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Review: Godspeed, Lovers – TQ Sims

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Godspeed, Lovers - TQ Sims

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Universal Buy Link | Amazon | Goodreads About The Book Lovable loner Casey Isaac thinks love isn’t for him. Not since extraordinary events left him with supernormal powers and a great deal of trauma. But when Oscar Kenzari looks at him, he can’t help but change his mind. As Divinators, Casey and Oscar have used their psychic powers to defend humanity from sentient, extradimensional storms for one hundred years. But a storm more powerful than any before is brewing. MaalenKun, prince of the maelstrom, conqueror of countless realities, plans to turn the tables … Read more

Review: Ebb and Flow – Karenna Colcroft

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Ebb and Flow - Karenna Colcroft

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book The heart of the wolf yearns for his mate. Only weeks after the massacre of half his pack, Quinn Boucher is finding his footing as a guard of the U.S. Anax, the ruler of all werewolves in the country. But something is missing: His mate Malachi. Despite whatever fate drew them together, Malachi won’t accept Quinn—and that hurts like hell. Decades after losing his human lovers, lone wolf Malachi Powers still grieves. The last thing he needs is a mate, especially one … Read more

Review: An Embrace of Citrus & Snow – Rowan Amaris & Theo Behr

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An Embrace of Citrus & Snow - Rowan Amaris & Theo Behr

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bi Reviewer: Jay Get It At Amazon About The Book Fae aren’t real. Soulbonds are woo-woo nonsense. And the man swooning in Bo’s arms definitely isn’t a kelpie. BoBo’s made a career out of debunking the supernatural. His eager fans regularly tune in to discover what he’ll disprove next. And Bo really should know better than to let them pick where he goes. It’s supposed to be a routine visit to a so-called haunted house. But instead of dust and rats, Bo finds Everil: A strange, beautiful man who faints into his arms. Which, … Read more

Review: Ex – Alicia Thompson

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Ex - Alicia Thompson

Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy, Crime, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Lesbian (Sapphic) Reviewer: Jay Get It On Amazon About The Book In 2011, Toby Soames dies from a freak accident on Hampstead Heath; Charlie Falk simply disappears. Two years later, Australian Adele Soames returns to London to be nearer her son and the places he loved. She is joined in her pilgrimages to the heath by Charlie. Charlie tells her things; unnerving things about his last day alive. Enter DS Xandra Bentley, a member of Adele’s grief support group at St Bart’s. Xandra has worked on a number of cold cases … Read more

REVIEW: The Miraculous Life of Rupert Rocket – Mark Salzwedel

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The Miraculous Life of Rupert Rocket - Mark Salzwedel

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book In 1942, Rupert Rocket’s grandmother was cursed by an Irish fairy, the Pooka, to end her bloodline. But the Pooka’s sister, the Grogoch, blessed the boy to counteract the curse. As a young gay man, Rupert’s life spins wildly between the competing spells through adventures as a dancer, a model, an actor, and a spy… But what will happen when the blessing runs out? The Review It all began during WWII, when Zelda was in love with Thomas. Patricia, the girl he … Read more

“We Mostly Come Out At Night.” On Beyond Cisgender IX. – Boogieman In Lavender

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For this ninth (!!!) installment of the column’s occasional feature “On Beyond Cisgender,” we go into a recent YA anthology perfect for the Halloween Season. This feature is about books recommended for High School readers that go beyond the usual “white, male, cisgender paradigm,” an idea suggested by Amy Liebowitz, (thanks very much!) several years ago. “We Mostly Come Out At Night,” edited by Rob Costello, published by Running Press Teens, Hatchette Book Group in 2024 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rob-costello/we-mostly-come-out-at-night/9780762483198/ features “15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels and Other Creatures,” to quote the cover blurb. Stories range from variants on a classic fairy … Read more

Review: Ritual of the Broken – Seb L. Carter

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Review: Ritual of the Broken - Seb L. Carter

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Can an outcast mage and an angry werewolf stop the ritualistic killer who’s preying on their city? A solitary mage … For years, Ollie has survived on the fringes of the magical community, the price he pays for a foolish ancestor who played around with dark magic. Now he just wants to run his mother’s magic shop in peace. But a vision from a ghost—of a dark entity pulling a man’s soul from his body—compels him to seek answers. A lone werewolf … Read more

Review: The Switch – April McCloud

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The Switch - April McCloud

Genre: Cyberpunk LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Trans FTM, Trans MTF Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book A hundred years in the future, in a world where technologically enhanced bodies are valued above organic ones, Complete Life Management (CLM) is selling perfection in the form of the latest and greatest bionic model, the Apogee. As an elite runner and inadvertent spokesperson for the humanism movement, NYPD Detective Naomi Gate has eschewed vanity upgrades. However, if she hopes to survive in New York City’s fierce criminal Underground and find her brother, she can’t show up in her … Read more

Review: Whiskey and Warfare – EM Hamill

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Whiskey and Warfare - E.M. Hamill

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian, Ace/Aro, Pan Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book Running on caffeine and spite with nothing left to prove. GOLDEN GIRLS meets FIREFLY in this rollicking space opera adventure. Maryn Alessi retired from mercenary service after her last assignment went horribly sideways and settled down on a quiet planet with the love of her life. Unexpectedly widowed, Maryn must fulfill a promise to return her mate’s ashes to zer home planet for funeral rites, but a brutal civil war has destabilized space travel. Former Artemis Corps sisters-in-arms … Read more

Review: Parallel Lines – Mark McElroy 

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Parallel Lines - Mark McElroy

Genre: Sci-Fi, Romance, Comedy, Time Travel LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book When Thomas’s constant indiscretions wreck his decade-long marriage to handsome Carter Lamm, he wonders how different choices might have made him happier. In a misguided attempt to help, Ed Williams, Thomas’s Big Gay Role Model, shares a technology that plunges users into alternative worlds: versions of the present day, shaped by different choices. Would Thomas be happier stepping on Legos while juggling a wife and kid … partnered to America’s favorite secretly gay action star … or married … Read more