Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Addicted by Liam Whitlock
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Joey and Christian have been best friends since childhood. When they reach adolescence, their paths begin to diverge but they remain good friends. Joey pursues scientific interests while Christian becomes a jock, the high school quarterback everyone wants. The two have a few sexual encounters in their teens, but while Joey accepts his attraction to men, Christian determines to pursue a hetero-normative lifestyle to go with his jock persona. Both young men get accepted to the same college and decide to be roommates.
Review - Loving, Books 4 - 6 by M.A. Innes
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Kevin and Jeremy are settling into the life they’ve built away from their abusive mother. Jeremy has graduated and is working full time on the business he started, which is doing well enough for the couple to consider moving to a bigger place so he will have room to work. Kevin still has a few more years of school and has yet to decide on a specific career path, but there’s still time for that.
Tags: Taboo Slightly Kinky
Review - Wings by J.C. Owens
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Anyar has a crush on the army commander in town to secure peace talks between his people and their sworn enemies, with whom they’re constantly at war. Unfortunately, Anyar has also caught the attention of Vanyae, the leader of the enemy delegation, whose real plan is to kidnap the commander to hold hostage. He alters the plan to take Anyar as well and make the young guard his slave. The plan succeeds but Anyar is determined to resist submission to Vanyae, yet even as the prince takes pleasure in his slave’s body, he realizes there’s more to the young man than a pleasing form.
Review - A Little Familiar by R. Cooper
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Piotr is a powerful witch. Perhaps the most powerful one in the region, but he stays apart from his coven. He prepares food for all the major events like Samhain but doesn’t attend them. Instead, he stays home alone with no company aside from his dead grandmother’s crow familiar and the ghost of his great-grandmother. Bartleby is a very rare human familiar. He doesn’t have much power on his own, but the witch he bonds to will become much more powerful.
Review - Asterios and the Labrynth by Edmond Thornfield
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After Theseus slays his eldest brother, Asterios is next in line for the throne of Knossos as his father, the famous King Minos lays on his deathbed. The young man is well prepared for the task, but it’s a daunting prospect nonetheless. Among Asterios’ concerns is his relationship with Phaistos. The two have been lovers since they were young men, long past the time it was considered seemly for two men to be lovers.
Tags: Ancient Greece Myth
Review - Raffled by the Tentacle Elite by Kit Luxe
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Logan has just graduated and is having trouble finding work. On a lark, he signs up for a job fair operated by the Elite, the tentacled aliens that are part of the Galactic Alliance that has taken control of earth. There are so many other applicants at the fair, Logan doesn’t have high hopes of landing a job, but he is effectively guided through the fair and encouraged to move towards the center of the hall where the winning applicants will be announced.
Review - The Pillar by Kim Fielding
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Faris is the village herbalist. He dispenses the teas, tinctures and salves he makes to help cure the various ills of everyone in the town. Faris was taught by the previous healer who has since passed away. Among his most distasteful duty is tending to those punished in the town square, where criminals and misbehaving slaves are tied to a stone pillar, lashed mercilessly, and left to die. Some are beyond saving and the most Faris can do is help ease their way.
Tags: Historical
Review - I'll Have What He's Having by Adib Khorram
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Farzan dreamed of being a teacher as a child. Once he grew up and became one, he was so good at it he burned out quickly. Now, he gets by substituting. It wouldn’t be so bad if his love life wasn’t also a disaster. David was a high flier in Chicago’s financial world, but he realized that wasn’t what he really wanted to do, so he quit and pursued his passion for wine.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Red Comes Second by Kris Ripper
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Red has been living with Bad for over a year now. They’ve been working together to get Bad’s yoga studio ready to open, while Bad continues working campus security and the newly graduated Red works in a pizza place while he figures out what to do. Bad continues to push Red’s boundaries, especially his enjoyment of pain and exhibitionism. They even video some scenes and post them on a kinky amateur porn site.
Review - Cuddles for the Bear by Lisa Oliver
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Devon has been chatting with a young man online for months. It’s the one friendship he has outside of his colleagues at Assassin’s Alley. When the young man, named Wren, reveals he feels he is in danger from the man that has kept him as a slave for ten years, Devon wants to rescue him. It turns out that the agency which runs the Alley has had their eye Wren’s master for a while, due to his involvement in a trafficking ring.
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