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Review: Max, The Sequel – Bey Deckard

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Max the Sequel - Bey Deckard

Genre: Dark Romance, Psychological Thriller LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Robert Montagnet and Dan Cooper are a nice gay couple who live in a nice waterfront condo in a nice, touristy part of Playa del Carmen, Mexico. At least, that’s who they’re pretending to be. After five months on the lam, Dr. Crane is strained to the point of breaking—he just wants it to be over. But, with his mental and physical health in decline, living where he doesn’t speak the language and relying on his partner for everything, he feels trapped. Just the way Max likes it, of course. When Crane is presented with… Continue Reading Review: Max, The Sequel – Bey Deckard

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Review: Just Love Enough – Will Forrest

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Just Love Enough - Will Forrest

Genre: Romance, Historical, Victorian LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book He wasn’t looking for love. He only wanted a job… The sixth son of a family who’d have been better off with none, Izzy wants more than the miserable life he’s been granted. Living by his wits in the slums of Whitechapel, he’ll take any escape, committing to a life of sin and luxury at anotoriousLondon pleasure house where the rich and powerful come to be humbled by the very lowest.  Yet there’s one man from his grim past he can’t leave behind. His oldest friend Noel is moral, modest, and law-abiding—everything that Izzy… Continue Reading Review: Just Love Enough – Will Forrest

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Review: Max – Bey Deckard

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Max - Bey Deckard

Genre: Romance, Dark, Thriller LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Fresh out of school, Dr. Crane takes on a new patient who both intrigues and unnerves him. Charming, manipulative, and amoral, Max has exactly the sort of mind Crane finds himself drawn to with fictional characters. As Max weaves himself into Crane’s life, Crane realizes that while fiction might be safe, Max certainly is not. When the professional line between them thins, who gets to define where one man ends and the other begins? Warnings: abuse, mind games, drugs, alcohol, lying, cheating, crime, dubcon, violence The Review Dr. Dennis Crane has been married to… Continue Reading Review: Max – Bey Deckard

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Review: Glass Castles – Kelley York

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Glass Castles - Kelley York

Genre: Historical LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Bisexual Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Lucas Walker has been down on his luck for years. Then he has a run-in with a surgeon named Henry Glass, who presents him with an unusual job opportunity: procuring corpses for Henry’s medical research. Out of work and out of options, and maybe just a little enamored with the shy and gentlemanly Henry, Lucas agrees. But between the perils of bodysnatching and the fear of being outed for his proclivities, Lucas has his hands full. Falling in love with his employer is the last thing he needs. Glass Castles is a novella and the first… Continue Reading Review: Glass Castles – Kelley York

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Review: The Soul Cages – Chad Grayson

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The Soul Cages - Chad Grayson

Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book When Adam, a middle school teacher, meets Jeremy, a musician, sparks fly, and the feeling is definitely mutual. What Adam soon learns, however, is that Jeremy is part of a package deal. He is bound psychically to his twin brother, Jono, who died when they were sixteen. As Adam and Jeremy get closer, where does that leave Jono? And when Jono makes a request to Adam—“Please convince Jeremy to let me go”—will Adam have the courage to do it, even knowing how much it would hurt Jeremy to say goodbye? When tragedy strikes, will Adam… Continue Reading Review: The Soul Cages – Chad Grayson

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Reviw: Everything’s Better With You – R.L. Merrill

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Everything's Better With You - R.L. Merrill

Genre: Contemporary, Sports LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Everything’s Better With You is a TED LASSO-inspired sports-themed funny romance featuring two guys who’ve pined for each other for 15 years while their careers soared and their bodies fell apart. Retired quarterback and “nicest guy in the NFL” Leslie Payton met former college cheerleader-turned-reality-show darling Joe Judd fifteen years ago. They spent one magical night…talking. They’ve been pining for each other via text and phone calls ever since while their careers kept them geographically apart. When their alma mater recruits them to reinvigorate a flagging athletic program, Leslie is thrilled to finally have Joe… Continue Reading Reviw: Everything’s Better With You – R.L. Merrill

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Review: Run Wild, Run Free – Fiona Glass

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Cover - Run Wild, Run Free by Fiona Glass - Foreground, bottom left: a golden birdcage with its door ajar; in background, a handsome young white man with longish dark hair and blue eyes, laying on his back and staring off into the distance on a dark, pavement-like surface, wearing a black leather jacket with a leather strap and silver medallion on is bare, slightly hairy chest

Genre: Historical, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Neurodiverse Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Growing up in a 1950s mining village in the English midlands is hard for someone like Joey, who’s known he was different since he was a kid. All he wants to do is run wild on the hills, watching nature and indulging his love of art. All his parents want is for him to settle down: marriage, a home of his own, a steady job down the mine, and not so much as a whiff of art college. But none of that appeals to him. Everything changes the summer he turns eighteen, when the… Continue Reading Review: Run Wild, Run Free – Fiona Glass

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Review: Reprise in Murder – Edale Lane

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Genre: Murder Mystery, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Old MO, new killer. Can she catch a psychopath before he strikes again? Book 5 in the popular Lessons in Murder series, by award-winning, best-selling author Edale Lane Lieutenant Detective Jenna Ferrari is called to the scene of a brutal murder that exactly mirrors a former serial killer’s MO in all regards but one: this time the victim is a man. The killer responsible for the previous homicides is dead himself. Did he have a partner who was never caught? If not, how could this perpetrator mimic details never released to the public? Randi… Continue Reading Review: Reprise in Murder – Edale Lane

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Review: Not Again – C.J. Baty

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Not Again - C.J. Baty - Lizzy Ferguson Mystery

Genre: Historical, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Bisexual Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Lizzie Ferguson is not a typical 1912 woman. Owner of the E.M. Ferguson Detective Agency, she prefers to live life outside of society’s norm – both in and out of the bedroom – which leads to complications when she finds herself attracted to her beautiful assistant, Julia Straton, and an arrogant, yet devastatingly handsome journalist named Walton Crew. But who has time for romance when there are murders to solve? Her newest case is eerily similar to one from the past. Male brothel workers are being butchered, so she calls on old friends and Pinkerton detectives, Michael… Continue Reading Review: Not Again – C.J. Baty

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Review: Charles, Earl of Crofton – Rebecca Cohen

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Charles, Earl of Crofton - Rebecca Cohen

Genre: Historical, Regency, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book Anyone who had thought Lord Byron mad, bad and dangerous to know, obviously hadn’t met Charles Redbourn, 8th Earl of Crofton. Charles Redbourn cares little for anyone’s opinion, life is there to be lived and the London Ton provides a host of pleasures. He is used to getting his own way and, after another clash with the impertinent Captain Timothy Thorne, Charles is determined to put the uniformed upstart in his place. Both are stubborn and passionate men, and someone is going to win this battle of wits—to the winner the spoils. But when… Continue Reading Review: Charles, Earl of Crofton – Rebecca Cohen