Archive for the ‘4.5 stars’ Category


Sea Change by Chris Quinton

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 / 119 views

Title: Sea Change
Author: Chris Quinton
Publisher: Manifold Press
Length: 432 pages
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Blurb:

Injured on duty and no longer fit for active service, soon-to-be-ex-Coast Guard Bran Kaulana is drifting, filling his days helping out at the Wai Ola Rescue Center, one of Honolulu’s wildlife charities. He’s working with the new veterinary, Steve, a man drawn to O’ahu by his fascination with dolphins. As their friendship slowly deepens into love, the two men are caught up in the mystery of injured seals and dolphins, a ruthless gang of smugglers and a not-so-dormant undersea lava vent.

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Seven Sweet Things: A Novella with Recipes by Shaun Levin

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 / 205 views

Title: Seven Sweet Things: A Novella with Recipes
Author: Shaun Levin
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: 142 pages
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Blurb:

An affair that begins in an Internet chatroom takes the narrator and his lover, Martin, further into love than either could have imagined. Disturbingly honest and intensely erotic, Seven Sweet Things is as much an exploration of love as it is the lovers’ exploration of London. Eking out a living by selling cakes and desserts, the narrator loves reading Plato, sitting on park benches, and feeding his beloved. Each meeting between them is framed by the making, or the promise of a sweet thing (chocolate-coconut fudge bars, oatmeal cookies, rum-glazed chocolate cake, meringues). The landscape shifts from hidden archaeological mysteries in London to a fantastical stay in an old house in Yorkshire, and from Clissold Park in North London to Roslyn Glen in Scotland, where the narrator gets invited to prepare extravagant desserts for an aristocratic family.

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Eight Inches, by Sean Wolfe

Monday, July 5th, 2010 / 200 views

Title: Eight Inches
Author: Sean Wolfe
Publisher: Kensington Books
Length: 336 pages
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Blurb:

Sean Wolfe knows what men want. In his anthologies Aroused, Taboo, and Close Contact, he delivered smart, sophisticated tales of intensely erotic escapades. Now he goes one step further, with a collection of eight interconnected stories that explore the very nature of desire—how it shapes us, drives us, brings us together…and just how far we’re willing to go to satisfy it…

A teenage runaway gets an education in the ways of the street, and the heart, from a gorgeous young hustler in “Street Smart.” In “Head of the Class,” a college athlete who’s used his sexual talents to keep his grades up learns all about pleasure from one of his professors. The exclusive Kappa Lambda Phi fraternity includes a mind-blowing initiation that’s only the beginning of their debauchery in “Frat Frenzy.” And in “DudeSearch” two men who frequent an online site specializing in random hookups agree to meet—and are completely unprepared for the fireworks that explode between them…

As compelling as they are explicit, these stories offer more than instant gratification. They’re funny, touching, intimate, and complex—and of course, incredibly, irresistibly hot…

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Talk Story: Three Tales of Hawai’i by Paul G. Bens

Thursday, May 27th, 2010 / 366 views

Title: Talk Story: Three Tales of Hawai’i
Author: Paul G. Bens
Publisher: Smashwords
Length: Collection / 80 pages
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Blurb:

A Christmastime erotic journey through the streets of Waikiki…Life-long friends share an unexpected New Year’s Eve…and the last Halloween between boyhood friends. Award-winning author Paul G. Bens, Jr. takes us on a trip through the Hawaiian Islands in this trio of short stories featuring the acclaimed erotic novella “Mahape a ale Wala’au.” So, pull up a chair and let’s Talk Story.

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Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 / 169 views

Title: Out of the Pocket
Author: Bill Konigsberg
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Length: Novel / 275 pages
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Blurb:

Star quarterback Bobby Framingham, one of the most talented high school football players in California, knows he’s different from his teammates. They’re like brothers, but they don’t know one essential thing: Bobby is gay. Can he still be one of the guys and be honest about who he is? When he’s outed against his will by a student reporter, Bobby must find a way to earn back his teammates’ trust and accept that his path to success might be more public, and more difficult, than he’d hoped. An affecting novel about identity that also delivers great sportswriting.

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Tatterdemalion by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 / 292 views

Title: Tatterdemalion  
Author: Anah Crow and Dianne Fox
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Length: 185 pages
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Blurb:

Deep runs the world of magic—and desire.

Lindsay Carrington is a prisoner of his life—first in the mundane world, then in the military testing facility where his parents sent him to have his magic dissected, studied and “fixed”. When he finally escapes, freedom comes at great cost. The man who rescues him from near death in a dark alley is far from a savior. He’s a feral mage nearly as broken as Lindsay himself.

Dane knows better than to argue with the wind that summoned him to Lindsay’s rescue, but playing nursemaid isn’t the role he envisioned for himself in the battle to end the human campaign to control his people. In spite of his resistance, he is bound to the delicate, skittish mage who unwittingly harbors one of the greatest magical powers ever known.

Lindsay desperately hides his growing desire, sure that Dane could never reciprocate. Yet Dane lays his life on the line to protect him, restoring the one thing Lindsay thought was gone forever: hope.

But true freedom to live—and to love—will elude Lindsay until he can regain his magic and win Dane’s complete devotion. And survive long enough to do both.

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Tales of the City (# 1) by Armistead Maupin

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 / 272 views

Title: Tales of the City  
Author: Armistead Maupin
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Length: 400 pages paperback
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Blurb:

Since 1976, Maupin’s Tales of the City has etched itself upon the hearts and minds of its readers, both straight and gay. From a groundbreaking newspaper serial in the San Francisco Chronicle to a bestselling novel to a critically acclaimed PBS series, Tales (all six of them) contains the universe–if not in a grain of sand, then in one apartment house.

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Mr. Benson by John Preston

Sunday, April 4th, 2010 / 290 views

Title: Mr. Benson
Author: John Preston
Publisher: Cleis Press
Length: Novel / 200 pages
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Blurb:

A classic of modern gay S/M fiction, Mr. Benson is the compelling story of a young man’s quest for the perfect master. In a West Village leather bar, he finds wealthy, sophisticated, exacting Aristotle Benson, who leads him down the path of erotic enlightenment, teaching him to accept cruelty as love, anguish as affection, and ultimately, Mr. Benson as his master.

If John Preston, the masterly, handsome author of more than 30 books, was himself a gay icon, his character Mr. Benson defined the culture of gay sex for an entire generation. When Mr. Benson first appeared in the pre-AIDS early 1980s, its unabashed celebration of male sexuality made it a cult favorite among gay men, many of whom wore T-shirts declaring that they were “looking for Mr. Benson.” The novel’s fresh voice and insights into identity, desire, power, and love influenced a generation of writers and editors, including Anne Rice, Samuel Delany, Michael Lowenthal, Laura Antoniou, and Joan Nestle.

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The Velvet Interrogation By Stephen Kessel

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 / 247 views

Title:  The Velvet Interrogation
Author: Stephen Kessel
Publisher: Smashwords
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Blurb:

U.S. diplomat Chet Bender saves young Nabil Shabili from a Palestinian refugee camp inside Lebanon, on the eve of a devastating Israeli attack. He subsequently accepts Nabil into his life, bed, and heart. Nearly twenty years later, Nabil is in the running to take the presidency of Lebanon and the forces promoting this rise are busy cleaning up any loose ends. And one of those loose ends is Chet.

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Divas Las Vegas by Rob Rosen

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 / 317 views

Title: Divas Las Vegas
Author: Rob Rosen
Publisher: Cleis Press
Length: Novel, 296 pages
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Blurb:

What happens when you find out that Grandma’s vase mistakenly sold at a yard sale is worth tens of thousands of dollars—and somebody else is about to cash in on it on Antiques Roadshow? Of course, you hop on a plane with your best friend and race off to Las Vegas to get Grandma’s vase back! Filled with action and suspense, hunky blackjack dealers, divine drag queens, strange sex, and sex in strange places, plus a Federal agent or two, Divas Las Vegas puts the sin in Sin City. A fun, new take on the murder mystery genre, Rob Rosen’s Divas Las Vegas is a hilarious, touching, and compulsively readable page turner!

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