Posts labeled Fantasy
Review - The Vow of Silence by Elion Marr
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Aeren is finally ready to enter service in the Silent Court, a group of eunuchs that serves the royal family. They are trained and selected for their ability to be useful without being seen. Aeren is assigned to serve the crown prince, Irenus. Aeren performs his duties, perhaps a little too well. Irenus notices him. The court notices Irenus’ regard for Aeren and sees it as a threat. The Faith is the true power behind the throne and will not allow even the possibility that someone else is close enough to exert any influence over events.
Tags: Fantasy Historical
Review - Tawny by Chris Quinton
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Hal is a wanderer. He never spends too much time in any one place, but he’s been in the Lynn Valley for a while now. He works at the Black Dog pub which rents him a cheap room in the old carriage house. Hal has also made friends with lots of people, as well as the ginger cat that hangs around the pub and seems to have taken a liking to him.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary UK Setting
Review - Seeing Death by L.M. Somerton
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Bryn’s life is changed forever when he turns 18 and a latent gene activates, turning him into an augur, the rarest of mutations that allows Bryn to see someone’s memories or if they’re telling the truth with just a touch. It makes him indispensable to law enforcement and a target of the killers and mob bosses he helps find. On completing his training, Bryn is partnered with Gunnar, an experienced police detective who is also lupine.
Review - Brush and Whip by Sean Michael
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Drew is a wolf shifter, a beta. He had an alpha master, but the alpha found a female mate to have his pups and doesn’t want Drew any more. The alpha drops Drew off at the Kennel Klub, a special underground kink establishment catering to shifters. The alpha was a cruel master who didn’t let Drew take his human form, so the young man has remained a wolf for well over a year while waiting for someone at the club to want him.
Tags: Novella Slightly Kinky Fantasy
Review - Dominion of The Eth by J.C. Owens
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For Melanian men, the ethereal, forest-dwelling Eth seem to exert some sort of strange force that drives them to want to possess and dominate the Eth sexually. Rylis encountered an Eth as a young boy. He secretly freed the slave rather than see it continue to be abused by his father. Years later, as commander of the Melanian army, Rylis leads his troops on a mission to investigate problems just outside the mysterious great forest.
Review - The Silent Paths of Night by David R. Slayton
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Warning: This book is hard to review without discussing the ending. I’ve tried to keep the spoilers to a minimum, but you have been warned. Raef has freed the goddess Phoebe so the moon once again is in the night skies, driving the tides and carrying the dead away to the underworld. But the world is still out of balance. The Hierarch of the sun god Hyperion still seems determined to plunge the world into chaos.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - Holly and Oak by R. Cooper
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Chester has known Will since they both were in their early teens. The two have grown into the small town’s most powerful witches and now personify the two seasonal deities. Chester is the Holly King, ruling the winter months from June to December, while Will is the Oak King. Yet, the two have been kept apart by the coven and their families, because, in Chester’s mind, he is gay and weird.
Review - Greymalkin by Chris Quinton
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Professional rugby player Jesse is licking his wounds after being wrongly convicted of assault when he turned the tables on four gay bashers that attacked him. His team has released him so Jesse’s agent suggest he spend some time out of the public eye to write an autobiography to put his version of events on the record. Jesse decides to rent a cottage in a small village near the coast.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary UK Setting
Review - The Most Unsuitable Prince by Lisa Oliver
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Crown Prince Rupert is in an impossible situation. He has delayed marriage for so long, his aging father is refusing to let him return home without a marriage contract. Rupert doesn’t want to get married. He doesn’t want to change anything about his life of hunting parties. At a ball celebrating the marriage of another royal, Rupert spots Winter across the room. The diminutive young prince is opulently dressed and flitting from one seemingly frivolous conversation to the next, a veritable “peacock” of a man.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - Talos by D.G. Carothers
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The vampyr Talos has ruled over what was the western United States for over a hundred years, ever since the supernaturals wrested control of the planet from humans before they destroyed it. There is, of course, an organized human resistance to supernatural rule, but Talos’ spies are always at least one step ahead of them. It’s come to light that the resistance plans to assassinate Talos during one of the Roman gladiator style games the king enjoys.
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