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Review: Treasure

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Treasure
Treasure by Megan Derr
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I picked up Treasure at Rainbow Con due to the cover and nothing else. I was suckered in at the table (those ladies are serious sellers) and I like high fantasy. So beyond the fact that clearly it takes place on the water somehow I knew nothing about the story. It’s a pretty decent high fantasy book with excellent world building and a good story arc that can easily be played out over the entire five book series. My problem is simply I never connected with either couple and so the end left me cold. I can appreciate it intellectually and admire the quality writing but as a romance it did nothing for me. I’d probably recommend this more to high fantasy fans who can appreciate elaborate world building and an incredibly complex plot than to romance fans per se. Continue reading →

My panels at Rainbow Con 2014

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I was initially excited and honored when SMP invited me as a guest to rainbow con. They obviously know who I am and welcome my opinions, no matter what those are, but would anyone else care? I honestly didn’t worry about it overly much. I was more concerned with prepping for my panels. I wasn’t sure what to expect with each panel, both those I was participating in and those I wanted to see.

You can see a full listing of all the panels and descriptions here – SCHEDULE

This is what my pamphlet looked like that I carried everywhere.

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Poor thing! Beat up, spilled on, tons of notes stuffed into it.

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Rainbow Con 2014

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Where to start! Well I am confident that every author, blogger, and person in attendance will post their own versions so I’m hoping readers and everyone who missed out will get an overall feel of the convention from several different sources.

Here is my experience. I flew in Thursday morning and checked in with registration (and my awesome roomie Gryvon!) easily and dumped my things in the hotel. A side note on the hotel – NOT recommended. But rooming with easy going and cheerful people, Gryvon and Ann Anderson, made it much more pleasurable. Plus the conference will be at a different hotel next year.

I checked the restaurant in the hotel but it didn’t really have any options for me so I walked down the street to Panera. It did me good to stretch my legs anyway but I remember thinking “oh god I should just go home, I don’t know anyone here!” SMP was nice enough to invite me, Grayvon and Ann were great roommates, and I met another reviewer Lisa but everyone had people to hang out with and were busy. Thankfully I had panels! Continue reading →

Review: Defeated by Love

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Defeated by Love
Defeated by Love by Samantha Kane
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It’s been years since I’ve read a Samantha Kane book but I vaguely remember enjoying her Brothers in Arms series. However, to be fair, I only read the first four books and remember absolutely nothing from them, except they were m/f/m threesome books. Oh and reading her books made me long for m/m only instead of the predictable female that was always interesting but pretty much the same. So I chose this Kane book because it’s advertised as m/m and I knew the writing would be good. The book is indeed well written as expected and has some interesting twists to keep the action moving. However, the focus is on the erotica between the main couple – Daniel and Harry – and a secondary couple – Christy and Simon. Because of that I didn’t really care about either couple very much but enjoyed the author’s writing and sense of humor anyway. Continue reading →

Back to reality

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Hello everyone! 

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I’m finally back from Rainbow Con 2014, which I’m sure readers even forgot I was going to. No worries I’ll have tons of posts coming up to fill everyone in on the greatest convention they missed. And all the reasons everyone should come next year. Hint – Tam, Chris, Jen, Kris, Leontine, Tracy, Janna *cough* Not trying to push anyone or anything of course! Just saying you all missed some epic jello shot action.

 

I also want to welcome anyone I met at the convention that actually found a my blog. Considering I was (literally ) the only blogger without business cards or a recognizable blog I’ll be surprised if many people could find my little corner. Or if anyone does. But for the one devoted person who’s new here – seriously welcome. You mean a lot to me!

 

Likewise I’ve also set up a Facebook page – yes finally – as it seems it’s yet another thing everyone should have. I also did a facebook page because honestly I’m not entirely sure what the difference is. If anyone knows and can tell me? Thanks. I’ve no clue which one people are supposed to go to. My meter on caring tapped out after dealing with that.

Here is my page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Three-AM-Reviews/774547979246093

I’ve also spent time updating my blog links (how sad that some people are not around! Must stalk Kris is on my to-do list). I’ll be doing some other blog updates over the next few weeks to tidy things up and dust off the shelves a bit but don’t worry… Three am will remain an obscure blog! At heart this is the essence of a blog for me. It’s not meant to be anything but a record of my reviews and random thoughts as they occur to me. I’ll be posting quite a bit about Rainbow Con in the coming weeks as well as an extensive list of my books that I now want to read after meeting authors and/or hearing raves about the work. I’m always interested in what people think about the books and whether they’ve read them or not.

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I’ll leave you with a teaser

 

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Geoffrey Knight @ 1am after jello shots!

Review: A Nightmare Come True

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A Nightmare Come True
A Nightmare Come True by Sage Marlowe
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

A Nightmare Come True is basically porn in written form. It has a weak storyline to set the two men up but the focus is on the sex and an equally weak ending to give the characters some kind of an ending. Or not an ending since I guess this is a series. It’s not the worst thing ever but it’s inane and boring and lacks any kind of plot structure. It’s a vehicle for lots of sex, which may be what some readers want. I’ve reader hotter and better erotica/porn in the genre so I wouldn’t recommend this. However I also didn’t want to throw it across the metaphorical room so that’s why I gave it another half star, rounded up. Continue reading →

Book lists and pressure…

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Sometimes I’m convinced the universe hates people, well by people I mean me of course. I don’t believe in religion, spirituality, karma, or any kind of god so really I don’t honestly think any random spirit or omnipotent being is out to get me. I just…wish I could blame shit on it.

Life sadly hasn’t gotten much better but I’ve decided to just ignore it, because it all sucks and I can’t fix most of it. Not only do I have a massive dr’s bill for my injured knee, an auto repair bill for my car due to the asshole that rear-ended me and sped away, and a vet bill because really why doesn’t everything go to hell at once? At least we’re all alive, if beat up.

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So I’m feeling pressure and decide what better escapism then reading. Then I open up – Amazon’s 100 books to read this year list.

100 books. That’s a lot of pressure. A lot of reading. What if it’s not.. fun?

I’ve read the hyped books and authors.
Gillian Flynn – horrible characters but well written if you like reading despicable people doing despicable things with non-endings.
James Dashner – decent writing but horrible plots that always fall apart after the first book and I end up loathing a series I liked at the start.
Charles Dickens – I’m sorry but this guy needed a good editor. Depressing and overly verbose I just can’t with him. Good themes but kills it every time.
Suzanne Collins – I loved the Hunger Games trilogy but it will never sit well with me that it’s a total rip off of Battle Royale and never credited for it.

And so on.. so while I enjoy popular or recommended books from a wide variety of genres, I’m never sure if such lists are going to be… well interesting and fun or simply pressure to do what someone tells you to read.

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Oh you’re feeling more optimistic? Great! I’ll try.

Why not start a sure to be doomed project of reading books off the 100 must read books of the year list. Because that’s a goal sure to not happen! So now I have to make the list and see which ones I’ve read, which I remember because I KNOW I read Great Gatsby but there’s a reason it’s blocked forever in my mind. Bad walking/reading accident in high school? No clue.

Why can’t we have a list of the 100 greatest m/m books to read? *ponders* we should get on that.

Even though this is nominally an m/m blog it’s also my area that no one but me reads so I’m gonna update my progress here. I also have about 15 m/m books I need to get on when I can stop hating on everything for a moment. They’re books I even -want- to read.

Anyone going to Rainbow Con in April?

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So I was signing up for some races this year and thinking of how I was doing pretty well at spending money when it occurred to me I  need to book my hotel and flight for Rainbow Con in Florida.

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Which leads me to my question …

Anyone else going?
And further, anyone interested in sharing a room?

I’m all about sharing with internet strangers and potential serial killers. I trust you.
Nothing bad happened to me back at GRL New Orleans!
In fact it was lovely so I’ll take another chance.