Author: Ofelia Gränd

Dead Men Don’t Wash

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I guess there’s truth in the title…

I’ve read Dead Men Don’t Wash by Ally Blue. It’s one of those stories I’ve seen swish by in my feed now and then, and I guess the title stuck with me. The reason I read it now is that I downloaded Still Waters by Alex Gabriel. Goodreads keep recommending to me so I thought I just have to read it, but when I downloaded it I tried to remember what that other book with water I’ve meant to read was LOL.

Dead Men Don’t Wash is one of the craziest stories I’ve read. We have tentacles, vampires, demons, Sherlock Holmes, and soap made of a dead man. I’m glad I didn’t read any reviews before reading it. If I had I probably would’ve skipped it.

I’m not big menage. To each their own is my motto in life, but I tend to stay away from menage books, two pairs of limbs are quite enough to keep track of…and here we have tentacles as well. But, this story is so crazy Ms Blue could’ve thrown in as many people as she’d wanted to and I still would’ve read it.

Don’t read this if you’re looking for something serious or touching, but if you’re in the mood for a few laughs and in my case a little cringing and some staring at the screen with bulging eyes, then go ahead.

I didn’t download it, I don’t think it’s available in the shops, but it’s up on Ally Blue’s website.

I’m putting this in my shifter collection. To see what other shifter stories I’ve read, click here.

10455672Written as part of Kris ‘n’ Good Books’ ‘choose your own m/m story’ challenge. This is now hosted by Goodreads’ M/M Romance Group.

The story prompts for the author were:
1. part of the setting ~ a public swimming pool in a small country town
2. some background to one of the main protags ~ one of them is a wereoctopus
3. another character/s ~ an amateur private detective who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes
4. a conflict ~ soap
5. an object/phrase to be mentioned in the story somewhere ~ ‘It’s not easy being a twink’ sung to Kermit’s ‘It’s not easy being green’

Five Fangs Friday

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I went searching for a vampire book so I could write a post about vampires. Then I had this awesome idea of listing my top five M/M vampire stories, you know, in time for Halloween and all. Only…I did that last year, and I just realised that a year has gone by and I’d still say the same thing.

So I went with my first idea and hopped onto Amazon and grabbed a vamp book – Warlock’s Cove by Jade Astor. It was on the one hour list so I figured I’d just make myself a cup of coffee and snuggle up on the sofa (sounds way more peaceful than it is, add four kids to the picture and you’re getting closer to the reality.)

I didn’t check any reviews, saw that there was a (Part 1) after the title, but figured it was the book 1 in a series so we’d get to the end of something. I liked the beginning, was getting into the story, it was starting to build towards something, and then it ended – nothing resolved. I wouldn’t mind paying 1.29 (yes, I checked) for Part 2, but I fear nothing will be resolved in that part either…

So, back to the five vampire reads recommendation! LOL

Hunter of Demons! Have you read Hunter of Demons by Jordan L. Hawk? If not, do. I absolutely adored Gray, and it’s a little different from your normal vampire story.

Spirit Sanguine by Lou Harper, because everyone needs a vegetarian, cross-dressing vampire in their lives, and Gabe, the vampire slayer, needs it more than most.

Manikin by Jordan Castillo Price. Manikin is the third story in the Channeling Morpheus series and you should read the first two before reading this, but it’s my favourite so I’ll list it here. Everyone needs to read about the horrors of Marushka’s pretty things.

Pretty Monsters by Andrea Speed. Josh is selling frozen burritos to zombies and lizard-monsters, and then there is Hot Guy who comes in the evenings… I loved this short story, but just a little while ago I went to pick up book #2 and realised it’s no longer available. I hope they’ll be back. They were originally published by Riptide, so maybe it is that the rights have been given back to Andrea Speed and that she will release them anew at some point…hopefully.

The Vampire’s Werewolf Bodyguard by Liv Ryder. Simon is a vampire who just survived an assassin trying to take him out, to make himself safer while figuring out who’s behind the attack, he hires Cody, a werewolf. Vamps and weres aren’t friends, and Cody isn’t exactly in control of his wolf. I nice werewolf/vampire story.

I haven’t read that many M/M vampire stories, way fewer than I thought I had, but here’s a page where you can see what I have so far. I also realise that I need to write one, at least LOL.

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Werewolf Wednesday

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It’s Werewolf Wednesday! Not really, but it makes a good alliteration. I’m continuing my quest of trying to categorise what I’ve read, and since we’re getting closer to Halloween, I thought I’d start with the monsters.

Check out my page over read werewolf books.

I curse myself for not keeping better track. Before I grabbed my first prompt in the Don’t Read in the Closet event, which also was the first thing I ever published, I had a different Goodreads account where I used to have shelves for everything.

But starting out as a writer I had this brilliant idea of starting over – don’t do that, it was idiotic. Now I don’t know what I’ve read or when or even what I thought about the book because many books I’ve just clicked as read, no rating or anything. And some, when I look at them, I realise I have read them, but I don’t have them as ‘read’ on my GR account. So, stupid, very stupid.

I don’t know if you know, but it’s Asexual Awareness Week. So I figured we’d combine werewolves and asexuality and therefore I’ve read The Alpha and His Ace by Ana J. Phoenix. I’ve seen the cover around but I didn’t know it was a DRitC story until I read it – that means it’s free.

If you’ve read a few M/M werewolf stories you know that there most often is this insta-mating thing, but that’s just not gonna happen here. Brandon is one of the worst mama’s boys I’ve ever seen in a character, but he’s also the alpha of a werewolf pack. At the age of 25, he still hasn’t found his mate, which weakens him in the eyes of some pack members.

Then he finds him, his mate!

Only, Aidan is asexual and he has no intention of jumping into bed with a stranger who claims to be a wolf and that Aidan is his mate.

I enjoyed this story a lot despite wanting to shake the characters at times, but they worked it out. It’s a cute, quick read, and it’s different from the usual werewolf porn…erm, I mean romance, I often read. And the genre needs a little more diversity, so yay for Ms Phoenix.

…if you thought sex was better than cake, you just hadn’t met the right cake yet.

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Young, handsome, and the alpha of his wolf pack, Brandon has never had trouble finding men to have sex with. Only one thing is missing–his mate. Brandon can’t find him, and the rest of his pack is growing concerned about his lack of partner. An alpha needs a strong partner.

Things seem to be looking up when he finally finds his fated companion in Aidan. One problem—Aidan’s asexual, and Brandon’s now confused. Who doesn’t want sex? Aidan, that’s who. And Brandon hasn’t got a clue how to make someone love him without it.

It’s going to take some serious self-examination, acceptance, and some really good cake for Brandon to make his way into Aidan’s heart.

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