Convincing the Secretary by Ava March is the third novella in her London Legal series. This story is set around a legal firm where Edward Fenton is a new lowly clerk/secretary to a partner in the firm, Lord Gray. Edward dislikes being a clerk and wishes to be an artist, but has no inkling as…
Kai and Garrett. The soldier and the You Tube star. Two different voices written by two different authors. The setup could, if handled tritely, be eye-rolling—Kai is a semi-professional online gamer, and Garrett runs into him while playing Fallen World Online from his bunk in Afghanistan. Garrett fixes military vehicles and has been in the…
Jordan Nasser’s sweet debut novel is really a romantic fantasy akin to Dorothy’s adventure in the Wizard of Oz film. It’s about seeking happiness out in the world because you can’t see it in your own back yard. Derek Walter is running away again, leaving his unbelieving boyfriend David on the downtown subway and heading…
I’ve decided – Megan Derr is one of my new favorite authors. Tournament of Losers is a bit on the short side at only 67K words, but definitely tells the complete story of Rath, dock worker and former prostitute (well, still an occasional prostitute, but at 33, it’s not really a full-time gig anymore), who…
Strong Signal is the first novel from authors Megan Erickson & Santino Hassell, and this collaboration is damn good. Happily, this is also the first in a series by the pair called Cyberlove. Writing in collaboration seems to mellow Santino’s usual gritty, cynical angle on love and sex somewhat, while adding a little raunch to…
Brandon Witt creates a world in his Men of Myth series that appeals to readers like me greatly. Like the Beings series by F. Cooper and the End Street Detective Agency books by Amber Kell and RJ Scott, Witt’s world posits the unseen presence of paranormal beings, interacting with humans at varying degrees of awareness….
Clashing Tempest, the last book of the Men of Myth trilogy continues with the parallel adventures of Finn and Brett, but now Brett has Lelas as his best friend and confidante, while Finn has Schwint as his sidekick and lover. Both young men are seeking the truth, unaware that their lives are on converging paths…
Ollie Always is a complex, character driven novel, and John Wiltshire’s writing is crisp, accurate, and full of observational humour and ‘snark’. The setting in New Zealand is described beautifully, if not always affectionately. There is a definite sense of an Englishman abroad, maybe because our eponymous is hero is just that. Oliver is named…
Welcome to Noman, a planet colonized by humans, settled as an Old West series of towns, and overrun with dragons. Yeah, I wasn’t sure where the author was going with this either. But, as we’ve seen before, space cowboys are pretty interesting characters, and so I was willing to give it a go. I’m glad…
Pain Slut is the second novel, in the Subs Club series by J.A. Rock. I did read the first, The Subs Club, and although it improves the reading experience in some ways, Pain Slut can be read as a stand-alone. Miles is a handsome, serious man and a masochist, in that he is part of…