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Review: False Colors by Alex Beecroft
Review by Leslie H. Nicoll False Colors, by Alex Beecroft, is one of two books recently released by Running Press in their new line of m/m historicals (the other is Trangressions, by Erastes). Two more...
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Review: Pure Folly by Madelynne Ellis
Review by Leslie H. Nicoll When Alastair Romilly de Vere accepts a dare to spend a night in a haunted folly, it’s not the prospect of a ghostly presence that he finds daunting. Alastair is desperately...
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Review: Lessons in Discovery by Charlie Cochrane
Orlando’s broken memory may break his lover’s heart. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 3 Cambridge, 1906. On the very day Jonty Stewart proposes that he and Orlando Coppersmith move in together, Fate...
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Review: The Golden Age of Gay Fiction
Review by Leslie H. Nicoll It was the first great explosion of gay writing in history. These books were about gay characters. They were written mostly by gay writers. Above all, they were for gay...
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Review: Divided Hearts by Terry O’Reilly
Review by Leslie H. Nicoll When Jonathan and Nathaniel part ways, Nathaniel heads for the Ohio territory and a new life with Robert. Robert soon realizes his friend will never reciprocate his love...
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Review: The Lord Won’t Mind by Gordon Merrick
Looking at The Lord Won’t Mind from a historical perspective Title: The Lord Won’t Mind Author: Gordon Merrick Published: 1970; republished in 1995 Length: 255 pages Charlie Mills and Peter Martin are...
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Review: Say To Me Where The Flowers Are
Say To Me Where the Flowers Are Augusta Li and Eon de Beaumont World War II draws to a close. Hope and happiness are scarce on the streets of Berlin, but step inside one of the city’s celebrated...
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Review: Death of a Blues Angel by Sarah Black
Rafael Hurt comes from Mississippi to play Blues guitar, and he’s hiding a dangerous secret. When a young girl is found murdered during Rafe’s first gig at The Blues Angel, Rafe and Deke Davis, a...
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Review: American Hunks by David L. Chapman and Brett Josef Grubisic
The “American hunk” is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines,...
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Review: Cabin Fever by B.A. Tortuga
Horace is a loner, a mountain man with a claim to a tiny stream of gold and a lonely cabin in the woods. When he finds young Walker wandering lost in his mountains just before the snow flies, he...
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Review: The Lonely War by Alan Chin
The key issue keeping the U.S. armed forces from going beyond Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to give gay servicemen equal rights is a blind fear of love relationships forming, not between enlisted soldiers but...
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Review: To Hell You Ride by Julia Talbot
Big Roy is a hard rock miner with a not so secret love for the theater, so when he hears a new troupe of actors are coming to the Telluride opera house to put on a Shakespeare play, he saddles his mule...
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Review: Lavender Boys by S.E. Taylor
Brock Evans heads for Hollywood in 1935, hoping to be the next Clark Gable, and meets another would-be star in Randy Pearce, who works as a soda jerk while awaiting his big break. It’s love at first...
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Review: Voyageurs by Keira Andrews
Jack Cavendish needs to get to his station at Fort Charlotte, a fur-trading outpost in Grand Portage, Upper Canada. The fort is only accessible by canoe, and there’s just one man willing to take him on...
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Review: Lessons in Seduction by Charlie Cochrane
This time, one touch could destroy everything… The suspected murder of the king’s ex-mistress is Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart’s most prestigious case yet. And the most...
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Review: The Year Without a Summer by G.S. Wiley
Lieutenant Robert Pierce of the Royal Navy was raised in the shadow of his father, a great admiral, and has spent his life on the high seas fighting the ships of Napoleon Bonaparte. When he loses a leg...
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Review: The Gentleman and the Rogue by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon
When war veteran Sir Alan Watleigh goes searching for sex, he never imagines the street rat he brings home for one last bit of pleasure in his darkest hour will be the man who hauls him back from the...
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Last Gasp by Erastes, Chris Smith, Charlie Cochrane and Jordan Taylor
Last Gasp, a series of four short novellas wherein we discover: four gay couples who struggle to find happiness during historical periods on the brink of change. Take a trip back to 1840s Hong Kong,...
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Who Is In Your Family Closet?
CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM LESLIE H NICHOL The above picture and caption are from an ad campaign by Progressive Insurance which just tickles me: I love the idea of...
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Leslie Nicoll’s Book Swap
Poisoned Ivy by Scot D. Ryersson The Arsenic Flower by Scot D. Ryersson Hidden Conflict by Alex Beecroft, Mark Probst, Jordan Taylor, and E.N. Holland The Painting by F.K. Wallace Kindred Hearts by...
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