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A supernatural murder mystery

Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane Paranormal Investigator #1) by Alexis Hall

December 30, 2018 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall is a paranormal F/F romance mystery. I’m always up for anything paranormal with a broody detective, so this was right up my alley. Kate Kane is a private investigator for the supernatural underworld of London. Even though she has a fairy mother, she lives her life as a human, only calling on her untested powers for emergencies. The book opens with a werewolf’s murder outside an elite vampire club. Kate’s called onto the case by her ex-boyfriend Patrick who basically […]

Love: a perpetual state of semideranged partiality

December 29, 2018 by alphabootoo Leave a Comment

For Real by Alexis Hall is not my normal sort of romance novel (I tend to favor quasi-historical romps). But I kept seeing people recommend it in various different places and I finally picked it up out of curiosity (the list that tipped me over was Slytherin/Hufflepuff pairings). I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It is contemporary BDSM m/m erotica but it has a compelling romance to ground it all. Laurie is a trauma doctor who is pushing 40. He sees 19 […]

A Well-Written Romance Novel But Not Quite for Me

July 30, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I immensely enjoyed For Real, and for some reason thought it made sense to me to follow it up with the next novel in the series even though publishing order really has no bearing on reading order for romance novels, in general. Usually, I don’t even look at romance novel covers because they have nothing to do with the book, but the Pansies cover has two men in a flower shop so it’s actually completely relevant to what is happening in the novel. I think […]

Much More Of Everything Than I Was Expecting

July 11, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I picked this up after Julia in Austin reviewed and raved about another novel by Alexis Hall and mentioned For Real as a favorite. This is actually the first M/M romance I’ve read, and it also has a BDSM focus. I think I assumed the structure would be like most of the romance novels I am familiar with but with the sex having a BDSM spin. As someone has since pointed out to me, when a novel markets itself as being BDSM or focused on […]

The 50 You Didn’t Know You Needed

June 6, 2018 by Julia in Austin 10 Comments

How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall is like 50 Shades, if 50 Shades were Gay (do I have your attention now?) Actually set in the UK (no real American uses the word ‘clamber’) Main characters are both into BDSM (though this book doesn’t have much of it) Laugh out loud funny (intentional) Beautifully written (really) Profound (proof to come) Arden St. Ives is about to sit for his exams at Oxford (for Americans: he’s about to graduate from university, not just end the […]

You can never go home again

September 5, 2017 by Lane Leave a Comment

This is book four in the Spires series but they are only very loosely connected and can be read in any order. This is my favorite of the series and actually one of my favorite romances ever, I’m not even sure why, but it connects with me on every level and it is just so stinking charming. From the Amazon description: Alfie Bell is . . . fine. He’s got a six-figure salary, a penthouse in Canary Wharf, the car he swore he’d buy when […]

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