Monthly Round-Up: May 2021

Read the thing (12):

• Dear Daddy, Please Hold Us (Naughty or Nice #3) – Colette Davison
• Dear Daddy, Please Trust Me (Naughty or Nice #8) – Rheland Richmond
• Bad Daddy (Unexpected Daddies #3) – Victoria Sue
• The Articles of Release (The Release #2) – BA Tortuga
• Falling for the Omega (Hobson Hills Omegas #1) – C.W. Gray
• Snow Kisses for My Omega (Hobson Hills Omegas #2) – C.W. Gray
• The Beta’s Love Song (Hobson Hills Omegas #2.5) – C.W. Gray
• Romancing the Omega (Hobsons Hills Omegas #3) – C.W. Gray
• Dear Daddy, Please Keep Me (Naughty or Nice #7) – Morticia Knight
• Bennett’s Dream (Hobson Hills Omegas #3.5) – C.W. Gray
• Healing the Omega (Hobsons Hills Omegas #4) – C.W. Gray
• Omega’s Protector (Poppy Field #6) – Beau Brown

Added to TBR List:

• Bad Daddy (Unexpected Daddy #3) – Victoria Sue
• Commitment Ranch (Leanin’ N #1) – BA Tortuga
• The Hate Project (The Love Study #2) – Kris Ripper
• Bitter Heat (Heat of Love #3) – Leta Blake
• Broken (Heaven and Hell Club #1) – Colette Davison
• Finding His Place – Nic Starr
• Under the Dragon’s Spell (Fires of Fate #1) – Ann-Katrin Byrde
• Rough Edges – Cardeno C.
• Cowboy Seeks Husband – Leta Blake & Indra Vaughn
• New in Town (Out of Uniform #6.5) – Annabeth Albert
• The Family We Make (Finding Family #2) – Kaje Harper
• Deefur Dog (Deefur #1) – RJ Scott
• Single Omega Dad (The Omega Misfits #4) – Wendy Rathbone
• Heartstopper Volume Four (Heartstopper #4) – Alice Oseman
• Up in Smoke (Hotshots #4) – Annabeth Albert
• Hunter’s Creek (Hunter’s Creek #1 – Victoria Sue

Monthly Round-Up: April 2021

Read the thing (20):

• Slippery When When – K. Lynn (Don’t Try This at Home)
• Dear Cody – Eric Renner (First Time For Everything)
• An Egg for Ansel (Alaskan Pebble Gifters #2) – Amy Bellows
• A Home for Ben (Alaskan Pebble Gifters #3) – Amy Bellows
• A Mate for Lu (Alaskan Pebble Gifters #4) – Amy Bellows
• A Handkerchief for Kade (Alaskan Pebble Gifters #5) – Amy Bellows
• Avialae Chapter 6 (Avialae #6) – Lucid
• Expensive (Lost Red Wolves #1) – Amy Bellows
• Winter Heat – Giovanna Reaves
• Boys, Toys, and Carpet Fitters – Taylin Clavelli (Don’t Try This at Home)
• Finding Hs Future (Greycoast Pack) – Jena Wade
• A Little Lost – Nikole Knight
• Dear Daddy, Please Praise Me (Naughty or Nice #5) – Luna David & Amy Bellows
• Apple Pie Pair (Bake Sale Bachelors #4) – Jena Wade
• A Nest for Eli (Alaskan Pebble Gifters #5) – Amy Bellows
• His Alpha’s Love – EE Silver
• Side Character (Masters of Romance #0.5) – Emma Alcott
• Daddy’s Girl – Victoria Sue
• Good Food Gone Bad – Venona Keyes (Don’t Try This at Home)
• Two of a Kind – BA Tortuga

Maybe read the thing (2):

• My Paranoid Next-Door Neighbor – Haruka Minami
• Call Me Daddy – Skyler Snow

Added to TBR List:

• Trust No Alpha (The Omega Misfits #1) – Wendy Rathbone

The Terms of Release (The Release #1) – BA Tortuga

“A man never knew when his life was gonna change.”

 

In a word: Read the thing. This sort of gave me some When All the World Sleeps vibes, which made me love this all the more, really. Sage is an ex-con recently released from prison. He doesn’t plan to return to his small Texas hometown where he doesn’t feel safe, but he ends up being called back to help his ailing father work the ranch. Sage’s plan is to just keep his head down, do his work, and keep out of trouble; which is hard-going since it seems like a lot of people in town – including the police – are out to make trouble for him. Trying to mitigate some of this on the police end is Adam, a deputy. Adam is one of the people who firmly believe that Sage isn’t completely to blame for the incident that sent him to prison, and that he’s done his time and should be able to live his life on the outside. It isn’t long after Sage is back in town that they run into each other for the first time, and it’s not long after that that they both decide that they’re attracted to each other and would like to spend a lot of time together. The story takes place over the course of a few months, during which Sage and Adam fall in love with each other in between ranch work and dodging law enforcement with an axe to grind. I loved Sage and Adam. I loved the atmosphere. I loved the writing and the voice. I loved Sage’s family and Adam’s mother. I loved Sage and Adam’s interactions and Sage’s making friends in town. I thought maybe the pacing was a bit unclear (it was a bit hard to keep track of the passage of time between the chapters), but that didn’t bother me too much. This is a great story about family, responsibility, and second chances. And I was here for it.

 

The Summary: (from Goodreads) They say a man can always come home. So after doing hard time, Sage Redding heads to his family’s northeast Texas ranch to help his ailing daddy with the cutting horses.

Adam (Win) Winchester is a county deputy and the cousin of one of the men killed in the incident that sent Sage to prison for almost a decade. While Win’s uncles, Jim and Teddy, are determined to make Sage and the entire Redding family pay for their loss, Win just figures Sage has paid his dues and maybe needs a friend. Maybe he needs more than a friend. In fact, Win’s counting on it.

No one’s denying Sage is an ex-con who went to prison for manslaughter. Regardless of the love he has for his father, he’s returned knowing things will likely go badly for him. Maybe a man can always come home, but he may not be able to stay.

This is a previously published title. The publisher has changed.

 

[available for purchase at Amazon.ca]

 

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Two Cowboys and a Baby – BA Tortuga

“How had this happened? How had they gone from fishing buddies to lovers to fathers in the matter of two weeks?”

 

In a word: Read the thing. This was actually a lot funnier than I was expecting. Not so much in the story’s events, but in the narration. I laughed a lot reading this. It’s also written in Texan slang, so that took a bit of getting used to (though not so much because it was the same when I read Trial By Fire, another Dreamspun Desires book by the same author). The story picks up immediately when rodeo cowboy Hoss McMasters discovers that someone has left an infant on his front porch. Unable to find the baby’s mother, and not wanting to get the baby lost in the foster care system, it’s decided that Hoss will care for the baby until the authorities can figure out what to do in the long term. Hoss knows nothing about caring for human babies, more used to livestock, so it takes some help from family and friends to keep everything from going to shit. Hoss’ best friend Bradley is the one who helps out the most, so it’s no surprise when long-held secret feelings get revealed and the two of them fall hard for each other. It’s also no surprise that they both get really attached to the baby. So much so that it doesn’t matter whose baby it turns out to be, Hoss and Bradley want to raise her together as a family.

 

[available for purchase at Dreamspinner Press, Amazon.ca, Book Depository, Chapters, and Barnes & Noble]

 

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Trial By Fire – BA Tortuga

“Shit, is there a gay cowboy that doesn’t start a relationship under extreme stress?”

 

In a word: Read the thing. I admit, I wasn’t a huge fan of this when I read it for the first time, but after reading it again I found that I actually liked it. The story is a bit ridiculous, and there are some plot holes, but if you’re willing to overlook this and just enjoy the story for what it is you’ll have a good time reading it. The writing took me a bit to get used to, which might be one of the biggest problems I had with the book on my first read through. I think the books in the Dreamspun Desires line are meant to be like Harlequin Romance, only with gay romance, so they’re all probably gonna be a bit ridiculous and out there and dramatic. Trial By Fire is definitely all of these things, but it’s also pretty fun and has some pretty entertaining characters to drive a fairly entertaining story.  There’s gay cowboys, Australians, biscuits and gravy, kidnapping, horses, and a guy named Crazy MacPhail. Really, what more can you ask for?

[available for purchase at Dreamspinner Press, Book Depository, Chapters, and Amazon.ca]

 

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