A mountain of books and not enough time to read them
Author: mmromancereader
I am a danish based MM romance reader. I'll read almost anything I can get my hands on though I will admit to be a bit conservative when it comes to the books I prefer - MM romances only, light BDSM is ok, no shifters or vampire stories (I just don't get them). I just love stories about police officers, people with disabilities have my heart in an instant.
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I’ve just finished reading one book about one guy doing something good for a fellow man and fall in love with him. I don’t really know witch book I liked the best, but let me tell you, this one is absolutely amazing.
Harper is a biker courier, by accident he gets run over but Sam whos been having a crush from afar on Harper for a while. Despite his fathers warnings that Harper is set out to exploit Sam, Sam still wants to take care of Harper and help him get back on his feet before he can retur to his job. Little by little even if Harper is fighting against it they slowly fall in love. But so much is thrown at Harper all the time, and he can’t believe that a senetors son would even be remotely interested in him, why would he be?
I loved this book so much. Actually so much that I wish I was a millionaire so I would have to work but could stay up all night and just read, that I would have to go to work the day after, I don’t want to put this book down before I finished. Both main characters are so loveable. Sam for all his good deeds without inhabitations and Harper, well just because his is Harper, read the book and you will understand what I’m talking about. This book is what you could call ‘I’ll worm my way into your heart romance.’ And of cause with a happy ending, just the way I like them. The story and the development the things that are thrown their way and the background stories of them both is so catching. I would have loved if Harper actually would have meet his parents in the end and rub his relationship with Sam in their faces (I know, I can’t help being a cruel bitch sometimes).
I was lucky enough to get this book for free in a newsletter.
I loved it. Louis is just such a sweet guy and you’ll just love Bash aka Sebastian, and the fact that they fit so well together, Louis volunteering and Sebastian in the need of help. You could call it an enemy to lovers romance sine there are no sparks flying at first meeting, well maybe in anger.
It’s well written and a beautiful story. To me Sebastians part is going up while Louis is getting back on his feet after his wife and child died.
Seth needs Logan to get a promotion and Logan just needs a place to stay, the game is on.
The story is beautifully written whit just the right amount of “action” for my liking. It’s cute and somewhat fun with a bit of angst, maybe a bit more at the lake would have been nice, it all happened too fast, the author could have prolonged that bit more. Logan has so many issues not being good enough, not being able to find a job, being fired from the previous job and so on and guilt, he’s is trying with his stepson but Conner isn’t actually an easy one to please and accepting.
I get the whole fake-it part, but what I disliked was the “I’m not gay or bi-part.” It doesn’t set well with me, maybe it the characters were younger it would pass. Logan had one night stands with men but apparently didn’t know he was bi-sexual, kind of ok if yo do it once, but if you do it multiple times a bell must ring or it gets kind of lame – I ate ice cream in the past but didn’t know I liked it is maybe a better explanation.
I know this is a Christmas story so everything has to happen fast, but I happens too fast if you ask me if you look at the story for Logans perspective, it all get jammed into a short period of time, but non the less its is kind of working beautifully.
I was between three or four stars but decided on four because it is a beautiful Christmas story.
Keyes Dixon’s life is challenging enough as a full patch member of the Disciples of Havoc Motorcycle Club but being a gay biker leaves him traveling down one tough road. With an abusive past and his vow to the club cementing his future, he doesn’t believe in love and steers clear of commitment. But a midnight ride leads to a chance meeting with a sexy distraction that has him going down quicker than a Harley on ice.
Cocky Assistant District Attorney Alec Pierce lives in the shadow of his politically connected family. A life of privilege doesn’t equal a life of love, a fact made obvious at every family gathering. Driven yet lonely, Alec yields to his family’s demands for his career path, hoping for the acceptance he craves. Until he meets a gorgeous biker who tips the scales in the favor of truth and he can no longer live a lie.
Can two men from completely different worlds…and sides of the law…find common ground, or will all their desires only wreak Havoc?
While Havoc is a stand-alone with no cliffhanger, the story continues early 2019.
Assistant District Attorney Alec Pierce wants a future with the sexy, tough-talking biker who came to his rescue six months ago. But when evidence capable of destroying his future comes to light, Alec sets a plan in motion to keep the man he loves from a district attorney bent on vengeance.
Will Alec’s efforts pay off or will he destroy them both in the process?
As a Disciples of Havoc member, Keyes Dixon rides the line between society’s moral code and that of his brothers. He straddles two worlds… One owns him and the other seduces him with the promise of a future. But when a rush to judgment has him swerving to miss the roadblocks suddenly in his lane, he’ll have to choose between the club that demands his loyalty and the gorgeous assistant district attorney who deserves his commitment.
Can Keyes escape his circumstances to take a chance on a future he wants?
Six months into what started as a one-night stand, both men must navigate their developing feelings as they remain bound by differing oaths that threaten to drive them apart. Not only does their future hang in the balance of opposing forces, but an unexpected strike of the gavel could send them on a collision course neither is prepared for.
Will havoc continue to determine their lives or is their love strong enough to bring order?
Book one: Published November 25th 2018 by Kindle Alexander LLC Book two: Published March 5th 2019 by Kindle Alexander LLC
I kind of opted how to do this review. Books individually or together. I chose the latter.
Book one is the ~To be continued ~ the blurb says it’s a stand alone, I wouldn’t recommend that, I think you would be disappointed and confused if you left it at that.
I’ve read this author before with great success, I loved her books I was kind of disappointed about this one. Order (book two) was much better than Havoc (book one). Simply because there was more story in book two that the first one.
I don’t get why authors think you can build a relationship falling into bed each time you meet, I just don’t see it happen. But thats basically the story line of the first book, rated alone I probably wouldn’t give it more than one rainbow since it annoys me, even after the become boyfriends/fall in love that continues. What I do like is the story that is there, Key (the hottie) the angst of being discovered by his brothers.
Book tow is much better story wise, there isn’t much sex. Now don’t get me wrong, I like the sex, just not too much, what turns me off with a book is when the sex takes over completely like in books one. There is much more love and future.
Apprehension and building up
These books are so full of apprehension, tension and things to be scared off. The relationship between Key and Alec if they are found out. Alec’s job with the DA and the things he discovered. The story with the little girl and her father all building up to a Big Bang. The big bang that never happens. I wold have thought that something major happened when the connection between the DA and a biker came to light, I mean like biiiiig. Also Alce’s discovery while working with the DA could have played role since it was a major part of the story. Also the relationship could have lead to a major thing, but no. So I all kind of falls flat, I felt that something was missing.
Overall they are both good stories, book two much better that the first one. Book two picked up the kind what book one lacked, so I you regard the both together it wasn’t a bad read, but not really a great read either.
Do you ever get author anxiety or readers anxiety? What would that be AXT or RNX, well I don’t know, its not really as far as I know a diagnose officially so don’t put too much into it.
The thing is, when I read multiple books by the same author that I really really liked I sometimes can’t get my self to read the next book. It’s usually not in the same series because that one is easy, you really just need to know how the story ends. No its when you start a totally new book that hasn’t anything to do with the others. I get scared that it might not bee as good as the last, that I might not even like it, waste my time on it, those kind of feelings.
I know it irrational, of cause it is, but I really can’t help it. I keep postponing the book and usually I kick my butt because I waited. Luckily for me it doesn’t happen that often, but still it happens and I hate it.
I guess that some authors feel the same sometimes, if they really had a hit. Will we, the readers like it. I don’t really know for sure how they feel, it’s just a wild guess.
When the world labels a man and judges them blindly, is it possible to ever find love?
Firefighter Eric is on the front line, battling the threat of nature’s destruction in the California grasslands alongside his CalFire team. Focused and calm, even in the direst of situations, he has a strong affection for his fire truck, loves his career, and has best friends he can rely on. All he needs now is love, but that seems to be impossible to find. At his friend’s wedding. Eric falls in lust at first sight with the shy, slim and sexy Brady, even if Brady isn’t the type of guy he usually goes for. What Eric longs for is an equal in his bed, not a smaller guy who might want Eric to role-play big strong firefighter every time they have sex. He wants to find someone he can be vulnerable with, someone who will love him for his soft heart and quiet ways.
Brady’s life plans grind to a halt when his niece and nephew lose their parents in a tragic accident, and he becomes a dad overnight. His Developmental Coordination Disorder rules his life, but he fights both DCD and the fears that chase him every day, to give Maddie and Lucas a home. Agreeing to go to a friend’s wedding is a decision he regrets long before he even gets there. But, he refuses to give in to his fear, even if he might do something that makes him a target for people’s comments and laughter. Meeting Eric, a huge man with a gentle voice and a flair for chivalry, he falls hard. Now, if only he can let himself get past his panic that Eric would never want someone like him, then maybe he could fall in love for real.
Published August 23rd 2019 by Love Lane Books Limited
While I wasn’t overly fond of the first book in the series, this one took my breath away, I loved it.
This story is so incredible sweet, some people like them some don’t, well I do. I would have loved Brady to be a bit more clumsy as he describes himself, kind of showed off a bit more of the DCD side.
I loved the main characters both are so sweet. Eric could maybe have interacted a bit more with his brothers that would have been nice too. However the story is so great that it doesn’t really matter. You just want them to be happy, you want the kinds to thrive. I seriously thought that Lucas was going to come out as gay to Brady when things went bad between them, something was off, but nope thats not it, of cause I won’t tell you the reason.
I like people like Brady, they tuck my heart and Eric pushing but still sweet and when the two comes together magic happens. I truly loved this book and can’t wait for the next one. I can’t really say much about the book, thats why this review is so short.
Can a jaded porn star with a painful past and a shy nurse who’s been burned before learn to believe in themselves and find their happily ever after?
Rick Fowler enjoys his job as rising Internet porn star Adam Swift, but it’s not exactly a career he can bring up on first dates. His few attempts at dating have all been disasters, so he’s keeping his head down and working on remaining sober. When his toxic, perma-cranky Uncle Gerard—the man who took Rick in when he was fourteen—needs round-the-clock care, Rick steps up.
In-home nurse Vinson Larrazzo is always up for a challenge. He definitely finds one in the rude Gerard Fowler—and Gerard’s shockingly gorgeous nephew Rick, who is just as grumpy. And since Vinson’s first priority is always his patient, he ignores his strong—and highly unprofessional—feelings for Rick.
But their chemistry is undeniable, and a snowstorm gives them get the perfect chance to explore it. Vinson has faith they can make it work, but to have a future together, Rick needs to find enough faith in himself to own his mistakes and let go of the past—even if that means confronting his uncle about an incident that put Rick on his dangerous, damaging road to addiction. And the fallout of those secrets might be more than Rick’s relationship with Vinson can bear.
Note: This 74,000-word novel is part of the ongoing “Perspectives” series, but it can be read as a standalone.
I don’t know about you, but when I read a whole series basically whit the same theme: I’m a porn star and I don’t want to tell you it get’s a bit boring in the end. Only one book in this series didn’t have that theme. I wish that the author would have been a bit more creative. I don’t get that the story evolves about the boys at Mean Green or what ever the company is called, I forgot. That’s great and that’s not what turns me off, it’s simply the fact that it’s the same theme used in all the books.
The story is great, I liked it 3 stars has to count for something, right? I loved Vinson, maybe because he’s a nurse too. But then again it’s all to weird when the boys tell them about the porn. It’s just like ‘ok, I don’t mind’. Again I don’t know about you, but when someone is having sex with others that you don’t tell the one you are seeing that is cheating in my book, and I can’t get past that. What if Vinson had said no and didn’t want to be with Rick because of it – and then by some grand gesture Rick won him back – I think that would have been better.
The anger and hate that Gerard and Rick ends to quickly. I get that you can’t spend half a book going over and over every little detail. But when you held something in for so long, hate and anger I don’t believe that I would go away so fast. I again for the sake of the story I’ll accept it.
The story and the characters was good, not great, but good. I wouldn’t advice to read it as a stand alone, there are too many things you would miss out when reading this book if you did.
This was also the last book of the series, I’m really not sure I’ll be reading it again.
One word?
The author uses the word Renal cancer – do you call it that? I know the medical Latin name for the kidney is renal, but I would think you just called it kidney cancer. But since I’m not English I not really sure. We tend to translate everything into danish that everyone can understand – only if talking shop we use the medical terms.
When it comes to books and reading I’m not known for resting on the laurels… Just finished a series, still need to write a review for the last one. But off I am to the next one, Today by RJ Scott I’ve been looking forward to this one. However the first book was a bit disappointing for me, I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️ on Goodreads, that for before blog so you won’t find a review here. But I hope this one is better.
“Happiness is not a goal…it is a by-product of a life well lived.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
Bernard “Bear” Henson is a blessed man. He is happily married to the love of his life, he co-owns a successful business, and his grown son is desperately in love with a wonderful partner. But Bear knows all too well how precarious that happiness is, so he lives every day with love in his heart and gratitude for everything he has—especially his husband Richard Brightman. Richard has been HIV-positive for thirty years and every new day is a gift.
When Richard becomes unexpectedly ill and is rushed to the hospital, Bear braces for his beautifully constructed life to come crashing down. A hard-won life full of ups and downs, illnesses and setbacks, love and anger, and a lot of regret for how certain things went down. Certain things involving Bear’s alcoholic ex-wife Debbie and the start of Bear’s relationship with Richard. But the past can’t be changed, only remembered and studied.
As Richard fights for his life, Bear reflects on the last thirty years of their entwined lives. College days, his shotgun wedding to Debbie, his unexpected feelings for Richard, and the proudest moment of Bear’s life: the birth of his son Gabriel. Bear’s life with Richard is woven with love, heartache, regret, joy, and everything else in between. They’ve overcome every obstacle that’s come their way, and they’ll overcome this new illness, too. Period. Bear simply isn’t ready to live his life without Richard in it.
This has to be by far one of the the best books in the series. The book is a back and forth in time novel and while that can sometimes be a bit confusing this one is clever done. It suits the book great and after reading I can’t really imagine it any other way – good thing that I don’t have too I guess.
Things falls into places, you kind the background story of Bear’s marriage with Debbie, Gabe’s mother – Gabe from book two, what really happened? And OH BOY! what a story you get, it kind of amazing. You also get the insight in Gabe being born and growning up with tow dads, they made him the man he is today, his mother not so much.
I know it’s kind of off topic and has nothing to do with the review, but I didn’t really get Debbie, why hold on to a marriage with a man she didn’t love, a pipe dream about a ‘real’ family, I don’t think so.
I liked that the author was brave enough to visit male abuse. We are educated people, but even I think that abuse mostly is a man hitting a woman thing, not really the other way around. I know that it’s out there and I fell the same if it was the other way around, no spouse should be abused man or woman. So thank for that – maybe a bit more in on the counselling would make me understand the whole thing better.
The story itself revolves mostly around Richard being hospitalised, thinking back on the years they have been together, I really like it, form the minute they met until present day. So defiantly a five star read for me.
Love can slip through the smallest crack in the door.
Perspectives, Book 3
While most of his friends have moved on to “real” careers, Jon Buchanan is content skating through life as a part-time waiter and gay porn star. Firmly single thanks to a previous relationship disaster, he focuses his spare time on Henry, a dear friend dying of cancer. And with Henry’s happiness paramount, Jon is on a mission to help Henry meet his recently discovered grandson.
Isaac Gregory hasn’t set foot outside for the past year. He has everything he needs delivered, and his remaining family knows better than to visit. When a complete stranger shows up claiming to be his grandfather—with a distractingly handsome younger man in tow—his carefully structured routines are shaken.
Despite his instant attraction, Jon senses Isaac is too fragile for a relationship. Yet tentative friendship grows into genuine companionship. And when Henry’s health begins to fail, they realize Fate brought them together for a reason.
Note: This book was previously published by Samhain Publishing. No significant changes have been made. Please read with tissues handy.
Published March 13th 2017 by Briggs-King Books (first published April 19th 2016)
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This story is a beauty. I still can’t get my head around the porn star thing and it all ending so well. I don’t mean the tea, no sir, I love those. But the ‘Oh honey, by the way, I’m doing porn’ and the boyfriend answering ‘Oh, okay’ and they live happily ever after. I’m pretty sure that would far in the real world.
I loved that cat being a part of the story, sorry guys it’s not a shifter. But it becomes kind of a therapeutic cat to Isaac breaking him out of his habits and it’s cute.
Jon is Jon and yet not. I like the guy, not that I don’t have a reason to. It’s just that he has such a caring heart and take care of both Henry and Isaac, with out asking for anything in return.
But the story of Jon and Isaac is so beautiful. There is someting about sweet and wonuable that goes straight to my heart. I just can’t help it. I was kind of excepting something completely diffrent for the reason why Isaac has his issue. Jon is so patient. But the way he acts when Henry dies I don’t get – sure I get that he’s upset, but that’s no reason for hurting Isaac. The stacker issue took me by surprise, and I think it will do the same to you. I know who you are expecting the moment you read the book… But think again my dear.
It’s a great addition to the series. the sex is kept to a minimum witch is great for this story.
I’m already reading the next book in this series.. I’ll be back when I’m done with it.
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