Posts labeled Book Reviews
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 Rom-Com
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.
Review - The Rules by Gale Stanley
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Wil is an experienced Dom looking for that one special submissive that he can call his own. He’s tired of doing scenes with subs that he doesn’t connect with. It’s hard since the city’s ultra conservative police chief has shut down all the clubs. The only places still open are invite-only, super-secret places that move around. What Wil doesn’t know is that the remaining clubs are run by the corrupt police chief, and they make up for a chronic shortage of subs by entrapping homeless young men and forcing them to choose between jail or providing sexual services.
Review - Hoodoo House by Peter E. Fenton
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Declan and Charlie are asked to find a laptop that went missing from Hoodoo House, an isolated writer’s retreat, after its owner was found dead. The computer stores a potentially valuable manuscript, and some videos that could be very damaging if they ever got out. It turns out the detectives aren’t the only ones looking for the laptop, and finding it is only the beginning of their troubles. Meanwhile, both men are questioning their resolve to keep their relationship “strictly business.
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - The Perfume of War by Garrick Jones
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Tommy has his hands full dealing with the fallout of his last mission to Germany, which resulted not only in the planned rescue of a math savant, but several other children with disabilities destined for a death camp. Publicity surrounding that rescue has raised awareness of the need for a care system for war orphans. It’s a cause enthusiastically taken up by the Duchess of Kent as well as Eleanor Roosevelt.
Review - Love in an Elevator by Sean Michael
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Scott is a freelance photographer. Josh is an executive at a company Scott has just finished a shoot for. The two men are attracted to each other, so meet for drinks after the work day ends. The attraction grows and it seems inevitable the two will end up in bed together. Josh and Scott are very well matched. Josh is a gently dominating top who enjoys pleasuring Scott, who barely puts up any resistance to Josh’s control.
Tags: Novella D/s Slightly Kinky
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