Tag: child abuse.

  • REVIEW: Don’t Shoot Me Santa (To Love a Psycho #4) by C.F. White

    REVIEW: Don’t Shoot Me Santa (To Love a Psycho #4) by C.F. White

      Only he decides who’s a good boy. Two years after escaping the legacy of his infamous serial killer parents, Aaron Jones has finally built something close to peace. A quiet cottage on the windswept Isle of Wight, a rescue dog named Chaos, a job using his behavioural skills, and, of course, a lover, Dr…

  • REVIEW: Killing Me Softly by C.F. White

    REVIEW: Killing Me Softly by C.F. White

      Their love was forged in shadows. Now the darkness wants to tear them apart. Aaron Jones was never meant to fall in love. Especially not with Dr Kenneth Lyons, not only his professor but also the criminal psychologist who helped profile his parents. But Kenny sees through his defences, kisses past the pain, and…

  • REVIEW: Dream A Little Dream by C.F. White

    REVIEW: Dream A Little Dream by C.F. White

    His student. His obsession. His undoing. “Aaron Jones is a spark in the dark. Beautiful. Dangerous. Capable of destruction. Kenny should have run. Instead, he lit the match.” Aaron Jones knows all about the darkness lurking beneath polished façades. His parents were infamous for it. Determined to keep everyone at arm’s length, especially those who…

  • REVIEW: The Best Hardcore Band in Pa by Bill Elenbark

    REVIEW: The Best Hardcore Band in Pa by Bill Elenbark

    The Best Hardcore Band in PA is the coming of age story of Cyrus, Jeff, and Mindy as misfit teens in a place where they’ll never be considered “normal”—Cyrus for being gay and losing his mother at age twelve; Jeff for playing hardcore music featuring the “devil’s lyrics” and questioning his sexuality in this town…

  • REVIEW: To Be Alive by B. Rourke

    REVIEW: To Be Alive by B. Rourke

    The Official Description:  At twenty-two years old, Rhett Hawkins lives a life full of secrets and lies. Nobody knows the truth about his childhood growing up in an abusive home, the eating disorder that threatens to take his life, the obsessive thoughts about death that play like a movie in the back of his mind,…

  • REVIEW: He Owns My Heart by Evie Drae

    REVIEW: He Owns My Heart by Evie Drae

    The Official Description: official description Just the facts: m/m contemporary romance, BDSM, abuse in the past, sex trade worker A dark, steamy and sensual novel about over coming the past and fighting for one another. – Kinzie Things My thoughts bit: First of all, thanks to Evie Drae for including such a well thought out and…

  • REVIEW: The Painted Phoenix by Sarah Kay Moll

    REVIEW: The Painted Phoenix by Sarah Kay Moll

    The Official Description: With paintbrush in hand, Nate Redfield takes a city full of ugliness and makes it beautiful. His quiet, empty life is a refuge from a harrowing past, and although he has nothing to love, he also has nothing to lose. Standing up to the syndicate is a good way to end up with…

  • REVIEW: The Mixtape To My Life by Jake Martinez

    REVIEW: The Mixtape To My Life by Jake Martinez

    The Official Description: Justin Ortega might as well be starring in his very own coming-of-age 80s movie. If only he could find his dream boy to pull up in front of his house in a red convertible and sweep him off his feet, already! At seventeen years young, he isn’t quite Mexican enough for his South…

  • REVIEW: The Road Between by Patrick Benjamin oooo

    REVIEW: The Road Between by Patrick Benjamin oooo

    The Official Description:  Just because you can go home again, doesn’t mean you should. Television personality, Parker Houston has spent a lifetime following that motto; Running away at seventeen and vowing never to return to the small, country town that made growing up gay, practically unbearable. But when the death of a loved one forces…

  • REVIEW: The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee is Remarkable

    REVIEW: The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee is Remarkable

    The Official Description: Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer’s image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget—that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia.…

  • REVIEW: Comes The Dark by P.A. Turner

    REVIEW: Comes The Dark by P.A. Turner

    The Official Description: Comes the Dark exposes a corrupt politician’s shadowy world of human depravity. In possession of information which could blow that shadowy world apart, 18-year-old Kyle escapes a life of abuse and goes on the run. One step ahead of his pursuers, he flees the harsh realities of Glasgow’s homeless underworld, to the…

  • QUICK REVIEWS: May 2019

    QUICK REVIEWS: May 2019

    Sometimes I manage to fit in books that I just want to read rather than ones that I have been provided by a publisher. (Not that I’m complaining!) I think I will include some of my short reviews in a monthly post!     Shadows You Left by Taylor Brooke & Jude Sierra: I came…