Romance Book Review: Shifting Sands

Authors: Jet Mykles, Kimberly Gardner, J.L. Langley, Willa Okati, Brenda Bryce, Ally Blue
ISBN: 978-1-60820-024-5 
e-ISBN: 978-1-60820-025-2

Genre: Witches/ Shifters/ M-M Romance


Click to purchase this book: Amazon

I've been waiting for chance to read a new J.L. Langley book so when I heard of Shifting Sands I jumped at the chance to get a copy. The anthology combines stories from several of the top male-male romance authors available.

The stories in Shifting Sands are all related. The book starts off with a Prologue telling the general link between all the short stories and then each author takes a character and develops the romance for each. All the story are well written the the connection is done so well you don't realize that someone else is writing each piece.

The stories revolve around Shifting Sands ranch owned by Daniel. For some unexplained reason Daniel find himself married to Yi. Unbeknowst to Daniel, Yi is a witch and when Daniel doesn't meet her expectations she decides to curse the ranch and everyone on it, save Russell the young hand she takes with her when she flees from the Ranch.

The subsequent stories involve each of the members of the ranch and their new found mates. When each member of the ranch falls in love their mate also is affected by the curse. Finally Daniel's is the last story told by Jet Mykles and it isn't until that story finishes that Daniel and the ranch hands learn the truth about Yi.

Good stories with well developed plot and great male-male love scenes for those who like this style of book.

Description:
A woman's wrath is bad, but a witch's wrath is hell on earth. No one knows this better than the six men of Shifting Sands Ranch. When the owner's Chinese witch of a wife abandons him and the ranch, she takes one of the cowboys and leaves behind a curse that dooms the remaining inhabitants to a life that is anything but normal. Now, every month when the moon comes full, each man takes on the form of an animal. Witches, shifters and ancient curses, such is life on the Shifting Sands.

Romance Book Review: Reindeer Games

Author: Jet Mykles
ISBN: 978-1-60737-901-0
Genre: Holiday/ LGBT/ Shape-shifter/ Paranormal
Publisher: Loose-id

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Reindeer Games offers a quick enjoyable holiday read for those who enjoy gay paranormal.

Lon is an elf in a North Pole you don't remember from your childhood days. Jet Mykles takes a modern spin on the North Pole activities including a politically correct view on sexuality.

Lon thinks he's in love with reindeer shifter "Dasher". In his human form he's Rom. The leader of Santa's sleigh reindeer. Lon doesn't think that Rom has even noticed him and after a couple of embarrassing episodes his chances aren't looking any better.

Reindeer shifter "Dancer" has his eye on Lon. When in his human form he's Wod and Wod knows he wants Lon, but also comes to realize that Lon is in love with Rom. What's a reindeer to do but help Lon get the shifter of his dreams. But is that what Lon really wants after he gets to know Wod?

Description:
A "Not Quite Christmas" Story

Rom is Dasher, the leader of Santa’s shape-shifting team of reindeer. He is the quintessential elf -- smart, handsome, charming -- and everyone in Santa’s Village wants him. Lon is no exception. He’s hopelessly in love with Rom, but how can he hope to get Rom’s attention? Even if he is now one of the reindeer handlers, he’s still just a plain, ordinary elf, and painfully shy to boot.

Then there’s Wod. As Dancer, he’s both Rom’s second in command and Rom’s best friend. He, too, is devilishly handsome but in a darker and -- truth be told -- slightly frightening way. At least, he makes Lon’s heart race and his tongue tie in knots.

When Wod unexpectedly offers to help Lon gain Rom’s attention, Lon is completely confused. To make matters worse, Wod is clear that he’d love to play with Lon himself.

Lon is used to the sexual freedom in Santa’s Village but he craves something more meaningful. He wants a real relationship. So what does he do? Keep pining for Rom or play Wod's special brand of reindeer games?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: male/male sexual practices.

Jet Mykles

I just spent the last few days updating my website at http://www.romancebookscene.com. While there I realized I never finished updating one of my favorite author, Jet Mykles. Not only is she a talented writer, but Jet is also a great graphic artist. Her pictures have a Japanese anime feel to them. They are highly erotic. If you like that sort of thing you should check out her website at http://www.jetmykles.com/.

To go along with her highly erotic drawings, Jet also writes highly erotic books. I think she says it best on her website:

"I write about sex. Plain and simple. I like writing about sex, so it’s a major part of each one of my stories. I’ve written straight sex, homosexual sex and menage a trois and plan to keep writing all of the above.

I also write romance. Sex is all well and good, but it’s even better if there’s feeling behind it. I like to write about two–or more–people who have deep and overwhelming feelings for each other and see what happens to them. Whether this happens in a straight contemporary setting or in a fantasy world of my own making depends on the story. I’ll admit that I tend toward fantasy, but there are certain aspects of contemporary that I’ve come to enjoy as well.

I adore characters so all of my stories are character driven. Each one of my heros and heroines are people whom I’ve spent time with. I’ve bitched and moaned at many of them and I can’t say I was always happy with them, but they’re all a part of me and I love them dearly.

That said, I hope you enjoy my worlds."

The books above are just a small part of my collection of Jet Mykles e-books that I've collected over the years. To see the full list check out my web page under authors and click on Jet Mykles.

Romance Book Review: Devon Cream

Author: Jet Mykles
ISBN: 978-1-60168-188-1
Genre: Contemporary Romance/ M/M

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When Steven meets he new neighbor it is almost love at first sight. He takes the new man under his wing and helps he adapt to life in the city. Things couldn't be any better except for one little problem, Devon is straight and Steven would love more from him than just friendship.

This is a nice quick feel good story. Steven works hard to help his fellow neighbor in need and his next door neighbor, Patty is a kick and adds a little spice to the story.

Description:
When Steven helps his neighbor Devon move into the studio apartment upstairs, he can't help but drool. And that's all. Devon is straight and totally off limits. Knowing, though, doesn't stop the desire Steven fights every time the two men are together, which is a lot since Steven has decided to take Devon under his wing until the young man can get his life together.

About the author from her website:
As far back as junior high, Jet used to write sex stories for friends involving their favorite pop icons of the time. To this day, she hasn’t stopped writing sex, although her knowledge on the subject has vastly improved.
An ardent fan of fantasy and science fiction sagas, Jet prefers to live in a world of imagination where dragons are real, elves are commonplace, vampires are just people with special diets and lycanthropes live next door. In her own mind, she’s the spunky heroine who gets the best of everyone and always attracts the lean, muscular lads. She aids this fantasy with visuals created through her other obsession: 3D graphic art. In this area, as in writing, Jet’s self-taught and thoroughly entranced, and now regularly uses this art to illustrate her stories or her stories to expand upon her art. Only recently, through the wonders of the digital age, has Jet, a self-proclaimed hermit, been able to really share this work with others.
In real life, Jet lives in southern California with her boyfriend of over a decade, his daughter and father and too many cats. She has a bachelor’s degree in acting, but her loathing of auditions has kept her out of the limelight. So she turned to computers and currently works in product management for a software company, because even in real life, she can’t help but want to create something out of nothing.