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REVIEW: The Guardian – Pelaam

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The Guardian - Pelaam

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Summoned by an aunt he didn’t know he had, Edison Jones heads to a small Welsh village. He’s met by Gavril, the local blacksmith, and the men quickly become good friends. Gavril takes him to Mam Eira. Their kinship is real; she only asks for his presence and help. Encouraged to work in the local copper mine, Edison meets Bleddyn, the man of his dreams. However, it isn’t long before he’s drawn into a web of mystery and magic where people are … Read more

REVIEW: Manchester Lake – Joshua Ian

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Manchester Lake - Joshua Ian

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book England, 1910 Monty, along with his best friend Bishop, investigates an odd seal-like creature swimming in Manchester Lake. The pair soon realize they’ve found a selkie when the magnificent animal transforms into the most gorgeous man either of them has ever seen. Determined to discover the origins of the mystical man, they bundle him into Bishop’s brand-new electric automobile and whisk him off to London. There they find a host of distractions: a tastefully debauched house party hosted by silver-tongued aristocrats, and a queerly European-inspired … Read more

REVIEW: Judgment Dave – SI Clarke

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Judgment Dave - SI Clarke

Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Non-Binary Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book This time, the universe puts the cat in catastrophe… Lem is adapting to her new home aboard a strange spaceship in an even stranger universe, where the misfit crew of the Teapot have more than enough trouble on their hands running their interplanetary charter service. But when they accept an urgent assignment, they have just one week to save a race of cat-people from certain destruction. Stuck with a disaster-platypus of a project manager and a population seemingly determined to thwart their own rescue, the Teapotters face … Read more

REVIEW: Twenty-Five Turns – Blaine D. Arden

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Twenty-Five Turns - Blaine D. Arden

Genre: Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Gay, Non-Binary Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Can love last when one won’t leave, and the other can’t stay? Fear of moving farther away from his family had cost Eer the love of his life, but now, after twenty-five turns, Kat has returned…with a son, and Eer’s feelings resurface as if it had been only yesterday since they’d first kissed. But any hope Eer has of rekindling their love seems doomed to fail when a murderer’s taste for revenge forces Kat to choose between endangering their family or running… and … Read more

REVIEW: The Young Man’s Guide to Love and Loyalty – Clara Merrick

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The Young Man’s Guide To Love And Loyalty - Clara Merrick

Genre: Historical, Romance, Fantasy, Alternate Timeline LGBTQ+ Category: gay Reviewer: REVIEWERNAME, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Loyalty is Lieutenant Owain Morgan’s watchword—loyalty to England’s Queen Elizabeth XII, to her daughter the Princess of Wales, and to the Royal Navy in which he serves. When his loyalty leads him into danger, an unseen something—or someone—lends a helping hand. Is he imagining it? Could it be a guardian angel? Or is it someone—or something—else? Enter the intriguing Benjamin Fletcher. Owain knows that sharing a drink and a steamy afternoon together doesn’t have to mean anything, but Benjamin’s … Read more

REVIEW: The Nocturne Chronicles – River Hamilton

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The Nocturne Chronicles - River Hamilton

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book They are no longer human. But now they have to fight to save their humanity. Two hundred years ago the Great Vampire War between the Nation and the Lair brought the realm of the undead to the brink of extinction – a struggle between order and chaos, from which the Nation emerged victorious and all-powerful, to reform the vampire world forever. But now the Lair has returned, sworn to bring back the old ways of killing and hunting. Adeimantos – a 2,000-year-old … Read more

REVIEW: Twenty-Five to Life – R.W.W. Greene

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Twenty-Five to Life

Genre: Sci-Fi, Apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Road Trip LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Demi, Gay, Gender Fluid, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Poly, Trans FTM, Trans MTF Reviewer: SI Get It On Amazon About The Book Life goes on for the billions left behind after the humanity-saving colony mission to Proxima Centauri leaves Earth orbit … but what’s the point? Julie Riley is two years too young to get out from under her mother’s thumb, and what does it matter? She’s over-educated, under-employed, and kept mostly numb by her pharma emplant. Her best friend, who she’s mostly been interacting with via virtual reality for the past decade, … Read more

REVIEW: Of Another World – Edward Kendrick

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Of Another World - Edward Kendrick

Genre: Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Damian Get It On Amazon About The Book A storm at sea leaves shifters Tony and his brother Daniel castaways on an unknown island. They soon discover they much farther from home than they imagined when they meet Brion, the elven mayor of the town of Rerenlion. They also learn all the island’s shifters have been magically imprisoned in Stronghold for crimes against the populace. Brion tells them the only way they can return to their own world is with the help of King Cerdic, and gives them a letter of introduction, … Read more

REVIEW: Redshift – R.M. Olson

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Redshift - R.M. Olson

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Gay, Lesbian, Non-Binary Reviewer: SI About The Book It appears out of nowhere—one moment the sky is empty, the next, there’s a rent in the fabric of space itself. And nothing in the system will ever be the same.  In the far reaches of the Rim Mountains, itinerant field-scientist Aran Romeu is searching desperately for the cure to an incurable disease—one that’s slowly killing his best friend. He’s sworn to do whatever it takes to find it. But when the portal opens, and something comes through, he realizes that ‘whatever it takes’ will … Read more

REVIEW: College Days – Rebecca Cohen

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College Days - Rebecca Cohen

Genre: Fantasy, New Adult, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Lornyc is good at keeping secrets, because secrets can get you kicked out of College. Lornyc considers the undergraduate course, and most of the people on it, beneath him. He just needs to get through this year and then he can start his doctorate. Methian might be attractive enough, but he’s an annoying, fat-headed, sloth toad, and Lornyc doesn’t want him as a lab partner. In fact, Lornyc doesn’t want anything to do with him. Prequel to the Reagalos novels: enemies to lovers, … Read more