Love You Always, Suckers And All Sucker For Love Mysteries
Gay Romance, Witches and Wizards, Werewolves and Shifters
Dreamspinner Press
July 25, 2923
Kindle
232
Amazon
Sloane Beaumont has pitted himself against ancient gods, murderous cultists, and cursed magic. Now he’s facing off against the most powerful threat yet: one of his own friends.
Elliam Sturm has always had mysterious abilities.Most recently he’s used them to bring new life to his ghoul boyfriend’s rotting body. However, the true source of his power has been finally revealed and may drive him to destroy the universe in an eons-old cycle of violence and death.
For the first time since his parents’ murder, Sloane is happy with his husband, Loch, their daughter, and their growing extended and immortal family. He can’t let Ell destroy that... or himself. Desperate to save Ell from his own fated corruption and to prevent the destruction of existence as they know it, Sloane will have to travel to new worlds, raise a magical army, and fight to protect the life he and Loch have worked so hard to build in one final epic battle.
Review By Sherry Perkins
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
“Though Asta appeared to be a tall young man with the lean build of a scarecrow, hiding inside was another monster as formidable as his father’s.”—Love You Always, Suckers and All
When I grew up, I wanted to be a marine biologist, not a nurse. But that’s another story. Therefore, the fact K. L. Hiers had written a series, A Sucker for Love, it was of interest to me. Theme-a- matically, the cephalopod characters were certainly Cthulhu-like—single-mindedly destructive, with more tentacles than anything else but I would have preferred more inclusive storytelling about their intelligence, keen sight, and problem-solving skills rather than what sexual acts could be accomplished with all those tentacles. Or maybe there should have been more eroticism and less destruction. Nonetheless, Hiers apparently has a quite devoted fan base, so they’ve obviously found the right mix of paranormal and romance for the consumers who count most.
Love You Always, Suckers and All is a love story, one filled with many types of paranormal beings (not just tentacled ones), that reads more like a fantasy than a true romance genre.
Sloane Beaumont is its main character. He’s a private investigator and a supernatural as well. In his business, he’s come up against and fought many a powerful being but none as powerful as the one in this tale. Because the being is his friend, Elliam. Elliam is many things; some good, some evil. But when he tries to reanimate his dead lover, Jeff, well, things become exponentially darker (and occasionally entertaining).
Sloane’s husband is the one with the tentacles in this book. His name is Loch. They have a daughter, Pandora. She has tentacles too. Together, they have a close knit and loving family who Sloane would do anything to protect. When Elliam becomes entangled in the reanimation spellwork, Sloane’s family and the rest of the universe are threatened. This results in a knock down, dragged out, many tentacled war against evil.
Given that Love You Always, Suckers and Allis the series finale, replete with returning fan favorite characters and the presumably satisfying, HEA conclusions to previous storylines, the story—for me—was a bit forced and overly stuffed with those previous characters and their stories. But for fans of the series, this is likely a benefit rather than a detraction. It seems like I’ll need to go back and start at the series beginning to untangle it for me!
A three-and-a-half star rating for a story about tentacles, family values and upsetting the balance of the universe.