Posts labeled Book Reviews
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
Review - Power Exchange
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Gavin DeGrassi is a St Louis homicide detective. As “Power Exchange” opens, he and his partner Trent are called to the scene of a gruesome killing, where a Dom has been brutally murdered in his own play room with his own toys. The case awakens some feelings and desires that Gavin has long suppressed, as well as exposing him to some new ideas he has never considered. The detectives know nothing about the BDSM scene, so psychologist Ben Haverson is brought in to consult.
Review - Woke Up in a Strange Place
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Joe has indeed, as the title says, woke up in a strange place. The strange place is heaven, or rather, the afterlife. There aren’t exactly any pearly gates and Saint Peter is nowhere in sight. Joe is, at first, alone in a golden field of barley, with no memory of his former life or how he died, but soon he meets his quirky guide, Baker, and together they set out on a journey to rediscover the key people and events of his earthbound existence.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - Aliens, Smith and Jones
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Connor Smith works for Primrose, a super-secret organization tasked with controlling the alien presence and their artifacts in the UK. As the personal assistant to one of the team leaders, he’s right in the thick of things, from hunting down six-armed monkeys run amok to cataloging artifacts for the archives. It’s a job that can sometimes be 24/7, which doesn’t leave much time for a private life. So, when Connor’s best friend and coworker Isa introduces him to Jason, a man who doesn’t give up easily, it seems like a match made in heaven.
Tags: Science Fiction
Review - The Elegant Corpse
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Roger Corso is a detective with the LAPD, and a more tightly wound individual would be hard to imagine. He could make Joe Friday look like a loose cannon and Felix Unger look like a slob (★). Part of that is just who he is, but there’s also a defensive wall around the part of him that still grieves for his dead lover. He also has to be on guard about his private life.
Tags: Mystery Contemporary BDSM
Review - The Flesh Cartel #1: Capture
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In this work of speculative fiction, people with enough money and the right connections can buy anything, including their own personal sex slaves. The Flesh Cartel is a super-secret, highly organized group that supplies these human cattle. They take people nobody will really miss and transform them into the perfect slave. “The Flesh Cartel” series follows two brothers as they are taken and processed through the cartel’s machinery. Note that this is a serial publication.
Tags: Speculative Fiction
Review - Afflicted
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Hunter is blind, but fiercely independent. The quickest and easiest way to piss him off is to treat him with any kind of pity. He has escaped the clutches of an over-protective mother, built a life and a business of his own, and he’s not going back. The only thing missing from his life is someone to share it with. In the gay world, which puts such a high emphasis on bodily perfection, Hunter’s disability is a major barrier.
Tags: Contemporary
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