REVIEW: The Heart of Texas by R.J. Scott

The Heart of Texas by R.J. Scott My rating: 3 of 5 stars CAUTION: Spoilers The Heart of Texas read like a soap opera, which I don't mind, but had a tad too much unbelievable plot twists for me. Or maybe that's how a soap opera should be, then it was too much soap opera-ish for my taste. What to expect: all the bad guys losing, all the good guys winning, alot of plot twists. The first half was...

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REVIEW: Dark Edge of Honor by Aleksandr Voinov & Rhianon Etzweiler

Dark Edge of Honor by Aleksandr Voinov & Rhianon Etzweiler My rating: 1 of 5 stars CAUTION: Long Review, Spoilers Dark Edge of Honor is about a soldier and a spy on opposite side who, somehow against years of training and some brainwashing, quickly fall in love and give up everything to grab their HEA. There's war, rape, blackmail, torture, betrayal, vindication, and ultimately redemption—all...

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REVIEW: Adel's Purr by Sui Lynn

Adel's Purr by Sui Lynn My rating: 3 of 5 stars CAUTION: Minor Spoilers, Long Review Adel's Purr is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the Vatican Church is the only government around. Earth has regressed back to the Dark Age where all arts and technology and inventions of any kind must be sanctioned by the Vatican Church. Fans of Final Fantasy X will easily recognize the similarities between...

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REVIEW: Bar Back by J.J. Massa

Bar Back by J.J. Massa My rating: 1 of 5 stars CAUTION: Spoilers Bar Back is a short story of a bartender (possibly the bar's owner) wooing his fellow worker. The story is told from the bartender's perspective in 1st POV. The story was weird in not naming the characters. Obviously, the story propose itself as erotica...but even erotica should have their characters named. So in my mind I set the...

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REVIEW: Firebug by Kate Roman

Firebug by Kate Roman My rating: 2 of 5 stars CAUTION: Long Review, Spoilers In Firebug, Gareth investigates a string of arson fires that bedevils the city of New Eddington. As he dig deeper, he soon uncover a conspiracy that not only will destroy the entire city but start another colonial war. Sounds exciting but reading it wasn't. We know straight-off that Firebug is a not mystery story because...

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REVIEW: The Ascension by Max Griffin

The Ascension by Max Griffin My rating: 3 of 5 stars CAUTION: Spoilers If you're looking for a mm-romance, this story isn't it. It may have a gay couple shagging each other, but it could as well have been a het-couple. No, this story is like one of those scary stories told around the campfire or a Halloween fright-party. Fans of the TV show "The Twilight Zone" or "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction"...

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REVIEW: Again by Mary Calmes

Again by Mary Calmes My rating: 4 of 5 stars CAUTION: Spoilers A Harlequin-like story. Instead of a baby-mommmy story, it's a baby-daddy story. The alpha-guy isn't a millionaire, billionaire, sheik, king, prince, CEO, etc... he's CIA... Dislike 1: The plot device of having the current boyfriend to be a total douchebag so that the protagonist can move on to love their supposed-soulmate guilt-free....

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REVIEW: Empath by Axel J. Moeller

Empath by Axel J. Moeller My rating: 3 of 5 stars CAUTION: Long Review, Spoilers Empath is a simple story of two mages falling in love and fighting bigotry. Orphaned and deeply religious, Zonal is a Wanderer (the story's term for mage) with a strong empath talent who get craps thrown at him most of the entire plot. The story even starts off with Zonal trudging through rain, wearing a useless magical...

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REVIEW: A Weapon of Opportunity by Kiernan Kelly

A Weapon of Opportunity by Kiernan Kelly My rating: 3 of 5 stars CAUTION: Spoilers I like this but I didn't really like the ending even though it was HEA. Sure, David came back and reunited with Hunter...but he's still a ghost! What happened to the issue of David being dead and Hunter aging as time goes by while dead David still look the same? Is it possible to have a future with a ghost as a lover?...

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REVIEW: Signed and Sealed by B.A. Stretke

Signed and Sealed by B.A. Stretke My rating: 5 of 5 stars CAUTION: Slight Spoilers Holy Hell! A mm-romance that's your standard Harlequin romance! Aaaaaaa! . . . /crazyfanmoment If you don't like Harlequin or you don't like western romance, move on. If you like at least either one of them, this book may be your cup of tea. I don't care for western romance but I do occasionally read Harlequin and...

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REVIEW: Myths and Magic: Legends of Love edited by Anne Regan

Myths and Magic: Legends of Love edited by Anne Regan My rating: 2 of 5 stars CAUTION: Spoilers The 1002nd Arabian Nights Tale 2/5. Fantasy. So Princess Sceherazade was a guy...and Sultan Shariyar realized his homosexuality after executing wife after wife until he married a wife—the "Princess"— who was a really a guy after "she" told a homoerotic story. What? O.o A Fairy in His Bed 2/5. Urban...

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REVIEW: Shadowflame by Dianne Sylvan

Shadowflame by Dianne Sylvan My rating: 1 of 5 stars CAUTION: Spoilers I have mixed feelings for this book. I liked that the book wasn't predictable, that a mainstream UF have LGBT characters that actually play a big role instead of being a gal-pal's BFF, that the author had no qualm killing off characters. Yet I was totally pissed off about David's infidelity. You think Miranda would dump his...

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