Cover Reveal: Limitless Love : A Polyamorous Charity Anthology

Limitless Love : A polyamorous Charity Anthology

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💞Blurb💞

Love can be defined as “a quality or feeling of strong or constant affection for and dedication to another.”

They say “love wins,” for that to be true, we must embrace all types, especially those that have been otherwise underrepresented.

Thirteen authors have come together to make a difference by showcasing that love in all its forms is limitless.

Limitless Love is an anthology full of different polyamorous stories with proceeds going to charity in order to showcase that if you fight for the life and relationships you believe in, then love truly does win.

Featuring stories from:
Aurora Crane
Colette Davison
Abrianna Denae
E.M. Denning
Elouise East
L Eveland
MJ Green
J.L. Gribble
Gianni Holmes
Leigh Kenzie
Duckie Mack
Michele Notaro
A.N. Waugh

Release Date- June 11, 2024

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It’s Monday! What are you reading?

First seen over on Book’d Out I’m going to try to do this post regularly linking to It’s Monday! What are you reading? at BookDate.

I’m slowly catching up with my ARCs which is good, a couple more reviews to catch up on in the next couple of days, so keep your eyes open for those, I updated last week’s post with review links for the books I’d finished.

This week I finished listening to

Growing Up Queer in Australia

I started reading this but had to take it back to the library so I borrowed the audiobook on BorrowBox instead. This is my first book for the Nonfiction Readers Challenge and I will do up a post for that this week.

I finished reading

Stepbrother Mine by Felicity Snow (ARC) Read my Review

Oblivious by Ashlynn Mills (ARC) Read my Review

Thorn Evermore by Mia Monroe – Read my Review

Not as much reading as I’d hoped but happy to have these ones finished, they were all very good reads. I’m continuing on with Cry of the Firebird by TM Clark, I’m at 89% and no matter what, I will finish it this week.

I’m also continuing with

Snowy Mountains Dawn (Bundilla Novels #4) by Alissa Callen (ARC) I’m at 62% so this should also be finished this week.

Candy Hearts Vol 1 – LGBTQIA2S+ Charity Anthology (ARC)

I’m also going to be reading

Easy Does It by K.M Neuhold (ARC)

Icebound Rivals by Hayden Hall (ARC)

I’m listening to

To the Moon and Back by NR Walker

I only have 2 hours left of this one, it’s only a short book but I haven’t decided what I am listening to next. The book I was going to listen to for my book club had triggers in for me and I couldn’t get past the first chapter, so it will be a surprise for all of us what I choose next.

I am excited and a bit overwhelmed as I got into the course I’d applied for, I’ll be doing my Cert 4 in Mental Health which starts in 2 weeks, On top of that I’m doing rehearsals for the City of Joondalup Community Festival Choir, I’ve never sung in my life so it’s an interesting learning curve. I’ve done two rehearsals with 5 more to go before the performance on the 17th March.

I had my art lesson on Friday as I usually do and really liked how my painting turned out so put it in a frame and hung it on the wall. I also did some painting over the weekend doing several small watercolours and my last painting for my Progressive art group something I’ve loved being a part of for the past 3 months.

So a pretty busy week really. I’d love to hear what you’ve been reading and what you hope to read this week. Until next week, happy reading.

Spell the Month in Books #1 – February – Comfort Reads

Seen on The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog, Spell the Month in Books is run by Jana at Reviews From the Stacks a pretty straightforward monthly linkup. Find a book title that starts with each letter in the month’s name, make a list, share your link, and that’s it! The linkup opens on the first Saturday of the month and remains open through the end of the month so that you can participate whenever is convenient.

This month’s theme is Comfort Reads I’ve picked books I’ve loved and that I’ve either read more than once or would if I had the time to do so.

Facing the Flame by Jackie French

Embrace Me by Beck Grey

Black Diamonds by Kim Kelly

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

Up on Horseshoe Hill by Penelope Janu

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Road to Gundagai by Jackie French

Yellow Light by Theresa Smith

Have you read or enjoyed any of these books? What would your comfort reads be for FEBRUARY?

I have to say, this was a harder challenge than I first thought, but it was good to revisit some favourites.

New Release Book Review: B-Mine by Ava Olsen

4.5 Stars

I didn’t overly enjoy the last bodyguard romance I read, so I went into this a little unsure but once again Ava Olsen has written a romance I can completely believe in and get behind.

Iain Holloway may have been a trouble maker Rockstar but he had a big heart hiding underneath his playboy persona and when he finds he has a stalker and his already overprotective bodyguard Dawson becomes even more protective, he finds that underneath their bickering is an explosive chemistry they can’t ignore.

I enjoyed getting to know Iain and Dawson better and enjoyed them getting to know each other. The storyline with the stalker was done well and I didn’t guess who it was until it was revealed which is always a nice change. There’s plenty going on and the pages turned themselves as I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

Catching up with the guys from Wayward Lane was good and I can’t wait for Faise and Ronin’s story next, it should be fun when they realise they are in love with each other, well, I hope that’s the case.

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Holloway: I’m the lead guitarist for Wayward Lane and I love everything about my rockstar life. Everything except my security detail. And the more popular our band becomes, the less freedom we have. All it takes is one overzealous fan and I find myself constantly shadowed by the one bodyguard I love to tease and evade: Dawson Everly. Mr. Tall, Dark, & Uptight lives by strict rules, and I’m a free spirit, so naturally, we argue at every turn. But my flirtation and his aggravation is a combustible mix and suddenly I discover there are some orders I don’t mind taking. And those strings I usually avoid? They start looking pretty good. Thing is, Dawson has a son and I never imagined I’d fall, let alone for a family man.
But every rockstar has their day – is it crazy that I want Dawson to be mine?

Dawson: As a bodyguard for Wayward Lane, I’ve seen all the rockstar shenanigans. The biggest troublemaker? The guy who loves to escape his detail: guitarist, Iain Holloway. He’s stunning, spontaneous, and a gigantic pain in my… you get the picture. I’ve tried to keep my professional distance but it’s getting impossible to ignore the attraction between us. But falling for a rockstar is a risk I’m not prepared for. I have an eight-year-old son, Jaxon, who means everything to me. The single dad guilt is hitting hard when I’m on the road and the time has come to make a choice.
Only, my heart doesn’t belong solely to my son anymore. It turns out, Iain has managed to find a way in there too.

B-Mine is a slow burn, single dad, opposites attract, MM rockstar romance filled with fiery chemistry, unexpected love, and a heartfelt, hard-fought HEA.

New Release Book Review: The Invention of Wings by Robin Knight

With The Invention of Wings, Robin Knight’s new Mulligan’s Mill series is off to a good start.

I enjoyed meeting and getting to know Mitch and Gage and of course Gage’s niece Ginny who was quite the character and helped bring Mitch and Gage together again, though I think they’d have got their eventually even without her help as they still had so many feelings towards each other.

Mitch’s sister Maggie wasn’t my favourite character and I’m only guessing she has some sort of intellectual disability because that’s how she came across to me. Her hoarding was out of control, I’ve seen this myself within my own family and Mitch did a good job of helping her clean the house out, she might need help down the track unless she continues to get a lot of support from Mitch and her friends.

I liked the way Ginny’s dream to fly on the ice brought Mitch, Gage, Maggie and their friend Bud together giving them all a project to work on. I thought this project was of great benefit to Maggie as she had a real need to be needed and seen as able.

There was the bad guys, Gage’s father and evil stepmother who caused some drama for them all, but good won out in the end, you can’t have a romance with a sad ending.

I’m looking forward to getting to know Aunt Bea better, she seems like she will be quite the character.

I’ll be looking out for more from Mulligan’s Mill.

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♥ Small Town MM Romance
♥ Second Chance at Love
♥ Enemies-to-Lovers
♥ Found Family

MITCH

‘Wings’. That was the nickname they gave me in the lead-up to the Olympics. I was ready to take home the gold for figure skating, ready to make all my dreams come true… all but one… the dream of finding true love. That dream ended the night I lost the only man I ever wanted, betrayed by fear, by doubt, by him. It was a moment that led to my downfall on the ice rink and the ultimate humiliation. And so I did what any broken spirit would do… I fled my hometown of Mulligan’s Mill, determined never to return.

That is until I got the call from Doc Morgan, letting me know that my sister Maggie’s hoarding habit was getting out of control. Now it seems Mulligan’s Mill is calling me back… back to face the past. Is it possible for a fallen hero to find his dignity once more? Is it possible for a man to return home and not make the same mistakes twice? Is it possible to pretend the past never even existed… or was I destined to re-live it all over again?

GAGE

He was the rising star of the ice-skating rink. I was the captain of the football team with a bright future under the Friday night lights. We had everything… promise, potential, each other. Then one night I freaked out, I pushed him away, and nothing was ever the same again. In the years since Mitch had left Mulligan’s Mill, my life was turned upside-down by a family tragedy. Now, as the sole carer of my wheelchair-bound niece Ginny, I spend every waking hour working part-time jobs to keep the roof over our heads. I barely get a minute to think about my shattered dreams of becoming a football star… but I still think about him… every single day.

When I find out that Mitch is returning to Mulligan’s Mill, the news triggers a wave of excitement and regret. Was what we had real, or just a foolish young fling? Would the flame re-ignite once more if we saw each other on the street, or would he turn around and walk away like we never met? Would I finally find the courage to talk to him again, or would fear get the better of me just like it did on the night I broke both our hearts?

The Invention of Wings is the first book in a Small Town MM Romance series set in Mulligan’s Mill… a small town with big hearts!

New Release Book Review: Love and Redemption by Kelsey Hodge

4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

I haven’t read any of the books in the For the Love Of series of which this is a spin off, but after reading and loving Love and Redemption I have already downloaded the first book because I really want all of the fabulous side characters stories.

This book had me hooked from the get-go, what a start and it really sets the stage for the kind of family Matteo comes from and how he ended up so messed up.

I loved Trip, such a lovely guy and loved his outlook on life and his ability to try not to judge people by their pasts. This is tested big time throughout as he finds out more about his new friends and about Matteo but he does a good job of taking it in his stride and getting to know the person they are now.

Matteo has a lot to make up for with his brother Gio and his fiancé Frank, as well as trying to deal with his acceptance of his sexuality after his ultra religious family has made him believe it is so terribly wrong to be anything but straight. Meeting Trip is a catalyst for so much change in his life and ultimately he handles things pretty well. I loved how supportive Trip was from the get-go and how he gave Matteo the gift of keeping his faith realising how important this was and would continue to be for Matteo. Matteo has a lot to deal with, his guilt, grief and acceptance of himself provide some emotional times for all of the people connected with him. He also has to deal with what I consider crazy (in an evil way) messed up parents.

The side characters, who have become a strong family unit, have interesting backstories and used their pasts in order to help Matteo make the break from his parents. Though Matteo has done some really wrong things to these people, they show him what family truly is.

I can’t wait for more in this series.

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Matteo
What I did to my brother a year ago nearly killed me — quite literally — but it’s been the wake up call I need. It’s time to discover who I am away from the shadow of my parents and fight to gain forgiveness from a brother I’m not sure I deserve.

Trip
Moving to New York was the best decision, but I’m lonely. I never imagined I’d become friends with Matteo, but I have and I’m now doing everything I can to prove that forgiveness is allowed and hope he lets love in… especially mine.

Please beware of trigger warnings: this book contains suicide attempt, homophobia and religious references.

This is a spin off from the Love of series. While not necessary it is recommended to read these books first for a better understanding of the characters

It’s Monday! What are you reading?

First seen over on Book’d Out I’m going to try to do this post regularly linking to It’s Monday! What are you reading? at BookDate.

I seem to be getting slightly behind with my ARCs but I’m doing my best to catch up, this week I managed to finish

Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth (Bookclub pick) Review to come this week

The Invention of Wings by Robin Knight (ARC) My Review

Love and Redemption by Kelsey Hodge (ARC) My Review

B-Mine by Ava Olsen (ARC) My Review

Crack Fantasy Adventure #5 : I Went on an Adventure and All I Got Was This Barbarian Orc by Jennifer Cody (ARC) Review to come this week

Conflicted by Ashlynn Mills

I finished listening to

Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt Review to come this week

This week I’m listening to

Growing Up Queer in Australia

I started reading this but had to take it back to the library so borrowed the audiobook on BorrowBox instead. This will be my first book for the Nonfiction Readers Challenge

This week I’m still trying to finish Cry of the Firebird by T.M Clark depending how I go with my ARCs.

Snowy Mountains Dawn (Bundilla Novels #4) by Alissa Callen (ARC)

Stepbrother Mine by Felicity Snow (ARC)

Easy Does It by K.M Neuhold (ARC)

Oblivious by Ashlynn Mills (ARC)

Candy Hearts Vol 1 – LGBTQIA2S+ Charity Anthology (ARC)

So a lot of reviews to catch up on and plenty of reading to do.

I didn’t do much art this week but I did start on a watercolour during my art class which is coming along ok

I’d love to hear what you read last week and what you are hoping to read this week.

Until next week, happy reading.

#6Degrees of Separation #1 – February 2024

I’ve seen this meme on several book blogs I follow, so to keep up my blogging this year, I thought I would join in.

This is a monthly link-up hosted by KateW at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain. The rules are:

Link the books together in any way you like.
Provide a link in your post to the meme at Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Share these rules in your post.
Paste the link to your post in the comments on Kate’s post and/or the Linky Tool on that post.
Invite your blog readers to join in and paste their links in the comments and/or the Linky Tool.
Share your post on Twitter using the #6Degrees hashtag.
Be nice! Visit and comment on other posts and/or retweet other #6Degrees posts.

This month’s task was to start with the book you finished in January (or the last book you read) I’m starting on a book I’m currently reading. This is my first go at this and I found it a bit of a challenge, I probably could have come up with much easier ways of linking them, but why do it easy lol, hopefully, I got it right.

My first book and the book I’m currently reading is Snowy Mountains Dawn by Alissa Callen

I linked it to The Bookstore at Rivers End by Phillipa Nefri Clark which I have on KU because they both have a place name in the title. This book features a found diary and the uncovering of a mystery.

Now, I know I have read many books which use the finding of an old diary as part of the plot, but do you think I could think of any offhand, letters yes, but diaries no. I was lucky my mum had just finished reading a Nora Roberts series which involves ghosts and the hunt for a diary, phew, so I’m linking this to Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts.

This leads nicely to a book I just finished Dead Serious Case 4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy. This involved many ghosts in an old hotel the couple went to spend a romantic long weekend away.

I’m linking this to a book I bought last week, The Anywhere Hotel by Gisele Stein about a mysterious hotel where there is a portal that allows you to travel anywhere in the world, for a price.

This book had a few themes I thought of using but ultimately chose to link it via Travelling the World to The Utterly Sublime Adventures of Ava Roberts by Lisa Frederickson which I have on KU also. In this book, Ava is running away from a cheating fiance and decides to go on a life-changing 80-day odyssey around the world.

I’m linking this to Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin, a real-life adventure in which he decides to follow in the footsteps of Jules Verne’s character Phileas Fogg using only the forms of transport which would have been available to him 115 years earlier, I’ve reserved this from Borrowbox.

And that is my first #6Degrees challenge how did I go? Have you read any of these books?

#ThrowbackThursday #1 February 2024

I was asking Davida from The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for some ideas of memes I could join in with and she suggested I could join her twist on #ThrowbackThursday.

The gist of her Throwback Thursday is to highlight one of your previously published book reviews. I love this idea as it brings to people’s minds wonderful books they might have forgotten or not even heard of.

For the Twists/Instructions for Throwback Thursday visit her here. I’m going to try and keep the same schedule she does, the Thursday before the first Saturday of every month, but you can link to her blog all month.

I’d love to know if you join in.

For my first #ThrowbackThursday post I have gone with a review I originally published on 1st February 2021. I can’t believe it was three years ago I read this fabulous novel, it might be time for a reread.

The Truth & Addy Loest by Kim Kelly

This was a story I didn’t want to end.

As I got pulled deeper and deeper into Addy’s story, drawing several parallels to some of my own struggles, I wanted to stay there with her as she dealt with those struggles, the stories her brain told her, the encounter with the woman who owned the curiosity shop, beautiful and tender-hearted Dan, her brother Nick and her ever grieving father.

Addy is so like many broken parts of me, so many broken parts of many others, but she shines brightly even as she doesn’t see it, even as she doubts everything about herself and thinks she is dying.

As always Kim Kelly brings to the fore important issues, not just of then, but of now. The fight for women to be treated with respect and not as an object for a man to drool over or take advantage of, the fight to not be afraid. She deals with past injustices of the war, both WWI and WWII, and the effects felt generations on by those who come after and carry those memories in their cells. She touches on the need to hide who we are from those we love, to protect ourselves and them. How hard it was to be gay in the 80s, not that it is easier now for many, but as a society, it is much more accepted.

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New Release Book Review: Lust (Seven Deadly Sins #1) by Sienna Moreau

The first book in Sienna Moreau’s new Seven Deadly Sins series, Lust kicked it off with a bang. I was hooked from the get-go and didn’t want to put it down.

I enjoyed learning about the alternate world that she has created where the Sins are demigods who rule over the humans, and where there are many things humans are completely unaware of. The Sins are far from good and there is corruption, murder and more on their hands.

We meet Deacon who is on a mission, to find his brother and he has been pointed towards the Sins by some unknown people, maybe good, maybe bad but they certainly have a hidden agenda that he is unaware of. Provided with an invitation to one of Lust’s parties, he has his goal and his priorities in place, meeting Lust is important for only one reason and he is determined he won’t be swayed from his mission because of the demigod.

Lust is not a good guy, but he’s not an unlikeable guy and I could feel his interest in Deacon and the connection between them from the start. There are plenty of spicy scenes between these two and a couple of emotional spots where I felt quite sorry for Lust because of Deacon’s actions. Though neither wants the connection, they also can’t seem to let it go. Both have so many secrets though, man there were secrets and twists coming out of the woodwork and I was more than happy to go along for the ride.

I enjoyed meeting some of Lust’s brothers and am really looking forward to getting to know each one much more intimately in future books.

4.5 Stars

🍎 LUST (SEVEN DEADLY SINS BOOK 1) 🍎

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Sleeping with the Demigod of Desire could cost Deacon his life, but falling for him could cost him everything.

Deacon St. James’ search for his missing brother has led him straight into the arms of one of the Deadly Sins that rule the world. Lust is charming, captivating and powerful and Deacon all too willingly falls to his knees at his command. The connection and heat between them could consume him whole, if he lets it.

From the moment Deacon walks into his life, Lust is enamoured by the spirited man who can shake off the very magic that he uses to control the world. He has no intention of letting him go.

The harder Lust falls, the more everything falls apart around him. Enemies plot from the shadows, and secrets that both Lust and Deacon hold have the potential to destroy them from the inside. If they’re going to survive, they have to learn what it means to trust… and to love.
Lust is a high steam MM urban fantasy romance with dark themes, morally grey characters, violence, gore, and adult situations. It has a happily-for-now (HFN) for the couple featured, and ends on a plotline cliffhanger.