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Review: Sinner by Sierra Simone

Oct 18, 2021 | 3 comments

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Sean Bell is living his best life on his own terms. He brokers successful deals, he’s wealthy, and he has all the sex he wants. He’s not interested in settling down or finding the one. He...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Contemporary, Michelle's Reviews
TAGGED: age gap, best friend's sister, BIPOC, clergy, death of parent, M/F, Priest series, religion, self published, Sierra Simone, suicide, virgin hero, wealthy hero

Review: Priest by Sierra Simone

Oct 14, 2021 | 2 comments

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Tyler Bell is a priest. He didn’t always want to be a priest, but after the death of his sister, he made the decision to try and right a truly horrible wrong. He likes the work he is doing,...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Contemporary, Michelle's Reviews
TAGGED: clergy, M/F, Priest series, religion, self published, Sierra Simone, suicide, taboo

Review: The Gold Persimmon by Lindsey Merbaum

Oct 7, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Clytemnestra lives for the Gold Persimmon; the hotel “is a precisely ordered world full of musts and musn’ts,” and Cly is a strict adherent to its rituals and worships at the altar of its silence....

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: Creature Publishing, horror, Lesbian/FF, Lindsay Merbaum, loss of a child, miscarriage, multiple realities, nonbinary, suicide

Review: Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Sep 21, 2021 | 4 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Wallace Price is dead. And frankly, he’s pretty pissed off about that. Worse yet, no one seems to care that he’s dead. Instead of a packed turnout for Wallace’s funeral, only a handful of...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Paranormal, Sue's Reviews, Young Adult
TAGGED: afterlife, grief/loss, suicide, T.J. Klune, Tor Books

Review: Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey

Sep 16, 2021 | 21 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Fifteen-year-old Vanyel Askhekvron has spent all of his life trying to please his father, who sees nothing of himself in his son. Vanyel is slender and graceful, light-boned, and both too...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: character death, coming of age, coming out, DAW, Last Herald-Mage series, Mercedes Lackey, Reading Challenge Month 2021, suicidal ideation, suicide, underage sex

Audiobook Review: T.A.D by M.D. Neu

Aug 16, 2021 | 0 comments

Story Rating: 3.5 stars Audio Rating: 3.75 stars Narrator: Steve Connor Length: 5 hours, 47 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks As an Angel of Death, Tad walks through various times and realities, observing and being...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, 3.75 stars, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fantasy, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: angel, depression, drag queen, drug abuse, homophobia, M.D. Neu, self published, sexual assault, suicide, time travel

Review: Unspeakable Vice by Quinn Wilde

Aug 11, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 2.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Unlike his dependable and serious father, Sebastian Pope is something of a wastrel. He only cares about his books, his dog, and his studies. Sebastian’s lover, Robert, is now dead by...

FILED UNDER: 2.75 stars, Historical, Sue's Reviews
TAGGED: Quinn Wilde, self published, sex worker, suicide

Audiobook Review: American King by Sierra Simone

May 25, 2021 | 0 comments

Story Rating: 4.75 stars Audio Rating: 4 stars Narrators: Stephanie Rose, Guy Locke Length: 16 hours, 7 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks American King is the third book in the New Camelot series. The books are...