don't be dull, be fannish

I just realized I had almost 25GB of unsorted ebooks on my HDD! *shifty eyes* How did that happen? And then I realized that just yesterday, I got 20 ebooks for free on All Romance Ebooks' web. Yeah, that's how it happened. I'm a hoarder when it comes to books! *hangs head in shame*

You know what ebooks are really hard to find? MF that turns into MMF, you know, a het couple that takes on another man and becomes a threesome - it's always MM turning into MMF, two guys finding a poor, abused, distrustful, lonely woman... *snorts* Another hard to find gem are books with a dom!woman and a sub!man. I intensely dislike dom!man/sub!woman stories, so not my cuppa, but the other way around? Insanely hot, IMHO.

"Lessons in Love (Cambridge Fellows #1)" by Charlie Cochrane

3.5 stars out of 5

I was smitten with the language. The book is set in the early 1900s and it really felt like reading a book from that time. Sure, I'm no linguist so I can't tell if what the author used was even remotely accurate, but it really felt that way. And not just the language but the characters' behavior, their attitude towards sex, it didn't feel like a modern romance force-planted in a historical setting like most historical romances do. This felt... genuine. Like reading a romance written by an author from those times only, you know, gay. I'll definitely check out the next book in the series because I want to know more about Jonty and Orlando.

"A Pint Light" by Devon Rhodes

This is basically a mushy PWP with little to no world-building. By the end of this short e-book, the reader has no idea how this world operates, if magic is known to everyone or not, why vampires can walk freely in the sun... Nothing. Less sex, more background info and plotting would've been appreciated.

"Sort of Stranger than Fiction" by Josh Lanyon

I loved the atmosphere in this book, yet it felt... unfinished. There was no resolution, at least in my opinion. I mean, we did find out who killed those people found in the desert but other than that, the ending felt rushed. I know that not every book has to have a definite ending, but I expected something more. It felt as if the author simply didn't know how to end it, so he left it... out there, for the reader to interpret as he or she wished.

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Review: Loved the book, especially the supernatural part. And the fact that Julian was not the author's typical hero, Julian was namely - as he was called in the book (it was the 20s, don't forget!) - a "pansy" which didn't sit well with Flynn, the other main character, at least at first.

One thing that I didn't like, though, was the abrupt ending. I expected an epilogue, at least.

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Review: This is a PWP and so mushy it's ridiculous. Silver, the alpha of the pack, calls Tony, his half-human mate, his "sweet baby", "honey", "sweet, sweet boy", "angel", "sweetness"... There's purple prose and then there's this, seriously. I almost laughed out loud. It read like a really bad fanfic.

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Review: I would recommend the story to anyone who likes the TV show White Collar. Yes, in "Icecapade", a cat burglar falls for the FBI agent who's after him. Immensely likable characters, hot sex and the right dash of hurt/comfort that just pets the heart, this is Lanyon at his best.

You can either buy the story as it is or in the anthology "His For The Holidays".

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Review: Disappointed, that basically covers how I feel about the book. The main hero, Paul, is a cheating prick who couldn't keep it in his pants if his life depended on it and who keeps spouting about how he was cured of homosexuality even though he gets a hard-on for every pretty male ass he sees. Despite having a fiancée, he can't keep his hands off his ghostly ex-boyfriend, Lorin, an arrogant, selfish, pompous ass who doesn't give a damn if Paul gets fired, arrested or even killed, for that matter - and Paul, despite knowing all that is still all hot and bothered for him, putting down and generally belittling Eliott, the one man who kept waiting for him, years and years on end, during his Lorin phase and even after that. Paul basically sleeps his way through the book - that is, he sleeps with everybody and their uncle but his actual fiancée...

Despite some truly hilarious scenes, the book made me feel highly uncomfortable and aggravated :/

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Review: What started as an intriguing sci-fi quickly turned into a porny PWP. I was so disappointed because the idea was quite interesting. But instead of exploring the differences between humans and the Kuryeen, the author used the setting only as a springboard for the two main characters' humping. Some very interesting plots were touched upon - like Liam's detoxification - but it was all swept under the rug and the ending was so abrupt as if the author suddenly ran out of space. Disappointed.

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Review: First in the "Petit Morts" series. A cute little story about a window washer and a car salesman who fall in love thanks to a little candy shop called Sweets to the Sweet. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Very short and Nathan and Tommy's first date is pretty much IT, the plot of the story. Likable characters but the ending felt rushed and rather abrupt.