MaryAnn’s Reviews – Page 11

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Review: Time Bomb – John Patrick

April 25, 2023 by scott

Genre: Sci-Fi, Time Travel LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Time Bomb is a Bhagavad Gita-inspired/time travel/save-the-world-from-global-warming novel with a queer romantic edge. Christian Sparrow is a time traveler from the end of the twenty first century. His earth is dying, and his mission is to go back in time to change the course of history by disrupting the Los Alamos atomic bomb project. But he didn’t plan on falling in love with Archer Meyer—a nuclear physicist whiz-kid whose work and life Christian will likely have to ruin if he is to succeed. The men … Read more

Review: Seeing Sean – Patrick Doyle

April 24, 2023 by scott

Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book A story of love at first sight. Then everything, including reality, gets in the way. When Wyatt meets Sean sparks fly. Literally. Their Zoom encounters, although work-related, generate the most unusual electronic reactions. But when they meet in the flesh he forgets all about contacting technical support because Sean is even more electrifying in person — an unusual experience for a Grindr-jaded Wyatt. But the interference continues and every time they meet Sean gets cold feet. Wyatt’s no fool. He knows the attraction … Read more

Review: Pinned – Liz Faraim

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 by scott

Genre: Horror LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link | Goodreads About The Book “Rowdy” Randy Cox, a woman staring down the barrel of retirement, is a curmudgeonly blue-collar butch lesbian, who has been single for twenty years and is trying to date again. At the end of a long, exhausting shift, Randy finds her supervisor, Bryant, pinned and near death at the warehouse where they work. Upon the news of his death, she battles to find a balance between the joys of an exciting new relationship and the struggles of processing her supervisor’s … Read more

Review: Prisoner – Gigi DeGraham

April 14, 2023 by scott

Genre: Paranormal Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Most prisoners believe their punishment is unfair, but for Ryan Tarkett, it’s true. While serving his sentence, an attack sets off a chain of events and forces Ryan to speed up the timeline on an insane escape plan. Spurring him on are memories of his past, his one love, who he met in juvie, and the driving desire for freedom. When Ryan believes he has nothing left to lose, escape from prison becomes the only option. Ryan’s desperate journey isn’t easy as he tries to … Read more

Review: Death by Silver – Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold

April 13, 2023 by scott

Genre: Gaslamp Fantasy/Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Publisher About The Book Mystery, Murder and Magic… When his nemesis from schoolboy days hires metaphysician Ned Mathey to investigate his father’s murder, Ned turns to his friend and sometime lover, detective Julian Lynes, for help. Together, they must navigate a maze of deceit, danger, their painful past and, perhaps, a chance at a future together, in an Edwardian London as full of peril as it is with magic. Can they solve the mystery at the heart of the murder to forge a new kind of partnership … Read more

Review: Killing Nightmares – Reis Asher

April 10, 2023 by scott

Genre: Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bisexual, Non-Binary Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book It’s been four years since the Killing Game turned Reis and Edgar’s lives upside-down. Believing the past to be behind them, they’ve tried to move on with their lives. Edgar has returned to freelance computer programming, while Reis is training to become a Bureau agent. Emily is about to marry, and Reis’s biggest concern is what to wear to the wedding as they navigate the rocky seas of their gender identity. The peace they won is soon cast into doubt as Tony Anvas … Read more

Review: Bobby Ray Breaks the Universe – Rob Rosen

April 8, 2023 by scott

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book What happens when a hunky demon visits you and commands you to break all ten commandments? Or when a handsome angel orders you to do the opposite? And what if you’re Bobby Ray, and you’ve already broken nine of the ten, and thou shalt not kill is a close brick away, and the demon has tacked on a cushy afterlife in hell as a reward? Decisions, decisions. And poor Bobby Ray has never been good at one decision, let alone multiple ones. Broke, divorced, and pretty … Read more

Review: Killing Games – Reis Asher

April 1, 2023 by scott

Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Romance, Dystopian LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Non-Binary Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Edgar Tobias works as a freelance computer programmer in the city of Anver. Desperate to escape his deceased fathers’ fame as a hit singer-songwriter duo, he left the city of Kasyova and the arts behind. He doesn’t know he’s about to be targeted in a vicious murder game where the prize is a million dollars in cryptocurrency to the first person who can capture his murder on video. Reis Asher lost everything in the Anverite civil war ten years ago, including … Read more

Review: Murder Without Magic – Ripley Hayes

March 30, 2023 by scott

Genre: Mystery, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Peter and Lorne have taken the plunge: moved in together in a little house by the sea. Peter has his dream job, and Lorne has his dream kitchen, and so what if things go bump in the night next door? they can ignore it. The ghost with a violent streak isn’t so easy to ignore. Nor is the dead body in next door’s garden. Much against their better judgement, and the advice of their friends, Peter and Lorne are dragged kicking and screaming into another … Read more

Review: Apidae – Xenia Melzer

March 24, 2023 by scott

Genre: Paranormal, Mystery, Thriller LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book No good deed—or good record of solving crimes—goes unpunished. Detectives Andi Hayes and George Donovan of the Charleston PD are on vacation. Or at least they are until they are called back for an emergency: find Chief Norris’s missing son. Fortunately, Andi’s insect spies lead him right to little Tyler Norris, who is safe and sound. Unfortunately, along with the chief’s son, they find twenty-five corpses, victims of a serial killer who’s gone unnoticed for over a decade. Chief Norris promptly cancels Andi and … Read more