Asylum, by Mark Allen Gunnells

Curtis, a young college student is dragged to his first gay club by his best friend Jimmy for a night of dancing, drinking and sex…at least until the dead start to rise and attack the club. Trapped inside the Asylum are a small band of survivors, including a drag queen, a male stripper, a Vietnam vet bartender, a pretentious gay couple, and an unstable DJ. Will this motley crew survive the hungry undead rattling the sealed-off doors? Will they survive each other? Will they survive their own personal demons? Asylum recalls George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead–except with more gore and a more current social message.


SLAVE's Review
For me novella are a hit or miss kind of thing because authors have limited space to set the scene, hook their readers and relay a complete tale. Well, Mark Gunnells' ASYLUM hit the ground running. Because of the shortness of the story, I 'll do a simple check list so I don't give away anymore than can be read in the blog.

~Character creation, interaction, and believability?    check

~Believable story plot on any planet?                             check

~Just the right amount of Sexual Tension?                   check

~Story flow with no hiccups or interruptions?             check

~2nd time readability?                                                       check 

~Earning 5 1/2 pens for a GREAT NOVELLA?            check                 

Relatively Speaking, Allen Mack

TITLE: Relatively Speaking
AUTHOR: Allen Mack
ISBN: 9781935753780
GENRE: Contemporary • Erotic Romance • Fiction • Gay
LENGTH: 5,090 wordsPURCHASE EBOOK URL: http://jms.bz/cc

Dan and Greg invite Dan's nephew and his best friend, Curt, to visit after graduation. Plans change when the nephew gets sick, but Curt visits anyway. Playing host isn't to Greg’s liking at all. What can they do with a juvenile in their home for two whole weeks?

But Greg and Dan soon Curt is all grown up. Tall, handsome, athletically built, he's a charmer with a magnetic smile and a butt jeans were designed to show off. Nudity is the norm for Curt at home and alone, and it's soon apparent he considers himself at home with the men.

Greg becomes more and more unsettled as Curt struts about the house in the buff, while Dan chuckles inwardly at his lover's increasing discomfort. Greg becomes so horny, he can't wait to get Dan alone. As things heat up between them, the bedroom door opens to reveal a naked Curt eager to join in the fun.

Goddess's Review

A great story. It was short, to the point and funny. I even laughed out loud a few times. Short, sweet erotica with an established couple. Well done, Allen! 4 stars

Sunset, by Arshad Ahsanuddin

Los Angeles, 2040. The terrorist Medusa and her followers threaten to destroy the metropolis with a nuclear bomb. One individual, the vampire Nicholas Jameson, comes forward to oppose them.

For tens of thousands of years, the vampires, called Nightwalkers, had been entrenched in a bitter feud with their enemies, the Sentinels, those born to destroy the Nightwalkers with magic and steel. The battle drew to a close once the Redeemer offered the two sides a new path, allowing the Nightwalkers to step back into the sunlight as Daywalkers, in return for giving up the sword.

When Nick takes on the terrorists, he exposes his powers and advanced technology that had been previously unknown to humanity. In the wake of the confrontation, the fragile peace between the races hangs perilously in the balance. Will coexistence be possible, or will the final war destroy them all?

Sunset (Pact Arcanum: Book One)

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SLAVE's Review

Nicholas Jameson aka Magister Luscian was born a human, but was now last of the house of Luscian. Along with the Sentinals, the Night Walkers and other Day Walkers a plan was hatched to save L.A from destruction and introduce them all to the humans, but things go awry when Nicholas met Jeremy Harkness.
The Day Walkers, Night Walkers and Sentinals lived among the humans, going about business as usual until a crazy woman wanted to blow up L.A. This would not only kill the humans, but all of them as well which forced them to intervene and reveal themselves.

I enjoyed reading this book. The story is set in the not so distant future of 2040. Arshad Ahsanuddin’s writing is clean and his storytelling was well done. Just as I had a question, the author smoothly transitioned into back story, successfully answering my queries and then jumped right back to the present to keep the story moving forward. All the characters showed clear emotion. Even with so many characters I was never bored or overwhelmed wondering chaotically about what was going on. The few sex scenes in the book were closed door, which was fine, but I wished that the fighting scenes were in more detailed. All in all this was a good read.

4 pens