Maryann’s Reviews

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Review: Winter Games – Dusk Peterson

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Winter Games - Dusk Peterson

Genre: Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Author’s Note: As of 2024, my fiction is only released through my subscription services, so I’m only releasing stories (including novels) via omnibuses, which I update whenever a new story is released.To receive notice of new releases, subscribe to my blog or newsletter. To receive all my new releases for a monthly fee, subscribe to one of my subscription services. See also the progress report on upcoming fiction in this series. About The Book “Usually, he barely noticed the temperature in the Eternal Dungeon. He’d slept in far worse conditions as a boy.” Snow can remake your world, in more than one way. When a dangerous snowfall descends upon … Read more

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Review: The Thousand-and-One Rides of the Devil’s Horse – Eric Alan Westfall

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The Thousand-and-One Rides of the Devil's Horse - Eric Alan Westfall

Genre: Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It At Amazon | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book Diablo. Big as one o’ them beer-pullin’ horses, quarter horse sleek, blacker’n the blackest black ya kin see inside yer head er elsewheres. They said as how he was the best saddle bronc ever, ‘n’ weren’t nobody gonna stay on him. Ha! He was the Devil hisself made horse. How else ya gonna explain as how the bosses was right? Nobody stayed the eight seconds when the Devil’s horse were buckin’. Weren’t no big deal, him tossin’ riders them first ten, twenny times, with the prize the bosses offered goin’ up a grand each … Read more

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Review: Zoner – Michael Barnette

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Zoner - Michael Barnette

Genre: Sci-Fi, Erotic LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book David Jessman has it all. A great job, a wonderful home and wealth. What he doesn’t have is a lover to share his life. Bells is a gunwhore, a bodyguard and sex worker rolled into a single, neat package. He has nothing but his guns and a rather special set of skills. When fate brings them together, neither man could have predicted the startling outcome. Trigger Warnings: m/m, BDSM, dub-con (this book), dark erotic romance Author’s Note: The series must be read in order as the books comprise a single story. Originally published in Wired … Read more

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Review: Interwoven – Ripley Hayes

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Interwoven - Ripley Hayes

Genre: Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Daniel Owen has spent the best part of ten years renovating his house when he finds the cellar. By falling into it. The mysterious cellar has a mysterious door, and behind the mysterious door is a mysterious box … and in the box … there are clues to the shocking history of Daniel’s beloved home town. A cold case is occupying Mal Kent’s time. A notorious car thief is released from prison. Town and police station gossip says the thief killed an old man years ago, and the minute he gets out, there’s another death. … Read more

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Double Review: Luca – Jackie Keswick

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Luca - Jackie Keswick

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewers, Gloria, Paranormal Romance Guild; Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Luca Birch talks to strangers as if he’s known them for years. So why does he struggle to connect with White Knight Security’s latest client? Because the man is gorgeous, and Luca has seen him on stage? Or because Jax Monroe lives to push Luca’s buttons? Luca may be a tiny bit starstruck, but if he can’t figure out who is attacking Jax and how to stop it, he won’t ever get the chance to unravel Jax’s many layers and find out what’s beneath. And that’s a failure his heart might not … Read more

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Review: Hurricane Reese – R.L. Merrill

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Hurricane Reese - R.L. Merrill - Forces of Nature

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bi Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Tony award-winning musician Reese Matheson’s life resembles a natural disaster, and caregiver Jude De La Torre is caught in the eye of the storm. Can the love these two opposites find together survive caring for an ornery octogenarian with wayward balls and a meddling family insistent upon tradition? A public break-up is not what Reese expects upon returning from the successful run of his musical in London. All he wants to do is spend time with his beloved grandfather and musical mentor, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Reese knows he doesn’t have much time left before … Read more

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Review: Curio – C.S. Poe

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Curio - C.S. Poe

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Google Play | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link | BookBub About The Book Llewellyn Cooper and his aunt Julia run Curio Cabinet in New York City’s West Village, where the clientele is as strange as the junk being amassed in their secondhand shop. Llewellyn and Julia have been as thick as thieves his entire life, and Llewellyn can’t imagine being anywhere else six days a week—even if Julia’s bizarre habits and inappropriate conversations drive him crazy. That’s family, though, right? When Llewellyn drums up the nerve to chat with a routine customer—in part due to curiosity, as Henry … Read more

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Double Review: Rylan – Jackie Keswick

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Rylan - Jackie Keswick

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewers: Maryann; Gloria, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Rylan Jeffers has silent and dangerous down to an art form, even though it’s just a ruse to keep him away from people and protect his big, soft heart. Then nightclub owner Kris Hillyard turns up in hospital, badly beaten, and Rylan can’t stay away, even as Kris and his entourage turn his life upside down. Rylan can handle the danger that comes with protecting Kris. He can even handle Kris’s particular brand of stubborn. But can he drop his shield and find the courage to ask Kris to stay? The Review … Read more

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Review: Dionysus in Wisconsin – E. H. Lupton

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Dionysis in Wisconsin - E.H. Lupton

Genre: Historical, Romance, Urban Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Amazon | B&N | Bookshop.org | Kobo | Apple | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book A graduate student and an archivist fight a god. Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov should be working on his dissertation. Instead, he’s developing an unlucrative sideline in helping ghosts and hapless magic users. But when his clients start leaving town suddenly—or turning up dead—he starts to worry there’s something afoot that’s worse than an unavenged death or incipient insanity. His investigation begins with the last word on everyone’s lips before they vanish: the mysterious Dionysus. Sam Sterling is an archivist who recently moved back to Madison to be closer to the family he’s not too … Read more

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Review: Port in a Storm – Rhys Ford

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Port in a Storm - Rhys Ford

Genre: Contemporary, Police LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Publisher About The Book San Francisco SWAT Lieutenant Connor Morgan and Crossroads Gin drummer Forest Ackerman make an odd couple. Connor, an Irish-born cop from a tight-knit family, never imagined he’d find his happily-ever-after with a raised-on-the-streets musician, but Forest had the gentlest soul he’d ever met. After a long, hard road of heartbreak, murder, and trouble, they fell hard in love and married. Then Fate intervenes and throws their lives into a chaos neither one of them is prepared for. During a brutal SWAT raid, Connor stumbles on Tate, an abused, vulnerable little boy caught in … Read more