Hell's End

Title: Hell's End

Author: Ally Blue

Publisher: Samhain Publishing

Publisher URL: www.samhainpublishing.com

ISBN: 978-1-61921-487-3

Genre: {M/M} Alternate Worlds Series

Rating: 4.5 Nymphs

Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Chocolate Minx 

Release date May 21, 2013

Ivan is a Government soldier with a curiosity problem, especially when his team is sent on a dangerous rescue mission to save Tuck, a young man who had grown up as a Gutter, which is the name given to a group of orphans highly skilled in survival tactics and considered as the bottom of the social scale.

Hell's End is the first book in the Hellscape series. The plot is an intricate futuristic action mystery romance all blended together.  The characters are believable. There is an immediate attraction between Ivan and Tuck. Both men are intelligent experienced warriors. The two men soon develop a passionate relationship, which also provide them with a cover-up. Still, the subject that sparked Ivan’s interest the most is the strange tattoo Tuck has, along with the mystery of the government’s particular interest in Tuck. Conducting a stealth investigation on his own, Ivan discovered information which motivated his resolve to rescue Tuck yet again, only this time from the very government Ivan serves.

Ally Blue has created an enjoyable as well as an impressive saga. The captivating world structure of the space station Hell’s End mirrors some of the aspects of our current social world. The more powerful the family, the higher the level they lived on. The head body of the government occupied the very top levels. A DNA security system prohibited access to upper levels as well as data files. Scientists played a key role in life or death of lower level residents. Some people were considered as purely experimental objects in the advancement of scientific power. 

Ensnared

Title: Ensnared

Author: Dawn H. Hawkes

Publisher: Silver Publishing

Publisher URL: spsilverpublishing.com/

ISBN/BIN: 9781614955412

Genre: {M/M} Paranormal, Alternate Worlds

Rating: 4 Nymphs

Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Chocolate Minx   

There is something about Evan that Gar finds very intriguing. However, on Gar’s home world the small shy human Evan would never fit in or would he? 

Ensnared is an exciting tale of an interspecies relationship. Gar is a warrior sent to Earth to slay the demons who feed on humans. From the moment Gar first saw Evan, Gar had an infatuation with him. Nevertheless, Gar refused to use Evan for sex, as he suspected others had done. Invading Evan’s dreams would be less harmful emotionally. This did not prove to be the case for either man. Gar and Evan developed a love bond in the dreams, which manifested into their conscious existence when Evan became the target of the demons. The characters are well-matched; Evan could hold his own in a single attack but desperately needed help with a group of demons. Gar has the skill, strength and the desire to be Evan’s protector.     

Dawn H. Hawkes has created a thrilling and enjoyable saga filled with plenty of danger, action as well as sensual lovemaking.

Convergence

Title: Convergence

Author: Ally Blue

Publisher: Samhain Publishing

Publisher URL: www.samhainpublishing.com

ISBN: 978-1-60928-555-5

Genre: {M/M} Alternate Worlds, Series

Rating: 4 Nymphs

Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Chocolate Minx   

Publication Date: 12-13-2011  

Lynx and two other Carwin Tribe Pack members are out scouting the area when they locate their enemy’s home base camp.  Entering a building for further investigation, Lynx is captured by the Nomads and taken to an underground city where Lynx finds his long lost love and pack brother, Rabbit. 

Convergence is the third book in the Mother Earth Series.  The impressive plot has both a military system and social structure that mirrors the American Civil War.  The Nomads, also known as The Brass, is the army for the citizen farmers and their slaves, known as the Groundhogs. Each farmer produces vegetables through a complex system without using soil, a method developed during the end of the old earth.   

After his capture, Lynx could not understand why Rabbit had accepted his slave status.  However, as Lynx observed the people, he came to realize human nature directs the intelligence to make any adjustments necessary to survive, even if it means giving up some of your freedoms.  Lynx and Rabbit have always shared a love deeper than the pack bond, so after being missing for seven years, Rabbit must experience again the Pack’s strength by sharing touch, sex and a feeling of brotherhood which was forged from a lifetime of living and fighting side by side.  

Love could save a man, but only the bond could make a Pack Brother whole, this belief is reaffirmed nightly by sharing in a love fest.  When reading this story, the first question that comes to mind is why the Carwin Tribe Pack has animal names? You must read the story to discover the answer.       

Ally Blue has created an intellectually intriguing saga that I found immensely enjoyable.