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Review: A Winter Fox – J.C. Owens

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A Winter Fox - J.C. Owens

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book When a hero becomes a slave, his greatest enemy might be his only hope… Albion Rasendin, the renowned general known as the Winter Fox, has only one option to save the lives of his men: surrender. After a war that nearly ripped two nations apart, Albion knows he’ll be executed. The victor, Prince Treynar Massan, has other plans. Locking a slave collar around Albion’s throat, the prince hopes to sully the legend of the cunning and elusive Winter Fox. But Draven, the prince’s bastard half-brother, sees only an act of dishonor and … Read more

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Review: Spark & Tether – Lilian Zenzi

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Spark & Tether - Lillian Zenzi

Genre: Sci Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Non-Binary, Pan, Queer, Gender-Fluid, Poly Reviewer: Jay, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book Working odd jobs across the Outer Ring gets a little lonely sometimes—not everyone loves having a synchronist with supraliminal perception around. But all Sacheri wants, he tells himself, is to wander the stars. Then he takes a salvage run to an abandoned moon where he meets the wry, reserved, strictly-by-the-rules archivist Jin. Mesmerized by their confidence and charm, Sacheri can’t resist showing off his abilities—but instead of collecting the damaged ai he was tracking, he stumbles onto a signal left by another synchronist … Read more

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Review: Curio – C.S. Poe

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Curio - C.S. Poe

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Google Play | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link | BookBub About The Book Llewellyn Cooper and his aunt Julia run Curio Cabinet in New York City’s West Village, where the clientele is as strange as the junk being amassed in their secondhand shop. Llewellyn and Julia have been as thick as thieves his entire life, and Llewellyn can’t imagine being anywhere else six days a week—even if Julia’s bizarre habits and inappropriate conversations drive him crazy. That’s family, though, right? When Llewellyn drums up the nerve to chat with a routine customer—in part due to curiosity, as Henry … Read more

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Review: Damage Controlled – Miski Harris

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Damage Controlled - Miski Harris

Genre: Romance, Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Trans MTF Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book What do you do when you find yourself stuck: East of the Rock… As Phoenix, Teddy is the reigning Queen of Drag Star, bringing the spark that sets the competition ablaze. However, Teddy’s tired of hiding behind his drag corsets. He’s ready to live his truth and build a committed relationship like his parents and best friends have. Revealing his secret could make it all happen or destroy everything he’s worked so hard for. West of the Hard Place… The VA dealt Gregory a crappy hand. All he wants is … Read more

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Review: Black Sails to Sunward – Sheila Jenné

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Black Sails to Sunward - Sheila Jenné

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Romance Subplot LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Lesbian Reviewer: Beáta Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Kobo | Universal Buy Link About The Book In a world of frock coats, solar sails, and rigid class boundaries, Lucy joins the Martian Imperial Navy as a midshipman. Mars and Earth are at war, and Lucy hopes for quick promotion. But when she arrives aboard ship, she finds harsh officers and a crew on the verge of mutiny. And worse: her former friend, Moira—a commoner and a radical—is a member of the crew. It’s clear where Lucy’s duty lies. As an officer and a gentlewoman, she has to quell the crew’s rebellion and preserve her ship … Read more

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Double Review: Rylan – Jackie Keswick

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Rylan - Jackie Keswick

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewers: Maryann; Gloria, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Rylan Jeffers has silent and dangerous down to an art form, even though it’s just a ruse to keep him away from people and protect his big, soft heart. Then nightclub owner Kris Hillyard turns up in hospital, badly beaten, and Rylan can’t stay away, even as Kris and his entourage turn his life upside down. Rylan can handle the danger that comes with protecting Kris. He can even handle Kris’s particular brand of stubborn. But can he drop his shield and find the courage to ask Kris to stay? The Review … Read more

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Double Review: Ogres and Other Dating Dilemmas – TJ Nichols

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Ogres and Other Dating Dilemmas - TJ Nichols

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewers: Gloria, PRG and Jay Get It On Amazon | Shopify About The Book Sean Lloyd has given up on finding love. It’s easier to concentrate on his work as a mytho biologist than figure out people. But that was easier to believe in his twenties. Now his friends are getting engaged and planning weddings, and he’s only planning his next hook-up. He wants more, even if he isn’t sure what that looks like. When an ogre knocks him over and then sweeps him off his feet, he’s more than happy to go along for the ride. However, mythos aren’t classified as people, and … Read more

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Review: Dionysus in Wisconsin – E. H. Lupton

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Dionysis in Wisconsin - E.H. Lupton

Genre: Historical, Romance, Urban Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Amazon | B&N | Bookshop.org | Kobo | Apple | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book A graduate student and an archivist fight a god. Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov should be working on his dissertation. Instead, he’s developing an unlucrative sideline in helping ghosts and hapless magic users. But when his clients start leaving town suddenly—or turning up dead—he starts to worry there’s something afoot that’s worse than an unavenged death or incipient insanity. His investigation begins with the last word on everyone’s lips before they vanish: the mysterious Dionysus. Sam Sterling is an archivist who recently moved back to Madison to be closer to the family he’s not too … Read more

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Review: Flashes – K.L. Noone

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Flashes - K.L. Noone

Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bisexual Reviewer: Jay Get It At Amazon | Publisher About The Book From holiday decorating at a historic castle to werewolf FBI agents, from nightmares aboard a starship to a book-thief encountering a king’s brother in a fantastical library, from hurt and comfort and cinnamon pancakes to a cozy afternoon full of wedding planning, these collected stories bring together K.L. Noone’s flash and short fiction for the first time! Some familiar characters make an appearance — Jason and Colby from the Character Bleed trilogy and Wes and Finn from the Seasonal Stories — and brand-new characters and stories await, including Ember the royal librarian, … Read more

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Double Review: Fiorenzo – Sebastian Nothwell

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Fiorenzo - Sebastian Nothwell

Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewers: Linda, PRG; Whiskey November, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Apple | Smashwords About The Book Fiore has a plan. Find a wealthy elderly gentleman, delight him until the end of his days, and retire on the resulting inheritance. It’s the best outcome a low-born courtesan in the city of Halcyon can hope for. And it seems a perfect scheme… until a mysterious masked man upends it. Banished from university after a disastrous duel, Enzo wanders the city searching for scraps of the affection he’s lost. His public mask conceals private agonies. A single night in the company of a courtesan, however, balms his … Read more