Ulysses’ Reviews

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Review: Cat Snacks and Comebacks – Mere Rain

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Cat Snacks and Comebacks - Mere Rain

Genre: Cat Snacks and Comebacks LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Bowie is back in Philadelphia and making a life for himself. New job, comfortable apartment, his family nearby. He’s fine without Smith. Just fine. At least, he was fine until he came home from work to find the man who broke his heart waiting in his apartment. Asking for a favor. No apologies for months of silence. Bowie doesn’t owe Smith anything. He should protect his own heart. He ought to keep far away from Smith. Never touch him again. Definitely not share a bed and pretend they’re in love. Smith isn’t fine. … Read more

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Review: Mosswood Apothecary – J.P. Rindfleisch IX

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Mosswood Apothecary - J.P. Rindfleisch IX

Genre: Cozy Fantasy, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book A struggling alchemist. A small town with ancient secrets. And… a mysterious shadow ferret? Botanical alchemist Rowan Mosswood didn’t expect much when he finally graduated, so a remote research assignment in Frostfern Valley seemed fitting. With his reputation in tatters after a public alchemical mishap, and his discipline of magic considered antiquated, Rowan agrees to the university’s terms: fix up an old greenhouse, study the mysterious loss of magic, and send regular reports. If he can manage all that, his student debts will disappear. The assignment sounded Mundane enough, a wrist slap to be … Read more

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Review: Negative Exposure – Jackson Marsh

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Negative Exposure - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Historical, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book December 1889. Silas Hawkins, once a trickster from the slums, is now the public face of the Clearwater Foundation. As London society gathers to celebrate its success, and Prince Albert Victor considers becoming its new patron, life for Archer, Silas and the crew could not be better. But everyone has a past, especially Silas, a man ripe for blackmail. Photographs, demands, a dead photographer and a mystery amid the influenza pandemic of 1889, it falls to James, Silas and Fecker to find the blackmailer before Silas’ sordid past leads to public downfall. But then Silas … Read more

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Review: The Clearwater Inheritance – Jackson Marsh

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The Clearwater Inheritance - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Mystery, Historical LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book ‘No one can take away your name.’ Clearwater will lose his entire fortune unless he cracks a musical code. If Archer’s insane brother dies, their distant cousin, the evil Count Movileşti, will inherit everything, and with the influenza pandemic threatening the brother’s asylum, the outlook is grave. The only thing that can ensure Archer’s future is a legal document left behind by his grandfather, but the clue to its location is hidden within two pieces of music. Archer has one; the other is in Movileşti’s collection at Castle Rasnov. Archer dispatches two of his team … Read more

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Review: The Pink – Marshall Thornton

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The Pink - Marshall Thornton

Genre: GENRE LGBTQ+ Category: IDENTITY Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Lambda-Award winning author of the Boystown Mysteries,Marshall Thornton transports readers to early 20th-century Chicago, an era of developing queer subculture, a growing temperance movement and a legendary detective agency. It’s 1913. Lewis Wait lives with his mother and hides behind scholarly texts, until his conservative middle-class life is thrust aside due to financial woes. Without his consent, Lewis’ widowed mother arranges an interview for him with his father’s last employer: the famous and unscrupulous Pinkerton Detective Agency. But his mother doesn’t stop there, she’s determined to find her son a wife among her fellow temperance ladies. Intending … Read more

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Review: One of a Pair – Jackson Marsh

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One of a Pair - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Historical, Mysyery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book ‘Love is more than just a chemical reaction.’ James Wright, the lead detective of the new Clearwater Detective Agency, faces a pair of unsolvable problems. Life is going well for Jasper and Billy. Young, talented, and falling in love, the two can look forward to a rosy future. But Billy’s master, Colonel Ware, is slowly being poisoned, and if he dies, Billy’s family will be forced to emigrate. It falls to James to investigate the poisoning, but there are no suspects and no motives. Worse, if he fails, a good man will die, and Jasper … Read more

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Review: Connected to Death – Meg Perry

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Connected to Death - Meg Perry

Genre: Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Various Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Four murders. Four different areas of the city. Four different methods. No apparent connection between the victims. But one of the victims was Clinton Kenneally’s best friend. When the death is initially ruled a suicide, Clinton hires his old friends at Angeles Investigations to get to the truth.  What they find makes no sense…until the librarians get involved. The Review One of the features of this new series of detective stories is the huge cast of characters. Of course we have Jamie Brody, now working with his brother in a private agency, but we have a … Read more

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Review: Home from Nowhere – Jackson Marsh

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Review: Home from Nowhere - Jackson Marsh

Genre: Historical, Mystery LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book After their wild and dangerous adventures, Archer and his crew are happy to take on a cosy mystery. Two new staff join Clearwater House. One of them, Jasper Blackwood, comes with an enigmatic, limited edition songbook that suggests he is no ordinary lad from the workhouse. When Archer investigates Jasper’s past, he soon realises that his origins, if known, will cause a scandal for one of his closest friends. The question is, how to reunite father and son without disrupting their lives? In the space of one week, Jasper’s life changes in ways he never … Read more

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Review: Servant – Patrick R. Field

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Servant - Patrick R. Field

Genre: Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Not long after their move into Blackstone, married couple Mitch and Buck begin to witness strange sightings of shadowy figures, physical manifestations and inexplicable events taking place in the former Sheppard family estate nestled in the Northern Poconos of Pennsylvania. Through séances, they learn from the spirit of Jedidiah Sheppard that he has not been able to cross over into the afterlife because the truth behind his sudden disappearance in 1965 has never been solved. During this journey, Mitch and Buck and an eccentric psychic, Gladys Munch aka Madame Fortunesta, encounter interference from the spirit of … Read more

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Review: The Bedfordshire Warlock – Patrick R. Field

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The Bedfordshire Warlock - Patrick R. Field

Genre: Paranormal Romantasy, Suspense, Mystery, Horror LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses Get It On Amazon About The Book Elias Doever, accused of being a warlock by the residents of the Village of Bedfordshire, Massachusetts in 1692, is executed via the “ducking chair” into a well of holy water. A force erupts from his chest, killing him and escaping the well. Three hundred years later, the force from the well, Beladon, contacts Dorian Leeves, a young man with supernatural abilities, and informs him that he possesses the same powers as Elias Doever. Dorian will accomplish his ascension into powers beyond his belief if he can re-unite the “three bloods” of Elias … Read more