Tag: Books
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REVIEW: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Official Description: A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that…
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REVIEW: Worth It by Chloe B. Young
The Official Description: The price of love could be too high to pay. Elliott Meyer is a dedicated student . . . and a part-time sex worker. College is expensive, and after his mother’s death left his family struggling, he’s desperate to avoid drowning in debt. Problem is, he just lost his only client. Time to…
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REVIEW: Abstract Love by Sara Dobie Bauer
The Official Description: I hate Sam Shelby. So why do I want to kiss him? Sam never expected to move back to Cleveland. Donovan never expected to be attracted to a man. Well, shit happens. After high school, Sam Shelby moved to New York. Eight years later, he returns to Cleveland and lands a job at…
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REVIEW: Sometimes There’s Stars by Suki Fleet
The Official Description: One lost soul graffiti artist. The sweetest boy ever. Will they save each other or go down in flames? Echo is a brilliant artist but he’s not a good bet. He’s running from a suspended sentence and trying to pay off a debt that’s about to cripple him, literally. When he gets involved…
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REVIEW, EXERPT and GIVEAWAY: Beneath a Bethel by April-Jane Rowan
The Official Description: Every youth of Elbridge remembers their Floris, the holy ceremony where their teeth are pulled out with pliers. It marks their ascension into adulthood and their right to have new porcelain teeth, ones that are embedded with magic, that grant the ability to make wishes. Angora’s Floris will be upon the banks of…
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REVIEW: The B-Side by B. Harmony
The Official Description: Chance: When I read the roommate wanted ad, I thought my sister was encouraging me to live with an insane person. As it turns out, he isn’t insane, he’s sexy and one hundred percent my type. Living with him will be the ultimate test of my self-control. When the combination of our…
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REVIEW: Forbidden Need by Lee Colgin
The Official Description: As Rudy adapts to life in a new town, he lays eyes on a man whose very presence steals his heart. The man is bewitching. Bewitching…and grumpy. Samuel has no interest in the coyote shifter who’s been following him around like a lovesick pup, even if he is adorable. Adorable…and persistent. Born…
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REVIEW: Missing From The Village by Justin Ling
The Official Description: The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men — the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur — from Toronto’s queer community, and the failures of the social and political systems which allowed the cases to go unsolved for so long. In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the…
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REVIEW: Stay by Jessica Frances
The Official Description: Stay (In Midsummer, #3) One screaming baby. One too many diaper disasters. One surprise shooter. One victim. One perpetrator. One blast from the past. Having a surprise baby dropped at your doorstep has to be the worst kind of relationship buzzkill in history. Instead of dating, now Rocky and I have shifted…
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REVIEW: After Elias by Eddy Boudel Tan
The Official Description: A tragedy shatters Coen’s carefully constructed life. When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to create. The only thing Elias leaves behind is a recording of his final words,…
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REVIEW and giveaway: When Lightning Strikes by Darragha Foster
The Official Description: Previously Published Summerhouse Publishing as “Breaking Bear,” May 2011; Forever More Publishing as “Breaking Bear,” December 2014. 2016 edition with 10,000 added words. Former soldier Johnny Redbear is a gay cowboy who has never been with another man. He kept his desires buried deep, married, had a family and lost everything when he…
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REVIEW: Conspiracy to Riot: The Life and Times of One of the Chicago 7 by Lee Weiner
The Official Description: In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal government for conspiracy to incite a riot. Some of them barely knew one another, having come together briefly to protest the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the war in Vietnam. First dubbed the “Conspiracy 8” and later the “Chicago…
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