Title: Per Ardua
Author: Jessie Blackwood
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M historical romance
Length: 224 pages
Rating: 4.25 stars out of 5
A guest review by Jenre
Summary Review
Nicely written historical set in the 1940′s where love blossoms between irascible RAF pilot, Jack, and his calm welsh butler, Ifan.
Title and Link: Resistance
Author: L.M. Turner
Publisher URL: LooseId
Genre: Contemporary M/M
Length: Novel (164 PDF pages)
Rating: 4.75 stars out of 5
Summary Review: In a word – delightful.
Today’s Dreamspinner Press free book is Talker by Amy Lane. Here’s the blurb
Tate “Talker” Walker has spent most of his life hiding his scars under a bright punk facade, and until he sat next to Brian Cooper on a bus, it worked. But Brian has spent his whole life being the invisible man, and he’s used to looking below the surface. What he sees in Talker is a fragile and lovable human being.
A few weeks ago I recommended a book to Josephine Myles that I had read 18 months ago which still resonated with me – it was an unforgettable story about a homeless man who found love. It was a really difficult book to read and review as I cried a few times while reading it. I LOVED A Note In The Margin and the hell of it was that this book was angst filled, something I do not normally care for. Josephine emailed me this week and she said something that got me thinking:
I’ve been meaning to write and say thank you for recommending I read A Note in the Margin – I really loved it – it’s pretty rare for books to bring me to tears, but this one did so several times. The final scene where Dave has moved his clothes into the drawer was just so touching. I do hope the author writes something else soon.
I know that there are many “Josephines” out there who have only recently started reading M/M romances and therefore are not aware of books that moved or thrilled readers over the years as we escaped into the world of male/male romance. I recently started to review a few of my “old favourites” and I’m hoping that some of the other guest reviewers on the site will do so too, to bring to your attention books that might have slipped through the cracks. Today, and hopefully on a somewhat irregular regular basis, 
I’ll list a few titles that I can personally recommend you buy. This is separate from the books on the Readers’ Recommended Gay Books which is currently being updated – although that list does include some of my favourites. I’ll try to give you a few stories with a paragraph about each of them to help you decide whether you want to give them a whirl.
Yesterday Geoffrey Knight donated a copy of Drive Shaft as a free book on the site. Randy has chosen a winner who is ……………
Simsala
Congratulations Simsala. Please email jessewave@gmail.com so that I can forward your information to Geoff. Thanks for playing everyone.
Title: Unconventional
Author: T.C. Blue
Publisher: Torquere Books
Genre: M/M contemporary romance
Length: 326 pages
Rating: 4.75 stars out of 5
A guest review by Jenre
Summary Review
A superbly satisfying conclusion to the consistently wonderful Conventions series, sees Lucas and Trent battling with vindictive ex-bosses and living a life where Lucas must stay in the closet.
Title: A Deadly Deception
Author: J.P. Bowie
Publisher: MLR Press
Genre: Contemporary Murder Mystery/Paranormal Lite
Length: Novel (281 pages)
Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
A Guest Review by Aunt Lynn
One Sentence Review: The second Nick Fallon Investigation book delivers once again.
Today the Amber Allure free book is The Swap by Devon Rhodes. Here’s the blurb:
When layoffs hit Jim LaRue’s company, his first concern isn’t for his own job, it’s for his friend and co-worker, Tommy Graves. Tommy’s coming off a bad year, finally made better by the purchase of a new house. Losing his job would mean losing the house, however, and his newfound lease on life. Jim can’t let that happen to the man he’s secretly come to love, so he proposes a swap to his boss—forfeit his own job to save Tommy’s.
Title: The Vampire’s Prisoner
Author: Scarlet Blackwell
Publisher: Torquere Books
Genre: M/M Historical/Vampire
Length: Novella (61 pages)
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
A guest post by Lily
Review Summary
The story of a man fascinated by the Paranormal world and the Vampire who gives him an up close and personal look into it. This Historical is entertaining and quite sexy as well.
Yesterday Val Kovalin generously donated a copy of her new book Trinity Trespass as a free book on the site. Randy has done his job and the winner is ………………
rureadinganotherone
Congratulations rureadinganotherone. Please email jessewave@gmail.com with the format of your choice so that I can forward your information to Val. Thanks for playing everyone.
Title: The Lion of Kent
Author: Aleksandr Voinov & Kate Cotoner
Publisher: Carina Press
Genre: M/M historical romance
Length: 115 pdf pages
Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
A guest review by Jenre
Summary Review
An evocative historical romance with an engaging hero which excels in the historical detail.
Title and Link: In The Flesh
Author: Ethan Stone
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary, Mystery
Length: Novel (300 print pages)
Rating: 4.75 of 5 stars
A guest review by Buda
One-Sentence Review: A fantastic, non-stop ride into the world of framed-for-murder Reno Homicide Detective Cristian Flesh.
Here are your Recommended Reads for the month of August. This is a record – I’m ahead of the curve because I posted on the first of the month. In case you don’t remember them I have linked the reviews.
Mind Fuck by Manna Francis, 5+ stars – Casperian Books (Wave)
The Manituw by Lisbeth Jenkins, 5+ stars - Amber Allure (Val)
Driftwood by Harper Fox, 5+ stars – Samhain Publishing (Wave)
Lord of the White Hell, Book 2 by Ginn Hale, 5 stars - Blind Eye Books (Kassa)
Open Roads by K.C. Kendricks, 4.75 stars – Amber Allure (Val)
A Game of Skills by T.C. Blue, 4.75 stars – Total-e-Bound (Jenre)
Strawberries for Dessert by Marie Sexton, 4.75 stars – Dreamspinner Press (Wave)
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Geoff Knight, author, has generously donated a copy of Drive Shaft which was just released, reviewed here, as a free book on the site. Here’s the blurb -
The Fast and the Furious meets turbo-charged, hotter-the-hell gay sex…!”
Jensen Rivers wasn’t looking for trouble. As the new kid on the block at Clyde’s Body Shop, all Jensen wanted was a job, a place where he could put his head down and ass up. Young and handsome, he was the kind of simple, honest guy who was happiest when he was working hard, with oil smeared across his chest and grease up to his elbows.
But Dean ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson plans on getting more than just Jensen’s hands dirty!
Reckless and arrogant, drenched in sweat and dripping with a masculinity that cannot be tamed, Hutch challenges Jensen to a series of perilous night races. The prize: sexual domination!
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