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Review - Uncle by Jay L. North
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College student Ben has been sharing his basement living space of his mother’s house with his Uncle Dev while the man’s flat is being renovated. Dev has been a father figure for Ben since his own father left, but with the closeness of sharing a space, the young man is developing an altogether different kind of feeling for his uncle. Ben keeps telling himself such feelings are wrong, but somehow that just makes them more exciting.
Review - By the Book by G.B. Gordon
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Fresh out of school and working his first full time accounting job, Ben wants to make a good impression. When he starts seeing large discrepancies, he thinks he’s found something significant, even if it is in the company’s favor. Ben takes what he’s found to his boss, who isn’t the sharpest stick. The boss says he’ll take it to the owner, but then ends up dead, execution style, a few days later.
Review - A Knight's Exile by Xander Tracy
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Andrion has vowed to kill the man who usurped the throne by murdering the crown prince, Andrion’s lover. The plot fails, but rather than have him executed, the false king has the knight exiled to the frozen tundra, thousands of miles from the capital, where Andrion will likely die anyway. Tauras is a shapeshifter. He lives a lonely existence far away from other people, until he happens on Andrion just after the knight is ported to the wasteland.
Review - The Family Man by AJ Rose
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Tracey Smith has just landed his dream job with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, the elite law enforcement “profilers” who help catch the baddest of the bad guys. He’s eager to make a good impression on his new team, although the team lead sparks all sorts of unfamiliar feelings. Senior Special Agent Jon Anderson is known as “The Ice Man” among other things. He doesn’t share his private life with his team.
Review - Dark Moon, Shallow Sea by David R. Slayton
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Raef has lived on the streets for ten years, ever since the Knights of Hyperion destroyed the tower dedicated to the moon goddess Phoebe, where he grew up. He still has no idea why the priests ensured that he escaped while the knights murdered all of the others in the tower. Seth started training as a Knight of Hyperion after the destruction of Phoebe’s towers. Seth wields the fire of the sun god, but he doesn’t have control over it.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - The Perfection of Peace by C.J. Dragon
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Much to his dismay, Jon in put in command of the joint Daranii and Earth fleet that is sent to confront the alien invaders who dealt Daran its first ever defeat. Jon will return to his old ship, the Excalibur, as captain, while Talin commands one of the Daranii ships. Once again, the two life mates face an uncomfortable separation. Will Jon’s unpredictable humanity win the day again, justifying the faith both races put in him?
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - Jocks for Sale Parts 12 - 14 by Josh Hunter
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“Jocks For Sale” is an erotic fantasy containing non-consensual sex and violence. It is offered in serialized form as connected installments (14 in total). I'm reviewing it in batches, so there's a more coherent picture of the entire story. It seems like it was a long wait, but more episodes of this serial finally appeared and now they’ve made it to the top of my reading list. The last installment (Part 11) ended with a sort of failed coup on the island which saw the Boss’s second in command, Luca, being made a slave.
Tags: Erotica Non Consensual Serial
Review - Starry Nights by Julian Archer
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Jamal spots Xavier across a crowded room at the opening of an exhibition of Xavier’s paintings. Both men feel irresistibly drawn to each other, and it’s the start of a serious relationship. Can they withstand the pressures that will try to pull them apart? Sadly, this short novella feels like the outline of a story with a few sample paragraphs instead of a finished work. The writing that’s there is good, but it’s very disjointed.
Tags: Contemporary Novella
Review - Lost Along the Way by Marie Sexton
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Daniel’s parents are killed in a car crash. He had been estranged from them for 15 years over their refusal to accept his homosexuality, but they had started to reconnect in the months leading up to their deaths. When Daniel finally faces the task of cleaning out the family home so it can be sold, he finds that his parents had become collectors, bordering on hoarders. Fortunately, their neighbor Landon is there to help.
Tags: Contemporary Fantasy
Review - The Sorcerer's Guardian by Antonia Aquilante
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Savarin is Tournai’s most powerful sorcerer, and he knows it. He has always been fascinated by the spells protecting the kingdom, but on a recent trip to the border, he’s discovered weak spots in the magical barrier. Savarin reports his concerns to the Prince and proposes a visit to another section of the border to check for additional weak spots as well as try to understand how the spells were constructed in the first place so he can fix them.
Tags: Fantasy