Category: own voices author
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REVIEW: Better Place by Jay Northcote

There’s a new installment in the Rainbow Place series coming on March 18!! Follow along as I read and review the first five books in the series! Book 3: Better Place Official description: Joe deserves better. Meeting Dylan helps him see that. After a recent redundancy, Joe takes a few months off to try and…
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REVIEW: Safe Place by Jay Northcote

There’s a new installment in the Rainbow Place series coming on March 18!! Follow along as I read and review the first five books in the series! Book 2: Safe Place Official description: Where do you go when your home is no longer a safe place? Alex is about to turn eighteen and is firmly…
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REVIEW: The Rainbow Place by Jay Northcote

There’s a new installment in the Rainbow Place series coming on March 18!! Follow along as I read and review the first five books in the series! Book 1: Rainbow Place Official description: Can Jason find the courage he needs to be the man Seb deserves? When Seb Radcliffe relocates to a seaside town in Cornwall,…
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REVIEW: Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

The Official Description: From Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and…
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REVIEW: This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples

The Official Description: On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a mid-twenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with his former classmate Shannon, a heavily closeted white man obsessed with his image as a…
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REVIEW: Ted of the d’Urbervilles by Rob Rosen

RELEASE BLITZ Book Title: Ted of the d’Urbervilles Author: Rob Rosen Publisher: JMS Books Release Date: January 18, 2020 Genre/s: Contemporary M/M Romance, Comedy/Humour, Erotic Romance, Dark Comedy, Gay/Straight romance Themes: e.g. Personal growth, poor to rich Heat Rating: 4 flames Length: 63 600 / 195 pages It is a standalone story. Add on Goodreads…
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REVIEW: Served With A Twist by Jet Lupin

REVIEW TOUR Book Title: Served with a Twist Author: Jet Lupin Publisher: Self-Published Release Date: December 28, 2019 Genre/s: Sci-Fi D/s M/M Romance Trope/s: Clash of Backgrounds, Opposites attract, Man in Peril, Meet My Dysfunctional Family, Size Difference Themes: Kink, light BDSM, light D/s themes, collaring Heat Rating: 4 flames Length: 74 000 words It…
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REVIEW: Unraveling by Rick R. Reed

The Official Description: Randy Kay has the perfect life with his beautiful wife and adorable son. But Randy’s living a lie, untrue to himself and everyone who knows him. He’s gay. Marriage and fatherhood, which he thought could change him, have failed. He doubts if anyone can love him for who he really is—especially himself.…
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AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya

The Official Description: In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We are never our own. This…
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REVIEW: Love On The Spectrum by Alec Nortan

The Official Description: Hervé has Asperger’s, a specific kind of autism that makes him unable to interact with other people. Luc has been severely scarred by fire and flees human presence to avert the way people glare and frown when they see him. It was impossible for them to meet, but life sometimes likes to cheat…
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REVIEW: A Fluid State by Rob Browatzke

The Official Description: Patrick returns from a tour of duty to find his son very different. Peter is dressing in girl’s clothes, and his hair is too long, and he’s obsessed with drag queens. None of that sits well with Patrick. Patrick then meets the drag queen Ann Moore, and starts to hang out with them.…
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REVIEW: Testament by Jose Nateras

The Official Description: Gabe Espinosa, is trying to dig himself out of the darkness. Struggling with the emotional fallout of a breakup with his ex-boyfriend, Gabe returns to his job at The Rosebriar Room; the fine dining restaurant at the historic Sentinel Club Chicago Hotel. Already haunted by the ghosts of his severed relationship, he’s…
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