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Review: Specimen – C. Quince

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Specimen - C. Quince

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance Arc LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Supporting cast has some additional LGBTQ+ Reviewer: Rari Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Universal Buy Link About The Book David Cortez, a decorated US Marine, is now on the run from his own government after escaping a top-secret CIA lab when an experimental medical procedure turned sour. While lying low in Mexico, an assassin sent from British Intelligence tracks him down. However, Sonny from MI6, a British-Iranian with a cockney accent, offers David a choice: join his team, or be killed. David chooses to work with Sonny, not only because he wants his life back, but because he feels a kinship with the man. … Read more

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Review: Parted Paths – A. Williams

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Parted Paths - A Williams

Genre: Crime Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Tony Get It On Amazon About The Book John and Rick meet in high school. Their paths part when they are drafted into the Vietnam War.  There are no war scenes or descriptions. When their paths cross again after the war, John is a police detective and Rick is an assassin. After Rick misses his target, John chases him and shoots out his car tire. Rick loses the game of hide and seek in a field of tall grass. The Review Parted Paths is a short story about John and Rick, two friends who get conscripted just as they graduate from high school, … Read more

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Review: Future and Past – Karenna Colcroft

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Future and Past - Karenna Colcroft - Ebb & Flow

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book At 130 years old, lone Nova Scotian werewolf Malachi Powers never intended to find a mate, until fate sent him Quinn Boucher, a much younger man. Now, after only a few months, Malachi can’t imagine his life without Quinn. But when Quinn returns to Nova Scotia, Malachi learns that the man who belongs to him has been keeping a secret–something Malachi cannot allow. At 22, Quinn Boucher has been through more trauma than most people survive in a lifetime. Although he is healing, lately his nightmares have worsened. After he lashes out … Read more

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Review: Cake & Cocktails – A.D. Ellis

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Cake & Cocktails - A.D. Ellis

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Demi, Gay Reviewer: Tony Get It On Amazon About The Book Cake & Cocktails is a steamy, M/M age-gap romance featuring a grumpy teddy bear of a bar owner and a quirky baker just looking for love, acceptance, and a forever family.Henry is well-aware he’s a bit of a grump. Outside of his passion for running the Riggs Family Roadhouse, and a precious few close friends and family, Henry doesn’t need anything—or anyone—else. But when a mysterious young man walks into the bar, Henry finds himself obsessed with making sure the blue-eyed beauty is taken care of. Determined to get far, far away, Jack fled … Read more

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Review: Of Another World Box Set – Edward Kendrick

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Of Another World Box Set - Edward Kendrick

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon About The Book Three interconnected fantasy tales of danger and romance by best-selling MM author Edward Kendrick. Contains the stories: Of Another World: Castaways Tony and Daniel learn they are far from home from elf Brion who says only King Cerdic can send them back. Tony and Cerdic are drawn to each even though Tony refuses to believe the island’s shifters are guilty of the crimes that sent them to Stronghold. He offers to prove it by going there undercover. Will Tony survive so he and Cerdic can act on their feelings? Only time will tell. Of the … Read more

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Review: To Tempt a Troubled Earl – Fearne Hill

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To Tempt a Troubled Earl - Fearne Hill - Regency Rossingley

Genre: Historical, Regency, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Xanthe, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A chancer and a rogue, Kit Angel is down on his luck. Presenting himself at Rossingley Hall in the dead of night, he begs an audience with the eleventh earl, the most enigmatic nobleman in Regency England. The visit has purpose. Kit, hungry to ruin the baronet who ruined his sister, believes Rossingley is the only man who can help him. Lando Duchamps-Avery, Eleventh Earl of Rossingley, doesn’t trust the sinfully handsome stranger one bit. He does not care for the tales he spins, his hot temper, or his thick, ebony … Read more

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Review: Second Glance – A.E. Bennett

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Second Glance - A.E. Bennett

Genre: Historical, Regency Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon | Hoopla | Kobo About The Book A proper gentleman. A stoic soldier. Their passion ignites a defiant love… Lord Patrick Upshur seemingly hasn’t a care in the world. He’s a younger son of a wealthy lord in the Realm and his only responsibilities include behaving in a manner his father sees fit and possibly getting married someday. No one, not even Patrick’s closest sibling, knows that he’s hiding a painful secret – one that could disgrace him and the Upshur family forever. Commandant Iseul of the White Riders understands he should concentrate on … Read more

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Review: Back 2 OmniPark Anthology

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Back 2 OmniPark Anthology

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Crime Fiction LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Back 2 OmniPark, edited by Ben Thomas and Alicia Hilton and published by House Blackwood, is an anthology of horror short stories that explore the mysterious backstory behind OmniPark’s creation.This anthology features brand-new exclusive stories by some of the biggest names in the horror genre ⁠- including Jonathan Maberry, Laird Barron, Hailey Piper, Brian Evenson, Kristi DeMeester, John Palisano, A.C. Wise, Gwendolyn Kiste, and many more award-winning masters of the macabre. Each story in this anthology reveals more of OmniPark’s secret and terrifying history. How did globe-trotting oil … Read more

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Review: Gold! – Fyn Alexander

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Gold! - Fyn Alexander

Genre: Futuristic Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon | Publisher About The Book Fifteen hundred years ago, Earth became a very dark place to live. A cabal of evil men was attempting to make the population into Serfs ruled over by the cabal. Five families decided to leave Earth and find a distant planet to begin again. A group of pioneers traveled to Pleione in the Pleiades star cluster, but the original intention of a utopia soon disintegrated into a world not much better than Earth. The basis of the new system is run like the ancient Roman Republic with a strict caste system. … Read more

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Double Review: Romance is a Drag Anthology

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Romance is a Drag Anthology

Genre: Contemporary, Magical Realism, Drag LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewers: Ulysses at Paranormal Romance Guild; Maryann Universal Buy Link About The Book A queer Anthology that embraces the romantic life and happy ever afters of drag queens navigating the LGBT landscape. All stories are written by Own Voice gay authors! From small towns to big cities, drag queens are the heart of the gayborhoods they belong to. Stories by Shane K Morton, Blake Allwood, Jole Cannon, Kelvin Young, J. Scott Coatsworth, Kristian Parker, Brent Archer and M.D. Neu. The Reviews Ulysses: Drag is not my primary reading target, but as a gay elder I have the deepest respect for its place … Read more