Category: 5 stars
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Knitting Needles: A Heartwarming Queer Romance
Two men walk into a gender clinic…and the rest…is history. OSCAR PETERS HAS NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO WHAT HIS FOREVER MIGHT LOOK LIKE. When Oscar meets Aaron at the gender clinic on the morning of their top surgeries, it feels like a stroke of fate, but weeks later, Oscar still hasn’t heard from the…
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Review of Corrupt (Book 2) in the Pretty Poison Trilogy… dark obsession 🖤
Razor Power didn’t make me softer. It made me dangerous. More territory. More money. More eyes waiting for me to fail. I learnt fast that survival meant control—emotional distance, locked doors, no attachments. Then Tristan Hale-Fitzroy came back. Rich. Beautiful. Irresistible. Still looking at me as if I was something he wanted, not…
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REVIEW: Shake Out the Ghosts by Al Hess
Left with PTSD and facial scars after an attack 9 months ago, eccentric portrait artist Micah finds the sanctuary of his home disrupted by signs of a haunting. Between 80’s synth pop and motivational messages scrawled on his bathroom mirror, Micah is more charmed than frightened by Cosmo, the deceased previous resident of his apartment.…
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REVIEW: World Running Down by Al Hess
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City—a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of…
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REVIEW: Crave (Pretty Poison #1) by C.F. White
“He was everything I didn’t want. Danger dressed in leather. Salvation wrapped in smoke. And once I tasted him, I couldn’t stop. He was in my blood. My sweetest poison.” Razor I control the drugs in East London for a man with a soul darker than the devil’s. Violence kept me breathing. Loyalty kept…
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REVIEW: The Demon and His Viper (The Witch Trials #2) by Ben Alderson
THE DEMON AND HIS VIPER is the final book in a MM paranormal romance series of heart-pounding romance, witchcraft, and bloodthirsty enemies, perfect for fans of The Serpent and the Wings of Night and Her Soul to Take. Hector Briar may have walked away from the Witch Trials alive, but not whole. His failure handed…
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REVIEW: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
Follow the Rites… Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences…
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REVIEW: Saddle to Sunup (The Darling Brothers book 3) by Emmy Sanders
He gave me my first kiss. I never expected he might be my last. Lawson Ever since Oakley Beaumont skipped town, it feels as if my life has gone off the rails. Even worse than my divorce and moving back into my childhood bedroom at the Darling Ranch is the fact that I’m learning there’s…
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REVIEW: The Boy With the Heart of Sea Glass by Laura Livingstone
When the end of a relationship brings eighteen-year-old Sam back to the Cornish Island where he was born, he’s forced to face dark family secrets lurking just below the surface. Meeting Tryste, a fisherman with eyes like thunderstorms, provides Sam with a distraction from the truth about his father, but Sam’s wounds run deep, and…
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REVIEW: Isaac by Curtis Garner
Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac interrogates masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love. After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app – a disappointing yet addictive experience – he spends his final months…
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REVIEW: Blood, Sweat & Queers: Vampiric Love Stories
CRACK OPEN THE COFFIN AND UNLEASH THE VAMPIRE. An ancient beast stirs in the shale beneath an oil rig. Lovers languish in a lakeside cottage. A man swipes right, hunting flesh with a predator’s patience. A woman reels from government-sanctioned body horrors. All queer. All ravenous. All relentless. Vampires have always been vessels of…
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REVIEW: Don’t Shoot Me Santa (To Love a Psycho #4) by C.F. White
Only he decides who’s a good boy. Two years after escaping the legacy of his infamous serial killer parents, Aaron Jones has finally built something close to peace. A quiet cottage on the windswept Isle of Wight, a rescue dog named Chaos, a job using his behavioural skills, and, of course, a lover, Dr…
