Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Werecat: The Rearing
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College senior Jackson, ‘Jacks’ to his friends, decides to go along with his roommates’ plan to spend spring break in Montréal. On their first night in town, Jacks has a little too much to drink at a party and wanders off on his own in the direction of the city’s Mont Royal park. After falling down a ravine he passes out, only to awaken the next morning in an abandoned shack in the park, in the company of the mysterious Benoit.
Tags: Shifters
Review - Moment of truth
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Although billed as a collection of short stories, I think this book is much better described as poetry, and I’ve tagged it as such. Although they’re not in iambic pentameter or any other such fixed structure, there is a poetic cadence to most of the stories, many of which are just a few paragraphs, and none of which are longer than a couple of pages. The stories all have common themes of loss and death, but they’re not as depressing as they might sound.
Tags: Poetry
Review - Lakeside Reunion
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Spoiler alert: This is one of those short-stories that’s difficult to review without giving away most of the plot details. But then, this isn’t a book you’re going to read for its plot. Chris has arranged a little reunion with his old college roommates Sean and Tim at an isolated vacation home. Chris had tried to deny his feelings while in school, but since graduating he has come to terms with his sexuality, and his strong attraction to Sean.
Tags: Contemporary Menage
Review - Dark Waters
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Flein has an itch to travel, and he’s seen more of the world than just about any man alive. Then again, Flein is only half human. He is the offspring of one of the Norse gods who mated with a human, and staying on the move helps keep people from realizing that he doesn’t age and is in fact a thousand years old or more. His wanderings take him to a small village in the Scottish Highlands, where a series of rapes and murders have been blamed on a mysterious creature that inhabits the loch.
Review - The Master of Seacliff
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Andrew Wyndham dreams of escaping his mundane life of working in his aunt and uncle’s New York shop to become an artist in Paris. It’s the turn of the twentieth century, and the likes of Monet are shaking up the art world. When Andrew’s friend arranges for him to be the tutor for the son of wealthy Duncan Stewart, it seems he is well on his way to realizing his dream.
Tags: Mystery Historical
Review - Achilles and the Houseboy
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This further adventure of my favorite houseboy in a domestic menage with two older Doms is actually an outtake from his previous book, More Fun With Dick and Shane. With fewer digressions that the first two books, this volume squarely tackles an issue only briefly touched on in previous books, and one of the most sensitive aspects of a menage relationship: jealously. After an hilarious introduction in which the reasoning - which only this author could conjure up - behind the title is explained, the book gets pretty serious.
Review - Pup
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As Tackett Austin marks the passing of another year with a drink at his BDSM club, the Guards of Folsom, he begins to look back and question some of the choices he has made. Yes, he is well-to-do and has a successful career, and he has a well-earned reputation in the club as a good Dom, with subs lining up to serve him, but as he looks around at his friends, he sees other Doms with their own collared subs, happily living the lifestyle full time.
Tags: Contemporary D/s
Review - I Like Em Pretty
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Francois Choteau, “Frankie” to his friends, is a homicide detective with the New Orleans police department. One night he and his partner Kenina are called to the scene of an apparent suicide, but it isn’t the victim that catches Frankie’s eye, it’s his young lover Kajika Fortier, the most beautiful man the somewhat closeted detective has ever laid eyes on. The attraction between the two is mutual, but Kajika is a witness if not a suspect so Frankie tries to keep his distance.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Dorian's Worlds
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In a dystopian future, medical science has extended the human life span, and age has become the all-important measure of status. The young only exist to serve their elders, whether it’s to hand them food just beyond their reach or to provide sexual gratification. Dorian is a young man in his late teens, a service worker at the beck and call of two elderly ‘patrons’ who use him however they wish.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - Trenekis of Hiera
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Trenekis faces his impending coming-of-age in the small village of Hiera with a lot of trepidation. Survival of the isolated village on the semi-arid planet requires that each young man take a wife and begin procreating within a year of turning twenty, but Trenekis can’t imagine doing that. His best friend and former lover Keenam came of age the year before and seems to have adapted to married life, but Trenekis doesn’t want to live that lie, even though declaring his true nature means banishment.
Tags: Science Fiction
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