Archive for the ‘2 stars’ Category
July 12th, 2011 by Kassa / 378 views
Title: Shameful Desires 1: Enslaved 
Author: P.J. Proud
Publisher: Fanny Press
Length: Novel / 300 pgs
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Blurb:
Jeremy Piper has idolized Andre Jackson for years, and now Andre is acting in Jeremy’s movie. But the fledgling screenwriter is quickly disillusioned with the flesh-and-blood actor, who strikes him as rude and narcissistic. When the talk turns to bondage scenes, Andre throws down the gauntlet, swearing he can break Jeremy’s will with erotic spanking. Jeremy refuses to submit and the chase is on, with a determined Andre bent on bringing Jeremy to heel. With his life spiraling out of control, Jeremy can no longer resist Andre’s challenge. The scene that follows changes them both, revealing Jeremy’s deep-seated desire to submit and Andre’s equally strong need to dominate. Submersed in subspace, Jeremy begs Andre to make love to him, to own him, and Andre can’t refuse his willing, handsome slave. Thus begins their romance. Events and their own proud natures will conspire to tear them apart. Andre has a fiancée, Jeremy a wife. Will they ever come to terms with their shameful desires?
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July 7th, 2011 by Oddmonster / 598 views
Title: The Voting Booth After Dark 
Author: Vanessa Libertad Garcia
Publisher: Fiat Libertad
Length: Anthology (70 pages)
Buy the book: Indiebound
Blurb:
This collection of short stories and poems is interwoven into a narrative that follows a group of addicted gay and lesbian Latino club kids destroying themselves throughout the course of the 2008 elections. The book focuses on how they affect and are affected by the national politics happening around them. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 11th, 2011 by Oddmonster / 600 views
Title: Hot Lava 
Author: Rob Rosen
Publisher: Torquere Press
Length: 206 pages
Buy the book: Amazon | Publisher
Blurb:
Multiple double-crosses and scams are afoot involving two scheming pimps, several rogue cops, dangerous Japanese businessmen, a cross-dressing lawyer, Mormon bad guys, and incarcerated drug dealers, all under the watchful surveillance of our heroes, Chase and Brandon, not to mention their drag alter-egos, Liza and Judy.
“Hot Lava” is a romantic comedy/murder mystery, as well as a laugh-out-loud funny and often deadly romp from one end of Oahu to the other. This heart-pounding thriller is about a dream vacation that quickly turns awry, with escaped convicts washing up on shore, bad guys scheming to do harm to our heroes, and sexy romps in unusual settings. It’s chock-full of witty banter and outlandish escapades, death and depravity, and friends, lovers, and other assorted crazy characters that fairly jump off the page. Take a vacation with Chase and Brandon and get yourself into Hot Lava!
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May 3rd, 2011 by Kassa / 378 views
Title: Perfect Score 
Author: Susan Roebuck
Publisher: Awe-Struck Publishing
Length:: Novel / 250 pgs
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Blurb:
Feckless, exasperating Alex Finch is a rich, handsome and talented singer/songwriter who longs for two things: a career as a professional rock singer, and to have his love for Sam Barrowdale reciprocated. But drifter Sam’s two aims are simply to earn enough money to pay his sister’s medical bills and to hide from the world his reading/writing and speech disability. At this time the word “dyslexia” is generally unknown so to most people he’s just a “retard”. From the severe knocks life’s dealt him, Sam’s developed a tough outer coating and he has no time for a spoilt, selfish guitar player.
Despite his defects, Alex’s love for Sam never wavers and when Sam unexpectedly disappears, Alex begins a somewhat bungling quest to find him, only to discover that Sam has a fearful enemy: Alex’s powerful and influential yet sociopathic uncle.
As Alex spirals downwards towards alcoholism, many questions need answering. Just why did Alex’s evil uncle adopt him at age eleven yet deny him any affection? And what’s the mystery behind Alex’s father’s death?
Both seem to face unbeatable odds. Are they doomed to follow separate paths forever?
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April 19th, 2011 by Kassa / 1,001 views
Title: Best Gay Erotica 2011 
Editors: Richard Labonté, Kevin Killian
Publisher: Cleis Press
Length: Anthology / 200 pgs
Buy the book: Amazon
Blurb:
Best Gay Erotica 2011 is the biggest page-turner of them all, with stories that run the gamut of gay male sexual experience: from first times to one-night stands and from long-time lovers to explosive group get-togethers. Writers line up to get into Cleis Press’ Best Gay Erotica series because it sets the bar for the highest quality of sexy, gay stories. With the the knack for finding seductive, literary talent, award-winning editor Richard Labonté is an icon in the field of erotic and romantic writing. This year’s edition is hot-to-trot and globetrotting, featuring stories are incredibly diverse in both the people and the pleasures.
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March 31st, 2011 by Kassa / 789 views
Title: Dutch’s Boy 
Author: Xavier Axelson
Publisher: Seventh Window Publications
Length: Novella / 88pgs
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Blurb:
Fulfilling your dream isn’t easy, especially if you’re the son of well-known rodeo rider Dutch Reynolds. Dutch doesn’t want to see his son Harry leave the family ranch until he feels Harry is ready. But for Harry, his dream of riding broncos at the rodeo seems to be passing him by. With the moral support of his best friend Reb, Harry takes his life in his own hands and leaves the ranch before Dutch can stop him. Chance encounters, sex and love soon teach the young cowboy life lessons that he will not forget.
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February 23rd, 2011 by Oddmonster / 2,196 views
Title: Maverick Men: The True Story Behind the Videos 
Author: Cole Maverick, Hunter, Anthony diFiore
Publisher: inGroup Press
Length: 334 pages
Buy the book: Amazon
Blurb:
“In the most anticipated erotica title this year, the story of Xtube.com’s most popular porn couple is told by the two guys who lived it. Sparing no detail, the Maverick Men recount the steamy circumstances of how they met, fell in love, and transformed themselves from two regular guys into Internet celebrities. Along with hot sex and funny vignettes, we learn who these guys really are, and what their secret to success has been.”
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Posted in 2 stars, Biography, Erotica, Gay, Memoirs, Reviews | 6 Comments »
December 13th, 2010 by Ami / 438 views
Title: Texan Summer 
Author: William Cooper
Publisher: Silver Publishing
Length: 53 pages
Buy the book: Ebook
Blurb:
Collin and Dylan aren’t your average brothers – they’ve been completely in love with each other since they were teens. After their father catches them kissing on the night of their high school graduation, the twins find themselves homeless and on their own.
Six years later, the two brothers have graduated from college and moved on with their lives. But one day, out of the blue, they get a call from their mother. Their father has had a heart attack and she wants them to return home. The journey back to their conservative Texas town causes all of the old hurt and heartache to rise to the surface.
Will the trip home end in more heartache, or a long yearned for reconciliation?
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May 20th, 2010 by Kassa / 878 views
Title: Tales My Body Told Me 
Author: Wayne Courtois
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel/320 pages Ebook
Buy the book: Ebook, Paperback
Blurb:
Sex. Satire. Mystery. Foul Play. True Love. Not necessarily in that order.
Paul Lavarnway thought he had settled into comfortable, middle-aged domesticity in Kansas City with his husband Eric. So how is it he finds himself confined with four other gay men at East Oak House, a spooky old mansion from which they can see the rundown, off-season resort of Two Piers, Maine, with its single pier and silent Ferris Wheel? He can’t remember. Is it the drugs? The group therapy meant to help Paul and his housemates learn to be happy ex-gays?
While winter deepens outside the windows, Paul and his companions and their sweetly sinister mentor Brian explore the past and the future without ever quite understanding their present in the hot-house atmosphere of East Oak House. As memory comes to the surface, Paul discovers truths about himself, his husband, the man who came between them, and the accidental lover whose death looks more and more like murder.
Shifting with surreal grace from profound emotion to shallow sex to mystery and horror to outrageous comedy to redemption (maybe), Tales My Body Told Me is a novel like no other.
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May 5th, 2010 by Oddmonster / 517 views
Title: Weathering the Storm 
Author: Dalia Craig
Publisher: loveyoudivine
Length: short story
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Blurb:
Graphic designer Laura Fenwick has spent weeks secretly watching and lusting after the sexy femme who works as a receptionist in the glass-fronted office right across the corridor from her. She spends her days looking for an opportunity to meet the woman of her dreams and her nights dreaming of all the things they might do together.
Freya Johansen thinks butch, Laura, too hot for words. She wants to get to know her on a very personal level but Laura seems so aloof and Freya doesn’t know how to break the ice.
When the two women are forced to seek shelter from a storm, their sexual chemistry takes them on a journey of discovery.
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