Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - The Attercop by Peter E. Fenton
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Charlie seems to have finally arrived as a private investigator – he’s being sued by a former target of investigation. But there’s no time to worry about that. The agency has a new client requiring close protection. Meanwhile, a series of seemingly unrelated crimes starts to point to a stalker tracking Declan. When everything goes sideways, it’s down to Charlie to figure things out. Can he save the man he loves and rescue the girl?
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - Scream and Steam by TJ Nichols
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The monsters under your bed were real. Farrow is one of them. It’s his job to scare young children to keep his world safe from the magic kids can unwittingly wield. Farrow is on assignment one night to scare a little girl who has moved to a new house when he accidentally encounters a young man who is in the midst of some vigorous self-pleasure. He surreptitiously films the young man, Timothy, and puts the video online in his world’s version of OnlyFans.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary
Review - Park by Eric J. McConnell
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Luke and Jack have left the relative safety of the mall to hopefully meet up with other survivors of the nuclear blast at city hall, following a radio broadcast. Things go sideways rather quickly and the guys end up at a theme park with another rag-tag group of people, mostly former employees, led by an eccentric ring-master who rigidly enforces his rules to keep people safe. But, for Luke at least, something isn’t quite right about the situation and a string of unlikely coincidences just goes to confirm Luke’s suspicions about the park.
Review - Hot Plant Daddy by Crystal D. Budy
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Benji just moved into a new apartment and is pleasantly surprised to find his new neighbor is a hot, slightly older man who waters the numerous plants on his balcony shirtless. The fun is disrupted one morning when a college student is poisoned in the apartment complex. The girl’s sister hires private investigator Benji to look into the death. It turns out that “hot plant daddy”, as Benji has come to think of his neighbor, is a professor with detailed knowledge of the exact plant used to poison the student, who was his research assistant.
Review - Murder on Donut Station by SI Clarke
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Pete is driving along a deserted stretch of Canadian highway one night when he sees what appears to be a stranded motorist on the side of the road. Pete stops to help, only the “car” turns out to be a space ship, the motorist an alien, who needs help with his dying human friend. Thirty years later, Pete is semi-retired from the Galactic Union police force and looking for a business opportunity he can buy.
Tags: Mystery Science Fiction
Review - Something Worth Keeping by Lisa Oliver
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Julian is walking home after being suspended from work for correcting his boss. He’s taking a shortcut through an alley when he comes across a man being killed. Julian quickly realizes the already dead man is a member of a ruthless criminal gang, so no great loss. The killer clearly isn’t human. Since whatever-it-is seems to be doing the world a favor, Julian provides advice on how to efficiently dispose of the body.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary
Review - Cowboy Nod by Luke Hartwell
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Lucas is a freshman who works in the campus theater box office to earn money. He has a crush on the lead actor in the current production, Mason, a senior student. Since there’s a nude scene in the play, Lucas has seen all of Mason, but thinks the other man is straight. When Mason expresses an interest in Lucas, the freshman is over the moon. But, then there’s Juan, a former rodeo bull rider in his late twenties.
Tags: Poly Contemporary
Review - Too Close to Ignore by M.A. Innes
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The guys are taking a short vacation together, just the four of them. It should give them some time to relax and maybe work out the shifting boundaries of their relationship. It seems that at least some of them need more than they’re getting from their “secondary partners” but they don’t want to push for more than the other is willing to give. First, though, they have to survive whatever craziness Kevin instigates.
Review - The Road to Pienza by Garrick Jones
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It’s been ten years since Australian Damson O’Reilly found a dead body in the derelict Tuscan farmhouse he’d just purchased. Damson still lives in the house he fixed up and is now a successful writer. He shares his life with Giancarlo, with whom he has an open relationship. The one-time police detective is now a highly regarded lawyer. Damson returns from a book tour of Australia to find his lover obsessed with his latest case, which involves a notorious far right businessman and a famous Italian movie star.
Review - Loose Lips & Relationships by AJ Rose and Kate Aaron
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Grant doesn’t do relationships. That’s the beauty of living in a tourist town, he has his pick of hot guys who will only be around for a week, and no man ever turns down an offer of a night with Grant. It’s a small town, so Grant has a reputation and all of his friends know he doesn’t hook up with locals. They even joke about it. One night at the bar, the jokes turn into a challenge: Can Grant even get a local of his friends’ choosing to go home with him?
Tags: Contemporary
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