Title: A Little Bit of Country
Author: Christiane France
Cover Artist: Trace Edward Zaber
Publisher: Amber Allure
Publisher Buy Link: A Little Bit of Country
Amazon Buy Link:A Little Bit of Country
Genre: Contemporary
Length: 16k
Rating: 2
A Guest Review by Cryselle
Review Summary: Interesting setup but I didn’t believe the conflict and the ending was unsupported. Continue reading
Title: Catching Fireflies
Authors: KC Kendricks
Cover Artist: Trace Edward Zaber
Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC
Buy Link: Catching Fireflies, Amber Quill Press, LLC
Genre: M/M contemporary
Length: Novella
Rating: 2 stars
A Guest Review by Sammy
Review Summary: A story of healing and starting over that simply fell short of the mark.
Title: The Actor and the Earl
Author: Rebecca Cohen
Cover Artist: Anne Cain
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Buy Links: The Actor and the Earl; Publisher
Genre: Historical
Length: Novel (216 pages)
Rating: 2 stars out of 5
A Guest Review by LenaLena
Review Summary: Too bland to be more than mildly enjoyable.
Title: The Long Road Home
Author: Sarah Granger
Cover artist: Adrian Nicholas
Publisher: Dreamspinner
Buy Link: The Long Road Home
Genre: Historical
Length: 15,693 words
Rating: 2.0 out of 5.0 stars
A guest review by Val Kovalin
Summary Review: An overly simplistic story with shallow characterization and no sense of history.
Title: Honour
Author: A.F.Henley
Cover artist: Megan Derr
Publisher: Less Than Three Press
Amazon Buy Link:Honour
Genre: historical fantasy/pseudohistorical/ mm romance
Length: 45500 words
Rating: 2 stars out of 5
A guest review by Sirius
Summary: This is not a historical romance, but I disliked it even when I thought of it as a historical fantasy because IMO one character acted as a spoiled brat and another one as a complete moron.
Title: Blame it on the Cats
Author: ET Malinowski
Cover artist: Paul Richmond
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Buy Link: Blame It on the Cats
Genre: Contemporary
Length: 20, 656 words
Rating: 2.0 out of 5.0 stars
A guest review by Val Kovalin
Summary Review: Cute but formulaic with Insta-Love.
Title: From the Ashes
Author: Kayla Jameth
Publisher: Breathless Press
Amazon Buy Link: From the Ashes (Naughty Nursery Rhymes)
Genre: Historical/Fairytale
Length: novella (100 PDF pages)
Rating: 2 stars
A Guest Review by Shy
One Sentence Review: A book with an unusual premise that didn’t work for me. Continue reading
Title: The Witching Hour
Author: Sophie Beaumont
Cover artist: not specified
Publisher: Torquere
Buy Link: no Amazon link. See http://www.torquerepress.com/
Genre: Historical, Paranormal, holiday themed
Length: 7300 words
Rating: 2.0 out of 5.0 stars
A guest review by Val Kovalin
Summary Review: A Halloween themed story that isn’t very substantial.
Title and Link: What Chris Wants (Men Who Walk the Edge of Honor #4.5)
Author: Lori Foster
Publisher: Harlequin
Amazon Buy Link
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Length: 44 pages
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
A guest review by Lasha
Summary Review: It was obvious that fans of this series wanted Chris to get his HEA, I just wish the author could have jumped on board too.
Title: After the BBQ
Author: Matthew Lang
Cover Artist: Deanna Jamroz
Publisher: MLR Press
Buy Link:After The BBQ
Genre: Contemporary
Length: 9000 words
Rating: 2 stars out of 5
A Guest Review by Cryselle
Review Summary: A disjointed story that could make sense outside its series but doesn’t really hang together either way. Continue reading
Title & buy link: After the First Taste of Love
Author: Talon Rihai and Salome Wilde
Cover Artist: Yana Goya
Publisher: Storm Moon Press
Genre: M/M contemporary
Length: Novella (118 pages)
Rating: 2 stars out of 5
A guest review by Leslie S
Review summary: Well written but ultimately forgettable friends-to-lovers story.
Title: Need
Author: Todd Gregory
Cover Artist: unknown
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corps.
Buy Link: Need
Genre: M/M Paranormal, Vampires, Erotica
Length: Novel
Rating: 2 out of 5 rating stars
A Guest Review by Raine
Summary Review: Disappointing as descriptive writing services a selfish main character revelling in tedious vampiric erotica.
Title & buy link: The Rule of Sebastian
Author: Shelter Somerset
Cover Artist: Paul Richmond
Publisher: Dreamspinner
Genre: M/M contemporary
Length: Novel (254 pages)
Rating: 2 stars out of 5
A guest review by Leslie S
Review summary: Average murder-mystery in an interesting locale, let down by purple prose and lacklustre characters.
Title: Reenacting
Author: W.M. Kirkland
Cover Artist: Ginny Glass
Publisher: Loose id
Buy Link: Amazon
Genre: Contemporary M/M
Length: Novella (90 pages)
Rating: 2 stars out of 5
A Guest Review by jeayci
Review Summary: If you can like Dixon, you might like this book, but I found him cardboard and clueless.
Title & buy link: What About Him
Author: EE Montgomery
Cover Artist: Reese Dante
Publisher: Dreamspinner
Genre: M/M contemporary
Length: Novella (131 pages)
Rating: 2 stars out of 5
A guest review by Leslie S
Review summary: An odd book in which a lot of things happen and yet none of it is very memorable.