Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Abaddon's Locusts by Don Travis
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Jasper “Jazz” Penrod is a highly attractive young man that helped BJ out in The Bisti Business. When Jazz’s brother Henry shows up on BJ’s doorstep to tell him the young man is missing, it plunges BJ into the nasty business of human sex trafficking and the privileged world of the super rich. It’s definitely a race against time to find Jazz before he is either shipped out of the country or disposed of when he’s no longer attractive to those holding him.
Tags: Mystery
Review - Tea by Mathew J. Metzger
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Big burly electrician John ducks into a crowded coffee shop to escape the rain and grab a cup of tea when he bumps into a table and spills some coffee on Chris, a younger man who pushes all of John’s buttons. John may tower over most people and have to walk sideways through doors, and people may draw the wrong ideas from his appearance, but he’s no monster. After a disastrous end to his last relationship, though, he’s not sure.
Tags: Trans* Contemporary
Review - Dark Rain by J.C. Owens
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As the youngest of four brothers ruling a remote province of the Anrodnes empire, not much is expected of Raine. Unlike his big brutish siblings, Raine is lithe and intellectual. He’s suffered enough beatings at the hands of his brothers to do whatever they demand, no matter how crazy the idea may seem. Their latest scheme involves getting Raine selected as the “Chosen” for the crown prince, a position that means he would be bonded for life to the future Emperor.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - A Fall In Autumn by Michael G. Williams
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More than 9,000 years in the future, civilization is again in decline, having clawed back from a complete collapse of technology, the environment and society. Of the great flying cities that were originally built to lift people above a polluted world, only Autumn remains. The city is populated mostly by genetically enhanced humans, along with human-animal hybrids providing manual labor, and a very few “artisanal” humans — those born the traditional way of un-enhanced genetic stock.
Tags: Speculative Fiction Mystery
Review - Pay It Forward by Nic Starr
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Bailey works part time in a call center. He hates it, but it pays the bills, barely, and since he was forced to leave home after finishing high school, he’s hard-pressed to find anything better. In his spare time, Bailey also collects donated books for distribution to kids on the street. Tom is the owner and chief barista of Take Two, a coffee shop that’s his own second chance after a disastrous career in finance.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Me and You Two by Ash Penn
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Spoiler alert: this is one of those books that’s hard to review without giving away a few of the plot turns. You’ve been warned! Dean is a young man with a very healthy sex drive as well as an strong aversion to commitment. His job at a holiday park is perfect for him. It provides an endless stream of men and women for him to choose from, all of whom will be gone in a week.
Tags: Menage
Review - No Fae is an Island by Angel Marinez
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Diego’s three year exile among the “wild fae” of the Otherworld is coming to an end, but as he and Finn prepare to return to the human world, Diego wonders if there’s still a place for him there. They might offer him his old job back as Consul in the Fae embassy, but he’s not sure he wants it. The human world has moved on since Diego was gone. Some countries accept the Fae and magically-affected humans as equals, while others seem them as demons and lock them up, or worse.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - Grand Opening by Morticia Knight
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The grand opening of the new BDSM club, Kiss of Leather, is just a few days away and everyone is working hard to get everything ready. Unfortunately, one of the three partners, Josh, is so single-minded in his desire to make sure everything is in order for the opening that he’s ignoring his sub David. Even when it’s pointed out to him, he has trouble staying on track, giving David the attention he needs and deserves.
Review - His Submissive by Jason Collins
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City boy Jake has always played it safe. But he has begun to think his life as a reliable accountant is missing something. So, he plans an adventure, hiking the Appalachian Trial alone. But going off-trail, in the middle of a rainstore, isn’t the best idea he has, and Jake soon finds himself at the bottom of a hill, sprained and bruised. In his dazed state, Jake thinks he’s seeing visions when a huge man appears to pluck him out of the wet mud.
Review - Lock Nut by J.L. Merrow
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Psychic plumber Tom and private investigator Phil should be busy planning their big gay wedding, but a friend of a friend asks for their help finding her husband who disappeared a few weeks before. Then things get complicated, as they always do, when the pair find the missing man, and then he turns up dead. This fifth and presumably final book in the Plumber’s Mate series delivers another intriguing mystery along with the conclusion to the story arc of Tom and Phil, two very different men who somehow work well together, most of the time some of the time manage not to kill each other.
Tags: Mystery
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