Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Shirts and Skins
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Alert: This is one of those books that is hard to summarize for review without spoiling the plot to some degree. I’ve tried to keep the spoilers to a minimum. In this episodic tale of one man’s troubled journey through life, we first meet Josh as a young boy. He seems to a relatively happy child, despite a somewhat unsettled home life, with two half-brothers and a father that has trouble holding down a job.
Review - The Hardest Thing
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This review was written for BDSM Book Reviews and originally appeared there. Dan Stagg was a career marine in the era of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. When a sniper in Helmond kills his lover, the major loses it. His superior officers ask, and Dan tells, and that’s the end of his military career. As a civilian with a less than honorable discharge, the only work he can find is as a doorman at a club in the East Village of New York.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Breaking History
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Did you ever have a crush on one of your high-school teachers? If so, then you know what life is like for Thomas. The out 18 year-old has it bad for his history teacher Mr Worthington, but he assumes the recently divorced 29 year-old hunk is out of reach. That is, until he finds out that the seemingly straight teacher is interested in exploring his newly discovered bisexual nature as well as his desire to dominate.
Review - Hidden Faults
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‘Jodi’ is a doctor trying to find a “cure” for one of his society’s greatest problems: paranormal abilities. ‘Paras’ are considered a threat, and once discovered they are marked with tattoos as well as forced to take a drug that inhibits their abilities. The problem is, the drug makes them almost useless for anything else, so they have become outcasts from the world in more ways than one. The government of Jodi’s country has used the “paranormal threat” to justify all sorts of restrictions, which the largely conservative society goes along with.
Tags: Speculative Fiction
Review - Penetration Fascination
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Snow is a hardened denizen of the town of Westgate, a place that makes the old “wild west” look tame. He is a thief, con man, and when necessary a murderer, but that just makes him an average citizen in this town. While Show usually just looks after himself, young newcomer Erin catches his eye, and when the boy is about to be robbed and raped, he steps in to save the day.
Review - Boy Meets Boy
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Paul has it pretty easy. The high school sophomore discovered and accepted his homosexuality at an early age, his parents love him the way he is, and he apparently attends one of the most liberal high schools in America. The football team’s star quarterback is a drag queen, who is also elected homecoming queen. Paul has a close circle of friends, which includes his gal-pal Joni and Tony, who in sharp contrast has fundamentalist parents that are trying to pray his gay away.
Review - Connection: Angel's Pet
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Camulus is an immortal being. Humans who have glimpsed his true form call beings like him angels, although given Camulus’ dark wings, perhaps he is a fallen angel. He has traveled from world to world, played the part of king and god, but now finds that a little boring. What he needs is a new pet, a devotee who will dedicate himself to serving the ‘angel’ in every way. Adam is a young man who knows his desires are on the wrong side of the dystopian society he lives in.
Review - An Uncommon Whore
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Pasha is indeed an uncommon whore. He’s uncommonly beautiful, and for now at least he has an uncommonly nice pimp who owns him and really only sells his services when he is need of money for gambling, which is actually quite often. But Pasha knows he wasn’t always a whore. For one thing, he knows ‘Pasha’ isn’t really his name, it’s just the word for slave in the language of his master.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - Gilliflowers, Bonds of Affection, Memoirs of a Houseboy 2008
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Spoiler alerts: If you haven’t read the earlier books in the series, then this review might give away some of what you’ll best discover for yourself. Also, there are strong hints at what happens in this book. It’s time for another year with my favorite sometimes-but-often-not submissive houseboy. This volume covers the year of 2008 and returns to the style of the first two books, with lots of little ‘diary’ entries alongside longer, detailed stories of particular episodes in the topsy-turvy world of Gillibran Brown, houseboy and young pup to two masters, Dick and Shane.
Review - Prisoner 374215
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The man known only as 374215 is a prisoner of war, far in the future when mankind is spread out among the galaxy, much of which is under the control of a ruthless corporation. The man has been stripped of his name and much of his humanity, and is now used for medical experiments, when not being brutalized by the guards. The only tiny glimmer of respite in the man’s life is at night, when he is watched over by a guard he thinks of only as ‘Scar’.
Tags: Science Fiction ESTO Universe
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