Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Dark Space by Lisa Henry
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Brady was conscripted at sixteen into the space force defending Earth from the Faceless, a highly advanced alien race. He left his father and little sister behind. Three years into his ten year term, Brady wants nothing more than to go home. Life on one of the military space stations defending the solar system is not nearly as exciting as the recruiting posters made out. Then again, the young man featured in most of the posters, Cameron, was taken prisoner by the Faceless five years ago, the only human taken prisoner rather than killed outright.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Vow of Silence by Elion Marr
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Aeren is finally ready to enter service in the Silent Court, a group of eunuchs that serves the royal family. They are trained and selected for their ability to be useful without being seen. Aeren is assigned to serve the crown prince, Irenus. Aeren performs his duties, perhaps a little too well. Irenus notices him. The court notices Irenus’ regard for Aeren and sees it as a threat. The Faith is the true power behind the throne and will not allow even the possibility that someone else is close enough to exert any influence over events.
Tags: Fantasy Historical
Review - Bottoms Up for the Wide Recceiver by Beau Ranger
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Mikey is a talented college football player, but lately he’s been dropping the ball, literally. After losing another game thanks to Mikey’s errors, the coach threatens to kick Mikey off the team, thus terminating his scholarship. When he gets to the locker room, three of his teammates are still there and they’re also very angry. In a desperate move to placate them, straight Mikey offers to orally service the three.
Review - Tawny by Chris Quinton
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Hal is a wanderer. He never spends too much time in any one place, but he’s been in the Lynn Valley for a while now. He works at the Black Dog pub which rents him a cheap room in the old carriage house. Hal has also made friends with lots of people, as well as the ginger cat that hangs around the pub and seems to have taken a liking to him.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary UK Setting
Review - Seeing Death by L.M. Somerton
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Bryn’s life is changed forever when he turns 18 and a latent gene activates, turning him into an augur, the rarest of mutations that allows Bryn to see someone’s memories or if they’re telling the truth with just a touch. It makes him indispensable to law enforcement and a target of the killers and mob bosses he helps find. On completing his training, Bryn is partnered with Gunnar, an experienced police detective who is also lupine.
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
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