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Review: “Translucid” by Zen DiPietro

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Title: Translucid Series: Dragonfire Station #1 Author: Zen DiPietro Genre: Science Fiction Mystery/Thriller Publisher: Parallel Worlds Press (buy link on Amazon) Pages: 228 Blurb What if you woke up knowing how to do your job, but not your own name? What if you had to rely on other people to tell you who you were? What if you thought they were wrong? Emé Fallon is the security chief of Dragonfire Station, and does a damn good job of it. That’s where her competence ends. Outside of work, she has a wife she doesn’t know, a captain who seems to hate … Read more

Review: “The Goat: Building a Perfect Victim” by Bill Kieffer

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The Goat

Title: The Goat: Building a Perfect Victim Author: Bill Kieffer Genre: Dark Paranormal Publisher: Red Ferret Press (buy link: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-goat-building-a-perfect-victim) Pages: 162 Blurb Frank was a high school bully but he always paid special attention to Glenn. Now, with his wife gone on yet another separation, Frank is trying to deal with a mid-life crisis that has been brewing for quite awhile. Glenn becomes Frank’s new hobby… and eventually Frank is going to have to ask himself… which one of them is actually the victim in his new violent lifestyle. Review Let me just say this first: Frank, our protagonist, … Read more

Review: “Knight of Flames” by Amelia Faulkner

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Knight of Flames

Title: Knight of Flames Series: Inheritance #2 Author: Amelia Faulkner Genre: MM Paranormal Publisher: LoveLight Press Pages: 460 Blurb Headstrong. Telekinetic. Pariah. On the run from his family, Quentin d’Arcy has settled in San Diego with dwindling funds and the growing suspicion that his gifts might not be limited to telekinesis. When he meets a psychic who can control people’s actions with a few words, his comfortable life starts to unravel. Demigod. Oracle. Hunter. Laurence Riley almost died killing one god only to discover that he’s descended from another. Before he can come to terms with that revelation, Quentin’s twin … Read more

Review: “Insurrection” by Arshad Ahsanuddin

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Insurrection

Title: Insurrection Series: The Interscission Project Book #3 Author: Arshad Ahsanuddin Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC Pages: 304 Blurb One man will destroy the past to save the present. The price is too high. But it may already be too late to stop him. Life settles into a routine for the inhabitants of Chiron Colony, humanity’s first interstellar settlement, after the threat of the time traveler Gifford has apparently been eliminated. But the Hourglass and its leader, Admiral O’Dare, are not content to rest on their laurels, convinced that time travel remains a palpable threat to human … Read more

Review: “Lime Gelatin & Other Monsters” by Angel Martinez

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Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters

Title: Lime Gelatin & Other Monsters Series: Offbeat Crimes #1 Author: Angel Martinez Genre: Gay Paranormal Mystery Publisher: Pride Publishing Pages: 147 Blurb Kyle Monroe’s encounter with a strange gelatinous creature in an alley leaves him scarred and forever changed, revealing odd abilities he wishes he didn’t have and earning him reassignment to a precinct where all the cops have defective paranormal abilities. Just as he’s starting to adjust to his fellow misfit squad mates, Kyle’s new partner arrives. Tall, physically perfect, reserved, and claiming he has no broken psychic talents, Vikash Soren irritates Kyle in every way. But as … Read more

Review: “7&7–Anthology of Virtue and Vice” by Speed, Witt, Carole Cummings, Reed, Inman, Yates, London, Hennig, Ford, Michael, Fessenden, Love, Cook, Durreson

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Title: 7&7–Anthology of Virtue and Vice Author(s): Andrea Speed, Brandon Witt, Sean Michael, J. Tullos Hennig, Carol Cummings, Rick R. Reed, John Inman, Rhys Ford, Clare London, Pearl Love, Jamie Fessenden, J. S. Cook, Amy Rae Durresson, and Serena Yates Genre: LGBT Anthology Publisher: DSP Publications Pages: 360 Blurb Humankind possesses a dual nature, the ability to rise to the brightest heights—or sink to the darkest and most perverse depths. What inspires some to reach the pinnacles of virtue while others cannot resist the temptations of vice? Is it something innate, or a result of destiny and circumstance? Delve into … Read more

Review: “Billy Blood” by Christopher Church

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Title: Billy Blood Series: The Mason Braithwaite Paranormal Mystery Series Book #4 Author: Christopher Church Genre: Gay Supernatural Suspense Publisher: Dagmar Muira Pages/Word Count: 156 pages Blurb: A fender-bender on the freeway gets psychic investigator Mason entangled with Catherine, an enigmatic visitor from DC—but who, exactly, does she work for? Trying to track her down, he runs across Billy Blood, a Los Angeles company that markets a stomach-churning “lifestyle drink” made with animal blood, and goes to work for its shady CEO to find out who has been vandalizing the product. Recruited by Hanh, an old friend from the psychic … Read more

Review: “Angel Undone” by Leta Blake

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Angel Undone

Title: Angel Undone Author: Leta Blake Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Amazon Pages/Word Count: 90 pages Blurb The Archangel Michael is tired. He fought wars and shoved his brother Lucifer out of heaven all before the Dark Ages rolled around. His role as protector of Israel now encompasses all of humanity, and while he performs his job perfectly, there’s little personal joy in it. Until one night in a bar when he meets Asher. Michael isn’t sure what it is about the vulnerable, self-deprecating Asher that calls to him, but something about his restrained depths, gentle smiles, and encyclopedic knowledge of … Read more

Review: “The Seventh Pleiade” by Andrew J. Peters

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Title: The Seventh Pleiade Series: Atlantis #1 Author: Andrew J. Peters Genre: Gay YA Historical Fantasy Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages/Word Count: 264 pages Blurb Atlantis is besieged by violent storms, tremors, and a barbarian army. For sixteen-year-old Aerander, it’s a calamitous backdrop to his Panegyris, where boys are feted for their passage to manhood. Amid a secret web of romances among the celebrants, Aerander’s cousin Dam goes missing with two boys. With the kingdom in crisis, no one suspects the High Priest Zazamoukh, though Aerander uncovers a conspiracy to barter boys for dark spiritual power. Aerander’s proof— an underground … Read more

Review: “Gun to My Head” by Dira Lewis

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Title: Gun to My Head Author: Dira Lewis Genre: LGBTQ+ Paranormal Fiction Publisher: Less Than Three Press Pages/Word Count: 325 pages Blurb: Sin is a vampire at the end of his rope. Having escaped forcible conversion by a vampire cult, he temporarily kills himself and rises again only to immediately imprint on a human: eighteen-year-old Dominic. Thanks to the cult’s conditioning, Sin can’t bite Dominic, but because of the imprint he also can’t leave him alone. Protecting Dominic from a local vampire named Oriana puts Sin between a rock and a hard place. With nowhere else to turn he does … Read more