Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - The Well by Marie Sexton
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Haven’s cousin Elise was always coming up with new stories and other ways to scare him and all her other friends. Her latest scheme is to spend a night in the local haunted house where they’ll hold a seance to contact a girl supposedly murdered there many years before. Haven only agrees because his crush, Pierce, will also be there. The seance really scares all the teenagers, and in the morning, Elise has disappeared.
Tags: Mystery Paranormal
Review - Office of the Lost by J. Scott Coatsworth & Kim Fielding
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Crispin is a fae with a rather boring office job. He is a curator in the Office of the Lost. His supervisor sends Crispin out to retrieve things, which he brings back to the office, fills out lots of paperwork, and the items get filed away in the office’s vast archives. It’s a very mundane job, but Crispin, who likes order, is very good at it. One day, Crispin is tasked with collecting another item.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - Fire & Ice by J.C. Owens
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After two years living with the Silvermanes in their isolated kingdom to be with his lover Tarsus, the king agrees to allow a visit by Varan’s brother Ariel, along with his personal guards. Things don’t go quite as planned, but when Ariel finally meets King Arhanyin, he is instantly attracted to the much older centaur. Never shy nor one to be deterred from a sexual conquest, Ariel sets about wooing the old king.
Review - Hudson River Homicides by C.S. Poe
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Cold Case Detective Everett Larkin is called to the scene of a fresh homicide in the early hours of the morning. Even though Larkin is a cold case investigator, a note links the death to a string of cases he has been working on with his lover and sometimes partner, Ira Doyle. Most of the cases involve serial killers who were never brought to justice, or even recognized when the murders occurred.
Tags: Mystery
Review - Bad Comes First by Kris Ripper
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Everyone knows Charles Campion as “Bad”. Some don’t even know his real name. Bad is a true sadist who gets gratification from inflicting pain on other men, as long as they’re willing. He works in campus security at a university and has developed an obsession with a student he sees on one of his cameras working at the postal kiosk. Red is gay but hasn’t really clicked with anyone. The other college guys he meets can’t give Red the kind of domination he craves.
Review - An Article of Lies by Lisa Oliver
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As the younger son, Prince Remy is used to being mostly ignored. His family loves and supports him, but all the other nobles dismiss him as unimportant and odd. Odd, because his best friend is a large lizard who terrorizes the stable boys. So, Remy is perplexed when Crown Prince Xavier offers a marriage contract for Remy to his father. Remy developed a crush on Xavier when he was just fifteen years old, but his clumsy attempt to seduce the Crown Prince was brutally rebuffed.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - A Suitable Stray (For an Outguard and an Assistant) by R. Cooper
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Tiiran is technically just an assistant, but with no Keepers around, he does his best to keep the Great Library running under the latest king, who doesn’t seem to know the library exists. The other assistants look up to him, even though Tiiran has a short temper and a tendency to snarl at the nobles who come to the library. Tiiran’s sharp tongue and half-fae parentage keep even most of the brave outguards away, except for Orin.
Review - Farmed Out by Alex Pendragon
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Mason’s mother grew up in a small farming town but moved away to the “big city”. Each year she drags Mason back to stay with her best friend and her large extended family for a visit to their farm. Soon, Mason is both bored and horny, with no privacy to take care of a young man’s needs. To make matters worse, Mason’s mother asks him to help her friend’s son Alfie with chores around the farm.
Tags: Erotica
Review - Mann Hunt by Peter E. Fenton
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Declan owns his own detective agency, which he started after leaving the Calgary police force over his sexuality. It’s just him and an aging office manager. When she announces an unexpected vacation, Declan hires Charlie as a temporary office manager. Charlie recently graduated with a computer science degree but hasn’t had any luck finding a full-time job and has had to move into his parent’s basement. When two of Declan’s cases turn out to be connected, Charlie gets more involved than he expected.
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - A Crown of Hopes and Sorrows by Nicole Bailey
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With war on the horizon, Apollo and Hyacinth set out to look for allies among other kingdoms and minor gods. Meanwhile, after the revelation that she is really a goddess herself, Apollo’s sister Temi wants answers. She is told she might find them from Sappho on the island of Lesbos. Hyacinth’s sister, Princess Epiphany, wants to accompany Temi. The king agrees only if Valerian accompanies them. Apollo and Temi’s fates are more intertwined than they ever imagined, and it puts the mortals they allow close to them in great danger.
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