Reviews by Jessewave

Title and Link: Out in the Field Author: Kate McMurray Cover Artist: Ginny Glass Publisher URL: Loose Id Amazon Buy Link Genre: Contemporary M/M/ interracial Length: novel/70K words/238 pages Rating: 5+ stars out of 5, DIK   Review Summary: Brilliant! Moving! A wonderful romance and homage to baseball.

Title and Link: In the Penalty Box Author: Riley Shane Cover Artist: April Martinez Publisher URL: Loose Id Amazon Buy Link Genre: Contemporary M/M/Sports Length: Novella/135 PDF pages Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Review Summary: A romance between a closeted hockey player and an openly gay writer is realistically portrayed, with lots of action on [...]

Title and Link: Striker Author: KyAnn Waters Cover Artist N/A Publisher URL: Carina Press Amazon Buy Link Genre: Contemporary M/M, sports Length: Novella/54 PDF pages/16K words Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 Review Summary: Likeable characters but I thought there were too many holes in the execution of the plot

Title and Link: Games Author: Cooper West Cover Artist: Justin James Publisher URL: Dreamspinner Press Amazon Buy Link Genre: Contemporary M/M Length: novella/90 PDF pages Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 Review Summary: I was disappointed about some aspects of this story but I did like most of it, just not the abrupt ending.

Title and Link: Home Ice Author: Kate Sherwood Cover Artist:  Dar Albert Publisher URL: ellora’s cave Amazon Buy Link: Genre: Contemporary M/M, Sports Length: novella/67 PDF pages Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Review Summary: In the tough world of semi professional hockey, one level below the NHL, two friends with benefits re-connect after 15 [...]

Title and Link: Wanna Do Bad Things With You Author: Shelley Munro Cover Artist N/A Publisher URL: ellora’s cave Amazon Buy Link Genre: Contemporary M/M, Sports Length: Novella/119 PDF pages Rating: 4 stars out of 5 Review Summary: A romance that highlighted some of the difficulties faced by professional athletes in the real world.

Title and Link: The Locker Room Author: Amy Lane Cover Artist: Dan Skinner/Cerberus Inc. Publisher URL: Dreamspinner Press Amazon Buy Link Genre: Contemporary M/M Length: Novel/250 pages/no word count Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 *This review contains what could be considered spoilers* Review summary: This book could have been memorable for me except for [...]

Title and Link:  Offside Author: Ryan Loveless Cover Artist: Anne Cain Publisher URL: Dreamspinner Press Amazon Buy Link N/A Genre: Contemporary M/M, sports Length: Novel, 200 PDF pages Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 Summary Review: I wish the romance was as good as the games.

Title and Link: Stroke to His Cox Author: JL Merrow Publisher: Dreamspinner Genre: Contemporary M/M, Sports Length: DSP Daydream (25 pdf pages) Rating: 4.25 stars out of 5 A Guest Review by Cole Review Summary: A sweet, funny, and sexy story about a coxswain and his stroke rower and a tryst in the boat house.

Title and Link: Isolation Play Author: Kyell Gold Publisher: Sofawolf Press Genre: M/M Contemporary Anthropomorphic Romance, Sports Length: Novel (420 pages) Rating: 5 stars out of 5 A Guest Review by Cole Review Summary: A worthy sequel to a series that is growing to become one of my favorites. **Warning: This Review (and Blurb) contain [...]

Title and Link: Out of Position Author: Kyell Gold Publisher: Sofawolf Press Buy Link: Genre: M/M Contemporary Anthropomorphic Romance, Sports Length: Novel (324 pages) Rating: 5 stars out of 5 A Guest Review by Cole Review Summary: An incredibly touching, exciting, and emotionally epic story of a fox and tiger’s journey into love and the [...]

Title and Link: Match Maker Author: Alan Chin Publisher URL: Dreamspinner Press Genre: Contemporary M/M Length: novel (337 pages) Rating: 5+ stars out of 5 A guest review by Victor J. Banis Summary: the author pulls all the stops out in this gripping story of love, tragedy and redemption, set against a backdrop of professional [...]

Title and Link: Two Games: A Matched Pair of Sports Stories Authors: BA Tortuga and Julia Talbot Publisher URL: Torquere Genre: Contemporary M/M, sports Length: Sip (14 PDF pages, 4700 words) Rating: 3.75 stars out of 5 Summary Review: Four men enjoy their favourite sports while exploring other games people play.

Title: Pool Hall Green Author: Sara Bell Publisher: Torquere Books Genre: M/M Contemporary romance Length: 66 Pages Rating: 4.75 out of 5 stars A guest review by Jenre Summary Review A quirky romantic drama where our pool ace hero is blackmailed into playing a pool tournament in order to bail out his brother, only to [...]

Title: Dark Horse Author: Kate Sherwood Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance/Menage (M/M/M) Length: Novel (379 pages) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars A guest review by Lily Review Summary The emotional story of a man learning to deal with a devastating loss. As he slowly begins to move forward will he be able [...]

The post on Men in Sports: Why Are They Almost Non Existent in M/M linked here was incredibly popular and brought a number of sports fans out of the closet. Some of the issues that emerged from the comments were that many female authors were not comfortable writing sports themed stories because they had never been involved [...]

Title and Link:  Blood on the Ice Author: A.M. Riley Publisher URL: Smashwords Genre: Paranormal M/M Length: short story (4530 words) Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Summary Review: A quirky adventure into the holy grail called ice hockey which makes fun of the sport and produces lots of laughs. THE BLURB Nicholas is just [...]

This is my regular Friday post two days early because I have another post on Friday. I have been wanting to write this post for awhile because, as many of you know, I’m a sports fan (some would say ‘sports fanatic’ or ‘sports slut’ but that would be slander and so WRONG ) Baseball is my [...]