Category: Books
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Review: The Cost of Living by Emilie Lucadamo
Beck wakes up naked, in a rain storm, hung over and sick… only it’s much more complicated than that and his life is about to change completely. Adam Lehexe finds Adam and drags him back to his bookstore, he sees him through the worst of his illness, then has to explain what’s happened. The problem…
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Review: Frost by Isabelle Adler
Okay, let’s get this out-of-the-way – this is a novella! And my one complaint about it is that I can’t believe it’s not a novel! Sometimes, I can read an entire book and not feel any great connection with the characters. That is not true of this short work by Isabelle Adler. This story is set…
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Review: Abundance by Emmalynn Spark
Alex has been asleep for about a hundred years when he wakes up on his crashed inter-galactic ship. The ship is supposed to be bringing colonists to a new world, one that is viable and ready to be populated by humans. Earth was running out of time, so ships were dispatched with a variety of…
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Review: Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley
It only took about five pages for me to be hooked on this novel. The introduction of both characters instantly made me curious about them, and that increased steadily. There’s been a beating. There’s been a stabbing. Nate and Cam have ended up across from each other in a deposition because of the violence that…
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Review: The Last 8 by Laura Pohl
I was interested in reading this book because I enjoy speculative fiction and science fiction. I definitely enjoyed the writing style but there were some key details that pulled me out of the story. The main character, Clover is living a normal teenage life when one day… aliens invade. I’ve thought about it!! I’m sure…
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Review: When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
Hugh Ryan is an interesting fellow, so when I saw this book was coming out I was intrigued! Hugh is a curator of queer history, a writer and speaker and New York is his home. If someone was going to write the queer history of Brooklyn then this was the man. I haven’t read a queer…
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Review: You Asked For Perfect by Laura Silverman
I was never a super-dedicated student, but I had friends who were. (I’m looking at you Kim and Val). Ariel is super dedicated. He has his life scheduled to the moment: quizzes, extra projects, orchestra, volunteer work, planning to become Valedictorian and contemplating his answers for his interview with Harvard. Ariel is out (he’s bisexual) to…
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Review: Queer As A Five Dollar Bill
Life is hard when you’re 9th grader, Wyatt. He’s trying to keep his head above water in a school where he’s bullied constantly and dating his best friend MacKenzie. He loves MacKenzie and he wants to want to date her, but he just doesn’t. Dating MacKenzie does give Wyatt a bit of relief from the…
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Review: Badlands
I received an ARC of this book from Darkwind Press via NetGalley in return I’ll be posting my honest review! Clairvoyant Simon Kincaide makes his money running a tourist shop on Myrtle Beach. Under wraps, he’s a very talented medium and tries to do his best to help the people around him. When he meets…
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Hell is Empty Blog Tour with Author, Conrad Williams
Origins I grew up in a semi-detached police house with Leonora, my police mum and Grenville, my police dad. They met while working together at Warrington police station. I had visions of them courting while doing a ton along the A49 in a panda car, chasing down crooks. By all accounts it was much more…
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Review: The Empress Game – Cloak of War
The second installment of the Empress Game trilogy opens with Kayla still trapped in her role as Princess Isolde. The battle she was needed to fight on the Princess’ behalf is over but the war is just beginning. Kayla and IDC agent Malkor along with other agents are still trying to make sense of their…
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Angels of Music by Kim Newman – A Twist of Gothic Supernatural Mystery with a touch of “Jane” Bond
Okay, this book is fun. Kim Newman is well-known for bringing his own, unique vision to many tales we may think we know well. “Angels of Music” is no exception to this. If you think this is about the Phantom of the opera, think again! The “Phantom”, Erik, actually runs what one might consider to…
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