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Review: Sometimes You Just Know – Bill VanPatten

Sometimes You Just Know - Bill VanPatten

Genre: Gaylit, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Can a thirty-year-old man overcome his fears and find love? Arnie Violet is the son of an alcoholic mother and a father who abandoned him at the age of ten. Believing himself unlovable, he lacks self-confidence in everything from work to romance. Then, Arnie meets eighteen-year-old Peter Jordan. Peter is the opposite of Arnie: self-assured, frank, and assertive. There is an instant attraction between them, but warning bells sound in Arnie’s head. His relationships never last long, there is a major age difference between the two men, and most importantly, Peter is his boss’s nephew. … Read more

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Review: A Roadie’s Guide to Boyfriends – Ian M. Keller

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Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Trans FTM Reviewer: Whiskey November Get It On Amazon About The Book Devin is enjoying his new ability to pass as male. Maybe a little too much. He’s jumping from guy to guy leaving a trail of broken hearts behind him. When an attractive new guy Peter steals his heart, Devin realizes that he might want more. More than just another one-night stand or friend with benefits. Peter has just moved from Idaho to Portland, and is enjoying being able to openly date for the first time now that he no longer lives in a tiny conservative town. When the handsome Devin asks him out, he’s … Read more

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Review: David’s Disaster – T.L. Travis

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Genre: Contemporary, Rock ‘n Roll LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book For David Jordan life is close to perfect. His band, Embrace the Fear, is living the rock ‘n roll dream as an up-and-coming group under Masterson Management. They aren’t rolling in dough like their mentors from Social and Maiden, but things are good. David grew up in a middle-class family. Both his parents worked and supported him and his sisters in every way. To this day, they are still in love with each other. The one thing missing from David’s life is the same kind of connection his parents had. … Read more

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Review: My Holiday Star – A.Y. Caluen

My Holiday Star - Alexandra Caluen

Genre: Holiday, Romance, Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A M/M holiday romance novella about finding your way home. Rhett Carpenter’s early fame ended with a crash. Sixteen years later, he’s working steadily: writing, producing, narrating, even acting. He’s made a decent life for himself. The trouble is, he never wanted a life that was only for himself, and he’s not sure he wants this one anymore. Gabriel Aguilar didn’t know who Rhett was when they met on the train, but it didn’t take long to find out. They noticed each other around the neighborhood, as well as on the … Read more

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Review: Love in Lockdown – R. Frank Davis

Love in Lockdown - R. Frank Davis

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Conner MacKay is the last of the TV cowboys, but he’s withdrawn from society—even before a global pandemic forces the world into quarantine. When he meets activist Dante Burke, though, Conner takes a chance. He can’t leave a young Black man on the street in the face of a public health crisis. What kind of cowboy would he be then? On the surface, Conner and Dante live in opposing realities: midlife versus youth, flush versus flat broke. But their politics, attraction, and close quarters bring them together until the heat between them grows into a burn … Read more

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Review: First Born Sons – Vincent Traughber Meis

First Born Sons - Vincent Traughber Meis

Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Gaylit LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A group of coastal Californians battle wildfires, racism, and their own demons in five distinct narratives set in late 2019 and 2020. First Born Sons is populated by a cast of LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies who struggle to find love, comfort, and fulfillment. As the novel progresses, characters interact across the separate narratives and are brought together for a birthday and a disastrous Black Lives Matter demonstration. A man returning to the horrors that made him leave Mississippi, a blind gay man flirting with love, an FTM transgender starting hormone therapy, … Read more

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Review: A Death in Berlin – David C. Dawson

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Genre: Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Berlin 1933: When the parties stop…the dying begins The city that’s been a beacon of liberation during the 1920s is about to become a city of deadly oppression. BBC foreign correspondent Simon Sampson risks his life in a bid to save thousands of gay men from the growing Nazi threat. This is the second in the Simon Sampson mystery series. The first, A Death in Bloomsbury, was hailed as ‘a good old-fashioned John Buchan-esque mystery reworked for the twenty-first century’. Simon moves to Berlin where he meets British author Christopher Isherwood and his lover Heinz. He’s … Read more

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Review: First Born Sons – Vincent Traughber Meis

First Born Sons - Vincent Traughber Meis

Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Gaylit LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book A group of coastal Californians battle wildfires, racism, and their own demons in five distinct narratives set in late 2019 and 2020. First Born Sons is populated by a cast of LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies who struggle to find love, comfort, and fulfillment. As the novel progresses, characters interact across the separate narratives and are brought together for a birthday and a disastrous Black Lives Matter demonstration. A man returning to the horrors that made him leave Mississippi, a blind gay man flirting with love, an FTM transgender starting hormone therapy, a woman struggling … Read more

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Review: Van Alone – Patrick Doyle

Van Alone - Patrick Doyle

Genre: Gaylit, Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Giovanni Russo has forged a very particular life. Working in the world of rare books, he’s independent, self-sufficient, and alone. Withdrawn but combative, he engages in personal relations only to do business and, on occasion, have sex. His aloofness draws people in. Good for business, he says to himself. Good for sex. Of course, someone so enigmatic is asking for trouble. Following his father’s sudden death, he inherits the family home, a modest place with no redeeming features other than the roomfuls of memorabilia left by his grandfather. Seeing the house as a chance to … Read more