His Kindred Spirit by Sloan Johnson
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short Story (131 pages)
Other: M/M, Anal Play
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Dane has built his life around not relying on anyone but himself. When he travels from New York City to North Carolina at the request of his estranged, incarcerated father, he learns truths he’d rather not know… along with inheriting a share in his grandfather’s inn. But the place comes with complications, including a man he will have to walk away from—but can’t help falling for.

When you are burned out with job and viagra sans prescription obligations at residential home, your resistance and appeal for sex suffers. Since, viagra cost it can indisputably prove unsafe to their life. Even a day of order cialis online stress can cause dropdown in male potency and lessen power of male’s junior. It is usually order viagra seen in young people, most commonly during their puberty stages. Brook has only known romance through notes left in a mailbox at the end of the beach. When he’s tasked with showing his boss’s gorgeous nephew what makes Sunset Beach and Bird Island special, he’s compelled to take Dane to his favorite place.

Dane never wanted the inn, but when it’s threatened, he steps up to defend it… and keep the man he’s coming to love by his side and in his life. But first they’ll have to clean up Dane’s uncle’s mess.

Dane had taken a few hard knocks in life, but nothing shocked him more when his father reconnected with Dane’s uncle. Wanting a fresh start, Dane’s father asks Dane to go and check this near-stranger out and make sure it’s a suitable place for them to set down some roots. Brook had worked at the inn for his entire career and was not thrilled to be babysitting what he expected would be a spoiled little city boy who would waste both their time. Dane and Brook soon both discover neither of them had been right in their assumptions.

I found this to be a really interesting, character-driven M/M romance. Both Dane and Brook’s characters appealed to me almost immediately, and while I wasn’t convinced for some time that they’d make a great long-term couple, I desperately wanted to see them both come together, interact and fall in love. The plot isn’t very complicated and while I found it interesting, I personally feel that the real hero of the story is the relationship that flourishes between Dane and Brook, and the beach-side setting. Readers looking for an intensely hot and heavy story probably won’t feel there’s enough spice in the relationship between the two men, but personally I felt that their slower pace and more steamy (rather than sexy) romance really suited the slow town and beachy setting.

I enjoyed the strong cast of secondary characters – Dane’s best friend, Grady, in particular. I also was quite surprised but really pleased that Dane’s father (who is off-screen and serving out the last bit of his jail term) also was a very strong character influencing the entire story. It’s been quite a while since I can recall reading a book where a character who isn’t even on the stage was both lifelike and strongly influential in a story and that is a major credit to the author’s talent that they made Dane’s father so memorable.

Equal parts sweet and sensual, I thoroughly enjoyed this story and can strongly recommend it. While there’s no lingering single characters, I’d actually really like a follow-up story, maybe showing Dane and Brook a few years down the track after the ending of this story. This is one of those rare stories where the moment I finish it I feel wistful, wishing equally that there was more left to read and also wanting to immediately go back to the start and experience it all over again from page one. A really excellent read and one I feel is well worth every moment lost to it.

Freckles by Amy Lane
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short Story (137 pgs)
Other: M/M, Anal Play
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Small dogs can make big changes… if you open your heart.

Carter Embree always hoped someone might rescue him from his productive, tragically boring, and (slightly) ethically compromised life. But when an urchin at a grocery store shoves a bundle of fluff into his hands, Carter goes from rescuee to rescuer—and he needs a little help.

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But Carter needs to see himself as a hero first. As he says goodbye to his pristine house and hello to carpet treatments and dog walkers, he finds there really is more to himself than a researching drudge without a backbone. A Carter Embree can rate a Sandy Corrigan. He can be supportive. He can be a man who stands up for his principles!

He can be the owner of a small dog.

Carter hated his job – or more specifically his totally horrid boss – and found himself floundering at work and unable to hold onto a relationship with another man. A chance encounter at the grocery store has Carter left in possession of a tiny fluff of a puppy – and his life is irretrievably changed.

I really enjoyed this fun and friendly story. Filled with loads of emotion and humour it was a real breath of fresh air for me. I usually find pet stories hit and miss – either the pet side of the plot consumes the story and I feel like the romance isn’t shown enough, or the exact opposite where the pet plot is virtually forgotten. I thought this story struck a really good balance between the two, largely because Sandy worked at the vet’s office and so large aspects of Carter needing help with Freckles included Sandy too and helped showcase their blossoming relationship.

I found both Carter and Sandy to be interesting and relatable characters. While their romance grew quite slowly I found it realistic, understandable and very sweet. Readers who are happy for a slower-pace in the sizzle department should find this a lovely story focused on the characters and on Freckles working her way into Carter’s affections and poor Carter finding his whole life turned inside-out. I had to laugh – my sister is a lawyer and some of Carter’s reactions (drawing up a contract for his dog-walker while making soup and the dog-walker got to know Freckles as a classic example) made me laugh, because while cheesy and seemingly silly – my sister would TOTALLY do that herself, just off the cuff and because as a lawyer it’s second nature to her.

So I have major kudos for Ms. Lane in creating relatable, realistic and fun characters and breathing some real life into this story. I absolutely enjoyed it and would strongly recommend it. With a lovely slow-burn style of romance and a gorgeous itsy little puppy I can’t imagine anyone not loving this story like I did.