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Review - Salted Wounds by Alexander Verlangen
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Flavian is an immortal, favored by Poseidon. He is seen as frivolous and unserious, more interested in sexual conquests than the politics of the courts of the gods. A trip to Japan starts to change things. Flavian meets Takashi, an immortal in the court of one of the Japanese gods. The relationship grows serious, but Takeshi claims he can’t be in a relationship with Flavian, although he doesn’t explain why.
Tags: Ancient Greece Myth
Review - The Voice of Wild Places by Noah Hawthorne
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Watt and Annie were best friends as children, when Watt and his well-to-do family spent summers on the Michigan shore where Annie lived. One day, when the friends were in their teens, Watt’s father forbade him from ever seeing Annie again. Watt’s family left and never returned. Years later, Watt is now an anthropologist. The wife of his mentor, who went missing in South America, asks Watt to undertake a mission to find her husband, and she wants him to help enlist the aid of an eminent archaeologist, Cornelius Sawyer.
Tags: Trans* Historical
Review - Rue by Leona Windwalker
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Kedar is captain of the Star Runner, a former military supply ship now working as a trading vessel on the outer reaches of the colonized worlds. When the ship is disabled in a dangerous sector, it’s attacked by pirates. Kedar and his all ex-military crew not only repel the attack but capture the pirate ship as well. While searching the ship for hiding pirates and salvage, Kedar finds a frightened young man in the medical bay.
Tags: Science Fiction D/s Novella Space Opera
Review - Barging In by Josephine Myles
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Dan is a freelance travel writer. He’s been hired to do an article on canal boating. It turns out steering a long boat is harder than it looks, especially when you’re distracted by a shirtless hunk chopping wood on the towpath. Despite his best efforts, Dan bumps into the boat he was trying to avoid, which turns out to belong to Robin, the distracting shirtless woodchopper. The short-tempered young man lives full time on his barge and has no patience for “tourists” who don’t know how to handle their boats, like Dan.
Tags: Contemporary UK Setting
Review - My Favorite Uncle by Marshall Thornton
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Martin leads a quiet, single life, and believes he’s quite happy with it. The peace is disturbed when Martin’s nephew Carter shows up at his door, announcing he is gay. Carter’s parents, Martin’s brother and his wife, are born again fundamentalist Christians. They forced Carter into a mental hospital for conversion therapy when they found him with another boy. Carter was able to leave the hospital when he turned 18, and with nowhere else to go, he shows up on Martin’s doorstep.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Brush and Whip by Sean Michael
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Drew is a wolf shifter, a beta. He had an alpha master, but the alpha found a female mate to have his pups and doesn’t want Drew any more. The alpha drops Drew off at the Kennel Klub, a special underground kink establishment catering to shifters. The alpha was a cruel master who didn’t let Drew take his human form, so the young man has remained a wolf for well over a year while waiting for someone at the club to want him.
Tags: Novella Slightly Kinky
Review - The Auction by Gale Stanley
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Lawrence enjoys doing drag. His performances using the stage name Lark are what paid the bills, but his boyfriend George didn’t like it and insisted Lawrence give up Lark when they went into business together as event planners. The relationship fails but the business goes on, so Lawrence decides to revive Lark for their latest fundraiser to be attended by rich gay donors. Things go a bit awry and Lark ends up under the care of Doctor Oliver.
Review - The Burnt by Peter E. Fenton
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Charlie is studying to become a private investigator in his own right. Between that and the office administration work, it keeps him very busy, but when Declan decides Charlie is ready to handle a seemingly simple case, it’s too good to pass up. On the home front, both men have a tendency to get so wrapped up in their work, their nascent relationship suffers. When another case comes in involving a ten year old missing person, Declan is busy looking into the recent murder of a man involved in his career-defining case, so he asks Charlie to handle it.
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - Loving, Books 7 - 9 by M.A. Innes
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Jeremy and Kevin are now living in the duplex the purchased, which they share with their best friends Maddox and Bryan. The four are more than just friends. They consider themselves family and both couples are part of the kink community. Living so close together means all four men are very aware of the intimate relationships each of them shares with their partner. With that knowledge comes some curiosity, but exploring those thoughts could cost them their friendship.
Review - Dominion of The Eth by J.C. Owens
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For Melanian men, the ethereal, forest-dwelling Eth seem to exert some sort of strange force that drives them to want to possess and dominate the Eth sexually. Rylis encountered an Eth as a young boy. He secretly freed the slave rather than see it continue to be abused by his father. Years later, as commander of the Melanian army, Rylis leads his troops on a mission to investigate problems just outside the mysterious great forest.
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