Guest Post: "Love" by T.T Kove (Yesterday's Tears)

Yesterday’s Tears might deal with grief of loosing loved ones, but most of all it’s about love. Josh and Damian are an established couple in the novel, they’ve been together since they were both eighteen years old. They’re both troubled, but those who’ve read the shorts published about them know that Josh might be the most troubled and that he’s been leaning on Damian and his love ever since they met.

In this novel, it’s all flipped. Damian’s world is turned upside down and now Damian’s the one who has to lean on Josh, and Josh has to stay strong because Damian needs him. Josh also tries to stay strong for Matt, Damian’s cousin, who is reeling from losing his parents, but Matt isn’t as receptive to help as Damian is.

Matt does find help though—in a very special someone and that helps him come to terms with his parents’ death. It isn’t easy, it doesn’t happen quickly, and it never really goes away, but it becomes easier. He shuts everyone out, but slowly begins to open himself up again, and even though he’s only just eighteen years old, he does experience his first love.

Whereas Damian and Josh are an established couple, you have to read the book to find out who Matt’s special someone is. I can promise you it’s quite a ride!

Thanks so much to Pants Off Reviews for hosting me today! If you want to check Yesterday’s Tears out, here’s the blurb for you:

Blurb:
Damian's world is irrevocably altered the night his aunt and uncle are brought into his A&E, victims of a terrible car accident. Grief-stricken and lost, with nowhere else to turn, he calls Josh—the man he loves, and who left him.

Meanwhile Matt does not know how to live in a world where his parents aren't, especially when the rest of his family seems capable of handling it while he wants only to hide from the world. His only solace is Adam, whom he wishes was so much more than the man he occasionally has sex with—and who apparently has been keeping a secret that ruins the only comfort Matt had left.






Yesterday’s Tears will be released tomorrow, at Less Than Three Press!

Buy Link: Less Than 3 Press

Thanks again for letting me guest post at your blog! ^_^

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Review: Legend & Lore Books #1 and #2

Forest of Fenris by T.T.Kove
Less Than Three Press
Short Story: 46pgs
3.5 Pants Off


Blurb:
Never bet against a dark forest filled with monsters…

Desperate for the approval he hopes it will gain him, Mihai accepts a challenge from his brother: Venture into Fenris Forest, and retrieve a leaf from a rare tree to prove he did it. Though he has been warned to avoid the forest and the monsters that fill it all his life, Mihai’s longing for approval trumps his fear. Mihai soon realizes, however, that it is his fear he should have heeded. Just as victory seems within his grasp, he is attacked by warg, the most dangerous beasts in the forest. Alone and helpless, Mihai resigns himself to being just one more person who went into the woods and never came out—

Until he is saved in the most unexpected of ways.


Review:
I love me a good fantasy read, and Forest of Fenris was it. Though very sudden in the ending, and left me wanting more I found it to be a very good read.

When Mihai is dared to go into Fenris Forest, a place everyone knows never to venture into. He takes the dare hoping to prove to his brother and friends that he is no coward. He is to take a very rare leaf as proof and prove his bravery. When Mihai goes in, he thinks he has it made until he is attacked by wolves and then saved by another.

Mihai makes it out of the woods, but maybe it was safer there. Because life on the outside is filled with hate from his family, and he just doesn’t understand why. Once again, the wolf that saved his life will save it many more times.

I really liked the world created here, very exciting and interesting. Though the ending is very abrupt, I feel like it was settled quite well. My only ire is that I wanted more sexy time ‘yeh, I’m like that’. Otherwise, I really liked it and look forward to more from T.T Kove.

3.5 Pants Off

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Dessert Fire
Less Than Three Press
63pgs 
4 Pants Off


Blurb:
Brand is a man adrift: he is wolf shifter and fire witch, a traitor to his people for saving a friend on whom he turned his back long ago, a friend who no longer has need of him. He has no place to call home, no one to call family or friend, and no idea where he belongs.

With nothing better to do, he decides to seek out the infamous dragons in the firelands, curious to see if their fires will be hot enough to burn a fire witch, to see if perhaps a place that welcomes fire might have a place for him…


Review:
Book 2 in the Legend & Lore series deals with Brand who was introduced in the first book. He begins as a big douche bag but eventually proves himself in the end.

After suffering from abuse at the hands of his father, and secretly lusting after a dear friend. Brand is feeling lost in the world, and is dearly trying to find a place where he belongs. He’s a shifter, and he is able to create fire from thin air.

Wanting to go where fire burns the hottest, he journeys to the Dragon Territories. Mistaken for a dragon hunter, he is taken and locked away, and in the dungeons is where he meets Khaltah.

I enjoyed this story so much, though it didn’t have the ending I had hoped for. I wanted a little 3-way because I wasn’t really invested in Brand and Khaltah as a couple. I would have totally believed in them with the other guy ^_~. I am really liking this series I just really wish they were a bit longer.

I gotta say, even though I kept hoping for a different outcome, Ms Kove keeps me on my toes. I never get what I want, and I can’t necessarily say that’s a bad thing.

4 Pants Off