Y'all are going to laugh, but I spent the week rereading Murderbot Diaries again. I can't help it. Some of my pre-orders showed up this week. I'm excited about them, so we'll see how it goes after I finish this read-thru out Murderbot... LOL
Series: Unbreakable Soldiers, 3
Author: Megan Derr
Length: 315 pages
Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Ace / Bisexual /
Notes: I'm really excited for this. I'm thinking about reading the first two books to refresh my memory, though if I'm impatient, I'll just jump in. I adore this cover. ADDED note: so after I created this post, I decided that I would test the waters and see if I needed to reread the first two books. Then stayed up until 1 a.m. reading. There are enough reminders to give you pertinent background information. So, no, I didn't need to reread and I'm loving the story. As of this update, I'm at 52% and will probably finish before this post goes live. :)
Blurb: Bertin is a liar and a thief. Once an orphan on the street stealing purses, his life was forever changed when he saved a boy's life—and then became that boy to the rest of the world. But one lie always leads to another, and life as a Belemeren spy planted in the Engineer Corp has led him to the role of liaison in Ruemri, a kingdom he helped Ruemri's enemies steal.
His primary duty is to watch King Sesta, which means he is himself watched by the whole of Ruemri's royal court. For a man used to being overlooked and ignored, the situation is a living nightmare. That situation is further worsened when he receives word of an unspecified terrible event that is going to take place—and then the last person he expected arrives, bringing Bertin's past and secrets with him.
Title: Changeling
Series: Outcast Mates
Author: Lee Colgin
Length: 244 pages
Genre: Romance / Historical Fantasy / Paranormal / Gay
Notes: I've been looking forward to this since I read Mongrel.
Blurb: Dominus—an incubus who runs a brothel called The Twig & Berries—is bored with his life and customers alike.
Sebastian—a changeling faerie swapped at birth for a human infant—is reeling with the knowledge of his true heritage. Unsafe among humans, he travels north to meet others of his kind.
But danger lurks, and when Sebastian is forced to hunker down with Dominus for safe harbor, the tension between them flares hot.
Sebastian is the only person that’s piqued Dominus’s interest in ages, but he’s fae. And Dominus has reason to despise faeries.
Forced together as trespassers infiltrate the territory, will enemies become lovers or will a curse keep them apart forever?
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Changeling is an MM Paranormal Fantasy Romance featuring enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, a steamy love story, lamb on a stick, and surprise visitors from other novels. If you enjoyed Beneath the Opal Arc, this book's for you.
Sebastian—a changeling faerie swapped at birth for a human infant—is reeling with the knowledge of his true heritage. Unsafe among humans, he travels north to meet others of his kind.
But danger lurks, and when Sebastian is forced to hunker down with Dominus for safe harbor, the tension between them flares hot.
Sebastian is the only person that’s piqued Dominus’s interest in ages, but he’s fae. And Dominus has reason to despise faeries.
Forced together as trespassers infiltrate the territory, will enemies become lovers or will a curse keep them apart forever?
***
Changeling is an MM Paranormal Fantasy Romance featuring enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, a steamy love story, lamb on a stick, and surprise visitors from other novels. If you enjoyed Beneath the Opal Arc, this book's for you.
Title: Blood of the Pack
Series: Dark Ink Tattoo, 1
Author: Cassie Alexander
Length: 158 pages
Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Bisexual
Notes: this was saved in my interested folder. I've never read this author before so not sure what to expect. BTW, what does 'strong sexual situations' actually mean?
Blurb: Angela: I know fear well. It’s had me looking over my shoulder since the day I ran from The Pack, Nevada’s most dangerous werewolf motorcycle gang. I’ve had seven years to build a life and my tattoo parlor with the help of my best artist, Jack. But I’m living on borrowed time. My ex-boyfriend may still be in prison, but that won’t stop him from getting what he wants — our son.
Jack: I want her, I crave her, but I can never have her. So I wait and watch from the shadows. But when a friend is murdered by the same gang that’s threatening Angela, I vow that they will never touch her. Their blood will be mine first.
She’s a wolf backed into a corner.
He’s a vampire on a tight leash.
Welcome to Dark Ink Tattoo, where needles aren't the only things that bite.
Blood of the Pack is the first book in the Dark Ink Tattoo series -- it's a scorching paranormal in the vein of Sons of Anarchy, with strong sexual situations and bisexual MCs.
Jack: I want her, I crave her, but I can never have her. So I wait and watch from the shadows. But when a friend is murdered by the same gang that’s threatening Angela, I vow that they will never touch her. Their blood will be mine first.
She’s a wolf backed into a corner.
He’s a vampire on a tight leash.
Welcome to Dark Ink Tattoo, where needles aren't the only things that bite.
Blood of the Pack is the first book in the Dark Ink Tattoo series -- it's a scorching paranormal in the vein of Sons of Anarchy, with strong sexual situations and bisexual MCs.
Title: Plaidypus
Series: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count)
Author: RJ Blain
Length:
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Notes: The release date for this has been pushed around a couple of times, from 11/2021 to 01/2022, the last that I heard. I thought I'd missed it's release but I didn't. The release was pushed back to May. I'm okay with that.
Blurb: After a close encounter of the hotspot kind, Nadine’s paws are full figuring out how to feed her thirsty vampire of a brother, trying to convince the CDC she actually can be a shapeshifter infected with the lycanthropy virus, and dodging the pack of crazy women out for her blood—or her brother’s body.
She’s not sure if they want her or her brother, but she doesn’t want to find out.Nadine knows one thing for certain: her backwater town is too small for everybody coming to pay her family of two a visit. Maybe she doesn’t have a male platypus’s venomous spurs, but she’s ready to put up a fight to protect her brother, and not even the sexy plaid-clad stranger strutting his stuff is going to lure her away from home.
Assuming she’ll be given a choice in the matter is only the first of her mistakes.
Warning: this novel contains the mythical plaidypus and other deadly puns, romance, bodies, a minimum of two Canadians, and a mandatory magical adventure to Australia. Proceed with caution.
Plaidypus can be read as a standalone.
Series: Vol 1
Author: Narise Konohara
Length: 238 pages
Genre: Manga
Notes: I've been wanting to read this for a while.
Blurb: Since becoming a vampire, Albert’s life has fallen into an unchanging cycle-day to night, bat to vampire, USA to…Japan? After a mishap at a meat-processing plant in Nebraska, bat-Al is flash-frozen alongside his midday snack and shipped to a foreign land! Explaining to police how he really ended up wandering naked is out of the question, not to mention he doesn’t know a word of Japanese! Al will have to rely on the kindness (?) of his new companions if he’s going to get by in Tokyo-that is, if he can convince them he’s the bat!
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