Book Title: Love’s Magic
Author: Janice Jarrell
Publisher: Self Published on ACX
Narrator: Walker Williams
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 9 hours and 11 mins
Author: Janice Jarrell
Publisher: Self Published on ACX
Narrator: Walker Williams
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 9 hours and 11 mins
Finding Love's Magic is hard. Keeping it is harder.
Nate is a professor at the university, content with his life, his job, and his partner David. But when he jumps in to defend a student under attack and is injured himself, Nate becomes a leader in the campus movement to end sexual assault. When David doesn’t understand his militant reaction, Nate feels abandoned and betrayed, and begins to question their relationship.
David's love for Nate is deep and true, but he can’t support Nate’s confrontational stance, fearing that the consequences will destroy his career. Forced to choose between his love for Nate and his own sense of what’s right, David feels trapped in a hopeless impasse.
Colin, an Irish Sergeant in the campus police force, is a legend on campus. A fierce protector of assault victims, he is merciless in pursuit of their assailants. When he meets Joshua, a Title IX consultant, sparks fly, and their relationship quickly becomes passionate.
Joshua wants more from Colin, much more, but Colin clings to his independence, fighting against his feelings for the soft-spoken psychologist. When Colin’s past comes back to haunt him, an explosive quarrel sends Joshua home without a word. Will Colin care enough to seek him out?
It would take a miracle to resolve these issues and bring these men together.
Love's Magic is a gay romance featuring two couples, who will both find their HEA.
Story: 3.5 stars
This book is about 2 couples: Nate and David, and Joshua and Colin. Nate experienced something horrific and David doesn't know how to cope. Instead of focusing on Nate and what he needs to get through the event, he focuses on the job. Joshua and Colin are opposites. They meet at work, and while they try to fight their connection, they can't. Unfortunately, Josh wants more than to be friends with benefits and that's all Colin wants...but maybe that will change. Not only are they trying to get over that hoop, but Colin also has a past, and it's holding him back.
The story is well written and has a good plot with a great message, but there are times it gets drawn out and repetitive. More than once I was frustrated by the characters and wanted to slap them. They, in some ways, acted younger than they are, especially some of the supporting characters. Nate and David's story ends, but it is a cliffy for Colin and Josh.
Narration: 4.5 stars
The narration brought this story to life, like it so often does with good narrators. Walker Williams was able to give each character their own voice, but there were a few times when I got lost because the voices weren't completely different. Those moments were few and far between. Overall though, I loved this version of the book and the narrator did a great job.
Overall: 4 stars
There were some issues with this story, but that said, the book is still good, and I think you should listen or read it for yourself. I am going to continue with the series and am excited to see what happens to Josh and Colin next. 4 stars overall.
My name is Janice Jarrell. I am a retired grandmother who lives in Seattle, WA. I have two children and three grandsons. I’ve been writing gay romance since I was twelve years old, only back then it wasn’t called ‘gay romance’. In fact, it had no name at all. It was the fifty’s, and it was worth your life to admit to being gay, let alone confess to being a girl who constantly fantasized about relationships between gay men. Hell, I didn’t even know what a homosexual was. I lived on a farm out in the sticks in a tiny Michigan village and I’d never, to my knowledge, even heard the word. I just knew I loved the thought of boy on boy romance. I just knew that there was something hot going on between Tom Corbett and his Space Cadets and all those guys on ‘Combat’.
I wrote slash fanfiction for 30 years, writing over 337 stories, some as short as 100 words (a drabble) some as long as a series which was over 119 012 words. I enjoy writing my stories. I enjoyed the feedback I received from my readers. It was a creative release I’d been searching for my entire life and I blessed the Internet for leading me to this artistic oasis for my spirit.
Love’s Magic was my very first step into writing my owncharacters. I will always be grateful the slash fanfiction community for nurturing the budding author until she was ready to blossom into a fully realized novelist, and I am thrilled that it is now available on Audible!It’s been an amazing thing to watch the gay community’s growth over these past twenty years. My own journey has echoed theirs in many ways, and I’m grateful to all those gay activists who fought to give the gay community the rights and privileges they always deserved.
My second contemporary gay romance novel, Love's Trials followed Colin and Joshua on their journey as men and as a couple. The readers who fell in love with them in Love’s Magic were thrilled to see their romance continue to grow and blossom, but were forced to watch our beloved boys go through some pretty traumatic trials in this book, trials which nearly shattered their relationship. But their love proved stronger than any troubles in the end and they now move forward into the happiness they know they deserve.
In Love’s Glory, my newest release, Colin and Joshua bask in the happiness that eluded them in Love’s Trials. If you’re looking for a book filled with anger, fear, and anxiety... look elsewhere. Love’s Glory is about just that... the glory of love and the continued growth of these two extraordinary men and the amazing friends who are a large part of their lives.
I’m also grateful to the gay romance community, readers, authors, publishers and promoters, who are making these, my retirement years, the most creative ones of my life. When I'm not writing, I'm traveling, walking, hiking, knitting, crocheting, and weaving, and enjoying my life here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest.
