Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Searching for Love on the Moon by Lee Quail
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Christopher returns home from work early one day to find his boyfriend in bed with not one, but two, other men. Incensed by the betrayal, Chris sells the house and his business and moves to an isolated community high in the mountains, where he buys an old church in need of repair. To get some tools, Chris visits the town’s hardware store, where he meets Jarrod and his daughter Mary.
Tags: Paranormal
Review - Farewell, My Boy by Garrick Jones
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Tommy’s latest mission takes him to North Africa to kidnap a German officer working in Rommel’s command. It’s just the first step in an elaborate plan to rescue the man’s sister, a math savant working on the German rocket program. Things go a little sideways once they get to Germany, and by the time Tommy gets everyone back to England, he has his hands full. This third book of the Seventh of December series is another spy thriller combining the worlds of classical music and World War II espionage.
Review - Fiends With Benefits by Sean Michael
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Ben’s husband, Standish, is dying of cancer. Ben will do anything to save the love of his life, but all of the standard medical treatments have been exhausted. That’s when Ben has the crazy idea of summoning a demon to make a deal to save Standish. He doesn’t expect it to work, but it may give Standish a moment or two of mirth when Ben tells him about it. Much to everyone’s surprise, a demon appears.
Tags: Novellette Erotica Fantasy
Review - Emissary Prince by C.J. Dragon
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River and Eris are back together again after a fight over Eris’ attitude, but River still can’t accept the limitations that being Eris’ consort would place on him. To everyone’s surprise, it’s the king that comes up with the perfect solution: make River a prince, a near-equal to Eris. It’s an elegant solution that removes the barriers to the two being together in every way possible. The one problem it creates comes from a surprising quarter.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Stableboy by Gale Stanley
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Perry had a good thing going with his sugar daddy boyfriend who produced reality television shows. What he didn’t know until they were arrested was that the guy was also a major drug supplier. Perry is sent to jail, and thanks to his smart mouth, ends up in solitary. Eventually, he is given a choice: join a special ‘rehabilitation’ program run by the police, or go back into the general population, where Perry will be used and brutalized by the other inmates.
Review - The Well by Marie Sexton
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Haven’s cousin Elise was always coming up with new stories and other ways to scare him and all her other friends. Her latest scheme is to spend a night in the local haunted house where they’ll hold a seance to contact a girl supposedly murdered there many years before. Haven only agrees because his crush, Pierce, will also be there. The seance really scares all the teenagers, and in the morning, Elise has disappeared.
Tags: Mystery Paranormal
Review - Office of the Lost by J. Scott Coatsworth & Kim Fielding
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Crispin is a fae with a rather boring office job. He is a curator in the Office of the Lost. His supervisor sends Crispin out to retrieve things, which he brings back to the office, fills out lots of paperwork, and the items get filed away in the office’s vast archives. It’s a very mundane job, but Crispin, who likes order, is very good at it. One day, Crispin is tasked with collecting another item.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - Fire & Ice by J.C. Owens
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After two years living with the Silvermanes in their isolated kingdom to be with his lover Tarsus, the king agrees to allow a visit by Varan’s brother Ariel, along with his personal guards. Things don’t go quite as planned, but when Ariel finally meets King Arhanyin, he is instantly attracted to the much older centaur. Never shy nor one to be deterred from a sexual conquest, Ariel sets about wooing the old king.
Review - Hudson River Homicides by C.S. Poe
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Cold Case Detective Everett Larkin is called to the scene of a fresh homicide in the early hours of the morning. Even though Larkin is a cold case investigator, a note links the death to a string of cases he has been working on with his lover and sometimes partner, Ira Doyle. Most of the cases involve serial killers who were never brought to justice, or even recognized when the murders occurred.
Tags: Mystery
Review - Bad Comes First by Kris Ripper
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Everyone knows Charles Campion as “Bad”. Some don’t even know his real name. Bad is a true sadist who gets gratification from inflicting pain on other men, as long as they’re willing. He works in campus security at a university and has developed an obsession with a student he sees on one of his cameras working at the postal kiosk. Red is gay but hasn’t really clicked with anyone. The other college guys he meets can’t give Red the kind of domination he craves.
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