Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review - Make Mine to Go
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This review originally appeared in a slightly different form at BDSM Book Reviews. Toby and Justin are married and have been together for four years. Justin is everything that submissive Toby could want in a Dom, although the two are not in a full time D/s relationship. They do have a very rich sex life, which includes the occasional group scene, although the two don’t have a typical open relationship. They usually play together or with the other person nearby.
Review - Candyman (Something New on the Menu)
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Alain Roux has just lost his beloved father, who ran a world famous candy company in Chicago. Alain is very much a spoiled rich kid, but he’s just short of an entitled brat. It was his father’s wish that Alain take over the running of the company. Even though he doesn’t have much interest in business, Alain still wants to make his father proud, and show up his homophobic uncle Jakob.
Review - Magpie
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Everet (a raven) is the security chief for the nest of avians introduced in Duck. As this sequel opens, he has been called to collect Kane, a magpie, from the human nightclub where he’s fallen fowl (if you’ll pardon the expression) of the management. Magpies are know for their inability to resist the allure of shiny objects, and it seems that despite his talent for seducing and pleasuring men, Kane has stolen too much, too often, from the wrong people.
Review - Chasing Cold
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Hundreds of years in the future, humanity has grown beyond the confines of earth to occupy many worlds in their part of the galaxy. But then an alien species, the Flense, show up and decide they want the same worlds for themselves. It isn’t really a war. With vastly superior technology, the Flense can simply take what they want. They’re not really interested in wiping out humanity, but those who can’t or won’t leave the worlds the Flense want are killed without mercy.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - It's a long story: A Novel About Beautiful Boys Doing Terrible Things to Each Other
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James is a stereotypical gay party boy. He dropped out of college and works as a waiter to earn just enough to pay his share of the rent, buy the right clothes, and pay for drinks on his weekly nights out. He appears to drink too much when he’s out, and his love life seems to consist mostly of guys he picks up at the club or hookups found on the web.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Two Hearts Two Spirits
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Igashu and Helki are two young men in a small native tribe hidden away in a valley of the Rockies near one of the new national parks around the turn of the twentieth century. The two young men are very close, but soon they will face a tribal ritual: the bow and basket ceremony. The boys who choose the bow will become warriors and hunters - men - while those who choose the basket will have a more domestic life and join the Two Spirit people - homosexuals.
Tags: Historical
Review - Trails of Love I Crawl Part 1
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Lucien and Amédée are two young men, aged 19 and 20 respectively, in a well-to-do household of a busy port town. Amédée is the stepson of the master of the house, while Lucien is the master’s nephew, and Amédée’s squire. The two young men have a close bond, but just as they’re about to take their relationship beyond brotherly love, they’re discovered by the head of the house. The old-fashioned man sends the boys off to a “reformatory” run by the enterprising Viktor, who subjects the two men to extremely cruel torture.
Tags: Do Not Read
Review - Acclamation
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Still stinging from the loss of his lover four years ago, Michael Cassidy takes a job as an English teacher at a Catholic school in a small English town. Although only 28 years old, he’s more or less given up on life and is hiding away from it, thinking that his one great love is already behind him. However, life isn’t quite through with Mr Cassidy. One day he discovers that he lives next door to one of his students, Dominic Butler.
Tags: Contemporary
Review - Missing
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This is a difficult book to summarize without spoilers, so I’m not going to try. The blurb, as blurbs will do, only tells you half the story, and in this case it’s possibly misleading. It might make you think that this is a mystery, or perhaps a psychological thriller, and that’s what you may be thinking up to about halfway through, but then everything changes. It’s at about the midway point that you find out this story isn’t exactly about what you think it is.
Review - Wishes
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Auri is a young man determined to go places. He has risen through the ranks in the service of the Empire without the aid of any family connections, and now he is a first lieutenant on a diplomatic starship. Auri has gotten where he is by being stern and demanding. He gets things done. But there’s nobody on his current assignment that he can call a friend. Even his own captain thinks he is a little too uptight.
Tags: Fantasy Science Fiction
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