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Book Reviews

Review: “Slow Heat” by Leta Blake

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Title: Slow Heat Author: Leta Blake Genre: MM Paranormal Romance Publisher: Amazon Pages: 436 Blurb A lustful young alpha meets his match in an older omega with a past. Professor Vale Aman has crafted a good life for himself. An unbonded omega in his mid-thirties, he’s long since given up hope that he’ll meet a compatible alpha, let alone his destined mate. He’s fulfilled by his career, his poetry, his cat, and his friends. When Jason Sabel, a much younger alpha, imprints on Vale in a shocking and public way, longings are ignited that can’t be ignored. Fighting their strong … Read more

Review: “Root of the Spark” by Michele Fogal

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Title: Root of the Spark Series: A Wild Seed Novel Author: Michele Fogal Genre: Nonbinary Fantasy Publisher: Loose Id Pages: 210 Blurb Dell doesn’t want to hide anymore. As the first hermaphrodite on the human colony planet of Ameliaura, Dell has spent the last year trying to blend into the crowd. Dell used to snub the public eye with flamboyance and scandal, but lately the attention just feels like loneliness. After surviving a vicious attack, Dell falls into the arms of Zavvy, a man who has made it his mission to help abandoned hermaphrodite children. Zavvy has been alone for … Read more

Review: “Brobots” by Trevor Barton

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Brobots

Title: Brobot Series: Brobots #1 Author: Trevor Barton Genre: Gay Science Fiction Publisher: Amazon Pages: 350 Blurb Artificial intelligence can’t be programmed. It has to be grown. Some machines are learning who they are, and humans could do with a bit of that, too. Jared takes home a cute man he finds in a dumpster and then gets drawn into a world of robots, parenting and conspiracy. Review I love it when a book starts off with a murder, or attempted murder. Brobots are androids created by an independent corporation. When they were hard to sell, because of their premium … Read more

Review: “The Girl in Gold” by Beth Lyons

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Title: The Girl in Gold Series: Vox Swift #2 Author: Beth Lyons Genre: Lesbian Urban Fantasy Publisher: Amazon Pages: 212 Blurb Vox Swift returns for a second mystery. This time Vox stumbles upon the body of a strange girl in a sparkly gold dress, dead in the library of one of the richest men in Thornbury. Who is she? Who killed her? “No one knew the girl in gold. She seemed the most improbable of murder victims, at least on the surface. But as happens in life and in murder cases, you follow a path of ideas, theories, wrong turns, … Read more

Boogieman In Lavender Review: Heiresses of Russ

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Jeff Baker

The story was that some people had learned to read again.—-line from “The Tip of the Tongue” by Felicia Davin. That most conventional of female archetypes, the bride, figures in several of the unconventional stories in “Heiresses of Russ,” the 2016 edition of the best Lesbian speculative fiction of the year, edited by A. M. Dellamonica and Steve Berman and published by Lethe Press. Leading off is the first of several award nominees, (Nebula nominee, shortlisted for the Hugo and Tiptree awards) “Grandmother-Nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds,” by Rose Lemberg. A story of gender fluidity, magic and deepnames where men and … Read more

Review: “Trustworthy” by Astrid Amara

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Title: Trustworthy Series: A Policy of Lies #2 Author: Astrid Amara Genre: MM Military Romance Publisher: Loose Id Pages: 272 Blurb Ten years ago, lovers and best friends Ivo Toreli and Robert Mackenzie were separated by death. But sometimes life gives you second chances. Life…and a lot of cybernetic enhancements. Trust Agent 505 may not remember who he was before he worked security for Trust Insurance, but now his prisoner thinks he knows him. This revolutionary named “Mack,” who has stolen one of Trust’s prized possessions, seems to think Agent 505 is named “Ivo,” someone from his past. Someone he … Read more

GUEST REVIEW: Adrift, by Isabelle Adler

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One of our QSF folks, Christina, wanted to share a review of an MM sci fi book she really enjoyed. Bonus points, Christina, for the QSF shirt!!! Captain Matt Spears learns this the hard way after a mysterious employer hires his ship to hunt down an ancient alien artifact but insists on providing his own pilot. Ryce Faine is handsome and smart, but Matt has rarely met anyone more obnoxious. With tensions running high, it isn’t until they are attacked by the hostile Alraki that Matt grudgingly begins to respect Ryce’s superior skills, respect that transforms into a tentative attraction. … Read more

Review: “Gyrfalcon” by Anna Butler

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Title: Gyrfalcon Series: Taking Shield #1 Author: Anna Butler Genre: Gay Science Fiction Publisher: Anna Butler Pages: 317 Blurb Earth’s last known colony, Albion, is fighting an alien enemy. In the first of the Taking Shield series, Shield Captain Bennet is dropped behind the lines to steal priceless intelligence. A dangerous job, and Bennet doesn’t need the distractions of changing relationships with his long-term partner, Joss, or with his father—or with Flynn, the new lover who will turn his world upside-down. He expects to risk his life. He expects the data will alter the course of the war. What he … Read more

Review: “The Beast Without” by Christian Baines

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Title: The Beast Without Series: Arcadia Trust #1 Author: Christian Baines Genre: Gay Paranormal Publisher: Glass House Books Pages: 234 Blurb Reylan is everything a Sydney vampire aspires to be: wealthy, handsome and independent, carefully feeding off companions plucked from the gay bars of Oxford Street. When one of those companions is killed by Jorgas, a hot-headed young werewolf prowling his streets, Reylan reluctantly puts his cherished lifestyle of blood and boys on hold to help a mysterious alliance of supernatural beings track down the beast. It can’t be that hard… not when Jorgas keeps coming after him. But there’s … Read more

Review: “Skythane” by J. Scott Coatsworth

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Title: Skythane Author: J. Scott Coatsworth Genre: Gay Science Fantasy Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 244 Blurb Jameson Havercamp, a psych from a conservative religious colony, has come to Oberon—unique among the Common Worlds—in search of a rare substance called pith. He’s guided through the wilds on his quest by Xander Kinnson, a handsome, cocky skythane with a troubled past. Neither knows that Oberon is facing imminent destruction. Even as the world starts to fall apart around them, they have no idea what’s coming—or the bond that will develop between them as they race to avert a cataclysm. Together, they will … Read more