Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Beautiful Boy by Grace R. Duncan
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Kyle is a young man who seems to have everything going for him. He comes from a well off family, who have provided a good education, a loft in town for him to live in, and his own car. But his family didn’t give him much love or attention, and if they knew he was gay, he would lose everything. It’s perhaps not too surprising that Kyle doesn’t have a very high opinion of his value, and you might wonder if this is what draws him so strongly to being a submissive when a friend introduces him to the BDSM world.
Review - Stealing His Dangling Jewels by James Cox
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This review originally appeared on the BDSM Book Reviews site. Phoenix is in dire need of money. A lot of money. It’s not for himself, he wants to get his mother into rehab, although it probably won’t do her any good. Phoenix reads about Lucas, a very rich man, thanks to a lottery winning, with his own private island and a genital piercing sporting sapphires and diamonds that has to be worth several thousand dollars.
Tags: Novelette
Review - Astounding! by Kim Fielding
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Carter Evans is the founder and editor of the science fiction magazine Astounding! but the publication, like most print media these days, is on its last legs. Carter can’t afford to keep it going for much longer. Adding to his headaches are the submissions of one J. Harper, a very persistent, and very bad, author who keeps sending in new versions of his work despite numerous rejections. Carter’s drunken attempt to rebuff the writer backfires and he ends up meeting J.
Tags: Novella Science Fiction
Review - Brit Boys: With Toys Anthology
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This review was written for and originally appeared on BDSM Book Reviews. This anthology of eight stories by British authors explores the role of toys in relationships between men. In some of the tales the notion of what is a ‘toy’ is stretched a bit, but almost all feature some object, to some degree, which plays a part in the plot. The level of kink varies from essentially none to being a central part of the relationships depicted.
Review - Knit Tight by Annabeth Albert
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Brady seems to be one of the rare Portland baristas who doesn’t aspire to be something else. He is good at his job, and in any case, raising his three younger siblings after his mother dies doesn’t leave him any time to consider something else. Once a week the coffee shop hosts the ladies from the knitting shop down the street. “Knit Night” isn’t exactly Brady’s favorite night to work, but it keeps the shop busy.
Tags: Novella
Review - More Than Human by Mel Keegan
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By the end of the 23rd century, humanity has established its first colony outside the solar system, on a planet called Eidolon. The achievement required not only advancements in spacecraft engineering, but also cybernetics, since augmentation was required to make humans capable of deep space flight and living on an alien world larger than Earth. As you can imagine, it takes no time at all for cybernetic implants to become mainstream, with everyone from athletes to high class escorts getting augmented to improve their game.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Lusty Adventures of Theseus by Arthur Griffin
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Have you ever considered how much the versions of Greek Myths that we know today must have been sanitized, modified or otherwise changed over the years? The bulk of the legends evolved over 3,000 years ago, and certainly changed much over the course of the centuries. The stories as we know them today are still full of bad behavior: rape, incest, and many other sorts of human fallibility. How much bawdier might the “original” stories have been in their own time?
Tags: Ancient Greece Myth
Review - Hunter & Hunted by Zoe Perdita
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Spence has been living on the streets for six months. He’s not exactly homeless, Spence walked away from his privileged life with rich parents who haven’t even realized he is gone. He is surviving, barely, when he has an encounter with a sexual predator who like to prey on homeless gay boys who have no legal recourse. Although Spence probably doesn’t really need rescuing, Hunter intercedes with the predator, who he has been trying to corner.
Tags: Fantasy Superheroes
Review - A Bear Walks Into a Bar by Eden Winters
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Dillon, Kevin, Jerry and Brad are all on their own before they become friends and settle in a small mountain town to open a bar. They’re all shifters; Dillon is a bear, Kevin and his cousin Jerry are wolves, and Brad is a fox; but it isn’t easy for them since they lost or were forced out of their family groups before they learned how to use and control their powers.
Review - Meeting Tiberius and Other Roman Tales by Clodia Metilli
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In this collection of stories featuring Gaius, Tiberius, Achilles and other characters from the previous two books of the series, we learn a bit more about Gaius’ past as well as glimpses of the future after the end of Gaius and Achilles. The first story, which gives the collection its name, recounts how Gaius and Tiberius first met, while later ones tell us about Achilles’ life with Gaius after being freed.
Tags: Ancient Rome Anthology BDSM
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