The Heart’s Greater Silence by Anne Brooke My rating: 5 of 5 stars Mark is a man who burns his candle at both ends. And he did so quite successfully for a while, until the two ends ultimately met and he got burnt in a most painful and consequential way. Mark is a man whose…
Cherish Your Name by Mary Calmes
Cherish Your Name by Mary Calmes My rating: 5 of 5 stars 4.5/5 stars Cherish Your Name is a special holiday story starring my all time favorite warder/hearth couple. Make no mistake, I love all the couples in this series, and I especially love Raphael, but as couples go, Malic and Dylan have always been…
Bad Boyfriend (Bad in Baltimore, #2) by K.A. Mitchell
Bad Boyfriend by K.A. Mitchell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Quinn Maloney spent ten years in a monogamous relationship with a straight man. Well, at least Quinn was monogamous. Peter? No, Peter was just an ass who’s “not gay,” and who used Quinn until something different came along; then he made like Houdini and…
Marathon Cowboys by Sarah Black
Marathon Cowboys by Sarah Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars Drama and romance tangle in a wonderful way in Marathon Cowboys, the story of two very different men who meet through little more than chance and who find a common bond in the love of their respective art. Jesse Clayton is a brilliant artist…
Flamingo by Sarah Black
Flamingo by Sarah Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sixty-one year old William has spent a good portion of his life as a near recluse, taking sanctuary in the bookshop he opened in 1971, a mere couple of years after the Stonewall uprising that brought the gay rights movement out of the closet and…
Santa Vic by J.M. Snyder
Santa Vic by J.M. Snyder My rating: 4 of 5 stars Beneath Vic Braunson’s tattooed, pierced, and buff exterior lies a gooey marshmallowy middle. Vic might look tough, but the man has a heart of gold, and it beats only for Matt di Lorenzo. It’s Christmastime in Richmond and Vic has been asked by his…
Let There Be Light by R. Cooper
Let There Be Light by R. Cooper My rating: 4 of 5 stars There was an amazing chemistry between the two characters in this book that was fairly visceral, knowing there was a history there that brought them together and, at the same time, tore them apart. It was deliciously aggravating because they were trying…
A Summit City Christmas by Ethan Day
A Summit City Christmas by Ethan Day My rating: 5 of 5 stars Go ahead and say it with me: Awwww. Seriously, that’s exactly what you’ll want to say when you finish reading A Summit City Christmas, as this is Wade Walker and Boone Daniels at their finest. With their eclectic group of friends and…
Review: Dark Soul: Volume Three by Aleksandr Voinov
Title: Dark Soul: Vol. Three Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: The Dark Soul serial is Voinov doing what he does best—daring his readers to think outside the paradigm of romance and venture into the realms of the forbidden erotic, to find…
Dark Soul (Volume 3) by Aleksandr Voinov
Dark Soul by Aleksandr Voinov My rating: 5 of 5 stars I do believe Aleksandr Voinov is the only author who can push my comfort level to its very limits—and make me love it, every salacious, kinky, erotic step of the way. Anyone who’s been following this series knows that Silvio Spadaro is an entity…
The Forester by Blaine D. Arden
The Forester by Blaine D. Arden My rating: 5 of 5 stars 4.5/5 Stars I so wish this novella had been titled The Forester: BOOK #1 because, let me tell you, there’d better be a BOOK #2 in the works or else. Or else I just might cry. Blaine D. Arden knocks this one right…
When Angels Fall by Z.A. Maxfield
When Angels Fall by Z.A. Maxfield My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you’ve read the special project Wishing on a Blue Star, then this story is going to be familiar to you, as it is Z.A. Maxfield’s outstanding contribution to that anthology. But whether you have read the entire anthology or not, do yourself…
The Scottish Prisoner: A Lord John Novel by Diana Gabaldon
Title: The Scottish Prisoner: A Lord John Novel Author: Diana Gabaldon Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Pages: 400 (Hardcover) Characters: Lord John Grey, Jamie Fraser POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Historical/Fantasy Rating: 4 Blurb: London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District, life could be worse: He’s not cutting sugar cane in…
The Scottish Prisoner: A Lord John Novel by Diana Gabaldon
Title: The Scottish Prisoner: A Lord John Novel Author: Diana Gabaldon Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Pages: 400 (Hardcover) Characters: Lord John Grey, Jamie Fraser POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Historical/Fantasy Rating: 4 Blurb: London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District, life could be worse: He’s not cutting sugar cane in…
Review: Infected: Freefall by Andrea Speed
Title: Infected: Freefall Series: Infected: Book Four Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Self-Published Length: 350 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: In spite of the sense of doom and gloom in this installment, Andrea Speed manages to infuse the story with plenty of her trademark humor—gotta love the fact that, regardless of…
Infected: Freefall (Infected #4) by Andrea Speed
Title: Infected: Freefall (Infected #4) Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 350 Characters: Roan McKichan, Dylan Harlow POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Urban Fantasy Kisses: 4.5 Blurb: In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other…
Boats in the Night by Josephine Myles
Title: Boats in the Night Author: Josephine Myles Publisher: Self-Published Pages: 164 (.pdf) Characters: Smutty, Giles POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Contemporary Romance Kisses: 5 Blurb: Like two ships passing in the night—if one was a narrowboat and the other a luxury yacht. Disgraced private school teacher Giles Rathbourne has been sent home on extended sick-leave…
Boats in the Night by Josephine Myles
Title: Boats in the Night Author: Josephine Myles Publisher: Self-Published Pages: 164 (.pdf) Characters: Smutty, Giles POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: Contemporary Romance Kisses: 5 Blurb: Like two ships passing in the night—if one was a narrowboat and the other a luxury yacht. Disgraced private school teacher Giles Rathbourne has been sent home on extended sick-leave…
This Is One Of The Best Videos I’ve Ever Seen On YouTube
There seems to be some question as to whether the story this video was made as a response to is legit or not, but one thing is absolutely certain: Johnny Robinson is an amazing young man. This video is so powerful, with a message that, whatever prompted it, is something every gay teen who’s struggling…
Without Sin by J. Tomas
Title: Without Sin Author: J. Tomas Publisher: Originally Published by Torquere Press (April 2009) Pages: 155 Characters: Jacob Smithson, Avery Dendritch POV: 3rd Person Sub-Genre: YA/Contemporary Romance Kisses: 5 Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Jacob Smithson has a temper. He’s picked on because he likes boys, and fighting gets him kicked out of public school. As a last…