Review: Working Out West (Polished P & P Series Book 3) by Lila Rose

Working Out West by Lila Rose
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dating A Client

This book is a standalone story, however, the characters and their history is woven together through the previous two books in the series. This means you will get maximum enjoyment from this book if you read the previous books in the series first.

West is gay but not out with his family who are very conservative Christians that are prejudiced against homosexuals. West took the opportunity to move away from home when he got an academic scholarship at a university in a different city. In order to make ends meet he joins Polished P & P as an escort. His first client is Adrik a Russian businessman and he is smitten straight away.

Adrik’s father is actually the boss of the Russian mafia in his home town. Adrik didn’t want any part of it when he was old enough and moved to the US and changed his name, bought up some companies and went straight. He was unable to come out as gay back in Russia as it is despised generally and very specifically in the mafia. He decides to use Polished P & P for male company because it’s easier than explaining he doesn’t want a relationship. However, when he first meets West he is also smitten.

Obviously meeting as escort and client it is difficult to start a relationship and there are many rocky moments on the journey to the HEA. In fact, West has some very difficult times ahead of him and there are some quite dark moments in this book.

The found family that West has surrounded himself with is strong and supportive through his bad times and Adrik gets the opportunity to step up and care for West when he needs it the most. West is sweet and sensitive and very bright. Adrik is gruff and passionate about everything he is involved with and would do anything for the people he cares about. These two men are strangely perfect for each other and their love story is wonderful to read about, alongside the support of their friends.

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Review: Damaged and the Bulldog (Damaged Series Book 6) by Bijou Hunter

Damaged and the Bulldog by Bijou Hunter
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Facing Her Fears.

This is part of a continuing series revolving around an MC. You will definitely enjoy this book much more if you have read the previous books, as there is a large group of friends who all have shared history. There is no cliffhanger.

TRIGGER WARNING: This book covers subjects such as child abuse and sexual assault in the past and current mental health issues. If any of those subject matters cause you emotional difficulties it might be advisable to avoid this book. If you have read the rest of the series, the way these matters are handled in this book are similar to how they are handled in the rest of the series.

We met Winnie in previous books. She was rescued by the MC from a truly horrible situation with a rival MC who had kept her in a locker chest unless they wanted something from her, which was usually something that would brutalise her more. She’d been there since she was young. She has been badly damaged by her past and has anxiety and panic attacks, for which she takes medication, and has undergone significant amounts of therapy. She often retreats into herself to hide from her pain. She is incredibly shy and it’s only recently that she’s started talking to people other than her adoptive family. As well as being damaged she is sweet and supportive to her friends and family, is organised, hard-working and loyal.

Dylan was introduced in Lark’s book. He is Lark's step-brother but he had a crush on her and borderline stalked her, on his father’s orders. He did as his overbearing and controlling father told him to in an attempt to gain his approval, but he never did. He finally stopped being controlled when he saw the harm that his family was doing to Lark. Since then he has broken free of his family and has focused on his business and become part of the crew of friends that Lark is now part of.

Dylan and Winnie are very attracted to each other but Dylan doesn’t feel good enough for Winnie and vice versa. Eventually, Harlow, Winnie’s sister takes pity on them both and sets them up for a date, which she has to go on because of Winnie’s inability to speak to Dylan.

This is such a strange courtship but it makes sense in the context of the characters. Winnie is very damaged and needs her family to keep her safe but she still longs for Dylan. Dylan isn’t as undamaged as Winnie thinks and as they get to know each other more they see the truth of who each other is.

I’ve always been fond of Winnie’s character as she is so kind and sweet. She works so hard to overcome the obstacles that life has thrown in her path and keeps getting up in the morning and facing her fears. Dylan started out as a character I didn’t much like but has slowly redeemed himself throughout the series, to the point when I was glad to see him get his girl. The HEA is heartwarming for two people who care about each other so much, and have had to overcome a lot.

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Review: Saltlands (Population Series Book 2) by Elizabeth Stephens

Saltlands by Elizabeth Stephens
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Abel The Rescuer

I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This is the second book in a continuing series. This book follows the first one immediately and won’t make any sense without the first book.

Abel is stuck in a cave with Mikey and Kane has been kidnapped by a 1000 year old Other. It feels like they’ve gone from the frying pan into the fire. Mikey isn’t even that good of a companion. He’s been stuck in a cave for 3 years and all he cares about is booze and how everything his brother is and does is better than him.

Abel has to deal with gangs, cannibals, Others and a drunk brother-in-law. Assaulted, tortured and on the edge of death more times than she can count, life feels no less dangerous now than it always did, in fact, it sometimes feels a lot worse.

This book is full of edge of the seat moments, where you wonder how on earth they are going to get out of this next predicament. Abel is definitely put through the wringer and often it’s the blood she’s taken from Kane that keeps her from death.

Mikey is a very confused character. He is so envious of his brother it’s like cancer eating at his heart. His envy colours all his actions towards his brother’s wife. There’s a lot of arguing.

The plot is once again intriguing and sets a cracking pace as you get pulled along. This is a really good series and I’m enjoying it a lot. I believe the next book follows the same timeline but follows a different couple. I’m happy to shift over to someone else because I’m enjoying the story of this world and the people in it.

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Review: Brak (Ka'atari Warriors Series Book 2) by Kenzie Kelly

Brak by Kenzie Kelly
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Much More Action

As this is the second book in the series a lot of the world-building had already been done. This meant that the characters could get straight into the action, which was accomplished by Anela, the marine from UN Space Station that was destroyed, carefully sneaking aboard the spaceship of the race that killed her fellow humans.

Trying to find data about the location of Earth, she also finds one of the warriors sent before her, that didn’t return, Brak. He has been tortured and is severely injured and she manages to get him free.

Brak is one of the warriors who helped save Anela and her fellow humans, so Anela already likes and respects him. He feels the same way about her, as he knew she managed to save one of the women, who would have otherwise died. Brak is strong and loyal, but his torture has badly affected him.

This story has the couple meeting several different races and also has a cute alien pet that is incredibly deadly, except to it’s friends. I can sense a series theme going on here! The increased action and plot made a much more interesting book than the first in the series. I definitely want to know what happens next, in particular, because the title of the next one is Droscal and he was a really interesting character we met briefly in this book.

This is becoming a really interesting series, as well as a fun one.

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Review: Handfuls of Shattered Pieces (Pieces of Us Series Book 1) by Kerry Taylor

Handfuls of Shattered Pieces by Kerry Taylor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Angsty Slow Burn NA RH

I'd probably give this book 3.5 ⭐ if I could.

Olivia Byrd was taken from her family aged 8 years old and held for 9 years by a monster. She was tortured and lived in the dark and silence until one day she was running away through the woods unable to remember how she got there.

A young doctor, Xander, was working in the ER when she was brought in and he connected with the traumatised victim when no one else could. Hoping to return to her family, Olivia was further devastated to learn that her family was gone and she was alone.

Xander was adopted by wonderful people who also fostered others. He reached out and managed to get her placed with his adopted parents because he knew that if anyone could reach Olivia it was Keira and Grant and their family.

I felt wrung out by the end of this book. Olivia goes through so much before we even meet her in this book and then she goes through more stuff. I just want to wrap her up in cotton wool and give her armed guards, her foster parents felt the same, unsurprisingly.

I think my main problem with this book is that this incredibly traumatised young woman refuses to speak to a psychologist because of unreasonable fears and they don’t push her to reconsider. They also do really dumb things like taking her to the mall and a party, both of which go wrong, unsurprisingly. For experienced foster parents of traumatised young people, Keira and Grant don’t seem very sensible.

There are lots of really unrealistic parts of this story, but it doesn’t really detract from the narrative. The author is able to get the reader to skim over why a part is a bit unfeasible quite well, by wrapping them up in the story.

We don’t get much information about the guys in this situation. We know they have experienced their own trauma, but we don’t know what or why. As this is a series I imagine more information about the other characters may be forthcoming.

If you want to feel a lump in your throat and gasp in sympathy for how awful Olivia’s life is, then this is the book for you. If you want something cheerful, this is NOT the book for you.

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Review: Flame Kissed (Phoenix Rising Series Book 1) by Annie Anderson

Flame Kissed by Annie Anderson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Complex and Intriguing World

This is actually the second time I tried to read this book. I think the first time I wasn’t really in the right frame of mind to read it and enjoy it because there are some quite complicated plot ideas and world building that aren’t quite always explained in a way that makes it easy to comprehend. However, second time around, after reading a few other books by this author I was able to work around my lack of comprehension because the world was explained in those later books differently. At the end of the book is a comprehensive glossary, if I had known it was there when I got confused I could have saved my brain too much work.

Aurelia is a phoenix, and a seer. As a young woman she was told that she wasn’t going to be given a choice, as should have been the case, to either become an oracle and lose her sight or to choose exile. Aurelia didn’t want to become an oracle and chose to rebel, and married her lover in secret. When the leader of their people found out her wishes were ignored she forced the man who loved Aurelia in secret, Rhys, to kill Aurelia’s husband and this lead to Aurelia losing her baby.

160 years later she is living as an artist, hidden from the world, mentally and emotionally fragile, her only real friend a wraith and protected from the shadows by the man who killed her husband, who was bonded to her by force by the leader of her people. When she is found by her people, she and Rhys escape with their lives but others do not.

This book has violence and heartache, but it also has friendship and love. The world of phoenix and wraiths is fascinating and complex, I just wish I’d known about the glossary before I started reading because some concepts are not explained clearly in the actual body of the book.

Aurelia is a strange mixture of fragile and tough. She has been pounded with visions of death that don’t stop for 160 years, whilst being largely alone to deal with her personal losses and trauma. She suffers from PTSD and all of the hideousness that entails. However, she has made herself physically strong, unlike most seers, who rely on their Soldiers to protect them. She trains in martial arts every day and has exceptional weaponry skills. She uses this to balance out feeling mentally or emotionally weak and burns through her anguish physically.

Rhys is a man who has been loyal and determined in his long-distance protection of the woman he is bound to. He is strong physically and mentally, despite his personal losses. He has been slightly less isolated than Aurelia, but still has few friends considering his age.

These two characters make for intriguing chemistry and it is enjoyable watching them spark and flare. I also liked some of the supporting characters and look forward to seeing them develop later in the series.

Now I’ve got over my initial resistance to this book, I know I’ll read the rest of the series because each book will make things clearer so my confusion, the thing that annoyed me the most about this book, will become less.

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Review: Ori - The Lost Verndari by Oriana Star

Ori - The Lost Verndari by Oriana Star
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Interesting World Building

This book has interesting world building, even if it feels a little fuzzy around the edges, like it’s not quite fully formed. It’s in a world where humans aren’t living well and there are other species living in the world (it’s not clear why humans are poor and downtrodden or what the other supernatural creatures are). The Verndari are a race of magic users. At the age of 18 a female Verndari ‘awakens’ and her magic calls to her four mates. These mates provide stability for her magic and enhances the mates magic too.

We start the book with a female Verndari baby being hidden in the human foster care system to keep her safe from her father, by her mother. That girl is Ori and her experience of foster care is torturous (literally). She is in the midst of being thrown out of her foster home on her 18th birthday when she awakens and her magic pulses bring her into the Verndari fold, where things are still very precarious for her.

There are some interesting aspects to the plot, but, like the world building, it feels a little fuzzy around the edges. It feels like the author hasn’t really lived deeply in the story for long enough before finishing the book. However, it was definitely interesting enough to keep me reading until the end.

I liked Ori, I thought she was an interesting character. Living with physical and mental torment for most of her life and then being thrust into a magical world she doesn’t understand, is not easy. She is instantly given mates that she wasn’t expecting and told to learn magic quickly or she may die/be killed. She is strong and holds up to everything, probably a little too well to be believable. Everything happens too fast for her to cope as well as she does. It makes me feel less connection with her because she doesn’t feel quite real.

The other characters are also interesting and I wish we’d learn more about them. We were just given hints of who they are and what they are capable of. The insta-love aspect of the mate bond always drives me a bit nuts because magic can only over-ride so much human hesitation, surely? If you put my hesitation, on that front, aside, then the relationship between Ori and her mates is really sweet and supportive. Though I have to say the sex scenes were a bit formulaic for my liking.

All that being said, and I know it seems that there was a lot to criticise, I did really like the book. I just feel that it could have done with a really good editor. It needed someone to be ruthless and push the writer to cut back on what felt unnecessary and push forward what needed more fleshing out. It also needed a good proof reader because the use of ‘wondering’ instead of ‘wandering’ and ‘unemphatic’ instead of ‘unempathatic’ are just two of the examples that I remember off the top of my head. This had the potential to be a much better book and I hope that with practice and possibly really good beta readers the author finds her potential, because I can see the glimmers of a really good writer here.

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Review: Desolation Road (Torpedo Ink Series Book 4) by Christine Feehan

Desolation Road by Christine Feehan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dark Paranormal MC Romance

I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.

I’ve been reading Christine Feehan books for years, starting out in my library days. Some of the series are better than other and I think this one is one of my favourites. The books are kind of standalone, but you will be confused at times if you haven’t read the other books in the series.

Absinthe is a member of Torpedo Ink, an MC that started with a core of 18 members. Those members escaped from Russia where they had been tortured and trained as children to be assassins. In order to survive they developed their physical, mental and psychic skills, working together to gain their freedom.

Absinthe’s skills often leave him overwhelmed by images of not only his past but the horrors of his brothers’ past too. In order to get away and find peace he finds libraries and one day he walked into one where Scarlet, the librarian, works. Immediately drawn to one another, Absinthe takes his time to make his first approach, never dreaming that her need for him is as great as his for her.

One of the things about these books is that they good long books. They don’t try and cram everything in at under 250 pages. You get slow build up of tension and the characters are given time to breathe. The characters within Torpedo Ink are all incredibly close to each other because of what they have endured, and the way they relate to each other is fascinating. Their interactions form the backbone of the series and time is spent on their relationships with each other, as well as focusing on the romance.

As I said in the header, this is a dark book. There are explicit depictions of torture, rape, murder and child abuse. If these subjects make make you uncomfortable you have been warned. However, the author does not revel in the darkness, in fact these images and facts are used to show how far the characters have come. Nonetheless I feel it necessary to make a point of warning people about those images.

I really enjoyed this book and was drawn into the story very quickly, as the plot was interesting. There are lots of hot scenes, including bdsm, which were fun to read. I have pre-ordered the next book because I don’t want to miss what happens next with this unusual MC.

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Review: Switch & Burn (Royal Bastards MC: Idaho Chapter Series Book 1) by Bink Cummings

Switch & Burn by Bink Cummings
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Hot Bikers

I love Bink Cummings. She creates such wonderful characters. In this novella that is part of a series created by multiple authors about different chapters of the same MC she creates a new group of bikers and weaves them into the existing ones.

This chapter of The Royal Bastards MC is made up of a small group of brothers who are all damaged in some way. They earn their way through underground fights. Burn is the VP and basically runs the place because his Dad is the Pres and really only interested in sex and booze.

Burn was tortured by having gasoline poured over him and being lit on fire. His burns are sensitive to touch and he feels ugly. He hasn’t really been involved with anyone for years.

Switch is a new young guy that turns up, brought by Bonez and Whiskey from Corrupted Chaos MC. He was rescued from traffickers but won’t speak, won’t take part in counselling and acts out violently, a perfect fit for their chapter. Burn takes him under his wing and moves him into his rooms to make sure he doesn’t get into trouble.

These two guys aren’t able to communicate properly but that doesn’t stop them understanding each other. I loved their bond. I really liked all the characters and felt that there was definite scope for Bink to expand the universe somewhat and work with these great characters in future books and maybe mash up some MC worlds!

As always this was a well written, passionate and interesting book. The plot is straight forward, which is par for the course in a novella, but the story is no less heart felt and intriguing for it. It’s made me want to look at some of the other books in this series to see if I can find some new MC writers to add to my list of those I enjoy reading. I have faith there will be one or two!

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Review: Oath of Gold (The Deed of Paksenarrion Series Book 3) by Elizabeth Moon

Oath of Gold by Elizabeth Moon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’d give this book 4.5 stars if I could.

This third book in the trilogy is a fantastic way to end it. We ended the last book with the downward spiral of Paks and her disappearance from her friends. In this book she finds herself back in Brewersbridge and to avoid seeing people she knows ends up hiding in The Grove. She is in a bad way both mentally and physically and Master Oakhollow takes her in and helps her.

When she is healed physically and as mentally as she’s going to get, she finds herself back on a similar path to that which she always dreamed of, but with a very different understanding of that path. Her experiences have changed the way she views herself and the world and it has made her a better character for it. She has been through hell and back and come out a stronger and more compassionate person.

Most of this book is taken up with Paks’ quest, set by the gods. Her strength of character and depth of belief is challenged on an ongoing basis and her previous alliances and friendships help her achieve her goals. I love that the ended of this book, isn’t really an ending. It’s more of a ‘this is how this story ends, but Paks carries on living her best life’.

The book is well written and the world in which Paks dwells is convincingly created. The only reason this whole series didn’t get 5 stars across the board is because Paks always stands a little apart from the world and doesn’t fully engage with people who become friends. There is always a distance. I know this is a decision the author made because Paks’ full purpose is to do the work of the gods, but I don’t think she needed to be quite as self-sufficient as she was. Her friendships were always transitory and she was always a bit of an island. However, if her friendships had meant more than her duty, this would have been a very different series of books, I just felt that there could have been a little bit more of a balance in experiencing human connections. Apart from that one quibble, I loved this book and the rest of the series as much as I remembered. Maybe I’ll dig out some more old paperbacks!

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Review: Divided Allegiance (The Deed of Paksenarrion Series Book 2) by Elizabeth Moon

Divided Allegiance by Elizabeth Moon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’d give this book 4.5 stars if I could.

This book has Paks travelling on her own for the first time since she left home to join the Duke’s Company. She leaves The Duke because he has got into a poor alliance and the actions of their ally goes against everything that Paks is. She is given leave to find another path and joins a caravan to head back home to the north.

She has many adventures on her path, both good and bad, meeting new friends and defeating new foes. She is given the opportunity of a lifetime and her childhood dreams seem to be coming true, until they come to an abrupt end.

This book will rip your heart out as you watch all that was golden and good in Paks become broken and tarnished. It’s a really challenging book and as one reviewer commented a timely reminder that even if we stretch out a hand to someone who is suffering mentally, sometimes they can’t see the hand in the dark and will walk away believing no one cares. This is especially true of members of the armed forces who suffer from PTSD.

In this book we see the author’s life experience shine through, from her experiences training to be an officer to seeing how fellow combatants are treated. It’s a hard book to read, but a worthwhile one.

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Review: Rogue; Planet Athion (Survivor's Heart Series Book 1) by Debbie Cassidy

Rogue; Planet Athion by Debbie Cassidy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Fighting For Survival

Rogue makes my heart hurt. She’s been through so much, she doesn’t even have her own name anymore. We are thrown in at the deep end with her as she fights for survival in a gladiator pit, her House’s team fighting against another’s. Her team may be victorious and she may be alive but she still lives in a cell, living on gruel and tortured by her captors.

Rogue was kidnapped from Earth and dispatched to a rock at the end of nowhere to entertain the masses. No longer fertile due to a drug she has been transformed into a berserker. She still has friends who make her life bearable, but she is tormented daily as the lone woman in the fights.

The author builds a world cleverly bit by bit as the nature of Rogue’s situation is revealed. We learn about the different species she is fighting against and with and hear more of her personal story. Then she is thrown at the hardest House Team to beat and she knows her days are numbered.

This subject matter is handled well and the horror and banality of Rogue’s situation is conveyed to the reader. We cannot help but empathise with her situation, an ordinary girl from England suddenly out amongst the stars fighting for her life.

There is a cliff hanger but the next book is already available.

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Review: Succubus Sins (Blood Stone Series Book 1) by J R Thorn

Succubus Sins by J.R. Thorn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Intriguing and Dark Paranormal Reverse Harem

This is the first book I’ve read by this author, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I got was a well written and thought out book, about darkness, desire and love.

Sonya is a succubus. She loves her muse girlfriend and for her she refuses to feed on men, but gets no nourishment from her girlfriend. Slowly, over time, she begins to get close to death and her incubus nature snaps and forces her to live by seducing a human man. This moment forces her to start down a path that will lead her to her destiny, one that was prophesied by her now deceased mother. She is covered in runes that link her to four men who share in her destiny, she just needs to find them and then work out what her destiny actually is!

This book is intriguing as the author doles out tiny tidbits of information about the overarching story as we see how Sonya and the people around her are reacting to the immediate situation. It’s very cleverly and subtly done. The characters are equally intriguing as they are complex and layered.

Sonya, herself, is a moral person who hates that her need for sexual energy causes men to lose themselves and their life force to keep her alive. She shies away from her power and is deeply conflicted about her own existence. Other characters in the book are equally interesting and multifaceted. I don’t quite yet feel a connection with the characters and I think that might be because I’m not sure who the good guys and bad guys are yet, and there was so much information shoved at me I need to work out how I feel about it all.

There are some quite dark moments in the book with some torture scenes. They weren’t too explicit or grisly but there a few moments that made me flinch.

This is a series with several books, and I’m interested to continue reading it, but not straight away as there was so much to digest I think my brain needs to sort through it all before moving on.

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Review: Recovering the Siren (Seraphine Thomas Series Book 10) by Erin R Flynn

Recovering the Siren by Erin R. Flynn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Playing Politics

This book is all about recovering Sera from her kidnappers, and her recovery from that ordeal. After getting out of hospital she heads back home and starts the long road back to full health, but that doesn’t stop her being involved in paranormal politics once she catches up.

Most of this book is paranormal politics, even including the presidents of two different countries! Sera wants to make things better for all people, not just the shifters, but do that she needs the paranormal game playing to take a back seat for once, and it’s not easy trying to make it happen.

It’s interesting to watch Sera being fragile physically and being low on power, because from the very first book, even when human, she has been strong and confident and capable. Whilst she is recovering, Sera is frail, in pain and unable to defend herself. It’s a radical change from being the all powerful alpha she had been, but it proves to her how much people care, as they rally around and provide protection and support.

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Review: The Last Vampire: Book One (The Last Vampire Series Book 1) by RA Steffan and Jaelynn Woolf

The Last Vampire: Book One by R.A. Steffan and Jaelynn Woolf
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Interesting Urban Fantasy

I enjoyed this interesting twist on a vampire book, being about the vampire in existence. Rans is a centuries old vampire who fought in the demon/fae war on the side of the demons. The fae won that war and demons are no longer allowed to interfere on Earth.

Rans is shot and finds shelter in a shed, where he is disturbed by Zorah, a 20-something waitress, whose mother was shot when she was 6 and whose father checked out on being a Dad when it happened. She has been on her own since she was 18, when her Dad moved to a different city, leaving Zorah behind in the old family home. She suffers from chronic joint and muscle pain and is exhausted all the time.

Rans has to feed on Zorah as he’s been so badly injured and when he tastes her blood, which has a unique flavour to it, he decides to watch her and see what happened next.

It’s an unusual take on vampires, which I like, and Zorah is an interesting character, that we don’t get shown enough of. Rans has a very interesting past, that we’re never going to see all of. This combination makes me want to read the next book, just to find out more about these interesting characters.

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