Tuesday 15 August 2017

Epic by Adrienne Wilder #Guestpost #Review #MMRom



Epic 

by Adrienne Wilder 
June 15, 2017 
319 pages 



Andrew Atler has learned the hard way, fiction is far better than real life. In his romance novels the world is safe, predictable, and there is always a happy ending. Best of all, he can safely fall in love and the person will never know. There he can weave a tale of perfect passion plus pay the bills. 

Matt Grim flies the colors of Hell’s Legion. When he’s not riding his chopper, he’s working as a bouncer for the Six. Matt’s life consists of drinking, playing in a band, and burning the midnight oil in the dungeon. He lives hard, plays hard, and rides even harder. 

Two people who would never be a part of the same EPIC love story. 

But sometimes those fairy tale clichés have a way of working magic. 

And sometimes…sometimes those happy endings do come true. 



Buy Links

Amazon buy link http://amzn.to/2tSwDr3



Guest Post

Reader Questions, Answered:

Reader Question: Along with the psychological scars that Liam suffers in Worth, he carries physical scars too. Do you think there's a fair balance in the romance genre when it comes to showing physical damage over the psychological?

I’m not sure I’m qualified to answer this question but I’ll try.

In my opinion, physical defects in main characters are not done very often. I won’t say this is right or wrong, because we write what we are comfortable with (usually). Physical defects, whether scars or birth defects, or illness, cannot be brushed over and ignored. They are there and cannot be hidden, so it can influence a person’s ability to connect with a character.

Romance is a genre where people want to escape the speed bumps of life. Most people can identify with psychological scars, because most people have experienced them. Physical difficulties are not as easy, especially if you’ve never experienced them. It can make writing them a challenge, and portraying them in a respectable way, more so.
People with physical disabilities, scars, genetic defects, are overlooked in real life because people either fear saying the wrong thing, or simply have preconceived ideas about why the person is the way they are or how they will act (usually mentally).

It’s easy to say you judge people by what’s inside, but we don’t. Not really. The first thing people judge someone on is how they look. It’s ingrained in us as human beings and reinforced by society norms. It’s unfair, but also an ugly truth.

I don’t think people avoid writing about characters with physical defects because they dismiss the value of the person, I think they do it because they are afraid of it not ringing true and afraid of how someone with physical defects would be approachable. It’s the same reason there are not many fat characters in romance books. (And yes I use the word fat because it is not a bad word and using it as a demeaning degrading word needs to change.) It’s hard for a lot of people to see someone who is overweight as attractive and sexually desirable because we have been conditioned by media they are not.

This makes writing these characters, realistically, extremely difficult and you could even say dangerous because someone might interpret what you write as being disrespectful or even hurtful.  


My Review

Matt is a biker, musician and a dom! Andrew appears to be a doormat at the beginning of the book and to be fair I thought about stopping reading the book BUT the relationship between the two got more interesting and Andrew showed more personality. Andrew does not change to fit in, he stays true to his own nature - some may say he needed to 'man up' more but he had a lot going for him, he was not physically perfect or model material but he was kind and had a profession that paid his bills, he is obviously a submissive in the bedroom and there is nothing wrong with that.

Matt was a typical biker, he is quite abrupt and pushy at the beginning but he grew on me and even though he was always a dom in the bedroom, he became more emotionally attached to Andrew.

The storyline was busy a family not accepting their gay son, a bad boy ex (very nasty man!), a biker gang and a romance, it does all sort of come together eventually. I personally feel Todd's twist wasn't needed - it didn't add anything to the story for me.

A shaky start but worth finishing.

Overall 3.5 stars

Sexy rating 4 stars, not as dark/depraved as authors other work!



Bio 


Georgia born and bred, I am an artist, a writer, and a general pain in the ass. 

I spend most of my days working on my next book or designing cover art for other writers. For stress relief I do Olympic lifting and occasionally run (but hate it). I have been in love with writing since I was very young but it wasn't until recently that I decided to pursue it as a profession. 

I have experimented in several genres and found that since I identify as male, male romance has been the most comfortable for me to write. I don't discriminate in my books. All characters are fair game. I do however, prefer a happy ending at some level. 

I don't write the standard romance book. Some might even argue that what I write isn't romance at all. Personally, I think of them as love stories, where even in a fantastical world, there are realistic outcomes to the obstacles the characters face. 

Many of my books have dark turns and twists where the characters fight for the light at the end of the tunnel. I write action, fist fights, gun fights, downright dirty evil people who have to be stopped, things catch fire, blow up, and fall in. My characters come in a unique range. They are not all good guys, but the majority of them have very good hearts. Many of them have been through hell in their lives, and many of them have a laundry list of faults. But hopefully they manage to surprise you with their tenacity and loyalty. 

If all goes well, there will be a myriad of different kinds of books available this year. If I am really lucky, you will enjoy them. 




Wild 

by Adrienne 
Releasing in August 2017 

No sane man would choose to live in the Alaskan bush unless he had something to hide. And Keegan Brooks has secrets darker than night, more dangerous than wolves, more brutal than an Alaskan winter. Every day for him was survival until he found August Vallory the sole survivor in a downed plane. 

It’s no longer just Keegan’s life teetering on the edge of survival. 

Now it’s his heart. 



Blog Tour 

Aug 14-25 

Aug 14 Boy Meets Boys Reviews – guest post 
Aug 15 Making it Happen - review 
Vampy and Racey – review/guest post 
Aug 16 The Novel Approach Reviews – guest post 
Aug 17 Joyfully Jay – guest post 
Aug 18 Jeep Diva – guest post 
Aug 21 I Smell Sheep – guest post 
Aug 22 Love Unchained - review 
Aug 23 Love Bytes – guest post 
Aug 25 Jessie G Books – spotlight 




Tour Wide Giveaway 

$20 amazon gift card 











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