Archive for the ‘4.5 stars’ Category
October 26th, 2011 by DarienMoya / 398 views
Title: Telling The Truth 
Author: Lee Brazil
Publisher: Breathless Press
Length:Novella
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Blurb:
The Blake brothers have upped the ante in their weekly poker game. The week Terry loses, he finds that paying his debt of telling the truth sets him free to pursue a fantasy he never dreamed could be reality.
Terry has lived his life according to the guidelines, by studying accounting, getting an MBA, and working for the family business. And while his work has its own rewards, something has been missing, and his eyes have only just been opened to what–or rather who–that could be.
Terry can handle any dare his brothers dish out, but the demand for Truth is a different matter. Unable to hide behind his pristine reputation and fancy business suit, Terry is honor bound to divulge secrets he’s been ashamed to admit even to himself in the privacy of his own bedroom.
Twins Dex and Trick have finally found acceptance for their relationship in the homes of their friends. They would never do anything to jeopardize that newfound sense of belonging. Fooling around with Mischa’s prissy, domineering, oh-so-sexy older brother is risky. A one night stand might be okay, and the boys happily indulge, but then close ranks afterward, pushing Terry aside.
Terry isn’t going to back down without a fight. He’s convinced that Dex and Trick are meant to be his, and he’ll do whatever it takes to make them realize all the safety and protection they need can be found in his arms.
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September 6th, 2011 by Jenre / 326 views
Title: Boystown 3: Two Nick Nowak Novellas 
Author: Marshall Thornton
Publisher: Torquere Press
Length: 57,000 words, 196 pages
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Private Investigator Nick Nowak is back in two novella length mysteries set in Chicago during the early 1980s. In Little Boy Boom, Nick’s car explodes when a thief attempts to steal it. Realizing the bomb was meant for him, Nick sets out to discover who wants him dead only to find that the list of possible suspects is longer than he’d like. When he begins to run out of suspects he wonders if the bomb was truly meant for him.
In Little Boy Tenor, Nick is asked to find the murderer of a church choir’s star tenor, while at the same time his friend Ross asks him to find out the truth behind his lover, Earl Silver’s mysterious death. As he juggles the two cases, he becomes increasingly disturbed by what he learns. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 22nd, 2011 by Oddmonster / 837 views
Title: Final Rest 
Author: Mary Morell
Publisher: Spinster’s Ink
Length: Novel / 202 pages
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Blurb:
Loretta Millett is a woman of strong habits. One of those habits is cinnamon-sugar toast for breakfast every morning. Her predictability ultimately leads to her death when she unwittingly puts digitalis on her toast. It is definitely murder and the local sheriff fingers Meg Traeger for the murderer. After all, Meg not only took digitalis regularly but was in Lorretta’s apartment the night before her death — arguing. She had the motive, the means and the opportunity.
Amy Traeger, Meg’s niece, convinces her lover, police detective Lucia Ramos to accompany her to Alabama to engage in some off-duty sleuthing to clear her aunt of all charges. They soon uncover the full extent of Lorretta’s unpopularity and establish the likelihood that everyone touched by her could have reason to wish her dead. Establishing who did kill her proves to be much more complicated…
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June 21st, 2011 by Kassa / 316 views
Title: The Legend of the Mountain Ash 
Author: Ruth Sims
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Length: Short Story (14 pgs)
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Ethan is a Doughboy wounded in the battle for Belleau Wood. Davy is a reviled British conscientious objector serving in a military hospital. Two young men drawn to each other in the midst of the horrors of the Great War. Neither has a family, for the soldier’s has all died and the CO’s has cast him off in disgust for refusing to take up arms.
The bond of love that grows between Ethan and Davy takes them to Ethan’s beautiful Appalachian hills, where they build a home and make a life. It is there they find that their love is strong enough to conquer everything, even time and death.
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June 7th, 2011 by Book Utopia Mom / 447 views
Title: Scorpion 
Author: Aleksandr Voinov
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Length: Novel (71k/242 pgs)
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Blurb:
You learn your wisest lessons from your enemies. Assuming, of course, you survive the encounter.
Kendras is a casualty of war: injured, penniless, and quite possibly the last surviving member of the only family he’s ever known—the elite fighting force known as the Scorpions. When a steel-eyed stranger offers him medicine and shelter in exchange for submission and a secret task, Kendras has no choice but to accept. He is a Scorpion; he’ll do whatever it takes to survive.
But his true goal is to rebuild the Scorpions. Neither Steel’s possessive nature nor Kendras’s shattered foot can keep him from finding the last of his brothers… or the mysterious leader of the Scorpions, a man who held Kendras’s heart long before Steel tried to take it for himself. The goal is simple, the situation anything but. To rescue his leader and escape from Steel for good, Kendras must fight through a morass of politics and intrigue, where enemies are allies and even allies have hidden agendas.
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May 9th, 2011 by Emily / 605 views
Title: The Midnight Hunt
Author: L.L. Raand
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Length: Novel / 272 pgs
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Blurb:
What do you do when you wake up to a whole new life…with dangerous urges you can’t control?
Medic Drake McKennan has never been good at following protocol, so she doesn’t think twice about rendering emergency care when a teenager’s life is at stake—even if the young girl is in the throes of Were fever and any sane human should know better. It isn’t the bright shining pain of the bite or even the wrenching agonies of the fever that convinces Drake everything in her life has changed. It’s the way she feels about the blonde with the wolf-gold eyes who awakens a dark hunger she can’t control…and doesn’t want to. Sylvan, the Alpha of the Adirondack Timberwolf Pack, is the one female Drake can’t have. And the only one she craves.
A Midnight Hunters novel
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May 4th, 2011 by Emily / 1,258 views
Title: Stalemates, Lesbian Adventure Club Book 11
Author: Rosalyn Wraight
Publisher: Don’t Waste Daylight
Length:: Novel / 143 pgs
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Hostesses Ginny and Kris turn downtown Granton into a giant chessboard and shove the girls Through the Looking-Glass. The objective seems simple enough: traverse the board as pawns to become queens in the final square. With all the nonsense they typically create on their own, could Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical world really make it that much worse?
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April 26th, 2011 by Kassa / 587 views
Title: Eromenos 
Author: Melanie McDonald
Publisher: Seriously Good Books
Length:: Novel / 200 pgs
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Blurb:
Eros and Thanatos converge in this story of a glorious youth, an untimely death, and an imperial love affair that gives rise to the last pagan god of antiquity, Antinous.
In this coming-of-age novel set in second century Rome, the Greek youth Antinous of Bithynia recounts his seven-year affair with Hadrian, the fourteenth Roman emperor. In a partnership more intimate than Hadrian’s political marriage, Antinous captivates the most powerful ruler on the earth.
This version of the story of the emperor and his beloved ephebe envisions the life of the youth who after death achieved apotheosis as a pagan god whose cult of worship lasted for hundreds of years, and gives voice to Antinous, whose image still appears in museums around the world.
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March 30th, 2011 by Book Utopia Mom / 1,353 views
Title: Homosapien 
Author: Julie Bozza
Publisher: Manifold Press
Length: Novel (67k/278 pgs)
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Patrick and David are friends who run a gay bookstore, and life seems simple and safe enough until the day when unexpectedly he walks in – six feet tall, gorgeous and built like a dream. But Homosapien isn’t welcome in their world; he’s a professional wrestler, and everything he does is fake. So he can’t really be gay, can he, or interested in either one of them? Can they even trust a single word he says … ?
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March 29th, 2011 by Kassa / 850 views
Title: Death by Misfortune 
Author: AM Riley
Publisher: MLR Press
Length: Novel (370 pgs)
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After a glamorous studio party, “Psychic to the Stars” Sylvie Black is found murdered in her fortune telling booth, a blood soaked tarot reading spread out before her. Shortly afterwards, the high-profile director who was about to produce Ms. Black’s ‘tell-all’ Hollywood screenplay, is found murdered as well.
Closeted Homicide detective, Bill Turner, and his partner, Kate Crandall, find themselves sorting through a cast of likely suspects, who all seem to have secrets worth killing for. They soon run up against the studio rumor mill, and Jeremy Reilly, a young studio AD determined to protect their prime suspect.
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