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Review: Emerald Earth – Adam J. Ridley

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Emerald Earth

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Cursed to never find love, Crea is shocked when he finds the perfect man. Choosing to fight the curse could cost him everything, including his life. After his father cursed him, Crea has faced decades of dead end relationships. Just as he’s almost given up hope he finds a handsome stranger broken on the side of a desolate road. Once he drops the stranger off at the hospital, he figures all is done. Nothing could be further from the truth. The stranger becomes so much … Read more

Review: New Life in Autumn – Michael G. Williams

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A New Life in Autumn - Michael G. Williams

Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book RETURN TO THE MEAN STREETS OF AUTUMN Valerius Bakhoum is dead and buried. Too bad he’s still flat broke and behind on the rent. Unsure what to do with himself—and of who he is—Valerius resumes his career as a detective by taking up the oldest case in his files: where do the children go? Throughout his own youth on the streets of Autumn, last of the Great Flying Cities, Valerius knew his fellow runaways disappeared from back alleys and other hiding places more than anyone … Read more

REVIEW: The Shackles That Hold Us – Michele Notaro

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The Shackles That Hold Us - Michele Notaro

Genre: Urban Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book As if crushin’ on a shifter wasn’t bad enough, I had to go and date one. A mage and a shifter walk into a bar… No, that’s the whole joke. Magi and shifters don’t mix, and yet I find myself in a relationship with Cosmo, a lion shifter. And on top of that, Cosmo, and all his pride members, consider my brothers and me to be a part of their pride. Three magi in a shifter pride. Who would’ve ever thought? Navigating our connection … Read more

REVIEW: The Doctor – C.S. Poe

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The Doctor - C.S. Poe

Genre: Sci-Fi, Steampunk, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book 1882—Gillian Hamilton, magic caster and Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has been stripped of his title, badge, and freedom. Gillian’s true name and powers have been exposed, so now he’s kept under lock and key. To make a tragedy worse, Gunner the Deadly has returned to his life out in the Wild West and has not been heard from since. Rumors of a doctor, known only as Sawbones, with access to illegal magic have persisted into the new year. … Read more

REVIEW: The Beast of the Loch – Pelaam

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The Beast Of The Loch - Pelaam

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Duncan Muir is a renowned zoologist, but as well as being a professor at a university, he works for a society investigating sightings and attacks by cryptids. His latest mission is to Scotland where a marine cryptid is reputedly attacking the local sheep. He takes his faithful friend and right-hand man, Potts, to assist. However, he finds another mystery when he meets the local laird, Lachlan MacIver. The man’s taciturn reputation in the village is at odds with the man Duncan comes to know. As … Read more

REVIEW: A Fall in Autumn – Michael G. Williams

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A Fall in Autumn - Michael G. Williams

Genre: Science Fiction LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book WINNER of the 2019 Manly Wade Wellman Award – presented to the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novel by a NC writer by the NC Speculative Fiction Foundation! WELCOME TO THE LAST OF THE GREAT FLYING CITIES It’s 9172, YE (Year of the Empire), and the future has forgotten its past. Soaring miles over the Earth, Autumn, the sole surviving flying city, is filled to the brim with the manifold forms of humankind: from Human Plus “floor models” to the oppressed and disfranchised underclasses doing … Read more

REVIEW: Firestones – Kim Fielding

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NEW RELEASE - Firestones - Kim Fielding

Genre: Fairy Tale, Dark, Historical LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Born with a deformed foot and abandoned as a young child, Brand spent his youth in indentured servitude to a mediocre wizard. Now Brand is grown, but with no other prospects to support himself, he remains in his master’s employ, doing small chores and selling firestones on the bleak streets of Greynox. Until one bitterly cold day. In this dark take on a classic fairy tale, Brand encounters the most sinister of magics. With his firestones gone, can he find his way to … Read more

REVIEW: Endosymbiont – Elizabeth Noble

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Endosymbiont - Elizabeth Noble

Genre: Paranormal, Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book A werewolf and seven vampires are all that stand between the world and complete annihilation. When Kai Richter and Ori Bier met, sparks flew. Then a train blew up. Tracking an organism deadly to not only humans, but vampires and werewolves alike, brings Kai and Ori into The Vampire Guard. Decades later, they, along with Operative Team Jack Rabbit, come face to face with the horrors that same virus produces. Dead bodies are coming back to life, and rational people are becoming violent … Read more

REVIEW: Cailleadhama – J. Scott Coatsworth

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Cailleadhama - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Urban Fantasy, Cli-Fi, Sci-Fi, Sci-Fantasy, Gay Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Trans FTM Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Colton is a trans man living in a climate-changed world. He plies the canals that used to be city streets, earning a living taking tourists on illicit journeys through San Francisco’s flooded edges beneath the imposing bulk of the Wall. Tris is an elf who comes through the veil to the City by the Bay – the Caille – on a coming of age pilgrimage called the Cailleadhama. He is searching for his brother Laris, who went missing … Read more

REVIEW: Leather Head & Leather Head Unmasked – Matt Converse

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Leather Head - Matt Converse

Genre: Horror, Leather, BDSM LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Leather Head Gable is just playing dress up for San Francisco’s leather S&M fair, but Leather Head isn’t playing. His friend Shawn warns him to be careful what he’s advertising for since the community has been rocked by four brutal murders. Gable still thinks it’s all in fun, but it isn’t.  Desire can be deadly. Leather Head: Unmasked After escaping the death grip of Leather Head, Gable needs a weekend getaway in Palm Springs with best friend, Shawn. In New York, Andrés and Tyler … Read more