Aristide, Léandre, and Perrin pledge only three loyalties in life: their King, their captain, and their passion for each other. So when the musketeers discover a plan to accuse M. de Tréville of treason, the initial impulse to kill the messenger, Benoît, is tempered by their need to unmask the plotter. But their first two [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, 2 stars, Ariel Tachna, Europe, Fiction, Nikki Bennett, Reviews | Leave a Comment »
“When I think of the things that happened and the things I did, it is as though I were living them … My hands feel what I touched, and the smells that surrounded me fill my nostrils … Old joys swell my heart, old sorrows clutch at my throat … I remember every face, every [...]
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‘I know who you are.’The cat’s tangled thongs fell a second time. Mick flinched, arching away from the lash. ‘I know what you’ve done.’ Mick’s strong shoulders shivered under another blow. He caught the eye of the handsome midshipman. The stinging heat on his broad back increased, as did the burning ache between his spread [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, Age of Sail, Fiction, Jack Gordon, Reviews, pirates, three stars | 1 Comment »
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 the perilous, thousand-mile journey from Montreal this late in the summer. Young Christian Smith, the son of an Ojibwe [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 4 stars, Leslie H Nicoll, Reviews | Tagged: Canada, Kiera Andrews | 3 Comments »
Justin Alexander Taylor had always dreamed of a life at sea. Living on the tip of England’s coastline, Justin escaped one night from his abusive father and stowed away on a ship. What Justin didn’t realize was the sloop, His Revenge, was a pirate ship, out for a broadside and gold. Captain Richard Jones escaped [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 1½ stars, Age of Sail, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, Reviews, ebook, pirates | Tagged: 18th Century, 1½ stars, Age of Sail, ebook, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, pirates, Reviews | 24 Comments »
Graphic Novel Dreaded pirate Black Wade has a cruel mind and an explosive sexuality. His mercilessness is legendary, but it wavers when he encounters the young and warm-hearted English officer Jack Wilkins. these two absolutely different men are prisoners to their fate. overwhelmed by their passion they unite in a fight for freedom and love. [...]
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Lt. Peter Thorton of the 18th century British navy must struggle to come out gay while surviving storms at sea, ship to ship battles, duels, kidnapping, and more in his quest for true love and honor. My own Quick Summary Lt. Peter Thorton is in love with fellow lieutenant Perry. Both men are given commissions [...]
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Pirates! Rapiers! Cannons and flintlocks! These are all the idea behind Galleons and Gangplanks. Bringing back the days when pirates ruled the high seas, this collection of stories has no shortage of adventure, danger, and excitement. From Sean Michael comes Searching the Seas, a story about an honest man kidnapped by pirates, used as collateral [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, 18th Century, 3½ Stars, Age of Sail, Fiction, Julia Talbot, Mychael Black, Reviews, Sean Michael, Willa Otaki, pirates | Tagged: Age of Sail, 3½ Stars, Fiction, Reviews, 18th Century, 17th Century, Julia Talbot, Mychael Black, Sean Michael, Willa Otaki, pirates | 2 Comments »
When sword for hire Teodoro Ciéza de Vivar accepts a commission to “rescue” Lord Christian Blackwood from unsuitable influences, he has no idea he’s landed himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate King Philip IV of Spain and blame the English ambassador for the deed. Nor does he expect the spoiled child he’s [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, Ariel Tachna, Europe, Nikki Bennett, Reviews, three stars | 2 Comments »
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Filed under: 18th Century, Advent Calendar, Alex Beecroft | Tagged: 18th Century, Advent Calendar, Alex Beecroft | 37 Comments »
Running away in 1762 from a dull life in fashionable Georgian Bath, Jesse Sunderland joins an ocean-going merchant ship. Just nineteen years old, naive and keen for adventure in the expanding world where England rules the seas and dominates the colonies, he has to not only deal with the harshness of this life at sea [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 1½ stars, Age of Sail, America, England, Fiction, Reviews, Steph Minns | 13 Comments »
When Lucien Mayer, 14th Earl of Ravensberry is taken hostage by a gang of highwaymen, he is drawn to the damaged, reclusive Ambrosius and the dangerous, brooding Dante. Torn between escaping and satisfying his body’s needs, his life will never be the same again. Review by Erastes Oh dear, I thought. Another kidnap/rape-non con turns [...]
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The exciting prequel to Beyond the Veil! Read how Malik became the pirate captain who fell for Robert, and how he was forced into a life of pain, fear and violence following his capture by the Corsairs. Review by Erastes This is a prequel and sequel to “Beyond the Veil” which was reviewed earlier on [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 3½ Stars, Age of Sail, Fiction, Reviews, Stevie Woods, ebook, pirates | Tagged: m/m, 18th Century, book review, Stevie Woods | Leave a Comment »
An erotic adventure story for men who love men, set at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion in war-torn Scotland. Charles Gordon is sold into near-slavery as the plaything of corrupt military officials, but his talents-both in and out of bed-win him powerful friends as well as dangerous foes. Review by Jean Roberta. “You’ll take [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 4 stars, Fiction, Jacobite, James Lear, Reviews | Tagged: 4 stars, Jacobite, James Lear, review | 3 Comments »
Third Lieutenant Andrew Clayton wanted senior officer Daniel Barrett from the moment they first met. Something about the charismatic man with the scarred knuckles and street-tough voice heats Andrew’s blood and makes his body ache. He’d give up everything for just one taste of the forbidden—his position in Society, his commission…even his life. Daniel’s sure [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 4 stars, Age of Sail, Fiction, Reviews, ebook | 4 Comments »
Through the centuries, lives and loves have been lost to the shadows. Stevie Woods brings redemption and a new love in DEATH’S DESIRE; Jardonn Smith has a frisky ghost showing two men the pleasures of love in GREEN RIVER; and Charlie Cochrane’s tale of future love is predicted by a ghost in THE SHADE ON [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 1930's, 19th Century, 3½ Stars, Anthology, Fiction, Reviews, novella | 1 Comment »
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 fully. What can he do? Robert agrees to help the English translate in their negotiations with the Shawnee and in doing so [...]
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In this sequel to Shadow Road: The Page of Swords, Bailey is now training under Lord Charles, and he’s working hard toward his goal of taking over as The Shadow, just as Charles took the position over from his late lover, Robert. Things are not easy for either of them, though. Bailey yearns for Charles’ [...]
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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 books are scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2009. I have read both False Colors and Transgressions [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, Leslie H Nicoll, Reviews, five stars | 9 Comments »
Handsome Mark Antonious deMontford had been raised on a farm in Newbury, England, unaware of his parentage until his nineteenth birthday when, during a visit to London, he encounters a world of wealth, intense sexual appetites, and an Italian by the name of Francesco. Francesco Cavalla is bold and fearless. But the powerful bodyguard who [...]
Filed under: 1 star, 18th Century, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, Reviews, ebook | Tagged: 1 star, 18th Century, ebook, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, Reviews | 11 Comments »
Blurb: The heroes of this story meet in a rather unlikely place – a brothel. Gerard, after deflowering the young aristocrat-turned-prostitute Jacques, pays to free him from his profession and spares him a life of selling his body to survive. Jacques shows up at Gerard’s door soon after, willing to work to repay his debt, [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2½ stars, Erastes, Reviews, graphic novel, yaoi | 5 Comments »
Captured by the aggressive pirate captain of a Barbary corsair ship off the North African coast in the latter half of the eighteenth century, David Jordan faces a life of slavery of the worst kind when he is taken to the specialist markets of Tripoli . However, the enigmatic man who finally buys him is [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 3½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Phaze, Reviews, Stevie Woods, ebook, pirates | 3 Comments »
The year is 1797. John Chapman, an impulsive young man and a sexual outlaw, forsaken in the bitter winter of the Allegheny Plateau, clings to his one tenuous dream: to claim a future in the Western outpost. Unarmed and near death, Chapman is on the brink of giving up when an unexpected rescue changes his [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 3½ Stars, Fiction, Mark R Probst, Reviews, Western | Tagged: 3½ Stars, gay historical fiction, review, Western | 5 Comments »
A nice bonus for you today as Insubordination is a free-read and can be found here at Linden Bay For the sake of their lives and careers, Josh and Peter agreed to put their need for one another behind them. But then a luxurious and sensual dinner together becomes foreplay, leading Josh to an act [...]
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Cobbler’s apprentice Thomas Williams is on his way out for the night when he’s stuffed into a carriage and whisked away from the staid life he’s always known. Stolen away from his Quaker master, Thomas is sold into the household of Leon Chambellan, a Frenchman also known as the Keeper. Caught up in the latent [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2½ stars, Erastes, Fiction, Reviews, ebook, novella | 1 Comment »
NAPOLEON’S PRIVATES 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet Harper Entertainment, ISBN 978-0-06-125728-5 From the blurb on the author’s website: What were Casanova’s best pick-up lines? (They got better as he got older). Which Italian Renaissance genius “discovered” the clitoris? (He could have just asked the Venetian nuns). What was the party etiquette at [...]
Filed under: 13th Century, 14th Century, 15th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 1900's, 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 19th Century, 4 stars, Age of Sail, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Early Middle Ages, Reviews, Victorian, history | 3 Comments »
Blurb from Naomi Brooks’ site here: Kestrel on the Horizon” is the first in a projected series of pirate novels. Nathaniel Collins never expected to be a slaveholder. But the sad blue eyes of the man on the block spurred him to an impulse purchase. Adlai had expected to inherit his white father’s estate, not [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 3½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Reviews, ebook, pirates | 5 Comments »
Ono Suzue: A Man of Talent in the Meiji Era Part One: The Pet Rabbit by Silapa Jarun Review by Alex Beecroft Ono Suzue is the son of a samurai. His father took the boy to war with him, exposing him to horrors which have permanently scarred his psyche. Now he is a westernised doctor, [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 1½ stars, Japan | 4 Comments »
Edited blurb: In the year 1746, after the armies of the Scottish Highlands rebelling against the King of England were at last defeated at the Battle of Culloden, the English government began a vicious campaign of punishment and humiliation against the people of Scotland. Jamie MacDonald, a young Scot mourning the deaths of his father [...]
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Review by Alex Beecroft This is not a novel at all, but a collection of three long short stories. (Or perhaps a short story and two novellas). The three are ‘The Hellfire Club’, ‘The Succubus’, and ‘The Haunted Soldier’. The Hellfire Club is set before ‘Lord John and the Private Matter’ and sees John [...]
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Review by Alex Beecroft First published in 1992 by GMP Books. A Second, Revised and Enlarged edition published in October 2006 by Chalfont Press (Tempus Publishing, UK). Available through Amazon, or via Rictor Norton’s site HERE which is a great place to go for a more detailed run down of the contents. It’s also a [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 19th Century, Alex Beecroft, Essential Reads, Resources, five stars, history, textbook | 5 Comments »
From the publisher’s description: Banished from England and forced to work as indentured servants in Colonial Virginia, Lance Morley and Adam Bradley share a secret that could cost them their lives. As Virginia Bedfellows, they find love, passion, and pleasure on the Ashley Landing plantation, building a life together that’s immoral in the eyes of [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 4 stars, Lee Benoit, Reviews | Tagged: Colonial America | 5 Comments »
Reveiw by Lee Benoit Years ago, when I used to search desperately for anything and everything in gay fantasy (that is, when I would read anything), I came across Mel Keegan. The early works, regardless of genre, had a “boy’s own” feel that bored me after a while. The emphatic exceptions were Keegan’s historical novels [...]
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