Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Smoking Mirror by Pelaam
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Captain Draco commands an airship in Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s flying service. At a ball thrown by the Aztec emperor to celebrate Draco’s victory over pirates that had plagued trade between the two nations, Draco learns of a new assignment: he is to captain the first ship to travel in space, a joint venture between the British and Aztec empires. To “assist” Draco on his mission, the Aztec emperor binds Draco the Yolotli, a beautiful young man Draco assumes is a palace pleasure slave.
Review - Jackalopes & Woofen-Poofs by Angel Martinez
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Time once again to check in on the offers of the 77th precinct in this fifth installent of the Offbeat Crimes. The focus this time around remains on Officer Alex Wolf and his new boyfriend, Animal Control Officer Jason Chen. The squad is still dealing with the fallout from their last encounter with the strange feral dust bunny creatures and the increasing suspicion that someone is targeting the officers with black magic.
Review - The Rules by Jamie Fessenden
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College student Hans answers an ad for a part-time housekeeper for a married gay couple. He’s surprised that the seemingly well-to-do Thomas is interested in hiring the inexperienced Hans when they can apparently afford a professional cleaning service. That is, until he meets Thomas’ Russian-born and extremely eccentric husband Boris. The most obvious of Boris’ eccentricities is his disdain for clothing. But the money is good and naked Boris isn’t hard on the eyes.
Tags: Menage
Review - Prince's Gambit by C. S. Pacat
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Kindly note: This is the second volume in a tightly linked series. If you haven’t read the first book, you may find a few spoilers in this review of the second. Damen and Laurent lead a rather rag-tag group of soldiers towards the border, where they know Laurent’s uncle the Regent has something in store to get rid of the troublesome prince. As their fate draws nearer, the two men gain a new respect for each other, and their feelings for each seem to be harder and harder to contain.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - The Bisti Business by Don Travis
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Private investigator BJ Vinson from “The Zozobra Incident” is back with another case. This time, BJ is hired by a rich, and rather homophobic, California wine maker who wants him to find his son, and his boyfriend. The two lost contact while on a vacation in New Mexico. Did something happen to them, or is the son just avoiding his disapproving father? This second outing for BJ Vinson lives up to the first.
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - The Layover by Roe Horvat
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Slovakian Ondro is on his way back to the home he left several years ago to escape bad memories and homophobia. There’s just one hitch in his plan: a delayed flight means he missed his connection in Basel, and has to stay the night. It may not be a total loss, though, since another passenger in the same predicament, Jamie, catches Ondro’s eye. “The Layover” puts a refreshing spin on what could be a rather clich&eqcute; story of two ships that pass in the night.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - The Rain Never Came by Lachlan Walter
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Kindly note: A complementary copy of this book was provided in exchange for an honest review. In a post-apocalyptic Australian outback where rain is a distant memory, a few hardy — or fool-hardy — souls have resisted forced evacuation and try to eke out a life from the parched earth. Bill and Tobe are two of the denizens of a small town that’s barely hanging on. The two men are as close as brothers, true “mates” in the Australian sense of the word, but their pasts cast a long shadow over their relationship.
Review - Permanent Ink by Avon Gale & Piper Vaughn
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Twenty-something Poe is a young man without any direction. He’s not a bad person, but since about the only thing he has any passion for is graffiti, Poe is headed for trouble sooner or later. He still lives in his father Landon’s basement, and the man is near the end of his rope about what to do about his son. Hearing about Poe’s problems, Landon’s friend Jericho offers to take Poe on as his apprentice.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Coins Not Accepted by Chris Quinton
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Miles lives a relatively quiet life on the east coast of England. Most of his excitement comes from dealing with his two younger siblings. That all changes when Miles receives a message from his grandfather, who he hasn’t seen since he was 15. The request contained in the message, and the revelations that follow, plunge Miles into a world he didn’t know existed. Although reunited with his first love, will Miles risk his life to stay with his boyhood friend?
Tags: Fantasy Parallel Worlds
Review - Selling Out by Zen DiPietro
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To most people on Dragonfire Station, Cabot Layne is a simple, friendly shopkeeper, selling trinkets and other things of interest to the different species flowing off the many ships calling on the station. A few know that Cabot is a much more skilled trader than he lets on, with the connections to acquire almost anything one could want, even if it’s not quite legal. So, when a rogue coalition at the edge of planetary alliance space starts to threaten the peace, Security Chief Fallon calls on Cabot to make the deal of a life-time by negotiating a special pact with the reptilian Briven.
Tags: Science Fiction
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