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Tales My Body Told Me by Wayne Courtois

May 20th, 2010 by Kassa / 812 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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Posted in 2 stars, Fiction, Gay, Mystery, Reviews | 5 Comments »

The Boy Can’t Help It: Sensual Stories of Young Bottoms by Gavin Atlas

May 19th, 2010 by Indigene / 3,432 views

Title: The Boy Can’t Help It: Sensual Stories of Young Bottoms
Author: Gavin Atlas
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: 220 pages
Buy the book: Amazon, Amazon Canada

Blurb:

At some point, hasn’t every bottom yearned to be ravished by a powerful, inescapable top? What dominant hasn’t fantasized about a gorgeous young sub with an incredible ass, so horny he could never say no? The Boy Can’t Help It offers over a dozen such stories of beautiful young men: a gymnast, a diver, a surfer, a marine and an assortment of college boys submitting to construction workers, horny professors, butch jocks, corporate titans, insatiable miners, and even one’s own psychiatrist.

Whether you long to be the helpless bottom or the top nailing him… whether your wet dream is a bit of bondage, a gang bang, sex on the sand, or naughty voyeurism… author Gavin Atlas has written the stories to satisfy your every need.

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Posted in 4 stars, Anthology, Erotica, Gay, Reviews | 15 Comments »

Decade of Blind Dates by Richard Alther

May 6th, 2010 by Kassa / 1,046 views

Title: Decade of Blind Dates  
Author: Richard Alther
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel/325 pages
Buy the book: Paperback

Blurb:

Peter Bauman, a forty-five-year-old divorced gay painter, plunges into the personal ads just prior to the Internet in his quest for the perfect partner.

He dates a colorful cast of characters from a Connecticut physician, a rabid Republican, to a Texas-two-stepping, tattooed punk. Next there’s the heavier-than-advertised geek who arrives with a bag of sex toys, but Peter is more serious with a handsome, stern Maine woodsman, followed by a British aristocrat patron who declines further intimacy because of his AIDS.

As Peter negotiates his new gay identity, his best friend, Barry, counsels and supports him at every step, especially as Peter deals with a health crisis. During a decade of sex and shenanigans, Peter, encouraged by his ex-wife, daughter, and son, examines his life and, at last, discovers his soul mate.

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Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews | 2 Comments »

Queeroes by Steven Bereznai

April 6th, 2010 by Kassa / 854 views

Title: Queeroes
Author: Steven Bereznai
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel/ 250 pages
Buy the book: Amazon

Blurb:

When strange powers emerge in a group of gay teens in the town of Nuffim, their lives are forever changed. Troy is a closeted jock who starts to sense other people’s emotions. His geeky brother, Gibbie, develops super strength. Flamboyant Chad unleashes his inner animal, while his gal pal Mandy turns invisible.

”I can totally use my power to psych out my competition,” says Troy. ”My night vision will make cruising guys super easy,” exclaims Chad. ”I am so going to eavesdrop on people’s conversations,” exclaims Mandy. ”Uh, I was thinking we’d make the world a better place,” offers Gibbie. They get the chance when their schoolmates Devon and Liza use their own unique abilities to remake the student body in a darker image.

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Posted in 3.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 7 Comments »

Safe As Houses by Alex Jeffers

March 20th, 2010 by Kassa / 616 views

Title: Safe As Houses
Author: Alex Jeffers
Publisher: Lethe Press
Length: Novel / 320 pages
Buy the book: Publisher, Amazon

Blurb:

When Allen Pasztory discovered he was likely to die before his time, he realized that what he could pass down to the people he loved was stories. Stories of and for his families – the family he was born to and the family he stumbled upon and fiercely embraced.

The hearing child of parents raised in the inhumane surroundings of a state school for the deaf, all along Allen knew he and his family were different. His sister tried her best to become ordinary, as if it were possible, but Allen knew better. He would be ready to offer sanctuary when an ordinary family cast out his nephew Kit.

Allen fell for freelance artist Jeremy’s talent and looks, but it was Jeremy’s unanticipated bravery that supported them through the years while they nurtured their new family. Despite hostility from without and threat from within, they created a secure and loving home for Jeremy’s precocious son Toby and, later, Allen’s nephew.

But safety can’t be guaranteed. Ill, Allen must tell himself stories to survive, stories that may explain his life to the boys he’s raised, for “your life is never only your own story, and what you don’t know for sure you must invent, using all the clues you can gather.”

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Posted in 3.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews | 2 Comments »

The Silent Hustler by Sean Meriwether

February 16th, 2010 by Kassa / 3,519 views

Title: The Silent Hustler  
Author: Sean Meriwether
Publisher: Lethe Press
Buy the book: Amazon

Blurb:

Best known for being the editor of edgy gay fiction of the Velvet Mafia website, Sean Meriwether has quietly been writing short fiction and building up a body of his own work. The Silent Hustler collects his short fiction published over the last decade. Meriwether’s fiction spans in range from the literary (“Things I Can’t Tell My Father”) to the revolutionary (“Burn the Rich”) to the downright raunchy (“Sneaker Queen”). Slip into bed with The Silent Hustler. You won’t feel guilty in the morning.

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Posted in 5 stars, Anthology, Fiction, Gay, Reviews | No Comments »

Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman

February 11th, 2010 by Kassa / 1,145 views

Title: Vintage: A Ghost Story
Author: Steve Berman
Publisher: Lethe Press
Buy the book: Amazon

Blurb:

A lonely gay teen bides his time with trips to strangers’ funerals and Ouija board sessions, desperately searching for someone to love–and a reason to live following a suicide attempt.

Walking an empty stretch of New Jersey highway on an autumn night, he meets a strange and beautiful boy who looks like he stepped out of a dream. But the vision becomes into a nightmare when the boy turns out to be the local urban legend, the ghost of a star athlete killed in 1957–a ghost with a deadly secret and a dangerous obsession.

Vintage: A Ghost Story is an intense thriller that looks at the dark side of gay urban fantasy, where the dead can never rest and trapped spirits never find peace.

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Posted in 4 stars, Fiction, Gay, Horror, Reviews, Young Adult | 4 Comments »

A Strong & Sudden Thaw by R.W. Day

January 21st, 2010 by Kassa / 1,846 views

Title: A Strong & Sudden Thaw
Author: R.W. Day
Publisher: Lethe Press (2nd Edition)
Buy the book: Amazon

Blurb:

The Ice fell upon the world nearly a hundred years ago, and if civilization didn’t rightly collapse, it surely staggered and fell ill a while. In the small town of Moline, Virginia, folks struggle to survive, relying on hybrid seed sent by the faraway Dept. of Reintroduction and Agriculture and their own faith in God and hard work. But when a mated pair of dragons starts hunting the countryside, stealing sheep, and attacking children, the townsfolk quickly learn that they don’t have the weapons or the skills to fight off such predators.

David Anderson is a farmer’s son who has explored the world through books. When he meets the new healer in town, Callan Landers, he doesn’t quite know what to make of the strange warmth stealing over him. It’s not until he surprises Callan with another man—and both men are promptly arrested for sodomy—that David finally realizes the truth about his own feelings.

When David and Callan stumble over a secret in a nearby abandoned town, their personal problems fade before government politics and corruption that threaten lives. It seems the dragons aren’t the worst dangers facing Moline.

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Posted in 4.5 stars, Fiction, Gay, Reviews, Young Adult | 4 Comments »

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