Review: Beyond the Pale (The Last Rune #1) by Mark Anthony (1998)
Rating: ★★ Genre: High Fantasy Categories: Fairies, Royalty/Nobility, Multiple Worlds, Witches/Wizards Content Warnings: Highlight to read: Reference to previous child sexual abuse. Onscreen attempted rape. Some instances of homophobic dialogue. Some instances of ableist language. Only black character (also only POC) dies. Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: ER doctor Grace Beckett […]
Review: Kirith Kirin by Jim Grimsley (2000)
“”I leaned over him and felt as if I were staring into a seething cauldron, fires licking the rim of his face. Breathless, I kissed the maelstrom.” – Kirith Kirin, Jim Grimsley Rating: ★★★★½ Genre: High Fantasy Categories: M/M, wizards/magicians, royalty and political intrigue, fated lovers Content Warnings (highlight to read): Significant age-gap between the […]
Review: Stormhaven (Whyborne & Griffin #3) by Jordan L. Hawk (2013)
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Paranormal, Horror, Romance Categories: M/M, mystery, eldritch Content Warnings: Highlight to read: Abuse of the mentally ill. References to previous rapes, and an onscreen attempted rape. Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Investigating a man’s murder is complicated enough without some god from the depths of the sea attempting […]
Review: Threshold (Whyborne & Griffin #2) by Jordan L. Hawk (2013)
Rating: ★★★★½ Genre: Paranormal, Horror, Romance Categories: M/M, mystery, eldritch Content Warnings: N/A Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Having survived one eldritch horror already, philologist Percival Endicott Whyborne and his lover and partner, private detective Griffin Flaherty, are two of the few people able to answer his father’s request to investigate paranormal […]
Review: Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin #1) by Jordan L. Hawk (2012)
Rating: ★★★¾ Genre: Paranormal, Horror, Romance Categories: M/M, ghosts/spirits, mystery, eldritch Content Warnings: N/A Buy It At: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Repressed scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne prefers to hide away in his museum office with books in dead languages to avoid any and all attention—and so, when attractive ex-Pinkerton private detective Griffin Flaherty […]