Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - The Accidental Italian by Michael Hartwig
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When Theo’s best friend has to cancel her vacation, he agrees to use her hotel reservation in Positano. Theo needs some time away after breaking up with his husband. Despite having an Italian father, Theo has had a problematic relationship with his Italian heritage. Still, the scenery is beautiful, and that includes the very handsome, if apparently straight, man on the beach lounge next to him. When Theo overhears two criminals plotting in a nightclub, he discovers his beach crush is really a police officer named Raffaelo, and perhaps less straight than Theo thought.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Talos by D.G. Carothers
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The vampyr Talos has ruled over what was the western United States for over a hundred years, ever since the supernaturals wrested control of the planet from humans before they destroyed it. There is, of course, an organized human resistance to supernatural rule, but Talos’ spies are always at least one step ahead of them. It’s come to light that the resistance plans to assassinate Talos during one of the Roman gladiator style games the king enjoys.
Review - Tentacle Thrall by Ryan DeVry
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Content creator Tayler is getting a little bored with his work lately, so he decides to shake things up by sailing around the world solo. Things go well enough for a few days, but then he is caught in a violent storm. Tayler fears for his life when the boat suddenly beached on a small island. The island appears deserted and Tayler has no way to call for help. However, it soon becomes clear that he isn’t completely alone.
Review - A Boy Called Rainbow by Robin Knight
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Miles is a respected art appraiser who’s about to realize his dream of opening his own gallery with his boyfriend, until he finds out said boyfriend is cheating on him with their main investor, and that’s just the latest of a long history of affairs. Feeling defeated, Miles takes a lucrative commission to evaluate the work of a recently deceased eccentric painter in coastal Georgia. The only hitch is that Miles must contend with the artist’s reclusive grandson, who goes by Rainbow.
Tags: Contemporary Rom-Com
Review - Finding the Way Home by Sean Michael
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Jim lost an arm in an IED attack, so after a long stay in the hospital to recover, he’s leaving the army. At least it will give him more time to spend with his long-term boyfriend, Andy. Unfortunately, Jim arrives home to find that Andy has dumped him and moved on. With nowhere else to go, Jim calls up his dependable old army buddy “Horse” to see if he can stay with him until he figures things out.
Tags: Contemporary Novella
Review - The Alignments by E. H. Lupton
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Ulysses and Sam travel to Brittany to get a break from things in Madison, and as a sort of honeymoon. They’re staying at an apartment in Carnac that’s been in Ulysses’ family for many years. Unfortunately, the mood of their first night in town is ruined a bit when they meet a colleague of Ulysses who seems to go out of her way to cast doubt on the theories forming a cornerstone of his doctoral thesis, which won him a prestigious award.
Tags: Paranormal Mystery
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.
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