Maryann’s Reviews

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Review: Androids & Aliens – J. Scott Coatsworth

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New Release / Giveaway: Androids & Aliens - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fi, Cli-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Universal Buy Link About The Book Androids & Aliens is Scott’s third short story collection – eight sci fi and sci-fantasy shorts that run the gamut from cyborgs to (comedic) alien invasions: Rise: The rise in sea levels caused by climate change swallowed Venice beneath the lagoon half a century ago. But what if we could bring it back? Ping: I was a real estate agent by day, and a museum curator in the evening at a sci-fi museum. What I saw one night changed everything. What the Rain Brings: Miriam struggles to make a living in post-climate-change Vancouver. But her … Read more

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Review: Ghosts Galore – Fiona Glass

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Fhosts Galore - Fiona Glass

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Let me get this straight. You’re making a programme about haunted houses and you don’t believe in ghosts? Cash-strapped artist Adam Price is the owner of Greystones Hall, an ancient manor house he shares with a plethora of ghosts. He adores the place, but life is a constant battle to pay the bills and he’s lonely, too, following the death of his beloved grandfather two years earlier. Lonely, that is, until the Ghosts Galore crew offer to film an episode at Greystones Hall. Adam’s a bit dubious about letting them loose in his home, but … Read more

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Review: The Price of Surrender – C.J. Dragon

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The Price of Surrender - CJ Dragon l- Daranii Justice

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, PRG Get It On Amazon About The Book The war with the Daranii, instigated by Earth, was short and brutal. Outgunned by superior weapons, the obliteration of the military outpost on Jupiter’s moon, Io, ended with Earth’s unconditional surrender. Captain Jonathan Thomsin of the warship Excalibur was the only Captain of Earth’s combined forces to successfully destroy Daranii ships, not by confronting them, but with guerilla warfare. Outraged by Thomsin’s dishonorable tactics, the Daranii demand the captain as part of Earth’s reparations to Daran. Captain Thomsin was given to Daran to protect Earth from Daranii vengeance. A Sacrifice. He expected to be … Read more

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Review: Second Wind – A.L. Lester

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Second Wind - SA.L. Lester

Genre: Maryann LGBTQ+ Category: MM Bi, Trans FTM Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book What do a shy French-horn-playing accountant and a single dad trans trumpet player have in common other than both being members of the community orchestra at Theatr Fach in the little town of Llanbaruc? Gethin’s been more or less hiding from life since his marriage broke up a couple of years ago. He joined the orchestra because his sister told him he needed a hobby rather than sitting at home brooding about his divorce. Martin is careful who he dates because of his gender and his teenage daughter. He came to Llanbaruc as … Read more

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Review: The Love and the Anger – Rebecca Cohen

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The Love and the Anger - Rebecca Cohen

Genre: Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book William, Viscount of Crofton, is missing, feared taken. Anthony Redbourn, 1st Earl of Crofton, is beside himself with worry and anger, and sets out with his lover, Sebastian Hewel, to find his fourteen year old son and bring him home. Only William hasn’t been stolen away by a gang preying on the heirs of nobles. Enthralled by the theatre, he’s run away to join a troupe of travelling players, and all goes well until someone realises who he really is… This novel is to mark ten years of my Crofton men. Anthony and Sebastian first … Read more

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Review: The Consort – J. Warren

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The Consort - J. Warren

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book James “Jamie” Van Ryan is the greatest porn star who has ever lived. The objectively perfect body with the objectively perfect face. Everyone wants him, everyone wants to be him, and the powerful want to own him. When one of the richest royals in all the galaxy wants to marry him, Van Ryan finds himself on the farthest edge of known space, embroiled in political intrigue, and falling in love with a revolutionary and his cause. Which side will he choose? The Review James Van Ryan (aka Jamie) is a very popular consort/porn star. He tells … Read more

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Review: Subway Slayings – C.S. Poe

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Subway Slayings - C.S. Poe

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Police Procedural LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Detective Everett Larkin of New York City’s Cold Case Squad has been on medical leave since catching the serial killer responsible for what the media has dubbed the “Death Mask Murders.” But Larkin hasn’t forgotten that another memento—another death—is waiting to be found. Summer brings the grisly discovery of human remains in the subway system, but the clues point to one of Larkin’s already-open cases, so he resumes active duty. And when a postmortem photograph, akin to those taken during the Victorian Era, is located at the scene, Larkin requests aid from the … Read more

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Review: The Promise of Sacrifice – C.J. Dragon

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The Promise of Sacrifice - C.J. Dragon

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book How much can one man give when faced with the prejudice of two worlds? Acknowledged at last by the Governing Council, his life mating accepted, Jonathan Thomsin makes a home on Daran with his husband, Talin of the Warrior Order. He knows he will never see Earth or his family again and learns to live with that endless grief. Jon is ecstatic when the Daranii Council gives Jon permission to return to Earth for life-saving surgery and allows him to contact and stay with his family for six months. He will be healed in body, … Read more

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Review: Torn Curtain – Jess Thomas

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Torn Curtain - Jess Thomas

Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Most people believe magic only lives in the imagination and fanciful thoughts, but the signs are becoming more pronounced, and therefore difficult to ignore. Something monstrous wants control. Now it’s up to a select chosen few, a humble group who deal in magic and the paranormal, to prepare to face and inevitably fight this darkness. The battle is coming near. It whispers of horrors and echoes of screams. A band of brothers in arms, brought together by the fates will be shoved into the unsteady world of ghosts, demons, and beings that prefer the … Read more

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Review: Love in Lockdown – R. Frank Davis

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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