Recommended Reads for May, 2016

Title: Kieran & Drew Author: L.A. Gilbert Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Release Date: March 1st 2013 Genre(s): ContemPorary, YA/NA Page Count: 256 Reviewed by: Ele Heat Level: 3.5 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Kieran Appleby can't wait until graduation to escape his life in the Keys. His only friend is the school janitor, his father doesn’t talk to him, and Kieran doesn’t know how to mention he’s gay. No wonder he daydreams about college anywhere but Florida. High school baseball star Drew Anderson has only wish in life: to be able to care for those…

Title: Mulligans (2nd Edition) Author: Charlie David Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Release Date: May 25, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Page Count: 200 Reviewed by: Crabbypatty Heat Level: 2 flames out of 5 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Chase never had many friends, but at college, he meets and forms close ties with straight jock Tyler Davidson—a connection he fears he’ll lose if he tells Tyler he’s gay. Keeping his sexuality secret becomes harder for Chase as he joins Tyler and his family at their idyllic lake house for the summer. It grows more and more difficult for Chase to avoid…

Title: Bound By Love Author: Cassidy Ryan Publisher: Totally Bound/Pride Publishing Release Date: May 25, 2009 Genre(s): Contemporary/BDSM Page Count: 41 Reviewed by: Gigi Heat Level: 5 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Love hurts – and not always in a good way! For two years Rhys has had a casual D/s relationship with Draven. It was never supposed to be anything more than an arrangement; a way for Rhys to occasionally indulge his submissive side. Draven made it very clear at the outset that he was not looking for forever, and Rhys was happy…

Title: Helping Hand Author: Jay Northcote  Narrator: Mark Steadman Publisher: Jaybird Press Release Date: May 13th 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Romance Length: 3 hours and 20 mins Reviewed by: Lily G. Blunt Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Jez Fielding and James MacKenzie - Big Mac to his mates - are in their second year at uni. After partying too hard last year, they make a pact to rein themselves in. While their housemates are out drinking every weekend, Jez and Mac stay in to save cash and focus on their studies. When Jez suggests watching some…

Author: Mark Merlis Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Release Date: March 24, 2015 Genre(s): Gay Literary Fiction, Historical Page Count: 272 Reviewed by: LenaRibka Heat Level: 2 flames out of 5 Rating: 5+ stars out of 5 Blurb: Jonathan Ascher, an acclaimed 1960s radical writer and cultural hero, has been dead for thirty years. When a would-be biographer approaches Ascher’s widow Martha, she delves for the first time into her husband’s papers and all the secrets that come tumbling out of them. She finds journals that begin as a wisecracking chronicle of life at the fringes of the New York…

Title: Want Author: Kade Boehme Publisher: Self Published Release Date: May 17, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Romance Page Count: 134 pages Reviewed by: Lili Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 Blurb: D is over the games. Dante "D" Vargas is home in Miami, to stay. He has a job he likes as the new head of bonds and bounty for Mack's Security and after six years of making a mess with Trevor Mackentire, he's ready—he thinks they're both ready—for them to stop playing around and figure out if what they have is real. But…

Title: Bonds of Denial (Wicked Play #5) Author: Lynda Aicher Publisher: Carina Press Release Date: February 3, 2014 Genre(s): Contemporary/Male Escort Page Length: 281 pages Reviewed by: Gigi Heat Level: 5 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: It's been twenty years since Rockford Fielding's father punished him for kissing another boy. Now a grown man with a military career behind him, Rock continues to deny his true desires, even while working security at The Den, the most decadent sex club in town. But after a year of watching gorgeous Carter Montgomery come and go on the arms…

Title: Come What May (All Saints #1) Author: A.M. Arthur Publisher: Carina Press Release Date: May 23, 2016 Genre(s): Contemporary Page Count: 320 Reviewed by: Vallie Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Blurb: Jonas needs Tate. He just doesn't know it yet. Or at least, he doesn't want to admit it. Because there is no way Jonas Ashcroft is gay. He's a straight, carefree frat boy player, just like any good son of a conservative state senator. If only his struggle to convince everyone—especially himself—didn't leave him so miserable. No matter how many…

Title: Violence Begets Author: P.T. Denys Publisher: Wilde Works; Indie Artist Press Release Date: December 25, 2013 Genre(s): Gay Fiction, Young Adult, Coming of Age, Contemporary Page Count: 364 pages Reviewed by: Natalie Heat Level: 2.5 flames out of 5 Rating: 5+ stars out of 5 Blurb: After a tragic accident devastates his family, 16-year-old Rick St. James starts his junior year of high school without any friends in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. When he meets Kevin Vincent, he’s too distracted by the promise of new friends to see that Kevin has secrets of his own. Having…

Title: Rattlesnake Author: Kim Fielding Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Release Date: August 31, 2015 Genre(s): Contemporary Romance Page Count: 240 pages Reviewed by: Gigi Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5 Rating: 5+ stars out of 5 Blurb: A drifter since his teens, Jimmy Dorsett has no home and no hope. What he does have is a duffel bag, a lot of stories, and a junker car. Then one cold desert night he picks up a hitchhiker and ends up with something more: a letter from a dying man to the son he hasn’t seen in years. On a quest to…