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The ABC’s of Spellcasting collection: Volume 1 by Jordan Castillo Price Book Description Dixon Penn's family wasn't terribly shocked when he announced he was gay, but they were devastated to learn he's the only one without the gift of Spellcraft. Fortunately, that doesn't stop Spellcraft from reaching out to him. Dixon's prospects have gone from bad to worse, but a contest at the biggest greeting card company in the tri-state area would be just the thing to turn his luck around.

I have really enjoyed Jordan Castillo Price’s other collections (Mnevermind and Psycop) so I knew that this would be a series that is right up my alley, which is why I asked my fiancé to buy all three volumes of the ABC's of Spellcraft for me for Christmas last year (My TBR is long, leave me alone!)

03.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Skeleton Crew by Jordan Castillo Price Book Description: Although Victor Bayne is a valued asset of the FPMP, he still vividly recalls his PsyCop days: the eye rolls, the nasty looks, and the occasional utterance of the words “Spook Squad” whenever he showed up on a scene. So he really should empathize with Howard Jibben, the weekend lab manager known as Heebie Jeebie. But does the guy really need to be so darn annoying?

Skeleton Crew by Jordan Castillo Price

Book Description: Although Victor Bayne is a valued asset of the FPMP, he still vividly recalls his PsyCop days: the eye rolls, the nasty looks, and the occasional utterance of the words “Spook Squad” whenever he showed up on a scene. So he really should…

22.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Real Trouble by Elle Keaton Book Description: Two men on opposite sides of the law: will they be able to set aside their differences and trust love? Danylo Peters has issues, lots of them. He’s not on Piedras Island by accident, he’s not a nice guy, and Peters isn’t his real name. Dany’s in hiding, trying to escape his family’s influence and start a new life.

Two men on opposite sides of the law: will they be able to set aside their differences and trust love?

06.10.2025 10:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trusting the Elements by Elle Keaton Screenshot Book Description: There’s nothing like a near death car accident to open your eyes. Otto Proulx decides surviving was a sign; he’s being given a second chance to claim the life he wants to live. For the past few years he’s been hiding in the shadows, vague texts from a troubled ex-partner keep him at home along with his general lack of luck in the romance department.

Overall I really enjoyed this story, and I saw in one of Elle's newsletters (Sign up for Author's Newsletter's people!) that she was offering a copy of this ebook for free, so I may have to get the ebook version to see if any of my thoughts change reading it to myself.

06.10.2025 09:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Spirited Situation by Louisa Masters Screenshot Book Description: When you can talk to ghosts, things are bound to get spirited. The ghosts have been there since before I can remember. When I was a kid, they doted on me, but as I got older, they got more demanding. I’ve spent my whole life seeing and talking to dead people and trying to pretend I’m not, because the living just don’t understand.

Louisa Master’s is a master at her craft. I found this story riveting and the narration by Nick J, Russo was spectacular as always!

06.10.2025 08:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Subtle Bodies by Jordan Castillo Price Book Description: “It’s probably nothing….” Usually, when Victor Bayne is called upon to investigate a ghostly apparition, the “haunting” can be chalked up to a perfectly mundane cause. When he’s sent to check out some suspicious phenomena in small-town Iowa—and no one seems unduly alarmed—he’s hoping for more of a weekend getaway. Especially since he’s bringing along Jacob as his Stiff.

Subtle Bodies by Jordan Castillo Price

Book Description: “It’s probably nothing….” Usually, when Victor Bayne is called upon to investigate a ghostly apparition, the “haunting” can be chalked up to a perfectly mundane cause. When he’s sent to check out some suspicious phenomena in small-town…

06.10.2025 00:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ken & Bobby by J D. Wilde Book description: True love and happy endings only happen in fairy tales... right? Bobby Vanderpool is a young millionaire, a popular model, and a closeted gay heir to his conservative family's legacy. He has everything he could possibly want except for a storybook romance and the freedom to be his true queer self. Meanwhile, Ken Walker, a sexy surfer and musician, fears his family, friends, and church will reject him if they learn he's not entirely straight, so he struggles to repress his sexuality while trying to find himself.

Ken & Bobby by J D. Wilde

Book description: True love and happy endings only happen in fairy tales... right? Bobby Vanderpool is a young millionaire, a popular model, and a closeted gay heir to his conservative family's legacy. He has everything he could possibly want except for a storybook…

04.07.2025 03:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Last Boyfriends Rules For Revenge – Matthew Hubbard Ezra Hayes has always felt like a background character compared to BFFs Lucas and Finley. He would do anything to be seen as a romantic lead, even if it means keeping a secret summer boyfriend, Presley. But when he discovers that Presley is a lying cheater, and his best friends are having boy problems of their own, they want revenge.

I read this book during my Uni holidays and boy was it a ride. I wish this I had access to more of these books when I was a lot younger, they would have made my life so much easier growing up.

02.06.2025 00:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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20.04.2025 09:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tomorrow, When the War Began – John Marsden Ellie and a group of friends decide to make the most of summer and take off to go ‘bush’ for a few days, they realise it won’t be long until they leave their small rural town of Wirrawee and start to make their own way in the big wide world. But something’s afoot. They joke about noticing a fleet of planes flying past in the middle of the night, assuming is for the country’s Commemoration Day.

Tomorrow, When the War Began – John Marsden

Ellie and a group of friends decide to make the most of summer and take off to go ‘bush’ for a few days, they realise it won’t be long until they leave their small rural town of Wirrawee and start to make their own way in the big wide world. But…

12.02.2025 09:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rock – Anyta Sunday Igneous. When Cooper’s parents divorce, he finds himself landed in Week About—one week with his mum and one week with his dad.Only, it’s not just his dad he has to live with. There’s Lila, too: The other woman, the one who stole the rock-solid foundation of his life.And then . . .There’s Jace. Lila’s son. Lila’s smug, regurgitated-fish-scale-blue eyed son.

Rock – Anyta Sunday

Igneous. When Cooper’s parents divorce, he finds himself landed in Week About—one week with his mum and one week with his dad.Only, it’s not just his dad he has to live with. There’s Lila, too: The other woman, the one who stole the rock-solid foundation of his life.And then .…

02.02.2025 02:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Starving Years – Jordan Castillo Price Nelson Oliver is kind of drifting through life, he’s a qualified food scientist, but works at a video store. In a half hearted attempt to be able to afford his migraine medication, he attends a job fair hosted by Canaan Corp, one of the major manufacturers of the super food Manna. At the Job fair he meets Javier, Nelson is immediately attracted to him and his eyepatch, and when things finally gets boring enough, he starts to pursue Javier in the hopes of getting his phone number.

The Starving Years - Jordan Castillo Price

This book, wow. I’m not sure how I feel about it to be honest. So let’s break it down into what I did like, and what didn’t sit so well with me.

29.01.2025 08:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I totally understand that, which is why I still buy from them. I always try to find other avenues first. I don’t know what kind of cut Amazon takes, but I’d rather be lining the authors pocket rather than theirs

24.01.2025 22:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I LOVED IT, it added so much to the book and I referred to it a lot while reading!

24.01.2025 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I try to buy my books directly from the author most of the time (my local has said no to special orders because it’s too cost intensive for just a few books at a time) Amazon is my last choice

24.01.2025 22:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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24.01.2025 01:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Magpie Lord – K.J. Charles Lucien Vaudrey is the new Lord Crane after the deaths of his loathsome father and brother, both who took their own lives. Unfortunately for the new Lord Crane, someone seems to have it out for him too. Freshly back from China after being exiled by his father, Lucien must now learn how to navigate the legacy his father and brother have left behind, and find a way to stay alive.

The Magpie Lord - K.J. Charles

This is an excellent M/M Victorian era, gothic fantasy and I’m rather annoyed at myself for leaving it on my TBR for such a long time.

24.01.2025 00:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Unlocking Melodies by Greyson Vale I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to ARC read this story, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Ethan Cole is the heir apparent to a multi billion-dollar tech company, and as such, he has a lot of expectations placed upon him and his future. During his college years, music was his escape from the high pressure of those expectations, it was also how he met Jimmy.

Unlocking Melodies by Greyson Vale

This is a multifaceted, slow burn, romantic story about second chances. The main storyline was both heart breaking and healing in the way it dealt with fractured relationships and then repairing them.

21.01.2025 01:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cloaked in Shadow – Ben Alderson Zacriah is special, he is able to do what no one else can do, but with his parents advice he hides his special abilities. That is until he, and the other elfin his age, accept an invitation to King Dalior’s feast in honour of his son Prince Hadrian. After the feast, when he is forced to join a legion of shapeshifters, even though he isn’t one, events conspire against him and he is forced to come to terms with what he really is in order to save the people he loves the most.

Cloaked in Shadow – Ben Alderson

Zacriah is special, he is able to do what no one else can do, but with his parents advice he hides his special abilities. That is until he, and the other elfin his age, accept an invitation to King Dalior’s feast in honour of his son Prince Hadrian. After the…

18.01.2025 06:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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17.01.2025 04:57 — 👍 54 🔁 46 💬 11 📌 3

A Demons Guide to Dating – Ken Sanchez Ethan Michael Groove is a walking disaster when it comes to dating. He’s at his wits end and needs to find a way to go on a successful date, but where does one turn when they feel they have tried everything? To a magical book of course, it couldn’t hurt to get some demonic help could it? Asmodeus, Asmo for short, is the Prince of Lust and jumps at the chance to get out of boring hell where nothing changes.

This is a wonderfully, I want to say cozy, story about a guy who’s unfortunate luck in his dating life has left him clutching at straws to find someone to love, so he summons a demon to try and help him, much to the dismay of his best friend.

11.01.2025 09:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kidnapped by the Gentleman – Drake LaMarque Cedric is the son of a wealthy English business man, he has taken advantage of his wealth and hasn’t settled down so his father sends him off to Jamaica with a tutor to see if distance will help tame him. It doesn’t. After one of his many debaucherous nights out, he waked up locked in a room with other unconscious people.

Kidnapped by the Gentleman – Drake LaMarque

Cedric is the son of a wealthy English business man, he has taken advantage of his wealth and hasn’t settled down so his father sends him off to Jamaica with a tutor to see if distance will help tame him. It doesn’t. After one of his many debaucherous…

08.01.2025 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eternal Thorns – Ken Sanchez ARC Read I was provided an ARC of this book by Ken Sanchez for review, all thoughts and feelings are my own. Silas Ashworth is the heir apparent to a noble family, but being a noble isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially if you have a sense of justice. After exposing the corruption his family is involved in, he is exiled to the family’s remote holdings of Thornhaven, an abandoned manor house where strange things happen to people who stay there.

Eternal Thorns – Ken Sanchez

ARC Read I was provided an ARC of this book by Ken Sanchez for review, all thoughts and feelings are my own. Silas Ashworth is the heir apparent to a noble family, but being a noble isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially if you have a sense of justice. After…

05.01.2025 06:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mr Romance by Louisa Masters, Narrated by Greg Boudreaux Charlie is a very friendly guy, he is aware of how lucky he was growing up in a very affluent family so he started to take care of his friends financially whenever he could. This however ended up s…

Mr Romance by Louisa Masters, Narrated by Greg Boudreaux

This story had me cackling with how ridiculous some of the situations were that Charlie found himself in and left me wanting more from Louisa

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01.01.2025 05:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Married to My Best Friend by Riley Hart, Narrated by Nick J. Russo Alex and Caden have been inseparable since they were two years old, They do EVERYTHING together, so when Alex gets engaged after 3 months of dating someone, and then about to get married 3 months l…

Let me tell you, at just under 3 hours long, this story had me in tears over and over and over again as I was taken through an emotional rollercoaster. Nick J. Russo’s narration is excellent, and he really gets you into the emotion of the story being told by Riley Hart
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01.01.2025 02:13 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Dad Magic by Benjamin Twigg Holy Crap what a book! My first thoughts while reading this was “This would be a totally epic Dungeons and Dragons campaign!” And I couldn’t shake that epic story feeling as I continued to read.…

Dad Magic by @bjtwiggwriter.bsky.social

Holy Crap what a book! My first thoughts while reading this were “This would be a totally epic Dungeons and Dragons campaign” And I couldn’t shake that epic story feeling as I continued to read
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31.12.2024 11:20 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Big Difference by Ana Ashley, Narrated by Alexander Cendese I really enjoyed hearing how this story unfolded and I was ever so grateful for a little bit of big boy representation! I am pleased to say that I have added Ana Ashley to my “To Be Bought” list, which seems to be forever growing

Big Difference by Ana Ashley, Narrated by Alexander Cendese

I really enjoyed hearing how this story unfolded and I was ever so grateful for a little bit of big boy representation! I am pleased to say that I have added Ana Ashley to my “To Be Bought” list, which seems to be forever growing

31.12.2024 07:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hay by Lucy Lennox, Narrated by Michael Dean I managed to obtain this audiobook from a BookFunnel promotion and it was a fantastic introduction to the Made Marian series by Lucy Lennox. I will be purchasing more of her work for sure! The promotion did its job!

Hay by Lucy Lennox, Narrated by Michael Dean

I managed to obtain this audiobook from a BookFunnel promotion and it was a fantastic introduction to the Made Marian series by Lucy Lennox. I will be purchasing more of her work for sure! The promotion did its job!

31.12.2024 07:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I never realised just how much I love romance! I’ve never cried so much as when I have been listening to/reading some of the stories I have read recently. Apparently I’m a bit sappy

31.12.2024 00:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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