Firecracker by Jaye Valentine
Issac Lang is deeply in love with his live-in life-partner, Baltimore City police officer Jeff Taylor, and has a serious kink for risky role-play sex with strangers. Jeff finds Isaac’s wild ways...
View ArticleHappily Ever Before by Jaye Valentine
Featuring the White Queen and Red Knight from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There,” this erotic short story by Jaye Valentine incorporates Carrollian elements of...
View ArticlePurple Hearts by Reno MacLeod and Jaye Valentine
Courage. Patriotism. Words rendered meaningless to Erik Chavel when his brother Howard returns home from Afghanistan in a flag-draped casket. Months later, Erik finds the gentle words of Howard’s...
View ArticleReading Round Up: June 2010
Happy Canada Day! June was quite the eclectic reading month for me from contemporary romance, to horror, to political intrigue. I re-read and finally put pen to paper to review Purple Hearts by Reno...
View ArticleLet Them Try by Reno MacLeod and Jaye Valentine
The police motto “to serve and protect” takes on all new meaning in Let Them Try. Twenty-six years of dedicated duty as one of Baltimore’s finest should earn a man some reward. One autumn night in a...
View ArticleReading Round Up: July-August 2010
Given all the activity and travel over the months of July and August I’m quite surprised that I managed any reading at all. Not much actually, but certainly more than originally anticipated. Reviewing...
View ArticleReading Round Up: The Best in Gay Fiction for 2010
When I began writing this post I had the intention of listing ten of my favourite books in gay fiction for 2010. But it quickly became apparent that it would be impossible to restrict the list to only...
View ArticleStarCrossed 4: In The Blink of An Eye by Reno MacLeod and Jaye Valentine
StarCrossed 4: In the Blink of an Eye takes us back to Salem, Massachusetts, where the town is evolving from openly making amends for its witch-burning past to something darker. While some people...
View ArticleReading Round Up: The Best in LGBTQ Fiction for 2011
Each December I compile my list of favourite books read over the course of the year. Unfortunately, the trend I experienced in 2010 persisted in 2011 and my reading and reviewing time was extremely...
View ArticleReading Round Up: Words and Music
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Reading Round Up. This post, however, is slightly different from my periodic summaries of the books I’ve read and reviewed in that it is focused on reading and...
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