Posts labeled Novelette
Review - The Last Nights of the Frangipani Hotel by Bey Deckard
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Actor James Talbot is enjoying his vacation at a run-down hotel on a Caribbean island. The resort may have been grand at one time, but the years have taken their toll. Few people stay there these days, especially in the off-season, and that suits James just fine. His solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a guest who takes the cabin right next to James. The guest turns out to be another actor, Rudie, whom James has worked with in the past.
Tags: Novelette Contemporary
Review - Fated Love by Sean Michael
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Sunny has raised his daughter, Julie, on his own since her mother died in a car crash. Julie is everything to Sunny, so he doesn’t have much of a life outside of work and taking care of her. Now 15, Julie is old enough to want to earn some money of her own babysitting. She gets a referral from a friend for another single dad who needs someone to look after his young daughter a few days a week.
Tags: Novelette Contemporary
Review - Feathered Friend by Fiona Glass
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Dexter inherited his father’s homing pigeons and has grown to love the birds. One day, after a meet, Dexter is checking all the birds made it back and finds an extra pigeon in the roost. He takes the bird into his house to try and track down the owner but when his back is turned the bird is gone and there’s a cute young man in his kitchen. The young man introduces himself as Avery and he’s clearly attracted to Dexter.
Tags: Fantasy Novelette Fairy Tales
Review - The Complications of T by Bey Deckard
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Stuart falls off the wagon when his wife asks for a divorce. After five years of sobriety, it doesn't take much to get drunk. With his acting career already on the skids, Stuart can't afford to make a scene that might appear in the tabloids. He manages to make it out of the bar but is seriously considering the possibility of passing out on the sidewalk when a "woman" comes to his rescue.
Tags: Contemporary Novelette Trans*
Review - The Lightkeeper's Son by Daniel Elijah Sanderfer
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Leland lives with his parents on a North Carolina resort island. It's an idyllic life, but it gets a bit lonely for a gay teenager when all the tourists leave once the summer season is over. Doug has just been kicked out of his home when his wealthy ultra-conservative father finds him with another boy. With nowhere else to go, he heads to the family's seldom-used beach house on Leland's island to try and figure things out.
Tags: Contemporary Novelette Young Adult
Review - From Top to Bottom by Kevin Klehr
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Dedicated top Tony is curious about bottoming. What’s a modern top to do? Form a support group of other tops who want to give things a try from the other side, of course. “From Top to Bottom” is a rather tongue-in-cheek erotic short novellete. There’s plenty of hot scenes and humor to help cover up the rather preposterous plot set-up. The characters are engaging if not very deeply developed. Tony and his new buddy Butch are the most well drawn characters, while the rest are just set pieces.
Tags: Novelette
Review - Counterbalance by Aidan Wayne
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John leads a settled life as the head rigger for an acrobatic troupe based in Canada. Disfigured in a hate crime when he was a teenager, he is used to being avoided and left to get on with his work of figuring out how to stage the troupe’s daring performances safely. But things change when a new group of acrobats from China arrives for the up-coming season. One of them, Bao, seems fascinated rather than repulsed by John’s looks, and seeks him out at every opportunity.
Tags: Novelette
Review - Stealing His Dangling Jewels by James Cox
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This review originally appeared on the BDSM Book Reviews site. Phoenix is in dire need of money. A lot of money. It’s not for himself, he wants to get his mother into rehab, although it probably won’t do her any good. Phoenix reads about Lucas, a very rich man, thanks to a lottery winning, with his own private island and a genital piercing sporting sapphires and diamonds that has to be worth several thousand dollars.
Tags: Novelette
Review - If I Were Fire by Heloise West
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Kindly note: a proof copy of this book was supplied by the author in exchange for a review. A world-weary adventuring count trying to salvage his family estate, a bad boy who wants to be good, a local gangster, and a search for hidden treasure. All this is packed into this very short novelette, running less than 60 pages. Salvesto is the rather down-on-his-luck count. He has returned to Siena upon the death of his father, hoping that the acts which forced him into exile have been forgotten.
Tags: Historical Novelette
Review - Stay With Me by A.L. Lamb
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Curtis is a thirty-something bear-ish fellow who works in a bank. One day, on a lunch break, he spots a waiter in a local Asian restaurant. The younger man, Joseph, fascinates Curtis and he returns repeatedly to the restaurant just to see him. He can tell that Joseph is troubled, but it takes him a while to strike up a conversation, and even longer to ask Joseph out on date.
Tags: Novelette