Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - The Song of Achilles
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The love between Achilles and Patroclus is one of the great classics of Greek literature. For gay men, it’s a story we can look to as proof that there have always been men who loved other men, and they weren’t always as reviled as we sometimes feel in modern society. It’s no wonder that contemporary authors keep returning to the story to try and reinterpret it. “The Song of Achilles” gives us the story from Patroclus’ point of view.
Tags: Ancient Greece Myth
Review - Choices
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This review originally appeared on the BDSM Book Reviews web site. Teman and his boyhood friend Jasim are professional thieves, although they prefer to think of themselves as specialists in the recovery of lost items, by any means. As “Choices” opens, they are caught in a trap set by the palace guards. They are taken to the captain of the guards, who gives them a choice: be cast into the dungeon or agree to become pleasure slaves in the palace.
Review - Afflicted II
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This sequel to the first Afflicted book picks up right where the previous story left off. Dillon has just found out that Hunter’s mother is seeing his cousin, which dredges up all the pain and anger of being thrown out by his family. It’s a lot for him to deal with, and adding to the issue is the concern that his past will come between what he has with Hunter.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Naked Tails
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In a small Georgia town, young Seth’s life is falling apart. He has just lost both his parents in a traffic accident, and now his maternal grandmother is taking him away from the only home he’s ever known, because she fears and despises the ‘deviant’ behavior of her late son-in-law’s family. Seth can’t bear to be parted from his kindly great aunt, or his best friend Dusty, a slightly older boy who is the closest thing Seth has to a brother.
Tags: Shifters
Review - Warlock Masters
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This review originally appeared at BDSM Book Reviews. “Warlock Masters” is a short anthology of just four stories, all by the same author. All but one of the tales is told in the first person by a warlock who recounts various sexual escapades. It is easy to see these almost as memories of various stages in the development of his powers. In the first three stories, the generally nameless narrator reveals himself to be a man who revels in a submissive role, although he can be quite aggressive in seeking out that role, and using his magical powers to ensnare men to dominate him.
Tags: D/s
Review - The Brig
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In spite of recent events, the Vietnam War remains one of America’s most controversial foreign entanglements. It was the first ’television’ war, in which the brutalities of conflict were brought right into people’s living rooms every night. The result was perhaps the first time any war was openly debated in American society, and that included the rank and file of the armed forces. Against this background, the unnamed narrator of “The Brig”, a seminary dropout, joins the navy.
Tags: Vietnam War
Review - Just Call Me Kris
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It’s a bittersweet Christmas Eve for Mike and Karl. The two lovers and newly graduated physicians have landed plum internships at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, but that means spending the holiday away from their many friends back in New Orleans and missing the annual get-together on Christmas Eve. The two are about to console each other with a night of sex when there’s a knock at the door, which turns out to be a man dressed as Santa Claus.
Tags: Erotica Contemporary Menage
Review - Starfall
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Ash is an alien from another world, but he manages to pass as a rather quirky yet handsome human. He has come to a rural area of Vermont in search of his sister, who crash-landed there with valuable information that can help his planet achieve justice. Ash isn’t the only one with his quirks in town. There’s also Angi, a run-away rich girl who escaped her stifling home in Florida only to fall in with the leader of a gang.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - Inertia (Impulse)
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This review originally appeared at BDSM Book Reviews. Professional handyman Derrick has been on his own for ten years. Caring for his dying grandparents in his late teens, on top of losing his parents at a younger age, has left him emotionally drained. He feels incapable of going through any more pain, so he avoids any emotional entanglements. He thinks his life is okay, at least until he meets Gavin.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Falling Into Place
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This review originally appeared at BDSM Book Reviews. Scott is a 30-something stay at home dad with two children and a wife who also plays his domme. Scott has a deep-seated desire to submit and experience pain, a need that masks a dark secret from his past and helps stave off the depression that digs away at him. Only, lately it hasn’t been working, and after a near disaster with his daughter, Scott’s wife Heather asks for a divorce, to which he agrees.
Tags: Contemporary D/s
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