violence

Review: Age of Mycea by Leigh Jarrett

May 4, 2021 | 3 comments

Rating: 2 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Meshia, king of Mycea and the Mycean Empire, knows what it means to sacrifice for duty. His Mycean queen, Lakeda, was chosen for the good of the kingdom, and in the ten years Meshia’s fought...

FILED UNDER: 2 stars, Fantasy, Futuristic/Science Fiction, Jovan's Reviews, Menage/Polyamory
TAGGED: assault, domestic abuse, Leigh Jarrett, love triangle, magic, military, rape, royalty, Steambath Press, The Circle Trilogy, violence, war

Review: The Murder Between Us by Tal Bauer

Apr 30, 2021 | 2 comments

Story Rating: 4 stars Audio Rating: 4.25 stars Narrator: John Solo Length: 9 hours, 1 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks “It’s Vegas. The city was built for people to come and shake out all their…curiosities.” After...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Audiobook, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: coming out, coworkers, John Solo, kids, law enforcement, mystery, self published, serial killer, Tal Bauer, violence

Review: Bump in the Night by Meredith Spies

Apr 5, 2021 | 2 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Julian Weems’ life has fallen apart. Once a college professor, a mistake led to him losing his career and his current temporary position substitute teaching has not been renewed. Which is...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Contemporary, Kris' Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: medium, Medium at Large Series, Meredith Spies, opposites attract, self published, slow burn, violence

Review: With Good Intentions by Sionnach Wintergreen

Apr 2, 2021 | 1 comment

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Frank Hope had a rough childhood in this alternate 1980s. His father died and his mother needs constant care due to mental illness. Frank thought things were looking up when he found out he...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Alternate World, Michelle's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: demon, Love Songs for Lost Worlds series, necromancer, parent death, self published, Sionnach Wintergreen, suicide, violence

Review: Curse of the Dark Prince by Ariana Nash

Mar 19, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Prince Vasili Caville never wanted to be a prince and he never wanted the life he was given. He certainly never wanted to be held prisoner by elves for eight years and bled for the flame that...

FILED UNDER: 4.5 stars, Fantasy, Michelle's Reviews
TAGGED: Ariana Nash, drug use, enemies to lovers, PTSD, royalty, self published, slow burn, The Prince's Assassin series, torture, violence

Review: Years of Silence by J.K. Jones

Mar 16, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Zander has known Vadim since he was an abandoned kid in an orphanage where life was dark and bleak and painful and Vadim was the only good thing he had. Vadim then introduced Zander to Petyr...

FILED UNDER: 3.25 stars, Contemporary, Michelle's Reviews
TAGGED: animal death, child abuse, friends to lovers, J.K. Jones, mental illness, parent death, self published, violence

Review: Hurt Me by Varian Krylov

Mar 5, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Dario is still trying to process the death of his partner, Jared. Each day and each step he takes further away from Jared is agony. Dario tries to keep going and the one thing that helps him is...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Contemporary, Michelle's Reviews
TAGGED: child abuse, Fault Lines series, grief/loss, homophobia, rape, self published, transphobia, Varian Krylov, violence

Review: The Man Who Loved Cole Flores by K.A. Merikan

Feb 26, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ned O’Leary has seen his share of violence. As a child, his family was ruthlessly attacked by the Gotham Boys and while Ned survived, his family did not. Now he lives with his uncle, grateful for...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Historical, Sue's Reviews, Western
TAGGED: criminal, Dig Two Graves Series, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, K.A. Merikan, self published, violence