Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Rubble and the Wreckage by Rodd Clark
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Kindly note: An electronic review copy of this book was supplied by the author. Aspiring author Christian is on to something. He has been researching a string of unsolved and seemingly unconnected murders across the country, and he believes they’re the work of one man. Not even the FBI has figured out what Chris has seen in the randomness of the crimes. He becomes almost obsessive in his quest to research the killings, and maybe even track down the murderer so he can write his story.
Review - Probe by Mel Keegan
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The festering colonial rebellion finally explodes into open warfare in the fourth book of the Hellgate saga. The flashpoint of Ulrand, where the inept interference of military engineers from Earth caused an alien artifact to explode, devastating almost half the planet. Festering resentment is pushed into high gear, and when the inevitable vote to succeed comes, Earth sends a fleet of ships to prevent the predictable succession of other worlds from the confederacy.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - Behind the Velvet Curtain by Matt Converse
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Like many a young gay man before him, Michael escapes his midwestern town, comes to San Francisco, and reinvents himself. He joins a gym, works on his body and his skin, and eventually comes to think of himself as sexy. Loving music and dance, on a lark he tries out for a job as a stripper, and gets it. Using the stage name Matt Jaxx, he really enjoys his work, and becomes popular with both the crowd and the theater management.
Tags: Novelette
Review - The Pirate Witch by Damian Serbu
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Alexander is born at the worst possible time and place for someone to be different, in early seventeenth century Salem, Massachusetts Colony, where the Puritans are still on the hunt for witches. Alexander’s mother is brutally murdered by the townspeople, who think she’s a witch, and his father dies of the shock of it. The thing is, she really was a witch, and so is Alexander. His mother’s dying wish is that Alexander survive, hiding his powers from prying eyes.
Tags: Historical Fantasy
Review - Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey
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This review was originally published in slightly different form at BDSM Book Reviews. Note: This book is a bit of a departure from the books I normally review. You have been warned! “Lost Boi” reimagines the classic tale of “Peter Pan” in kinky queer terms. Pan is a biological woman with a strong male identity - a boi. He is the unquestioned leader of the lost bois, a group of homeless youth Pan has found on the streets and brought to Neverland, which is really just an abandoned warehouse in which they are squatters.
Review - ePistols at Dawn by Z.A. Maxfield
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Jae-sun Fields is a reporter for a gay tabloid with a reputation for outing public figures. When we first meet him, Jae is hot on the trail of the author of a book that practically lampoons a coming-out book that Jae and many other gay men hold almost sacred. The author, whom Jae is sure is really a woman, seems particularly skilled at keeping their true identity a secret, but Jae won’t stop until he tracks the person down and exposes them as a fraud.
Tags: Contemporary novel
Review - Art of the Heart by Dan Skinner
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It isn’t easy for Zac, coming of age in a small Missouri town in the 1960s. People think he’s slow. That’s not true, but he would rather they thought that than know the truth. While the other boys are discovering the charms of the opposite sex, Zac realizes he has it bad for a slightly older neighbor boy, Rory. Zac escapes into his own world of drawings and fantasies. “Art of the Heart” is a bittersweet coming of age story.
Tags: Novelette
Review - The Love of Wicked Men by Brandon Shire
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Note: This book is being published in serial form, with new ‘episodes’ coming out every two months or so. This review is of the first two episodes. I’ll probably review the series every two or three volumes. Sid Rivers is a successful corporate lawyer in a mid-sized southern city. Sid’s forté seems to be using barely legal means to scare off plaintiffs before they even get to trial. He’s a true shark whose only real lusts are money and power.
Review - Fire and Water by Andrew Grey
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As a policeman, Red commands attention whenever he comes on a scene. It isn’t just his imposing bulk that people can’t help but notice, Red bears the scars of a car accident that took his parents’ lives when he was a teenager. So when he shows up at the scene of a near drowning, the offhand remark from cute lifeguard Terry is nothing he hasn’t heard before. Terry has always used his looks to get what he wants.
Tags: novel
Review - Stranger on the Shore by Josh Lanyon
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The kidnapping of four year-old Brian Arlington twenty years ago was a major news story at the time it happened. Although a man was convicted of the crime, Brian was never found. The story intrigues Mid-western crime reporter Griffin Hadley, and while the family has always resisted previous authors’ attempts to write about the kidnapping, family patriarch Jarret Arlington agrees to cooperate with Griffin to help revive interest in the story and perhaps find out what really happened to Brian.
Tags: Mystery
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