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Royal Mates: Love's Diamond #6
Prince Duncan and the Playboy
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Fantasy Romance, M/M, sex toys, HEA]
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Michael Brozen has led the life of a playboy for far too long. His endless succession of hook-ups with twinks has resulted in an attack that sends him to the hospital. His life is empty and meaningless. He aches for someone to care about him and not throw him away like his parents did. Meeting Duncan, Michael finds himself wanting to belong to the gentle, sweet man permanently.
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Prince Duncan Sorenson is an innocent who does not know how to love a man. He has struggled with controlling his magic, always fearing he would hurt someone because of it.His magic is pulled from him whenever it is needed, helping others despite his lack of control. Though he longs for his aheri, he worries he will frighten his mate because of his size and be ridiculed because of his inexperience.
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Duncan's visions of Michael and the love and the children that they would have together give the shy prince hope.
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** A Siren Erotic Romance
375 pages, ebook
First published January 17, 2015
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Lyssa Samuels
10 books40 followersLyssa Samuels can often be found in her comfy cave with wi-fi, creating on her netbook that is permanently attached to her hip. She is the happiest when she is writing, and she loves to create worlds of love and acceptance. Her stories are always romantic, and her goal is to send the readers away with a positive, happy outlook on life. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys spending time with her children, her family, and her friends. She loves receiving emails and messages from her readers.
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July 6, 2015
**Grammar**
In this last book of the series (for now i think since we miss the other brothers and their mates stories......)we see the youngest prince, Duncan(same age as Drake) and his mate Michael.
Duncan is shy and a virgin, for all his life he waited his mate, the only one he would want to be with and give his body to. When he sees Michael on the diamond field he understands that a man like him, will never want an inexperienced guy like him.
Michael is a playboy, he changes man every night and was never in love. Duncan isnt his type, he goes for smaller men, but he cant understand why he is so attracted to Duncan, that he thinks is cute and shy, but for sure not small.
To make the story shorter or we stay here all day......
I liked this couple, there is love and jealousy, and a lot of misunderstandings, like when Duncan becomes pregnant and Michael thinks he cheated on him to have the baby since he cant have children, bcs when he was a kid an illness made him become sterile. They fight, Michael punches a dude that he thinks is Duncan's new man, but is only his poor cousin and there was no cheat.Duncan healed him with his magic.
The shy prince is really powerful and his magic goes to all the ppl who need it and in that case, his magic had decided to heal Michael.
In the end Michael understands that he was an asshole and that Duncan would never be with another man, and that he will always be the only one to have ever touched in that way the prince's body.
Duncan is jealous too and he too gets angry when he thinks that someone else touched his mate.
I liked this theme, it made the book alive and more interesting, but still we dont have news about the kidnapped kids or what happened to the evil men behind all this. We see like 10 pages about this in all the book, when Duncan gets kidnapped for like 2 hours?????(sigh) and he frees some pregnant men and then finds some kids...but is like 10 pages for real in a book of almost 400 pages.......
I really hoped we could understand something more about the plot of the series here, but nope.....
I must admit that i liked this couple more than some of the others, and mostly i found their interactions real, not like with some of the couple where the only thing we read was i love you blah blah, me too........and so on for all the book. Here there is angst, the good one, there wasnt rape or abuse or things like that, but just misunderstanding and jealousy.
What can i say, the books are almost all the same, but i would read more of them, dont ask me why.....maybe the romance......idk.......
Like all the other books, also here we see in the epilogue 5 years later that Micheale and Duncan have now 3 kids and are making the 4th one, and we already know that they will have at least 6 kids.
For sure those princes make a lot of children XDDDDDDDDDD, the royal family is huge :O
Also the princes' cousins mate with the brothers of one of the princes' mate ...Rolf.....
Is a book, so all is possible........
See u next book, if the author decides to write another and explain something.. -__-'
In this last book of the series (for now i think since we miss the other brothers and their mates stories......)we see the youngest prince, Duncan(same age as Drake) and his mate Michael.
Duncan is shy and a virgin, for all his life he waited his mate, the only one he would want to be with and give his body to. When he sees Michael on the diamond field he understands that a man like him, will never want an inexperienced guy like him.
Michael is a playboy, he changes man every night and was never in love. Duncan isnt his type, he goes for smaller men, but he cant understand why he is so attracted to Duncan, that he thinks is cute and shy, but for sure not small.
To make the story shorter or we stay here all day......
I liked this couple, there is love and jealousy, and a lot of misunderstandings, like when Duncan becomes pregnant and Michael thinks he cheated on him to have the baby since he cant have children, bcs when he was a kid an illness made him become sterile. They fight, Michael punches a dude that he thinks is Duncan's new man, but is only his poor cousin and there was no cheat.Duncan healed him with his magic.
The shy prince is really powerful and his magic goes to all the ppl who need it and in that case, his magic had decided to heal Michael.
In the end Michael understands that he was an asshole and that Duncan would never be with another man, and that he will always be the only one to have ever touched in that way the prince's body.
Duncan is jealous too and he too gets angry when he thinks that someone else touched his mate.
I liked this theme, it made the book alive and more interesting, but still we dont have news about the kidnapped kids or what happened to the evil men behind all this. We see like 10 pages about this in all the book, when Duncan gets kidnapped for like 2 hours?????(sigh) and he frees some pregnant men and then finds some kids...but is like 10 pages for real in a book of almost 400 pages.......
I really hoped we could understand something more about the plot of the series here, but nope.....
I must admit that i liked this couple more than some of the others, and mostly i found their interactions real, not like with some of the couple where the only thing we read was i love you blah blah, me too........and so on for all the book. Here there is angst, the good one, there wasnt rape or abuse or things like that, but just misunderstanding and jealousy.
What can i say, the books are almost all the same, but i would read more of them, dont ask me why.....maybe the romance......idk.......
Like all the other books, also here we see in the epilogue 5 years later that Micheale and Duncan have now 3 kids and are making the 4th one, and we already know that they will have at least 6 kids.
For sure those princes make a lot of children XDDDDDDDDDD, the royal family is huge :O
Also the princes' cousins mate with the brothers of one of the princes' mate ...Rolf.....
Is a book, so all is possible........
See u next book, if the author decides to write another and explain something.. -__-'
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 25, 2015
This book is weird. And I am saying that about an instalment of this series.
I mean we have so very many couples finding together in this one (even more than the planned ten brothers), complete with viewpoint, and a good portion of it all is told in visions of the happy future, intersecting the “present”. Just a plain weird choice for storytelling.
As usual the good is that most of the events, although they necessarily have to be referenced in earlier and later books due to the concurrent nature of the entire series (crazy task!), don’t feel repetitive – aside from the fact that everything is repetitive because not only do all the stories follow the same pattern, but the “goodness” and “caring” of everyone has to be commented on ad infinitum. But what I mean is that we rarely get a copy/paste from an earlier story. An exception occurs here in that hospital scene from the previous book. That one might be an only slightly edited copy. And we’ll still get to read that scene a third time in Blake’s book – out of necessity.
I am also fascinated once again by how accepting of magic all these humans are. They seem a lot more sceptical about love or how deserving they are of good things than taken aback by the shiny lights.
Speaking of magic, it now infuses the sex to a hitherto unexplored degree. Not only does Duncan literally ejaculate magic, he can also conjure up whatever he wants and use his magic to prep his guy for sex.
I am just rolling with it. ^^; This series is so bizarre, yet so benign (in its repetitive way) that I kind of enjoy reading the newest book once in a while. It’s important to space them out, though, or the necessarily smudgy continuity and weird time flow (not to mention the repetitions) begin to truly grate.
What really blows my mind though – and in a totally different way – is how far the protagonists here go to create and prolong their misunderstandings. That’s just plain bad.
And weren’t the teachers a couple before instead of brothers? Eh, I might be wrong. But everyone now has magic and visions and crazy magical empathy. So who cares anymore about making sense (within the confines of the series), anyway.
The saccharine sweetness of the very long and very gooey ending is almost too much. I had to take several breaks to get through it.
As usual, though, I wonder how these kids are ever going to learn empathy with other people’s pain if they will be prevented from ever feeling the slightest physical or emotional twinge.
Ah well.
So the author now managed to extend this ten-book series by two books and at the same time spawn a spin-off that will be good for more than twenty volumes. Not sure I will make it quite that far. Unless they are super slow in coming, so that the excess sugar and memories of unreal mushiness will have time to fade from my system in between instalments.
I mean we have so very many couples finding together in this one (even more than the planned ten brothers), complete with viewpoint, and a good portion of it all is told in visions of the happy future, intersecting the “present”. Just a plain weird choice for storytelling.
As usual the good is that most of the events, although they necessarily have to be referenced in earlier and later books due to the concurrent nature of the entire series (crazy task!), don’t feel repetitive – aside from the fact that everything is repetitive because not only do all the stories follow the same pattern, but the “goodness” and “caring” of everyone has to be commented on ad infinitum. But what I mean is that we rarely get a copy/paste from an earlier story. An exception occurs here in that hospital scene from the previous book. That one might be an only slightly edited copy. And we’ll still get to read that scene a third time in Blake’s book – out of necessity.
I am also fascinated once again by how accepting of magic all these humans are. They seem a lot more sceptical about love or how deserving they are of good things than taken aback by the shiny lights.
Speaking of magic, it now infuses the sex to a hitherto unexplored degree. Not only does Duncan literally ejaculate magic, he can also conjure up whatever he wants and use his magic to prep his guy for sex.
I am just rolling with it. ^^; This series is so bizarre, yet so benign (in its repetitive way) that I kind of enjoy reading the newest book once in a while. It’s important to space them out, though, or the necessarily smudgy continuity and weird time flow (not to mention the repetitions) begin to truly grate.
What really blows my mind though – and in a totally different way – is how far the protagonists here go to create and prolong their misunderstandings. That’s just plain bad.
And weren’t the teachers a couple before instead of brothers? Eh, I might be wrong. But everyone now has magic and visions and crazy magical empathy. So who cares anymore about making sense (within the confines of the series), anyway.
The saccharine sweetness of the very long and very gooey ending is almost too much. I had to take several breaks to get through it.
As usual, though, I wonder how these kids are ever going to learn empathy with other people’s pain if they will be prevented from ever feeling the slightest physical or emotional twinge.
Ah well.
So the author now managed to extend this ten-book series by two books and at the same time spawn a spin-off that will be good for more than twenty volumes. Not sure I will make it quite that far. Unless they are super slow in coming, so that the excess sugar and memories of unreal mushiness will have time to fade from my system in between instalments.
April 24, 2015
So like the other books in the series, we’ve meet these two MC’s before in passing and now it is time for their story. Duncan, out of all the Princes feels like he is the most unworthy and unworldly. He’s never been able to control is power and at a younger age actually damaged his brothers face and was unable to fix it which left that brother will a permanent scare. Because of this he has spent all of his time on his cousins farm land tending to the crops, seems his power does the most good helping plants grow. However, he was also sent to Earth to find his mate, once he found his though. His mate, Michael told Duncan that he was not his type. Duncan being an innocent took the words as intended and left. Michael, just like most of the other friends had a crummy childhood and has set up walls that he won’t let anyone through. So why does he feel these strange feelings for the teddy bear? Can he break the wall around his heart before it’s too late? Does he really want to?
As of right now this is the last book in the series, but I’ve hounded the author enough…. Restraining order not too far behind, plus it’s posted on Face Book that she is working on another. YAY! Your heart just goes out for Duncan, he just takes ever word at face value, since he has no base to understand or second guess. And Michael, he’s been played with and been the player for years. He just doesn’t know how to change, even though he wants too. And when they finally decide to give life/love a chance one wrong word sends it all into a tail spin. Luckily, Michael and the brothers have become a united front and will stop at nothing to see this through. Now it’s the finally one, for a while I can say. I really enjoyed the way she made each story start with the mates meeting separately. Instead of everyone pairing up in the first book, as many series with siblings and mates or partners often do, it was a nice change from the norm.
I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review by Crystals Many reviews
As of right now this is the last book in the series, but I’ve hounded the author enough…. Restraining order not too far behind, plus it’s posted on Face Book that she is working on another. YAY! Your heart just goes out for Duncan, he just takes ever word at face value, since he has no base to understand or second guess. And Michael, he’s been played with and been the player for years. He just doesn’t know how to change, even though he wants too. And when they finally decide to give life/love a chance one wrong word sends it all into a tail spin. Luckily, Michael and the brothers have become a united front and will stop at nothing to see this through. Now it’s the finally one, for a while I can say. I really enjoyed the way she made each story start with the mates meeting separately. Instead of everyone pairing up in the first book, as many series with siblings and mates or partners often do, it was a nice change from the norm.
I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review by Crystals Many reviews
January 24, 2015
This was an amazing addition to the Royal Mates, Loves Diamond 6 Series! We get to visit with some of the characters from the first books and learn of new characters that I hope will have their own stories told . We just get to sit and watch an amazing love story unfold! Little bit of danger, throw in some powers and add love...lots of love. Mix it all together and you a wonderful story.
February 13, 2015
Prince Duncan and the playbook [Royal Mates, Love's Diamond 6]
This was a great book truly loved it and can't wait to read more. I hope it's soon .....I will be watching for it...
This was a great book truly loved it and can't wait to read more. I hope it's soon .....I will be watching for it...
February 24, 2015
Super Duper Cute Read!!! I loved it!!!
July 2, 2015
Really enjoyed Duncan and Michael.
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