This wasn't bad bad. It was just okay for me. I really like the Johnnie's series so the problem might be my expectations from this author. I just didn't feel as invested in the characters. You know when you read a book and the characters become your friends and you think about them during the...
I LOVED IT!= = = = = =FYI: We don't ride camels as "transportations" in Iraq, Egypt, or Saudi, OR ANY OTHER FREAKING COUNTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!Because of three reasons:1. We actually have cars and every other modern thing that everyone else around the world have, including buildings, ice-cream...
Another great book by Amy Lane. I loved this story and I like that the two main characters have been 'it' for each other almost their entire lives. I think this book is quite an accurate representation of how life can be when you're hiding the fundamentals of who you are. In this day and age th...
I didn't particularly like how a little less than half this story was just their past fast-forwarded through, and especially when it jumped back and forward so much I got a bit of whiplash. I almost put it down until the boys get found out, and then I got back into it again. So yeah, it was good,...
3.5 stars. The characters deserve a much higher rating but the plot frustrated me too much to rate it higher. Full review:I had such high hopes for this book but unfortunately I was disappointed. There was too much bad luck, bad decisions, and bad circumstances for the characters and their story ...
So, i really LOVE amy lane's promise and johnnies series and i've often seen this book and wondered whether i should give it a try. However, i must admit that i thought the cover weird and thought the book wasn't a good fit for me. After finally reading it, though, i can say that the book is real...
4,5 starsThe general feeling this book left me with was "awwwww". It's a feel good book with less angst than I'm used to from Amy Lane, and I appreciated it. The author did a good job describing a AHDH character (Patrick), the difficulty he had going through life and the self-esteem problems this...
I love this book. It was a really nice balance between romance, humour and some great sex.I just love the honesty of the characters and how the writer made you absolutely love them- I could really identify with them.The only reason I'm giving it a 4 star is the character Patricks Dad. He went fro...
First book of the Johnnies series. What can you say about a story that is brilliant and heartbreaking at the same time ?What can you say about an author that is excellent to the point that you just want to keep reading ?The only thing I can honestly think is ... If this is the first book ... The ...
Stories like this with prologues describing the climax of the story do not work for me. I try to be patient, but a third of the way into it, I can't help but fast forward to the action part. Though it's gratifying, and I have the background of the characters from reading the beginning of the stor...
Okay, I'm baffled. Why does everybody love this book so much??I didn't particularly like anything about it. It was okay, but far from amazing. Knife was annoying. His constant bitching and snarling and all around meanness got on my nerves pretty fast. Yeah, I get that he's been through a lot. And...
Wonderful follow-up to Keeping Promise Rock. It was great to catch up with Deacon, Crick, Benny and the rest of the gang. I had previously liked Shane but he was new to town and we didn't know him so well. Nice to see him finally come out of his shell. Mikhail was kinda bitchy but that's just hi...
It's a strange, recurring mistake of mine, to read the second, or sometimes third volume of a series first. I'll download from the library or Amazon/Goodreads will recommend one of them to me. I read Dex In Blue first because every resource had told me I would love it. Perhaps because of the "Gay...
I've got to say I'm pleasantly surprised about this novella. I thought it was going to be a bit more BDSM than I typically would like. However the kink was mild and it did take a nice surprising, hot turn. Malcolm is a cocky little shit. He's a cynic hiding behind a veneer so people don't kno...
This book introduces even more characters that become part of the family, Jeff and Collin met years ago. When Collin found out he was HIV positive, Jeff was there to offer his support. Collin never forgot that moment, he's had a crush on Jeff for years, so when he finally gets the chance to me...
After having this on my shelf for over a year, and seeing all the trusted reviews I had high hopes this was going to be another book I kicked myself for putting off for so long.Sadly that wasn't the case.While there was nothing bad about the overall story, I found myself either bored or annoyed. ...
Ben moves to tiny Granby and his neighbor is grumpy recluse Rance “Craw” Crawford who runs the Alpaca farm/yarn store. As noted in the blurb, the only apparently two gay men in town are now living side by side. As the title suggests, most of the story revolves around a bizarre method of courtsh...
Life isn’t always fair, and sometimes it’s down right mean, cruel and ugly. It’s easy to turn away from others, to become distant, insecure and afraid, but if one is fortunate enough to find true love, it’s possible, taking life one tiny step at a time, to survive and maybe even find happiness.Th...
This story held a silent kind of beauty to it. Alike the setting, it felt serene and almost hidden away. I appreciated the feeling of privacy, as I believe some of the best kind of relationships develop slowly and can bloom while remaining low-key. While I *thoroughly* enjoyed the journey of Joe ...
This is an absolute comfort read without the saccharine. James Richards, a college professor, has been kicked hard in the heart and trust zones by a cheating, thieving (now ex) lover. Years later he still has not truly moved on. Rafael Ochoa, absolutely gorgeous, physically and emotionally, is ev...
3.5 starsLook, peeps, this has a kitten on the cover, yeah? Need I say anything else? This was totally adorbs, fluffy, and sweet. Loved the brilliant, geeky, totally spacey Aussie, Ian, and his roommate Joel, a Hispanic computer programmer. Ian forgets to eat and clean, and perpetually meets peop...
This is a great little story on Donnie and Jandro, side-characters in Amy Lane's Johnnies series. Did you read Chase in Shadow, and wonder about Donnie and Alejandro? This one explains their relationship, as well as giving you a little glimpse of Chase when he was younger (he and Donnie were be...
Joel and Ian. Joel was pretty real to me, but Ian was unbelievable in the beginning. I loved how sweet he was, but the flakiness of him made him seem like he was only made of paper. It wasn't until Ian picked Joel up from the airport that he became a "real boy". With Joel's return the romantic re...
to-read So so good! I can't say enough about Amy Lane. She is awesome!
Loved loved loved this story. Wonderful follow up to Talker. I didn't love it as much as the first but still a very good story.
It was nice to get the whole story between Donnie and Alejandro...their names popped up several times while I was reading the "Johnnie" series...but you never really got to see how they "happened"!!! This was a very cute story with a surprisingly well developed story line for such a short piece!...
I wish I could have loved it like everyone else. I don't know if I'll read more about this series because all the characters seems to have a very bad luck and they're all dying at least two or three times a book and they have cancer, and they have crippled hands, and they can't sleep because they...
As much as I loved Shane, totally adored him and his huge heart, I just could not warm up to Mikhail. I felt for Mikhail when it came to his mother but he drove me crazy with how he spoke to Shane, even though I knew what he was saying was just part of a facade. I loved seeing all the guys from t...
This novella was so good! I enjoyed every minute of it. It was short but so sweet and funny and touching that I didn't feel anything was missing. The narrator, Gomez Pugh, made the experience of listening to the audio book so amazing that I'm sure everyone will enjoy it more if they get the audio...
This is one book that for now I can't put into wordsNot only is the concept alone mind blowing so is every facet of this novel, from the superb writing to the absolute heart wrenching tale as it unravels, literally. Anderson who is twelve, is the main character of his journey through deep space. ...
Not a bad book but not something I'd read again. As the blub states, Anderson finds himself alone in space at age 12 after his home colony is destroyed. He's out there 10 years and during that time creates very real like holograms that become his new family. We follow him through some of those...
Blah. First off I hate the cover of the book. Just putting that out there. Have you ever watched a stand up comedian and he/she just wasn't funny at all though you can tell he was trying desperately to make you laugh? But all you seem to do is kind of cringe at the terrible jokes and actually sta...
I really enjoy this series, even though the first book was a little hard for me to finish I am so glad I did. All the MC's are so enthralling, angsty - just perfectly imperfect. Their stories are unique and, while they get their HEA, you keep seeing them in the other stories in the series which...
This book is the boys HEA. Which thank you so much Amy Lane for that! They have both been through so much. After Tate hears Brian shoot down his bosses advances he realizes a few things that he's struggled with. One being that Brian loves him with all his heart, and he is all Brian will ever ...
I am so disappointed, Amy did not live up to her standard. I cannot believe that the same person who wrote Promise Rock, wrote this... Pile of rubbish. The characters didn't have that deep connection and that deep vibe of ' best friends ' that they should of, the connection if you write it well s...
I honestly am struggling with how to review this book, because:A. Big Amy Lane fangirl--completely addicted to her writing.B. Still scratching my head trying to figure out my own thoughtsSeriously, I love Amy's writing, and this book, like all her books, is very well crafted. It felt to me more l...
ACK! This was adorable. I loved that Kit decided to do something about his health and fitness because of the way he saw/felt about Jesee but not for Jesse. Jesse was just the flick of the light inside Kit to finally do something. I loved his transformation from overweight momma's boy to the dude...
*sigh* Oh Jeremy...I just wanted to put him against my heart and smother him with love. He made me wanna cry, maybe because I've experienced hunger, going without food, wishing for a family. I'm still waiting for a family but I'm only 25 and have time to find that special someone. I'm glad Jeremy...
Worst background work on a book ever... As a gay man in the Army, it was cringe inducing every time the PFC called the SSG "Sir" or responded "Sir, yes sir". She couldn't even decide if they were in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan... COME ON! Iraq is not even close! If you have no respect for a ti...
I enjoyed this book, and though the story was cute. I felt that Zach was endearingly awkward, and who hasn't been hot for their teacher a time or two? But the reading of book was awkward for me, there was something about the pacing that didn't entirely work for me. I think it was that I really w...
Maybe I'm a bit cheap in my rating because I liked the book, I really did, but I didn't really get the conflict. I mean I got the cultural brigde James and Rafi had to build and the sacrifice of lying to Rafi's parents even though eveyone knew what was going on but I didn't really get why Rafael ...
This book far exceeded my expectations. Not sure what I expected initially but I was impressed with this book. I loved James, Rafael, Marlowe, and Sophie! I love how Sophie set up her Professor with her best friend. The sex was hot. The dialogue was witty and deep. It was nice to see James so in ...
I put this one off for a while because frankly, I just didn't like Stanley all that much in the other books. What I knew about him, didn't interest me. But I wanted to read the new one, so I couldn't bring myself to actually SKIP this one...I was SOOO wrong. This is probably the best of the fi...
I have to say that I typically love Amy Lane.... this book... not so much.It was actually a bit of a disappointment. I just felt so... confused by the love that we, as readers, are to believe, developed between Dawson and Jared.I have to say that I typically love Amy Lane.... this book... not so ...
I bought this thinking that I had read and enjoyed the previous title, I must have been mistaken. I was never sure if this was intended to be written in English or American. The narrative voice switched from one to the other, as did the dialogue, vocabulary and speech patterns of the characters. ...
Amy Lane is the Queen of M/M Romance. Her men may broken but they are so worthy of love. They are adorable hunks. That I would love to be friends with. After working my way through this series I wish I could be part of their family and have Sunday dinner at The Pulpit. This story was heartbreakin...
This was not an absolutely dreadful book. I'll start by saying that. Interracial gay love is not a very well explored genre and after reading this book, I see why. 'Bolt-Hole' has a great premise but the execution of the story is what deserves one star, in my opinion. I'm an openly Black, gay mal...
Yep another AWESOME Amy Lane book. Just WOW, dont know how to put into words how this book made me feel. Hurt, anger, loss, love, & loyalty. I usually hate reading about a lover who has died but is talked about through the entire book, but this one was necessary. He needs to be talked about s...
It's not you, Green's Hill, it's me. I love Amy's angsty stuff, I love Amy's funny stuff, but these Green's Hill books (this is the second I've read) mostly kinda make me wanna barf. Well, that's overstating it a bit, but in any case they and I are just not quite simpatico. I don't know if they a...
I admit the alligator on the cover got my attention, but this was no killer alligator attacks small town story. I read halfway and wished it was. Amy Lane is another one of those PROLIFIC writers of this genre who manages to write 5 novels a month. Maybe slowing down and investing more time into ...
It should be noted that there are a couple of stories with this couple and it took me a while to figure that out because there is no mention of those stories on the blurb page at DSP. You don't NEED to have read them, but once I figured out who they were (I have read the others), it made more sen...
I couldn’t stop reading this! I loved Mackey from the start, his feisty attitude and his driven nature. He elevates his friends and his band and his life. So much angst and I cried at times. Mackey’s road is not easy, but he is helped when he lets Travis in. Travis is the older, former milit...
I don't know if this is the last book in the series, but I have loved them all. If you have not read the previous book you make be a little lost, but still an enjoyable read. It makes me wish I knew how to knit, maybe one day I will take it up and try out the wonderful patterns she provides at ...
“He wanted a job, he wanted to get back in school, and he wanted to find his own place before June. Friends? Lovers? Pets? Need no apply.”So, the moment has arrived. I’ve just finished my first book by Amy Lane. Most if not all my reading buddies have been raving about her forever. Most if not al...
A very cute little short story about a couple separated by a business trip. While on the trip they try to have a little phone-sex. Hilarity ensues. I laughed out loud several times. It's totally cheesy in places, awkward as all get out in others,and a bit hot. I kinda wish this was a longer story...
To make this brief and to the point, this book word-punched me in the solar plexus multiple times through out the almost 100 pages. Sometimes it just a single succinct sentence, not even a paragraph. Perhaps it was because the story began when Mackey was in his mid-teen. Everything was stark u...
as she put it, stating work reasons. I honestly thought she just needed to put her head in a different place, a place where she was forced to realize “I have to tell Vinnie” meant she had to do it like I did it—in her head, where Vinnie could reply and she didn’t have to tell anybody about the co...
She’d been the preacher’s daughter. And boy, she must have had a thing for guys like Daddy, because she sure did know how to pick the possessive, unreasonable asshole who would sooner knock her around than talk to her. The first time it happened, sh...
Jackson. He’d managed to bring Ellery down as he’d fallen, throwing him back against the far wall of the hallway before his trajectory changed. Ellery was spattered in blood. “Jackson?” he asked, suddenly afraid. He’d seen Luanne Chisholm. For real. Touching distance away. He didn’t want to touch...
He’d heard it was nice—low seventies, high sixties, skating that line between T-shirt and sweatshirt temperatures. He’d always wanted to go to Disneyland during Christmas. Maybe one day he’d take the baby, but for now? The closest thing he could get was to talk to Kell and...
They went over to the big, oppressive dragon-house (as Mackey called it) every day after lunch. The guys took turns talking to Grant, playing with the little girl, or playing music. Grant picked up Mackey’s tiny, beat-up guitar and maneuvered it around the various tubes and wires in his arm...
This took subterfuge and planning, and Rico was surprised they managed to pull it off. He couldn’t say exactly where the idea took root—sure, he’d semipromised to take Adam earlier in the year, but suddenly, after that day in the candy store, the idea seemed to sprout full grown...
He’d felt Charlie’s remorse, a single bloody shaft right to his chest, but he showed up for Litha anyway. The sullen young man Charlie brought with him and left at the gap in the graffiti wall looked as though he would rather Whim hadn’t, but Whim was too heartsore to care. “I’m sorry, Whim,” Cha...
“You’re home early,” Terry said, looking appalled as he opened the door to their little apartment in West Hollywood. “You said we needed to talk.” Trav had served in the military for eight years. He didn’t believe in bullshit, and he didn’t believe in the coy beating-aroun...
NOT. FAIR. Yeah, Jeff remembered him. The angular cheekbones, the square jaw, those things had filled out, and so had his chest, and his arms were truly amazing. The dark blond hair was parted in the middle and hung to sweep his jaw line. Most of the time Jeff had seen him...
They got to spend lots and lots of time together as I was going around to my professors and the TAs, trying to get my add/drop form signed. The thing that sucked was that for most of them, I had to explain the reason. My English 101 TA was almost as thrown as Rex. “Serious...
They got destroyed—of course they got destroyed—but since even McAllister let a few through and Singh could only catch so many attempts, there was nothing they could do about that. After the game, during the obligatory pizza and beer, Richie told Carpenter that Skip had to bail on his...
He didn’t look so smug when I followed it up with a kick about the ribs—a kick that didn’t land, but only because he could move pretty damned fast. He scrambled to his feet, looking a bit alarmed now, but it weren’t enough. “He’s MINE!” I howled. “Mine! And I’m his! You knew this when you slunk i...
Boomer’s dance music at the Graham Winters High School prom. The band, headed by McKay “Mackey” Sanders on lead vocals, Jeff Sanders on bass and their brother Kell Sanders on lead guitar, also features Grant Adams on second lead and Stevie Harris on drum set. All members are Graham Winters High S...
For one thing, Mackey did not have a clue what to wear. He finally had to ask for advice from the one person in the household who could actually dress but who wasn’t Travis Ford. Shelia was thrilled. “Something sexy,” she said, poring over the compu...
You not eating enough!” Joel rolled his eyes at his sister—all big boobs, long stomach, and inviting hips. “You should talk, mammi, what? You stuff your bra with apples to keep that tummy so small?” Melody Martinez laughed and ruffled her little brother’s hair. It wa...
Emmett found an inexpensive hotel and checked them in, and the first order of business was showers—separate showers—for both of them. By the time Emmett was done with his shower, Keegan was asleep on top of the covers of the king-sized bed, curled like a kitten...