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REVIEW: Slashed and Mashed – Andrew J. Peters

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Slashed and Mashed - Andrew J. Peters

Genre: Fairy Tales LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Madison Davis, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book What really happened when Theseus met the Minotaur? How did demon-slaying Momotarō come to be raised by two daddies? Will Scheherazade’s hapless Ma’aruf ever find love and prosperity after his freeloading boyfriend kicks him out on the street? Classic lore gets a bold remodeling with stories from light-hearted and absurd, earnestly romantic, daring and adventurous, to darkly surreal. The collection includes: Theseus and the Minotaur, Károly, Who Kept a Secret, The Peach Boy, The Vain Prince, The Jaguar of the Backward Glance, Ma’aruf the Street Vendor, and A Rabbit Grows in … Read more

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REVIEW: Redesigning Max – Pat Henshaw

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Redesigning Max - Pat Henshaw

Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Renowned interior designer Fredi Zimmer is surprised when outdoorsman Max Greene, owner of Greene’s Outdoors, hires him to revamp Max’s rustic cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Fredi is an out-and-proud Metro male whose contact with the outdoors is from his car to the doorway of the million-dollar homes he remodels, and to Fredi, Max is a typical straight man’s man. When Max blatantly and clumsily flirts with Fredi, Fredi’s stereotypical view of Max is shattered. Is this a build-up to a gay bashing? Cautiously believing Max is closeted and is trying … Read more

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REVIEW: Electric Candle – Elizabeth Noble

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Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book When a vampire finds his soulmate, the bond is forever. It’s love at first sight.  Or is it? Homicide Detective Jonas Forge has been a vampire for centuries. He’s fought wars, seen life go from the simple colonial days to the modern high-tech world. He’s evolved with the times, adapted to each new era, blended into each new life. The one constant is his best friend, mentor, and lover, Declan. Even though not fated to bond as soulmates, Forge and Declan are happy and settled in their life together. Until Forge’s … Read more

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REVIEW: Brains and Brawn – R.L. Merrill

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Genre: Contemporary, Rock ‘n Roll LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Billy “Brains” Brennan has achieved rock stardom in not just one, but two chart-topping bands, but events from his past have him convinced he’s living on borrowed time. Brains and his brothers-in-Hush are ready to take the last cross-country Warped Tour by storm…until the actions of two drunk dudes with bad attitudes set off a chain of events that leave him incapacitated…and face-to-face with a handsome stranger who inexplicably feels like home—and not the home Brains fled at sixteen.  Chief Petty Officer Paul McNally has spent his 25-year career … Read more

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REVIEW: Ryder’s Guardian – TL Travis & Ann Lister

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Ryder's Guardian - TL Travis & Ann Lister

Genre: Contemporary, Rock ‘n Roll LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book For Maiden Voyage guitarist, Ryder Hampton, life is great. He and his bandmates are embarking upon an epic European double headlining tour with their friends from Social Sinners with the band Embrace the Fear opening for them. Since joining Maiden Voyage in his twenties, Ryder’s life has been a whirlwind of the cliched, “Sex, drugs and monumental doses of Rock ‘n Roll. And he’s loved every minute of it from the sold out shows to the revolving door of bed partners. Max Hightower has always been a team player. … Read more

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REVIEW: A Message From the Home Office – Angel Martinez

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A Message From the Home Office - Angel Martinez

Genre: Sci Fi, Romance, Comedy LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Sissal Naganos, cobra yervath and diplomat banished to the hinterlands, didn’t ask for an assistant, and he certainly didn’t ask for such an annoying one. Being an OIL (Onsite Inter-species Liaison) for the Interplanetary Multispecies Pact has never been an easy job. In fact it’s a crap job when stuck on a backwater nowhere planet like Earth. But cobra Yervath Sissal Naganos manages. The demotion was swift and heavy-handed, but he’ll climb back out of this hell eventually. Humans don’t meet his social needs, so, yes, it’s been lonely … Read more

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REVIEW: Shades Of Sepia – Anne Barwell

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Genre: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Linda, PRG Get It On Amazon About The Book To be soulmates they first have to survive.  A serial killer stalks the streets of Boggslake, Ohio. The victims are always found in pairs, one human and one vampire.  Simon Hawthorne has been a vampire for nearly a hundred years, and he has never seen anything like it. Neither have the other supernaturals he works with to keep the streets safe for both their kind and the humans.  One meeting with Simon finds Ben Leyton falling for a man he knows is keeping secrets, but he can’t ignore the growing attraction between them. … Read more

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REVIEW: Together Bound – Elizabeth Noble

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Together Bound - Elizabeth Noble

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic, Sci Fi, Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: LJ Get It On Amazon About The Book Todd Ruger is a sentry, a very good one, some might say the best. He was eleven when he and Nick were bound as master and slave. Todd spent the years Nick lived in the slave village waiting for the day Nick could leave and they’d be together, bit by bit building a life for both of them. He took his role of master seriously. It was his responsibility to provide for Nick, protect him and along the way he learned to love him. Todd loved Nick deeply and completely. They were … Read more

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REVIEW: Eating Stars – Angel Martinez

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Eating Stars - Angel Martinez

Genre: Sci Fi, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Non-Binary Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Flee. Scatter. Take your mates and your offspring and run. A new Science Fiction Romance from Angel Martinez The escape pods fall to Earth one by one over the course of weeks, a mysterious and diverse alien diaspora, each pod containing a different alien race and leaving the world’s governments scrambling to deal with this unexpected immigration. Serge Kosygin, still grieving and isolated after his husband’s death, watches events with gray disinterest until one day he witnesses a pod crash for himself while driving home. Two of the alien visitors … Read more

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REVIEW: Electric Candle – Elizabeth Noble

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Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book When a vampire finds his soulmate, the bond is forever. It’s love at first sight. Or is it? Homicide Detective Jonas Forge has been a vampire for centuries. He’s fought wars, seen life go from the simple colonial days to the modern high-tech world. He’s evolved with the times, adapted to each new era, blended into each new life. The one constant is his best friend, mentor, and lover, Declan. Even though not fated to bond as soulmates, Forge and Declan are happy and settled in their life together. Until Forge’s real soulmate falls, … Read more