, domestic abuse, E.M. Lindsey, emotional abuse, older hero, self published

Review: Mind Scrambler by Ofelia Grand

Mar 24, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel By his nature, panther shifter Kol Jaecar is a loner. But as the head of the Rockshade Paranormal Investigators Department, he also values the members of his small team and considers them his...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Contemporary, Kris' Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: broken hero, domestic abuse, empath, fated mates, JMS Books, kidnapping, magic, Ofelia Grand, panther, Rockshade PID Series, shifter

Review: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Feb 3, 2021 | 3 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Even as one of the lesser royals of the Iskat Empire, Kiem knows his duty. With an important treaty on the line, a marriage alliance must be made between Iskat and Thea, one of its vassal...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: arranged marriage, domestic abuse, Everina Maxwell, royalty, Tor Books, widower

Review: Yet a Stranger by Gregory Ashe

Dec 16, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel It is Auggie’s sophomore year and he is moving back to school and into the Sigma Sigma fraternity house. He hasn’t talked to Theo all summer, with distance having come between them...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Contemporary, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: college, domestic abuse, drug abuse, Gregory Ashe, Hodgkin and Blount, murder, mystery, suspense, teacher, The First Quarto series

Review: Rough and Tumble by Shae Connor

Dec 14, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Grant Clark is convinced he’s messed up his life. When he walks in on his roommate, best friend, and teammate Darryn Kaneko with another man, Grant reacts badly. Because Grant is in love with...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Contemporary, Kris' Reviews
TAGGED: athlete, college age, domestic abuse, Entangled Publishing, friends to lovers, gymnast, new adult, roommates, Shae Connor, The University of Atlanta Series

Review: Sweet Things by Suzy Shearer

Nov 26, 2020 | 1 comment

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Mia Bruce is a mid 50s woman of generous proportions who works as assistant to a personal assistant for some company now being taken over by another company. On the day the big bosses are coming in...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Menage/Polyamory, Veronica's Reviews
TAGGED: artist, bisexual, domestic abuse, enemies to lovers, established relationship, Evernight Publishing, MMF, older hero, Suzy Shearer, wealthy hero

Review: Hematoma by Matteo Polk

Sep 16, 2020 | 21 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Shay Kinsey’s life is shaped by his need for pain and the shame he feels about it. Having been burned by attempts at relationships with “normal” people, Shay has given up on friendship and intimacy....

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, BDSM, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: Cleis Press, domestic abuse, horror, Matteo Polk, murder, pansexual, Reading Challenge Month 2020, tattoo artist, thriller, vampire

Review: Truth or Consequence by B.A. Tortuga

Sep 1, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel [bf] For Rhys Davis, fences are important. They keep the cows in and the cars out, and checking them and repairing them, while not quite a daily routine, is something he does often. They are much...