Blue Rose by Sui Lynn

Blue RoseBlue Rose by Sui Lynn

Blurb:
Luck and an impromptu jam session bring college student Quinn Yamamoto to the Blue Rose, a small R&B nightclub. He meets handsome club owner Enjoji Tatankata and it’s love at first sight, but no one said love would ever be easy.

It’s one thing after another: keeping his grades up and working to make ends meet, learning about a family he didn’t know he had, reliving buried memories of horrifying abuse in his nightmares, discovering that his new lover has dangerous secrets… nothing in his life could have prepared Quinn for this.

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Review:

so sweet your teeth may fall out

The Keeper by S.L. Armstrong, K. Piet

The KeeperThe Keeper by S.L. Armstrong, K. Piet

Blurb:
Generation after generation, an unattached male is plucked from the same family line and sent to the home of the man they only know as Dhakir. It is a duty all men in the line are brought up knowing, but none can know which male will be called or when.

Twenty-six-year-old Hadi Rahal is plucked from his fast-paced life among the brilliant lights and shallow vanity of Milan’s fashion world when he is told his uncle has passed on and he is the next Keeper. Knowing only vague legend, Hadi travels to Sétif, Algeria where his heritage waits in the form of an ancient name and sorrowful eyes he cannot turn from, even as he prays to God for the fortitude to resist.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

makes me wonder if all the apostles were dick-loving vampires… ahh if only

Karma Chameleon by Willa Okati

Karma ChameleonKarma Chameleon by Willa Okati

Blurb:
Arden doesn’t usually take life that seriously. Why should he? He’s got good if weird shape-shifting-inclined friends and he’s grooving the mother of all extended hookups with Shavey, the only man Arden’s ever met who gives as good as he gets and takes as vigorously as he receives — and that’s just in bed. He’s living the sweet life, right?

Arden freely admits he’s a pain in the ass. He’s lewd, crude, shameless, and very nearly a nymphomaniac. Sure, he’s got some good qualities, but that’s never before been enough for someone he loved to stick around. Though he loves Shavey and wishes he could be the kind of long-term lover Shavey wants, Arden can’t pretend to be something he’s not.

The only place that leaves him is waiting for that other shoe to drop–drop-kick him out the door, that is. Though Shavey promises otherwise, Arden’s heard that song and dance before. He’s not buying it.

But that’s all before Arden needs Shavey’s help breaking a chameleonic shapeshifting curse. In return, there are a few things big bad bear Shavey would like to ask for — and intends to prove to Arden — in return.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

shape-shifter hijinks with some commitment issues.. and tons of sex

Billionaire’s Row by Sullivan Wheeler

Billionaire's RowBillionaire’s Row by Sullivan Wheeler

Blurb:
Detective Michael Weiss has enough to deal with. Between being part of a disfunctional police department and having a vain and demanding lover who Michael suspects is only using him for personal gain, it’s all Michael can do to keep himself sane. When the body of Craig Davies, a wealthy defense lawyer, is found on former television star Sam Christiansen’s front lawn, Michael knows that everyone—his bosses, his partner at the police department, and Brian, his lover—will be looking to him for solutions.

Despite a quick solution that results in a dead suspect, the case turns out to be much more complex than it first appears. Michael uncovers a twisted web of relationships, a web that inexorably draws him into a passionate tangle of love and greed where more and more people are turning up dead. It’s critical that Michael find justice for Sam as their attraction grows… but it will take a back seat to keeping them both alive.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

a gay detective with nary a loose dick around.. shocking!

A Certain Pressure in the Pipes by Clancy Nacht

A Certain Pressure in the PipesA Certain Pressure in the Pipes by Clancy Nacht

Title: A Certain Pressure in the Pipes
Author: Clancy Nacht
Publisher: Noble Romance
Length: 40 pages
Buy the Book: Publisher

Blurb:
Conrad Lloyd’s father, Governor of an old west town, wishes his son wasn’t so interested in inventing, or men for that matter. It isn’t until Conrad meets Ezhno, a Native American inventor, that Conrad thinks he can find sexual […]

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L.A. Bytes by P.A. Brown

L.A. BytesL.A. Bytes by P.A. Brown

Title: LA Bytes
Author: PA Brown
Publisher: MLR Press
Length: 330 pages
Buy the Book: ebook

Blurb:
Digital Armageddon for the city of Angels?
Los Angeles’ Ste. Anne’s Medical Center has been hacked by a brilliant, malicious cracker. Christopher Bellamere has been hired to find out who is behind the break in. When tampered medical records nearly kill his lover, Homicide […]

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Things I’ll Never Say by M.J. O’Shea

Things I'll Never SayThings I’ll Never Say by M.J. O’Shea

Blurb:

Sam’s life sucks.

His best friend in the world is ditching him; moving out of state to go to college and leaving him behind with all the reminders of their childhood together. It hurts like hell but he doesn’t know how to tell Ryan that he needs him to stay…without saying too much.

Ryan has no choice.

He’s been in love with Sam for so many years he’s afraid if he doesn’t leave that he’ll spend his whole life alone in love with someone he can never have…but of course Ryan can’t tell his oldest and best friend that he’s in love with him. It would ruin the most important thing in his life.

And then it happens. The amazing, wonderful, awful night that sends their relationship reeling—and ends in the worst way possible: with Ryan gone and Sam heartbroken and both of them miserable without the other.

Sam and Ryan have to fix it; they need each other too much to let their relationship die. But to do that, they’ll have to find the courage to tell each other the truth about how they feel…to finally say those things they’ve kept to themselves for far too long.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

there’s sweet romance and then there is gag me with a spoon sweetness

Life, Over Easy (Fragments, #1) by K.A. Mitchell

Life, Over Easy (Fragments, #1)Life, Over Easy by K.A. Mitchell

Blurb:
Watch that first step. It could turn your life upside down.

Until a fall ended his Olympic diving career, John Andrews lived for the seconds he spent in the air. Now he’s adrift on a college campus, grounded by paralyzing vertigo and double vision. Worse, he sees shimmering colors over everyone’s heads.

The last is hardest to ignore, and impossible when it comes to Mason. While sex with the hot, moody computer major gives John a rush as heady as diving, Mason’s the only person John’s ever seen surrounded by two distinct colors.

Mason feels like a stranger in his own life. His lover is dead, and he drowns his guilt in bourbon and sex—until John’s innocence reawakens the man he used to be. After Mason gives the young virgin a proper introduction to sex, he plans to send him on his way. But John sees too much to make things that easy.

For John, their connection is more than just sizzling sex, it’s something worth fighting for. The more he learns about the colors, though, the more he realizes the free-spirited Mason isn’t free at all. John doesn’t take second place to anyone—even the dead.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

guy always seem to fall for the pretty prick who’s an ass

Dragon Streets by Jeff Pearce

Dragon StreetsDragon Streets by Jeff Pearce

Blurb:
After Dale Burnett’s abusive common-law wife and innocent son are killed in a car accident, he finds the courage at last to express his bisexuality. And London is a city of hope and potential for a young American. But when a blind date goes horribly wrong, Dale is rescued by Phirun, a British Cambodian who has the astonishing ability to manipulate water. Dragons walk the streets, and they’ve taken human form to live in the world of Man. As two kinds of dragon wage a secret and vicious war, Phirun needs Dale’s help for his side to win, and the stakes include the very survival of the human race.

But one dragon crime boss won’t stop until he gets his hands on the American, who has a mysterious yet vital role to play. As Dale investigates, he grows closer to Phirun, but also to a compassionate female detective of the London police. If the battle is won, Dale must choose between a beautiful female cop who offers stability, affection, and a chance at a new family, or a gorgeous, unpredictable being who is more than man, who has given him ecstasy he has never known before.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

bisexual hero, dragon wars, big cocks.. whats not to love