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This year has been good to me as in I finally read and love the complete series of Tal Bauer’s Executive Office; and then there are Josh Lanyon’s Fair Chance, Avery Cockburn’s Play Dead, Cat Sebastian’s The Lawrence Browne’s Affair and Anyta Sunday’s True Colors that I love too! 🙂
I’d prefer fave readS. 😉
Tal Bauer’s The Executive Office series
Whiteout by Elyse Springer
Cat Sebastian’s The Lawrence Browne Affair
Lane Hayes’s Leaning Into Stories series
Too Close by R. Phoenix
Love is Heartless by Kim Fielding
Block and Strike by Kelly Jensen
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This year started off pretty awesome. There are so many books I would like to read that I literally don’t know where to start.
From those I have read “Skim Blood and Savage Verse” by Angel Martinez and “Single Malt” by Layla Reyne are my favourite reads so far.
Books published before 2017 I enjoyed are the “Wake Up Married” series by Leta Blake (so much love <3), the first five books of the "Psycops" series by Jordan Castillo Price, "The Lightning-Struck Heart" by T.J. Klune (simply hilarious), "Hexbreaker" by Jordan L. Hawk and "Beta Test" by Annabeth Albert.
Some of my favorite books i read this year (so far) are: Step By Step by KC Wells, Save the Date and also Off Base by Annabeth Albert, Leaning into love and also Leaning into the Fall by Lane Hayes, Imago and also Switched by NR Walker, Love’s Tethered Heart by CL Etta, Block and Srike by Kelly Jensen, Do Not Disturb by Chris Scully, Worth the Risk by CJ Lynne and the Anchor Point serie by LA Witt.
I have several favorites this year:
Left Behind by Michele Notaro
Step by Step and Personal Challenges by KC Wells
Beau and the Beast by Kay Simone
Strawberry Moon by Spencer Spears
Still Water by Ruthie Luhnow
Aftermath and Flaunt by E. Davies
Scarred by Mia Kerick
Embrace the Fire by Felice Stevens
Here for Us by A.M. Arthur
So far this year some of my fav reads include:
Leo tops Aries – Anyta Sunday
Wanted a gentleman – KJ Charles
The Lawrence Browne Affair – Cat Sebastian
Ringo and the sunshine police – Nick Wilgus
More than luck – Casey Cameron
Happy Anniversary. So far, my fav this year is a literary one that won the Lammy for best debut last year – A Love Like Blood, by Victor Yates
Happy Anniversary! My favourite read of the year so far has been At Attention by Annabeth Albert.
Favs so far this year – some of my favorite series and start to a new favorite!
Hard Wired – Santino Hassell and Megan Erickson
Daily Grind – Anna Zabo
Insight – Santino again😊
Thick and Thin – Charlie Cochet
Mystery of the Curiosities – C.S. Poe
Loved Imago by N R Walker!
I’ve had sort of a meh start to the year. But I finally read The Mystery of Nevermore and the sequel, The Mystery of the Curiosities by C.S. Poe. I devoured those books and was desperate for more!
I have several favorite reads:
Fair Chance by Josh Lanyon
There’s This Guy by Rhys Ford
Revelation by Sloane Kennedy
Rescue Me by K.M. Neuhold
Scarred by Mia Kerick
Step by Step by K.C. Wells
The Executive Office series by Tal Bauer
The mutt, and The Poison Within, both by Kasia Bacon. I loved them
So far my favorite is The Mystery of Nevermore by C.S. Poe
I’ve read many great books so far this year. To pick just one, I would go with Seven Summer Nights by Harper Fox. Fantastic story and beautiful writing.
My 5* reads this year so far are
Reaping Fate, AJ Rose
The Definitive Albert J Sterne, Julie Bozza
Switched, NR Walker
Bitter Legact, Dal Maclean
and others I really liked –
Spindrift, Amy Rae Durreson
The Mystery of the Curiosities, CS Poe
On top of my head… Josh Lanyon’s “Fair Chance”, Cat Sebastian’s “The Lawrence Browne Affairs”, and Kate Sherwood “Common Law” series
I have so many titles that I really enjoyed this year that it’s better for me to name authors because I tend to be working through their backlists…such as Kaje Harper, Susan MacNicol, Tara Lain, Michelle Sagara, Sharon Shinn, and many others.
An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles and Peter Darling by Austin Chant were both wonderful.
Anna Wineheart – The Wizard by the Sea
Kayleigh Sky – Doll Baby
K.C. Wells – First
Ruth Lithgow – The Plunge and Still Water
T.T. Love – More Than Life
Amber Kell – End Street Volume 1
Key Simone – The Love Story
K. Sterling – Hide and Kill
A.E. Wasp – Incoming and A Christmas Outing
Erin Finnegan – Luchador
Jonathan Penn – Raising Cade
Tanya Chris – When It All Falls Down
Alexa Land – Worlds Away
A.E. Via – Nothing Special V
Garrett Leigh – Marked
To name a few…
Not many: True Colors by Anyta Sunday, Freak by E. Davies, Ge-Mi by Mell Eight, and Thick & Thin by Charlie Cochet.
Garrett Leigh’s Strays & the arc for Heidi Cullinan’s Shelter the Sea
Ember Peak series by Edie Danford, Made Marian series by Lucy Lennox, So this is Christmas by Josh Lanyon, Leo Loves Aries by Anyta Sunday, There’s this Guy by Rhys Ford, Moment of Fate and Moment of Silence by Karen Stivali, Imago and Swtiched by NR Walker. Lots of good books!
Hmmm. Two books come to mind that really surprised me by how much I enjoyed them. The Mystery of Nevermore by C S Poe had me literally laughing out loud, no easy task with me. Insight by Santino Hassell had me hating to put it down, which I had to do because I finally got to do a buddyread with my bestie, and we compared notes via email after a few chapters. It really drew me in and was my first paranormal book featuring psychic abilities.
I’m actually *way* behind on my m/m this year, but (even though the noncon scene would usually bother me) I found KA Merikan’s THE BLACK SHEEP AND THE ROTTEN APPLE really compelling…
Recently I adored KJ Charles’ An Unseen Attraction and Chris Scully’s Do Not Disturb. In YA, Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg.
The Lawrence Browne Affair and Annabeth Albert’s Out of Uniform series
Tal Bauer’s Executive Office Series is my choice of the year for best books. I was riveted by this story and on the edge of my seat for three whole books! I even stayed up until 3am one morning until I was still too exhausted to continue. What a ride! Also enjoyed “There’s This Guy” by Rhys Ford. Very touching, romantic and stayed in my thoughts after the end. Others I found remarkable were “Thick and Thin”, “Imago” and “Leaning Into the Fall”
So many I would probably say Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs.