Recent Release Review: Twin Flames by Lexi Ander
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Twin Flames
SERIES: Sumeria’s Sons #1
AUTHOR: Lexi Ander
PUBLISHER: Less Than Three Press
LENGTH: 116 pages
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A Lycan descendant of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Tristan is not as extraordinary as his ancestors. He is an average warrior, unremarkable throughout. But this fact does not trouble him because...Read More »
Recent Release Review: Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities by Lyn Gala
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Assimilation, Love, and Other Human Oddities
SERIES: Claimings #2
AUTHOR: Lyn Gala
PUBLISHER: Loose Id
LENGTH: 225 pages
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Ondry and Liam have settled into a good life, but their trading is still tied up with humans, and humans are always messy. When political changes at the human...Read More »
Recent Release Review: How to Train Your Dom in Five Easy Steps by Josephine Myles
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: How to Train Your Dom in Five Easy Steps
AUTHOR: Josephine Myles
PUBLISHER: Samhain Publishing
LENGTH: 376 pages
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Sometimes the little head really does know best.
Jeff White’s needs are simple. All he wants is a submissive to help him explore the dominant side that his...Read More »
Flashback Book Review: Saviours of Oestend by Marie Sexton
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Saviours of Oestend
SERIES: Oestend #2
AUTHOR: Marie Sexton
PUBLISHER: Totally Bound
LENGTH: 266 pages
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Life on the prairie has never been easy, but now Oestend itself seems bent on destruction.
Banished from the BarChi by the man he loves,...Read More »
Recent Release Review: Owner Of My Heart by Valentina Heart
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Owner of My Heart
SERIES: Mending the Rift #2
AUTHOR: Valentina Heart
PUBLISHER: Totally Bound
LENGTH: 76 pages
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Can King Merin face his loss, save his husband and protect his kingdom, or have his enemies finally found a way to defeat him?
When...Read More »
Book Review: The Exchange Student by Mark Allan Gunnells
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: The Exchange Student
AUTHOR: Mark Allan Gunnells
PUBLISHER: Etopia Press
LENGTH: 327 pages
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Sometimes love lives in the past…
In an alternate 2014, time travel is commonplace, regulated by the government. 17-year-old Trevor Bartley has been selected to be an exchange student to the year 1963 to study...Read More »
Book Review: Losing Sight of the Target by T.A. Chase
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Losing Sight of the Target
AUTHOR: T.A. Chase
PUBLISHER: Amber Allure
LENGTH: 54 pages
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Justin Isaksen is a twenty-five-year-old US Olympian competing in his first Games. Unfortunately, this competition will be his last because doctors confirm he is losing his eyesight faster than they...Read More »
Recent Release Review: Duende by E.E. Ottoman
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Duende
SERIES: Mechanical Universe #2
AUTHOR: E.E. Ottoman
PUBLISHER: Less Than Three Press
LENGTH: 50 pages
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Famed opera singer Aimé has a lot in common with Badri, the Royal Ballet Company’s most popular male lead. They have both dedicated their entire lives to their art, and struggle...Read More »
Recent Release Review: Duck Duck Ghost by Rhys Ford
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Duck Duck Ghost
SERIES: Hellsinger #2
AUTHOR: Rhys Ford
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 214 pages
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Paranormal investigator Wolf Kincaid knows what his foot tastes like.
Mostly because he stuck it firmly in his mouth when his lover, Tristan Pryce, accidentally drugged him with a batch of psychotropic baklava. Needing to...Read More »
Book Review: Meet-cute by C.C. Dado
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Meet-cute
AUTHOR: C.C. Dado
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 71 pages
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Elliot Beck may not have been blessed with mad art skills, a crooner’s voice, or a godlike physique, but he makes up for it with an abundance of quick-witted sarcasm, massive insecurities, and a love of bad boys.
After...Read More »
Book Review: Last Chance Tattoo by Karenna Colcroft
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Last Chance Tattoo
AUTHOR: Karenna Colcroft
PUBLISHER: Loose Id
LENGTH: 144 pages
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After “failing” to make a life and a drag career in Boston, Rad Morris has returned home to Ludington, Michigan, where his primary goal is to avoid his disapproving family. Only his grandmother accepts him, and...Read More »
Release Day Review: November Rain by Daisy Harris
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: November Rain
SERIES: Fire and Rain #4
AUTHOR: Daisy Harris
PUBLISHER: Samhain Publishing
LENGTH: 140 pages
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A single bullet could take them both down.
Detective Joe Klamath is used to guys falling on their backs at the arch of his commanding eyebrow. Yet he can’t seem...Read More »
Book Review: Nanny Dearest by Shawn Bailey
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Nanny Dearest
AUTHOR: Shawn Bailey
PUBLISHER: Amber Allure
LENGTH: 94 pages
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Cosmetician Hunter Monroe is the busy single father of a precocious one-year-old son, Chase. When his nanny resigns, Hunter is left in a lurch until his friend, Adam, suggests the short-term solution of using their...Read More »
Recent Release Review: The Family We Make by Kaje Harper
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: The Family We Make
SERIES: Finding Family #2
AUTHOR: Kaje Harper
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 360 pages
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At seventeen, Rick Albright left his home, his parents and even his old name, rather than pretend to be straight. But being on his own was hard. When his big brother...Read More »
Anthology Week Review – Campus Cravings: Did Somebody Order a Pizza? by L.A. Witt
Did you show the authors some love in the reviews posted and that way increase your giveaway options for sunday?
Welcome to the start of a new feature here at Love Bytes: Anthology Week!
The reviewers of Love Bytes pick an anthology to read...Read More »
Recent Release Review: Frozen Heart by Teegan Loy
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Frozen Hearts
AUTHOR: Teegan Loy
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 200 pages
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The best college hockey player in the country is hanging up his skates because he’s tired of living a lie. Five years ago, Erik Fox’s father found out about his indiscretions and forced him to change schools...Read More »
Recent Release Review: A Taste of Honey Anthology
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: A Taste of Honey
AUTHORS: John Amory, Jack Byrne, J. Scott Coatsworth, Lillian Francis, John Genest, Renae Kaye, G.P. Keith, Edmond Manning, Robert B. McDiarmid, Christopher Hawthorne Moss, Samuel Scott Preston, Zoe X. Rider, Michael Rupured, and Tara Spears
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 340 pages
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In the mood to try something sweet?...Read More »
Recent Release Review: The Pillar by Kim Fielding
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: The Pillar
AUTHOR: Kim Fielding
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 144 pages
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During his youth, orphaned thief Faris was flogged at the pillar in the town square and left to die. But a kind old man saved him, gave him a home, and taught him a profession. Now Faris...Read More »
Recent Release Review: Hard Act to Follow by K. Vale
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Hard Act to Follow
SERIES: Shooting Stars #3
AUTHOR: K. Vale
PUBLISHER: Liquid Silver Books
LENGTH:
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Kyrie is an actor with a physical aversion to telling lies, a one-eyed cat, and horrible taste in men. His ex-brother-in-law and best friend, Greg, harbors a secret crush he can’t...Read More »
Recent Release Review: The Broken Road by Anna Lee
Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: The Broken Road
AUTHOR: Anna Lee
PUBLISHER: Totally Bound
LENGTH: 89 pages
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Confined to a wheelchair, Kason Tyler feels invisible, but Ryen Moore wants to show him what real love is all about.
Nearly a year and half ago, Kason Tyler’s life was turned upside down when a drunk...Read More »