Review - It's a long story: A Novel About Beautiful Boys Doing Terrible Things to Each Other
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James is a stereotypical gay party boy. He dropped out of college and works as a waiter to earn just enough to pay his share of the rent, buy the right clothes, and pay for drinks on his weekly nights out. He appears to drink too much when he’s out, and his love life seems to consist mostly of guys he picks up at the club or hookups found on the web.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Two Hearts Two Spirits
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Igashu and Helki are two young men in a small native tribe hidden away in a valley of the Rockies near one of the new national parks around the turn of the twentieth century. The two young men are very close, but soon they will face a tribal ritual: the bow and basket ceremony. The boys who choose the bow will become warriors and hunters - men - while those who choose the basket will have a more domestic life and join the Two Spirit people - homosexuals.
Tags: Historical
Review - Trails of Love I Crawl Part 1
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Lucien and Amédée are two young men, aged 19 and 20 respectively, in a well-to-do household of a busy port town. Amédée is the stepson of the master of the house, while Lucien is the master’s nephew, and Amédée’s squire. The two young men have a close bond, but just as they’re about to take their relationship beyond brotherly love, they’re discovered by the head of the house. The old-fashioned man sends the boys off to a “reformatory” run by the enterprising Viktor, who subjects the two men to extremely cruel torture.
Tags: Do Not Read
Inspirations - Moon and Sixpence
People are always asking me why I chose to live in Thailand. Although there are lots of reasons, they really all came down to a feeling that this was “home.” I first visited the country more or less on a whim in 1987, and the feeling was almost instant. The best explanation I've ever found for this feeling can be found in a book by W. Somerset Maugham: Moon and Sixpence, a novel very loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin.
Review - Acclamation
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Still stinging from the loss of his lover four years ago, Michael Cassidy takes a job as an English teacher at a Catholic school in a small English town. Although only 28 years old, he’s more or less given up on life and is hiding away from it, thinking that his one great love is already behind him. However, life isn’t quite through with Mr Cassidy. One day he discovers that he lives next door to one of his students, Dominic Butler.
Tags: Contemporary
David and Gun Series Christmas Giveaway
It’s approaching the season of giving, so I’ve decided to give everyone the perfect gift: my books. Okay, so I’m cheap and self-serving doing this, but you know you want to read them. It’s better than dealing with hoards of shoppers or your in-laws, I guarantee. What’s on offer is the entire David & Gun Series, and where you can get it is at All Romance eBooks. The 100% off sale runs from today (7 December) until the 11th of December 2012.
Tags: David & Gun
Review - Missing
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This is a difficult book to summarize without spoilers, so I’m not going to try. The blurb, as blurbs will do, only tells you half the story, and in this case it’s possibly misleading. It might make you think that this is a mystery, or perhaps a psychological thriller, and that’s what you may be thinking up to about halfway through, but then everything changes. It’s at about the midway point that you find out this story isn’t exactly about what you think it is.
Review - Wishes
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Auri is a young man determined to go places. He has risen through the ranks in the service of the Empire without the aid of any family connections, and now he is a first lieutenant on a diplomatic starship. Auri has gotten where he is by being stern and demanding. He gets things done. But there’s nobody on his current assignment that he can call a friend. Even his own captain thinks he is a little too uptight.
Tags: Fantasy Science Fiction
Review - Power Exchange
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Gavin DeGrassi is a St Louis homicide detective. As “Power Exchange” opens, he and his partner Trent are called to the scene of a gruesome killing, where a Dom has been brutally murdered in his own play room with his own toys. The case awakens some feelings and desires that Gavin has long suppressed, as well as exposing him to some new ideas he has never considered. The detectives know nothing about the BDSM scene, so psychologist Ben Haverson is brought in to consult.
Review - Woke Up in a Strange Place
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Joe has indeed, as the title says, woke up in a strange place. The strange place is heaven, or rather, the afterlife. There aren’t exactly any pearly gates and Saint Peter is nowhere in sight. Joe is, at first, alone in a golden field of barley, with no memory of his former life or how he died, but soon he meets his quirky guide, Baker, and together they set out on a journey to rediscover the key people and events of his earthbound existence.
Tags: Fantasy