Month: August 2019

Blurb form Goodreads

Love knows no limits…but fear could keep them from seeing it. 

Gabe lives a double life. As Gabriel Henson, he works multiple jobs to support his remorseless, alcoholic mother. As Tony Ryder, he does internet porn for extra cash and regular safe sex without complications. But when he encounters a scared young man freaking out in a night club, he’s compelled to reach out. Ever since then, the memory of that young man has haunted him. 

Tristan Lavalle lives his life thirty minutes at a time. After a traumatic brain injury three years ago, he gets through his day recording his life in spiral notebooks and sticky note reminders. A month after Tristan’s embarrassingly public meltdown, another chance meeting with Gabe sparks a warm, emotionally fulfilling email relationship. Both men crave more, but fear of the next step stands between them. 

And then Tristan gets the opportunity to take part in a clinical trial that could improve his memory—if the side effects don’t kill him. But for Tristan, the possibility of a real life with Gabe is worth any risk… 

Note: This book was previously published by Samhain Publishing. No significant changes have been made to this edition. Please read with tissues handy.

Published March 13th 2017 by Briggs-King Books (first published October 20th 2015)

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Loved the story and the main characters but this story has its faults.

Some might say that I shouldn’t fault the author for my views. Well I’m the reader so I get to decide what I like and what I don’t.

I love the characters, Gabe and Tristan are so sweet, you’ll defiantly fall in love with Tristan and his memory loss – he is so super cute. Gabe has a hard time at home with his mother, again my caring nature just wants to wrap him in a hug and take all his pain away. I guess you could say, two shitty pasts makes a great future and that’s what you get.

However, Gabe is doing porn. You might remember him from the first book as Tony. He’s is still doing scenes while being with Tristan and not telling him. NO MATTER how you put that, that is cheating, and I DO NOT like cheating. Yeah! explain all you want, but that still don’t sit well with me, sorry it’s a no go for me.

The author falls into the pit

This author, unfortunately as many others falls into the pit of sex. When every other chapter becomes a new description of sex I almost want to give up, it gets boring after a while. Some of it even seams corny, when Gabe and Tristan are watching a scene together. I mean who wants to watch their boyfriend doing it with another guy? I can’t even imagine that.

The story was really great and maybe with a bit adjusting it could be a five star/rainbow read.

Read my review of the frist book in the series ‘The Truth as He Knows it’

Blurb form Goodreads

Lies are the chains that keep you weighed down at rock bottom. 

Officer Noel Carlson isn’t out to anyone in small-town Stratton, Pennsylvania, only to distant friends and family, so a relationship is out of the question. That doesn’t stop him from wanting one, though. 

When a night-shift call brings him face to thonged butt with a hired stripper whose girl-party gig went terribly wrong, Noel takes pity on the guy and lets him go. But he can’t get the encounter out of his mind. 

Shane has big-time debts to repay, especially to the brother who sacrificed nearly everything for him. His two jobs, in a deli and as a stripper, leave him no time for a social life. But a non-date of hot sex and takeout food with Noel? He can squeeze that in. 

The bond they form is stronger than either expected or wanted. Especially since the step Shane’s about to take to put his brother—and his soul—back in the black isn’t quite legal. And he never calculated just how much his determination to make things right will cost him in the end. 

Note: This book was previously published by Samhain Publishing. No significant changes have been made to the text. Please read with tissues handy.

Published March 13th 2017 by Briggs-King Books (first published February 10th 2015)

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When the blurb says to have tissues ready, you better believe it. I do NOT cry over books, it’s just a story… OK I cried.

Porn, we all watch it right? Even if we don’t want to admit it. I don’t mind actually. However I’m a hypocrite, while don’t mind watching it, I do not like to read about it. No matter how hard the author tries to separate the two worlds, with stage names and ‘We are not exclusive’ I still can’t get my head around that’s it’s the one and the same person. I know porn is just sex and love is emotions. But I still think it’s cheating if you are doing porn and you do not tell you boyfriend or the guy you are seeing about it. Also the names stages and real name confuses me.

The brothers, OMG! They are so sweet. I really was ready to ask for their account number so I could transfer some money to them. They take really good care of each other, and boy do they deserve a break, a break they never really get. You just want to cuddle up with both of them and tell them that everything will be alright. I know they are adults, but I don’t care, I just want to make things good for them for once.

The relationship between Noel and Shane, I’ll never pretend to understand it. They have a hard time but like two magnets they are drawn back together. Noel is such a sweet guy, maybe a bit too sweet, when he finds out Shane has been doing porn – I would have been more upset if it was me, but who am I to project my own feelings on to them.

The story is hard I mean really hard, it’s like reading about the dark side of life. But in between you get rays of light that will shine through. I just loved it.

Blurb form Goodreads

Back in high school, nobody noticed quiet nerd Kevin Howard.

But everybody noticed handsome, athletic, and ultrapopular jock Clay Northrup.

They had nothing in common and lived in different worlds.

But a lot can change in fifteen years, and when they meet again at their high school reunion, Clay is no longer the big man on campus, and Kevin isn’t hiding in a corner anymore.

Can they put aside who they were? Can one night really lead to forever?

Published February 22nd 2019 by Dreamspinner Press

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This is a short story, and short it is. I don’t really know what to say. I liked the story, but again it was too short. You never really get into the story, the characters before it’s over, the dynamics are gone, it’s too brief. I just don’t like it. I normally don’t read short stories, simply I sit back with a feeling that something is missing, that’s what I’m doing here. I want to know more about these people, I want to see where they go, sorry I just can’t get my head around it. I have so many questions about these too MC’s I just want to get to know them, know their love see them together.

I landed to three rainbows/stars/hearts, you choose. Because the story is sweet as are the MC’s, if there was a follow up novel I guess I could live with this, but as a stand alone, not so much.

Blurb form Goodreads

A Hearts Entwined Novel

Car restorer Dean Milford knows how to make damaged things beautiful again. Only, after a bad breakup, he loses sight of who he is, playing the field and distracting himself with any man he comes across. But now there’s only one guy who really matters to him. And maybe with his latest restoration job—a vintage Cobra—he’ll get the chance to let him know.

Losing his sight wasn’t the worst thing to happen to Lee Studer—losing his independence was. It’s taken a while, but he’s finally found his place in the world—in a garage. Funny enough, his acute hearing allows him to pinpoint engine problems just by listening. And even better, he’s going to have a chance to help his long-time crush, Dean, rebuild his fantasy car.

As the restoration comes together, so do Lee and Dean, building a friendship that quickly turns into so much more. But before they can think about a future together, they have to deal with the past. Only that turns out to be more dangerous than either one ever dreamed….

Published August 6th 2019 by Dreamspinner Press

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One page, two pages, three pages and then THE END. WHY WHY WHY?

This is just one of those books that you can’t seam to put down. I was like, I need to know how this goes, who’s the culprit behind all this? You just need to know. So I ended up reading the whole story in one take.

Should you think that this story is just like the others in the series (I hope you read them) you are wrong. Where the others had accidents Lee does not, he’s been blind for at while now, but he still struggles to find his way in the world of the blind, mainly because his mother is extremely overprotective. Lee is fighting against her (I like that guy).

I like the age gab in the story Dean is older than Lee. If you can’t tell I like the older younger guy theme, and Dean is just so sweet, Andrew Greyish I would love to say. Guide but don’t take over sweet.

The story mainly takes place in and around the garage and especially one special car, a vintage Cobra that needs restoration. Both Lee and Dean’s love for cars brings them closer together. When that is said the book is a ‘I watched you for a while but was afraid’. It’s kind of cute, especially since Dean is over 30 and you should think that he was the adult and confident one. However Dean came out of a bad relationship that left him broken, he is of cause afraid to enter a new relationship. I like both MC’s they feel real to me, they have struggles both together and as individuals.

There really isn’t much more to say, if you haven’t read Andrew Grey’s book then, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR. I wouldn’t recommend that you read this as a stand alone. You need to read the other books first in order to understand the relationships between the characters in this book.

A few minus:
For some reason Lee’s mother is against the relationship at first, something to do with the age difference between the two. However you never really get the reason between the reluctance, that would have been nice she just comes across as a controlling bitch. I get that she cares for her son, but that shouldn’t be a reason alone.

Dean was a player, he is approached by a few of his former one night stands, one of them who are now sick with HIV. I would have liked if that would maybe have been a greater part of the story, that part was cut too short.

The honesty of it all. I’m not going to pretend anything here. Andrew Grey is one of my favourite authors, I like his writing, his stories and his style. He is and probably will continue to be on my ‘to read list’ so I basically read anything he publishes. However that doesn’t affect my reviews, I might be biased by not that much.