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Must Read Monday

I’m doing a #DiscoverMMRomance Challenge on Instagram, and on the 15th the prompt was Fave MM Rereads. I quickly listed a few stories that I’ve read more than once, created a square picture out of six covers and thought that’ll do.

But after having posted those six stories, I started thinking. I re-read books when I’m after something special, in the mood for something particular. My go-to books are of different genres and lengths, and I appreciate different things in them.

Then I started wond...

Christmas is coming to Nortown

Have you started reading your holiday stories? I haven’t read any yet but looks what’s up for pre-order, yay!

Christmas has arrived to Nortown, and someone has to be Santa during a Christmas party at Jen’s café. That someone is no other than Zachary Fane from Once in May.

John isn’t thrilled. He might like to go Jen’s from some pre-opening-hours breakfast, but a café packed with people is not his idea of fun. But no matter how much he wished he could stay at home in his safe, peaceful home, h...

Lonewolf

In the mood for some werewolves?

Today, I know what I’ve read, and that’s Lonewolf by J.L Merrow. I’ve read a few Merrow books before, but it was a long time ago now. I’ve liked all of them so why it’s gone so long I don’t know, but it’s been a couple of years, at least, since I read one.

I saw Lonewolf on Amazon on a list over short reads and picked it up. It wasn’t until I went on GR after I’d read it I realised this story has upset several readers. I’ve only read the revised version, but I...

Slow Burn Friday

I made myself laugh today. I joined on another Instagram challenge, #DiscoverMMRomance – check it out if you’re on Instagram. Today we should post Slow Burn MM. I panicked. I read short fiction, there’s no room for slow burn.

So, I hopped onto Goodreads, naturally, and went the M/M Romance Group and onto their shelves where I looked at the Theme-Slow-Burn-Ust. I spent a good amount of time oh-ing and ah-ing over books forgotten.

But which one to post on Instagram?

The first one I picked was D...

Monster Till Midnight

Halloween! We have arrived, people.

I’ve picked stories after species up until now, but today I went with the story that had a pumpkin on the cover, and I did not regret it for a second.

Monster Till Midnight by E.J. Russell is a delight. I haven’t read anything by Ms Russell before, can’t even remember seeing her name which I must have because I realised she has quite a lot out there, but her books must have swished by in my feed without me noticing. Not any more, though. I really enjoyed th...

Wrong Order

How to trade with a demon

Only one day to go to Halloween and it’s time for some demons… I have to admit that demons aren’t my thing. I haven’t read many demon books, and those I have read have mostly been M/F. There are a few I know I’ve read that I can’t remember the title of, we’ll see if I find them when going through my collections.

But, since I don’t have many demon books, and I don’t have many angel books, I thought I’d put them in one collection together. You’ll see it here.

So yeah,...

Monster Monday

We’re continuing towards Halloween. Quite frankly, I don’t know why I’m making a thing about Halloween, we don’t celebrate it here. But, I do like paranormal stories and I do like stories with a bit of an edge, and when the organisation devil digs his claws into me I have a hard time letting an idea go.

So since I figured I’d organise my ‘monster books’ in time for Halloween, I’m organising my monster books in time for Halloween.

In the name of alliteration, we’re going with Monster Monday to...

Dead Men Don’t Wash

I guess there’s truth in the title…

I’ve read Dead Men Don’t Wash by Alley Blue. It’s one of those stories I’ve seen swish by in my feed now and then, and I guess the title stuck with me. The reason I read it now is that I downloaded Still Waters by Alex Gabriel. Goodreads keep recommending to me so I thought I just have to read it, but when I downloaded it I tried to remember what that other book with water I’ve meant to read was LOL.

Dead Men Don’t Wash is one of the craziest stories I’ve r...

Five Fangs Friday

 

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I went searching for a vampire book so I could write a post about vampires. Then I had this awesome idea of listing my top five M/M vampire stories, you know, in time for Halloween and all. Only…I did that last year, and I just realised that a year has gone by and I’d still say the same thing.

So I went with my first idea and hopped onto Amazon and grabbed a vamp book – Warlock’s Cove by Jade Astor. It was on the one hour list so I figured I’d just make myself a cup o...

Werewolf Wednesday

It's Werewolf Wednesday! Not really, but it makes a good alliteration. I'm continuing my quest of trying to categorise what I've read, and since we're getting closer to Halloween, I thought I'd start with the monsters.

Check out my page over read werewolf books.

I curse myself for not keeping better track. Before I grabbed my first prompt in the Don't Read in the Closet event, which also was the first thing I ever published, I had a different Goodreads account where I used to have shelves for everything.

But starting out as a writer I had this brilliant idea of starting over - don't do that, it was idiotic. Now I don't know what I've read or when or even what I thought about the book because many books I've just clicked as read, no rating or anything. And some, when I look at them, I realise I have read them, but I don't have them as 'read' on my GR account. So, stupid, very stupid.

I don't know if you know, but it's Asexual Awareness Week. So I figured we'd combine werewolves and asexuality and therefore I've read The Alpha and His Ace by Ana J. Phoenix. I've seen the cover around but I didn't know it was a DRitC story until I read it - that means it's free.

If you've read a few M/M werewolf stories you know that there most often is this insta-mating thing, but that's just not gonna happen here. Brandon is one of the worst mama's boys I've ever seen in a character, but he's also the alpha of a werewolf pack. At the age of 25, he still hasn't found his mate, which weakens him in the eyes of some pack members.

Then he finds him, his mate!

Only, Aidan is asexual and he has no intention of jumping into bed with a stranger who claims to be a wolf and that Aidan is his mate.

I enjoyed this story a lot despite wanting to shake the characters at times, but they worked it out. It's a cute, quick read, and it's different from the usual werewolf porn...erm, I mean romance, I often read. And the genre needs a little more diversity, so yay for Ms Phoenix.

...if you thought sex was better than cake, you just hadn't met the right cake yet.

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Young, handsome, and the alpha of his wolf pack, Brandon has never had trouble finding men to have sex with. Only one thing is missing--his mate. Brandon can’t find him, and the rest of his pack is growing concerned about his lack of partner. An alpha needs a strong partner.

Things seem to be looking up when he finally finds his fated companion in Aidan. One problem—Aidan’s asexual, and Brandon’s now confused. Who doesn’t want sex? Aidan, that’s who. And Brandon hasn’t got a clue how to make someone love him without it.

It's going to take some serious self-examination, acceptance, and some really good cake for Brandon to make his way into Aidan’s heart.