Posts labeled Book Reviews
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
Review - Infernal Hearts by Danny Haliwell
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After losing his mother in a terrible accident, Jason decides to leave his father’s practice where he treats supernatural creatures and set up as an ordinary veterinary doctor. Levi is an incubus, possibly one of the last of his kind now that his maker is dead. The maker’s last act was to extract a promise from Levi to find the only other surviving incubus. If Levi doesn’t fulfill his promise, he faces oblivion.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary
Review - The Wizard's Apprentice by Ryan DeVry
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Callum is apprenticed to one of the most powerful wizards in the land. He cooks and cleans, plus provides “stress relief” for his master when needed. Callum especially likes the stress relief duty, but so far, he hasn’t learned to do any magic himself. When the wizard gets busy with an especially difficult project, he has little time for Callum, and things get even worse when the Wizard calls in another apprentice.
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