#A MelanieM Review

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Review: The Earl and the Executive: An Imperial Space Regency Novel by Kai Butler

Rating: 4🌈 As a long time fan of the novels of Georgette Heyer, I’ve loved to see the trope of regency romance given various interpretations by other writers, whether it’s keeping the stories within the same genre‘s era but in a LGBTQIA framework. Or, as Butler and a few others have , taken Regency Romance right into Space and beyond! The Earl and the Executive is the first of three released…

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An absolutely AMAZING review from MelanieM at Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words. 

I’m speechless, this was wonderful! 

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Review: On Thin Ice: A Young Adult Gay Romance Series (Chesterford Coyotes Book 2) by RJ Scott and V.L. Locey

Rating: 5🌈 Chesterfield Coyotes is an excellent YA LGBTQIA hockey series from R.J. Scott and V.L. Locey. A YA spinoff from the original ‘Harrisburg Railers’ hockey series, the Chesterfield Coyotes continues to be very successful at bringing the reader into a high school environment. One acknowledged as competitive, often stressful, whether that world is a private or public high school. Each…

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Review: Be My Endgame by Zarah Detand

Rating: 4.25🌈 “It was on. Number one against number three, battling it out in a tight race for the top spot in the Premier League.” — Be My Endgame: An MM Rivals-to-Lovers Sports Romance by Zarah Detand It thanks almost totally to Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ series about buying Wrexham, a Welsh football (soccer to us in the US) team, I do know a bit about the…

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Review: Contested Crown (The Empty Throne Trilogy #2) by Kai Butler

Rating: 4.75🌈 Contested Crown, the second novel in The Empty Throne Trilogy, hits so many high marks. It easily overcomes the usual second book syndrome in a series, by ramping up the multiple storylines Butler has already established in the first book. The author does a great job introducing new characters whose meaning and connections to the men on the run are clouded by the new dark mysteries…

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Review: Cited to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 1) by Meg Perry

Rating: 4.25🌈 I love a mystery. So give me a new-to-me author, a mystery novel that represents not one but two connected mystery series and I’m in. Cited to Death: A Jamie Brodie Mystery (Jamie Brodie Mysteries Book 1) by Meg Perry is all the above. This is a first book by Perry for me and I was very entertained by the mystery and invested in the characters Perry has created for her…

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Review: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

Rating: 5🌈 “Do not embrace me till each circumstance Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump That I am Viola Twelfth Night” Regency romance has and is a great favorite of mine, starting from the first Georgette Heyer novel I read back in my childhood. And I have been steadily consuming different authors versions or interpretation of this genre, whether they stay true to the timeframe of…

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Review: Gary of a Hundred Days: MM Fantasy Romance (The Unwanted King Book 1) by Isabel Murray

Rating: 5🌈 I can’t imagine when a new author made me laugh so hard as does Isabel Murray in her Gary of a Hundred Days, the first in The Unwanted King series. Gary, that naive, gentle, innocent , sweet man who’s awkwardly stumbled through his entire life as the youngest son of a short lived, short reigning, somewhat nasty, royal family. Now, as the last of his line, however, unprepared and…

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Review: Dealing With Mapinguari and Dogged Engineers (The Sorcerer's Grimoire Book 2) by AJ Sherwood

Rating: 4.5🌈 It’s hard to rate exactly which of Sherwood’s many series are my favorites, but The Sorcerer’s Grimoire is, even at two books, among those I hold dear. It’s in the universe she’s created, so recognizable and yet not, magical, imaginative and with our histories carefully bound together. It’s in the beautifully crafted, multidimensional characters she’s created and then given such…

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Review: The Play (Charleston Condors Book 4) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 5🌈 What a wonderful story and fantastic way to send off the series and this team. The interactions between holdover player, defensive end Deacon Harris and the new owner of the Charleston Condors, security industry billionaire Grant Green, has been a subtle but significant part of the series and team’s dynamic. It was always clear that the two men had a strong connection and attraction…

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Review: The Waiting Game: An M/M Hockey Romance (Relationship Goals Book 3) by Brigham Vaughn

Rating: 4🌈 “Fisher Cats’ Hale and Brewer Engaged: College Sweethearts or Fake Relationship?” Faked engagement, best friends to lovers , bi-sexual awakening, hurt/comfort m/m hockey contemporary romance time! That’s a lot of tropes for a novel, and it’s not even close to covering the best elements that Vaughn includes in The Waiting Game. This is the third in Brigham Vaughn’s Relationship Goals…

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Review: How Tan Acquired an Apprentice (How I Stole the Princess's White Knight and Turned him to Villainy) by AJ Sherwood

Rating: 5🌈 “The emergency contact mirror on his desk buzzed with an incoming call, jittering on the wood as if conveying the caller’s agitation. Tan snatched it up promptly, still looking around suspiciously. “Hi, I’m Tan. I own the place, and I’m going to go cry.” Tan, that magnificent Black Sorcerer of Grimslock, is back in a short magical tale of acquisition and revenge. Mostly…

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Review: Shoulda Swiped Left by K. L. Hiers

Rating: 2.5 Hiers is an author that’s a hit or miss writer for me. I really liked the last book I read , Twelve Days of Squidmas by H.L. Hiers . Thought the characters and plot were well developed and had depth. But one before that was a DNF and I didn’t even review it. Shoulda Swiped Left by K. L. Hiers came much, much closer to a DNF than the previous holiday romance. I am astonished because…

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Review: Fake Dates and Fanged Mistakes (Fanged Mistakes Book 1) by Alice Winters

Rating: 5🌈 I’m an Alice Winters fan and this latest book is a prime example why. Fake Dates and Fanged Mistakes is the first in Winters new Fanged Mistakes series and contains all the best of a Winters novel experience. Her characters are intelligent with at least one having a history that’s incredibly tragic or traumatic. The dialogue is witty, fast paced, sarcastic , and filled with humor.…

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Review: Clueless Puckboy (Puckboys, #5) by Eden Finley and Saxon James

Rating: 5🌈 When I’m not even at 15% and all I’ve done is laugh so hard I’m crying and my sides are in stitches, you bet I’m giving the book a 5 star rating. Clueless Puckboy is right. And probably my favorite novel to date out of a bunch of crazy hockey stories from this pair of authors. Ayri Quinn is fighting an adductor injury and doesn’t want his team trainers to know he’s not as recovered…

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Review: A [Non] Comprehensive Guide to Sea Serpents (Sorcerer's Grimoire #1) by A.J. Sherwood

Rating: 5 🌈 I’m never quite sure which way one of Sherwood’s series is going to go , whether it’s a bit dark or lighter in tone, but I’m always excited to dive in for the journey . A [Non] Comprehensive Guide to Sea Serpents could have gone dark so deeply with our introduction to how Sorcerer Adrien Danvers rescued not one but two young street boys who will become his apprentice and found…

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