Posts labeled Book Reviews
Review: The Hadrian Enigma - A Forbidden History
My rating: 
Hadrian and Antinous is one of the great true love stories of gay history, so anything to do with it is sure to get my attention. This is a difficult book to rate, because it seems to try to cross genres and doesn’t do it very successfully. Still, it is obviously a very well-researched story.
Review: Transgressions
My rating:
I’ve always enjoyed Erastes work, especially Mere Mortals, which was the last of her works I read. Unfortunately, Transgressions failed to capture my imagination. There’s nothing I can put my finger on as to why the book didn’t do it for me, and it’s probably not any one thing. This is a much longer work than most of Erastes’ books, and it does move along rather slowly in the beginning, as her books do.
Review: Duck!
My rating:
I probably wouldn’t have picked this book up on my own, but it was so highly recommended by several people I follow on Twitter that I decided to give it a try, and I’m very happy I did. It’s a lovely story, told in full. So many books I’ve read lately have been under-developed, but “Duck!” is very well fleshed out, and written in a very easy to read style that makes it a real page-turned (although, since I no longer read dead trees, I guess that makes it a “thumb-tapper”).
Review: Test of Faith
My rating:
I’m surprised there aren’t more m/m books set in the crusades. It would seem to be fertile ground. “Test of Faith” was quite a refreshing change from the Regency/Victorian setting of most historical romances these days. It doesn’t have a happily ever after ending, which is disappointing but true to the characters. There are a couple of reasons I didn’t give it four stars: The point of view flip-flops between the two protagonists - Abdul and Thierry.
Background: James Brooke
I just finished the first draft of the sequel to Journey to Angkor, which hopefully means I'm only a month or two away from publishing it. So, I thought it might be interesting to give you some background on the one historical figure I've used in this next book. I first encountered James Brooke when I visited Kuching in Sarawak, Malaysia, where he was the first "White Rajah" of Sarawak.
Tags: Journey to Rai-Lay
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