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Double Review: You Can Do Magic – R.L. Merrill

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You Can Do Magic - R.L. Merrill

Genre: Romance, Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewers: Linda, Ulysses – Paranormal Romance Guild, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book From the author of Foreword Indies Finalist Summer of Hush and BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist Brains and Brawn comes a new installment in the series, a contemporary gay romance with a side of time travel and magic. Musical prodigy Kallos Alexandrou has played his calliope for countless visitors at Errante Ame’s Carnival of Mysteries, but his one-year residency has come to an end. Scars from a terrible tragedy in his past are the only explanation he has for his loss of speech and memory, but it’s time … Read more

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Review: An Angry God – Russell J. Sanders

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An Angry God - Russell J. Sanders

Genre: Contemporary, Thriller, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book A serial killer is stalking young gay men in a Midwest college town. High school senior Kevin Bland, rich, brilliant, and a wild-child, meets a college freshman, Mitch Christman, who is just Kevin’s type. And also the killer’s type. Adding to the mix is college sophomore Brent who enlists Mitch’s help in finding answers and possibly unmasking the killer. And all the while, Dr. Spencer Fellows, anti-gay crusader, and hate-monger, stirs the pot, praising the killer for ridding the city of gay men, one by one by one. The Review Kevin Bland is seventeen … Read more

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Review: Aether – Molly J. Bragg

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Aether - Molly J. Bragg

Genre: Superhero LGBTQ+ Category: Gender Fluid, Lesbian, Trans MTF Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book When Maggie Bennett agreed to take a break from her own research to be the test subject in an experiment, all she wanted to do was help her best friend Sierra secure grant funding for the new medical imaging machine she was developing. But when Sierra’s ex-boyfriend Garrett causes an explosion in the lab next door, Maggie finds herself gifted with Superpowers and in the custody of the High Guard, Sun City’s most prominent Superhero Team. At first, it isn’t bad. The High Guard is helping her learn to use her powers … Read more

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Review: False Justice – Adam Carpenter

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False Justice - Adam Carpenter

Genre: Contemporary, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Jimmy McSwain has to meet a man named Alexander Cort, a real-estate agent with a story to tell about an old set of friends, dating back to his childhood in Hell’s Kitchen. The friends called themselves the Four Kitcheneers, bonding together over their own ambitions and memories. On graduation night, one of the four disappeared and the other three engaged in a cover-up. Or maybe not. The question of what happened to Silas Clayton still lingers fourteen years later. As Jimmy begins his investigation of what happened that fateful night, he also tries to put … Read more

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Double Review: Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator Anthology

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Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator Anthology

Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Non-Binary Reviewers: Jay, Linda Get It On Amazon About The Book A bunch of QSFers and others have a new queer contemporary/paranormal/fantasy anthology out (bi, gay, non-binary): Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator. Do you like mechanical devices with personality? Sure, who doesn’t? How about when they hold your life in the palm of their hands? Hmm…less sure now, yes? Don’t worry, you’re gonna love this. At an LGBTQ literary retreat in October of 2022, a group of authors met a particularly cantankerous elevator. Doors slamming open or closed for no apparent reason? Check. Scary noises, also for no apparent reason? Also, check. … Read more

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Double Review: The Gauntlet Runner – J. Scott Coatsworth

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The Gauntlet Runner - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance Subplot, YA-Adult Crossover LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bi Reviewers: Maryann, Ulysses Get It On Amazon | Publisher/Signed Copies | Apple | B&N | Google | Kobo | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book A guard and a thief. What could go wrong? Aik has fallen hopelessly in love with his best friend. But Raven’s a thief, which makes things … complicated. Oh, and Raven has just been kidnapped by a dragon. Now Aik is off on a quest of his own, to hunt down the foul beast and make them give back his … friend? Lover? Soulmate? The whole not-knowing thing just makes everything harder. Meanwhile, … Read more

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Review: Garden of Secrets – Drake LaMarque

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Garden of Secrets - Drake LaMarque - Misselthwaite

Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Gaslamp, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Non-Binary, Poly Reviewer: D.B., Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon About The Book Alistair Lennox is disagreeable. Isolated and miserable, with parents who don’t care about him, his life has been equal parts privilege and loneliness. But when his parents die, his life is turned upside down. In order to gain his inheritance, Alistair is forced to attend a college he’s never heard of – for good reason. Misselthwaite College is a school for the magically gifted Alistair has no magical gifts – unless being magically inept counts. What were his parents thinking? And what is the mysterious affliction plaguing … Read more

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Review: Alpha in Chains – Dani Hermit

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Alpha in Chains - Dani Hermit

Genre: Omegaverse, Fantasy, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: S.C., Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book The first solo novel from half of the best-selling team of Hermit & Star! What the Fae Omega Nova needed was an heir, not a Mate. He certainly didn’t need a surly Wolf thrust into his life. Future Alpha Prime Conner Grimfur hadn’t meant to get himself into trouble with the Fae’s Marble Throne. He certainly had no intention of ending up bound in service to the gorgeous Nova Castex. Stuck together for a year, can Nova and Conner find a way to survive each other as well as the challenges of … Read more

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Review: Ministry of Alien Relations – Rebecca Cohen

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Ministry of Alien Relations

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Universal Buy Link About The Book Devlin Taylor is Head of Settlement and Relocation for the British Government’s Ministry of Alien Relations. He’s more used to helping recently arrived aliens find new homes and pay their utility bills than babysitting extraterrestrial socialites, but he’s been assigned to look after Zal Catenmir, son of the Chroalian ambassador, during their diplomatic visit to Earth. Devlin is the perfect host and tour guide, and Zal loves the fuzziness of human males, while Devlin can’t seem to get enough of Zal’s scales and tail. But with only two weeks together before Zal leaves, … Read more

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Review: Balancing the Weave – M.W. Lee

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Balancing the Weave - M.W. Lee

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Xanthe, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon | Universal By Link About The Book For Mark, Pride weekend in Yamasee County, South Carolina, means spending the day with friends, flirting with the out-of-town men, finding a romance, drinking too much, and enjoying all of Pride. However, the Fates have arrived to address a hole which appeared in the tapestry representing Mark, his past, and his present, which will direct him to the future. Throughout the day, the Fates confront Mark with memories both pleasant and painful about his former lover Sammy. Parcae uses her goddess tools to manipulate Mark’s thoughts so he remembers fun … Read more