Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - A Heaven to Reach For by R. Cooper
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It’s the spring festival, but as one of the Duke’s guards, Owin is trying to not get too drunk since the Duke has plans early the next morning. Just because he’s not drinking doesn’t mean Owin intends to forego the debauchery that’s also common during the festival. When Owin joins his fellow guards in the pub, the conversation turns to that very subject, with special attention on Owin. It seems that, at one time or another, Owin has hooked up with all the guards.
Review - Pyewacket by Chris Quinton
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Malcolm is quite happy running the bookstore he inherited, even if he spends most of the day alone except for the giant black cat that is as much a part of the shop as the furniture. Lately, however, there has been a bright spot in the form of Jeff, an archaeologist planning digs in the area and using Malcolm to help with the research. Malcolm may enjoy his time with Jeff, but the man is much younger than him, so a relationship seems unlikely.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary UK Setting
Review - Leave by L.A. Witt
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Riley and Nolan have been roommates-with-benefits in their off-base apartment for a while. While the encounters are enjoyable, Nolan keeps Riley at arms length and disappears soon after they both orgasm. When Nolan is asked to be his little brother’s best man, a request he feels he can’t refuse, he reveals he was sexually assaulted when he was a teenager, although he won’t reveal details. Nobody in Nolan’s family knows, and the abuser is still around the immediate family, so being among them is a potential mine field.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Werewolf's Tale and a Druid's Sword by Lexi Ander
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Jude has always known his parents were homophobic, so he has kept his feelings to himself, which was easy since his mother and father largely ignored him. When Jude accidentally outs himself in a panic over a dream about his boyfriend who is serving in the marines, his parents kick him out. Fortunately, his older brother Beck comes to the rescue and takes Jude to San Diego to live with him and Diego.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary
Review - Root & Stem by BL Sparrow
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It’s been ten years since Kieran set foot in his father’s house and he’d rather be almost anywhere else, but he doesn’t seem to have a choice if he wants to save his career in professional hockey. It’s going to be very hard keeping his anger in check around his family, especially as they are, in part, the root cause of all the anger Kieran carries around. Not much has changed except for his half brother Theo.
Review - Mall by Eric J. McConnell
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Luke just went to the mall to get his phone fixed. While he’s waiting on the repair in the shop, the cold war era mall’s public address system announces there’s a nuclear attack and all the security gates roll down. Luke is trapped in the store with several other customers and a few employees. Someone thinks to suggest they get under the display tables for protection, which Luke does, along with a store employee named Jack.
Review - Song of Oestend by Marie Sexton
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Aren’s professor helped get him a job as a bookkeeper for a ranch in Oestend. It seemed like a favor at the time, but maybe it wasn’t. Oestend is about as far from the university in the capital as you can get. And, it turns out wraiths are real. If you go out at night, or even leave a window open, they will get to you and kill you. Deacon is the ranch foreman, and he keeps it running with an iron fist, if necessary.
Tags: Paranormal Kinky
Review - Farfall by J.C. Owens
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Andon is unique among the corps of elite griffin riders. He wasn’t born to a noble house. Andon grew up on the streets and then spent most of his youth in the mountains, where he met and bonded with a wild griffin. Griffins and their riders mate for life, so when the pair are discovered, they’re both sent to the training academy and then posted to the frontier fort of Farfall.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - Reckless Endangerment by Crystal D. Budy
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Kip is taking a heavy load of classes during the summer session, trying to make up for several failed exams the previous term, when he almost fell into the clutches of a human trafficking ring. It’s hard, since the young man lacks discipline. His biggest wish is to find a Dom that will keep him in line, but his track record with men is pretty dismal. Kip is quite surprised when one of his professors has been replaced by a man he knows as police detective Baxter Griffin, using a different name.
Review - A Marriage of Necessity by Lisa Oliver
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Crown Prince Avalon vowed to never consider marriage again, which hasn’t stopped his father from asking from time to time. When the king presents Avalon with an appeal from a neighboring queen to safeguard her youngest son who was kidnapped and mutilated, Avalon feels compelled to agree to a marriage contract, even if it’s only a marriage of necessity. Even before his kidnapping, Jasper was an outsider at court, usually kept hidden away.
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