After Midnight: A Fallen Fairytales Dark M/M Romance by Blake Allwood

 

 

Blurb:

In the shadows of Denver’s comedy scene, a bartender named Dominique becomes the unexpected star of his own twisted Cinderella tale. Is love strong enough to save him from his wicked stepmother?

After Midnight is an enchanting tale that reimagines the classic Cinderella story as a dark and passionate gay romance. In this modern retelling, Dillon, a talented and aspiring comedian, finds himself drawn to Dominique, a sexy bartender at the local comedy club.

Dominique, whose unfortunate life mimics the story of Cinderella, selflessly cares for his younger stepsisters while facing a treacherous stepmother.

Amidst the glittering lights of the comedy club, Dominique and Dillon’s love slowly grows as they overcome the challenges created by a willful and selfish adversary.

After Midnight is a captivating journey of resilience and the power of love; but is love enough to save Dominique when his hateful stepmother tries to end him once and for all?

Fallen Fairytales is a dark M/M romance, multi-author series. Each book may be read as a standalone, but why not load up your Kindle, kick back, and enjoy sexy men, shenanigans, and deliciously dark fairytale retellings.
 

*Note: This is a dark romance, and readers sensitive to certain content should make note of the following triggers:

Racism, homophobia, child neglect, kidnapping, false allegations, lawsuits, embarrassment, loss of parent, grief and loss, manipulation by a parent figure, MC close to death.

 

My review:

After Midnight is a modern, gay take on the Cinderella tale complete with a horrible stepmother and a happy ever after. I was floored by this tale. It had me laughing and crying by turns. I adored the characters and stayed up way past my bedtime finishing this one off. Fabulous.

 

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Kissing the Suspect (Mystical Melvilles Book 1) by Kimberly Frost

 

Blurb:

Callie sees the future. The universe expects her to deal with it...

Callie Melville doesn’t know the first thing about solving crimes. Especially one that hasn’t happened yet.

Callie’s a Melville storm survivor. Her family has a history of being struck by lightning, only to wake with mystical powers. Now a premonition leads Callie to the prime suspect in the upcoming abduction of a pretty teenager. At first the sizzling chemistry between Callie and the attractive ex-Marine makes investigating him easier, but the more personal things get, the higher the stakes become.

Add in a massive mutt with bad manners, a nasty new police chief who’s gunning for her, and an irrepressible octogenarian, and life has become pretty complicated. Will she rescue the teen girl in time? Or will Callie become a casualty of the vision herself?

No one ever said being a Melville was easy.

 

My review:

Kissing the Suspect is a laugh out loud romp that will have you believing in the impossible. Callie and Rufus are adorable and Brink is a mountain worth climbing.  For a fun escape I highly recommend. I look forward to more in this series.

 

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Royal Crush (Royal RomCom Rebels Book 1) by Rich Amooi

 

 

Blurb:

She’s the worst wedding planner ever.
Perfect to sabotage his wedding.

GRACE
Scorned by viral videos of my client’s wedding fiascos, I never expected royalty to appear at my door and throw me a lifeline. Yet the roguishly handsome Prince Oliver insists on hiring me to plan his lavish nuptials, saying he believes in second chances. Whisked away to his romantic seaside palace in Europe, I vow to pull off the wedding of the century and prove I’m not as horrible as people think.

PRINCE OLIVER
I’m trapped in an arranged marriage I simply don’t want. I need an escape plan, and fast! Luckily, I have a brilliant idea. Hire that bumbling American wedding planner everyone is talking about. She’s sure to botch everything! Grace is supposed to be a surefire way to ruin my wedding, but when her planning is nothing but smooth, I panic. Especially when I start to develop feelings for her.

Royal Crush is a swoony and sweet closed-door romantic comedy.

 

My review:

Sweet and funny. I fell for Grace and Oliver as they fell for each other. The theme for this book is whatever can go wrong does but love will out. I loved how Grace dealt with the Queen.

 

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Her Maryland Crabby Daddy (Stateside Doms #19) by Golden Angel

 

 

Blurb:

Geographically UnDesirable

Crabs, good friends, and beer.

That's pretty much what Ethan Davies' life consists of, and he's not looking to change it.

He's certainly not looking for his sister's gorgeous, curvy best friend to turn his bachelor pad into her temporary home away from the Big Apple. And he is absolutely, one hundred percent, not looking to teach her everything she ever wanted to know about Daddy Doms.

But fate and meddling little sisters have other plans. And now that she's turned his world upside down, he'll need to find a way to convince his New Yorker babygirl that where she really belongs is with her Maryland Daddy.

Even if he is a little...crabby.

 

My review:

Her Maryland Crabby Daddy is a fun and smexy romp that will have you sweating and laughing in equal measure. I learned more about Maryland than I knew I needed. Though this is part of a series it can be read standalone.

 

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No Escape (Redemption’s End #1) by Bianca Sommerland

 

 

Blurb:

One chance.

One mistake.And Axton Hawthorn’s already reached his limit. As a courtless shadow fae on his own, with only his skills as a thief to keep him alive, Axton has nothing to fight for besides his freedom.

Until he’s imprisoned for his crimes, then has his prison break foiled by an order of supernaturals who keep exposure from humans to a minimum—or something like that. He wasn’t really paying attention until the last part. His choices are simple.

Join them or die.

Yeah...he’ll look for another option until they give him a damn good reason not to.

Edric ‘King’ Kingston should never have been allowed into the High Guard in The Géillsin. Hellhounds are meant to be chained in the apocalyptic demon realm, not secretly protecting the human one as a high ranking soldier. Leading reluctant young law breakers and teaching them to use their skills for the good of their kind isn’t what he would’ve signed up for, but it’s all he has left to give to prove he’s not the cursed creature he was born as.

He owes his life to one man. To a moment when someone saw more in him. The only way to pay that debt is to make sure the man’s son survives.

Falling for Axton would be a very bad idea. He’s reckless and defiant. Forces the order to make new rules he can’t work his way around. But Edric can’t look away from the trainwreck he’s brought to the doorstep of the place that represents everything he believes in.

And hope Axton’s presence will even their odds against forces threatening to destroy everything they’ve built.

While the man he can’t stay away from seems determined to watch it burn.

 

My review:

A brilliant new world from Bianca Sommerland. I was drawn in from the first page. Fantastic characters bring you into their world and make you want to know them better. I absolutely adored this book and can’t wait for the next installment.

 

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Saving Scarlet (Syndicate Daddies #2) by Kate Oliver

 

 

Blurb:

Scarlet Jensen
She's finally learned her lesson. All it took was being abused and kidnapped. Scarlet is done with men. They can't be trusted. The only thing she's focused on is herself and trying to survive the nightmares she's endured. Sometimes that means drowning them out however she can. The only problem is there's a big, grumpy, bossy Irishman who thinks he's in charge of her, but he's got another thing coming.

Killian Lachlan
All it took was one look at Scarlet to know she was someone special. She's a lost Little girl in need of love, and while he's not so sure he can give her that, he can give her the discipline and structure she so desperately needs. If only she would stop fighting him every step of the way, maybe he could help her save herself from herself.

 

My review:

Cali’s (Corrupting Cali) sister Scarlet was kidnapped by the Russian mob and Killian is the one who carried her out from the hellhole she was locked up in. It is going to take all the patience Killian has to nurse her back to health and his arms.

Watching Scarlet heal and discover the man she was meant for was sigh inducing. I really enjoyed watching them fall in love.

 

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Random in Death (In Death #58) by J.D. Robb

 

 

Blurb:

In the new crime thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling J.D. Robb, a small and easily concealed weapon wreaks havoc, and the killer is just a face in the crowd.
 

Jenna’s parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It’s the best night of her life.
 It’s the last night of her life.

Minutes later, Jake’s in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick and confused and deathly pale. He tries to help, but it’s no use. He doesn’t know that someone in the crowd has jabbed her with a needle—and when his girlfriend Nadine arrives, she knows the only thing left to do for the girl is call her friend, Lieutenant Eve Dallas.

After everyone on the scene is interviewed, lab results show a toxic mix of substances in the victim’s body—and for an extra touch of viciousness, the needle was teeming with infectious agents. Dallas searches for a pattern: Had any boys been harassing Jenna? Was she engaging in risky behavior or caught up in something shady? But there are no obvious clues why this levelheaded sixteen-year-old, passionate about her music, would be targeted.

And that worries Dallas. Because if Jenna wasn’t targeted, if she was just the random, unlucky victim of a madman consumed by hatred, there are likely more deaths to come.

 

My review:

Random in Death pits Eve against a murderer who thinks they are smarter than everybody including the cops set to take them down. This is going to take the skills of everyone on the case. Nobody likes it when a child is murdered so heinously. This book is a perfect example of why this series can continue without getting stale.

 

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