Posted on January 23, 2012 by essayel
Ahoy, me proud beauty, shiver me timbers! I ask ye to sail me jollyboat on the high seas, lubber, but will ye dare to accept? On offer be a pirate’s life full of danger and risk, and not just to yer neck, but to yer very virgin heart! There’s many a bodice to be ripped–or [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2011 by speakitsname
Five years ago Drew Hibbard dismissed Rogan Brockport from his life. Now, they meet again at the Governor’s Ball and Rogan will know the reason for the abrupt, unexplained cut. After Rogan saves Drew’s life during a pirate raid, he kidnaps him and the perfect opportunity to extract answers from Drew is finally at hand. [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2011 by Erastes
Young Rob Winston is deemed too small of stature and unsoldierly to take his place in the military ranks of the American Revolution. All he is seen fit to do is to become the sexual comfort and treasure of Colonel Seth Hampton of the army of General Nicholas Herkiner in the Mohawk Valley campaign. With [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2 stars, America, America War of Independence, BDSM, Dirk Hessian, ebook, Fiction, novella, Reviews, War | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 2, 2011 by Erastes
Baldwin’s haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an American finds himself unable to repress his impulses, despite his determination to live the conventional life he envisions for himself [...]
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Posted on June 29, 2011 by Erastes
A very early gay novel, originally published in 1900, by a Belgian writer with the first English translation in 1908, set in 19th Century rural Flanders. A gay count returns after years abroad to an isolated uptight community where his love for a peasant boy brings furious attacks by fanatic and bigoted villages whipped up [...]
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Posted on June 20, 2011 by speakitsname
When the young Duke of Avon takes a back exit at a masquerade ball, expecting to find like-minded players to share a high-stakes game of cards or dice, nothing can prepare him for what he finds. But in the arms of mysterious Lord Donahue, Sebastian finds this new game is more pleasurable than anything he [...]
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Posted on June 13, 2011 by Erastes
Toby’s life is simple and uneventful. He spends most of his time working alongside his brother at the Blue Boar Tavern, welcoming travelers and serving locals. Occasionally, he indulges in illicit, illegal liaisons with men he knows he will never see again. When an old friend, a man who left to make his fortune as [...]
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Posted on May 22, 2011 by jfaraday
When Julian is forced to turn to crime after he loses his inheritance, he decides that he can do better than the incompetent highwayman who tries to waylay him one dark night. That’s how the High-Class Highwayman comes into his own, and he does very well for himself, at least until Griffen Michalis comes along. [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2011 by speakitsname
Their pirate vessel destroyed, Captain Amery White, ship’s surgeon Gavin Watson, and quartermaster Quinn Davies are left without a livelihood or a home. The three men have served together since they were old enough to put to sea, sharing hardships and comfort until Amery and Gavin formalized their union with a matelotage—the pirate equivalent of [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2½ stars, Age of Sail, Ariel Tachna, Fiction, pirates, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 20, 2011 by Erastes
I had always believed that I would return home to empty rooms for the rest of my life, for who would I want, and be wanted by in return? It had been an impossible alchemy until Alexander Montrose, and the summer of 1923. 1923 was the summer I fell in love with Alexander Montrose. I [...]
Filed under: 1920's, 4 stars, ebook, Europe, Fiction, Reviews, Sophia Deri-Bowen | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 8, 2011 by Erastes
(From Publisher’s Weekly) A biographical fantasia, White’s latest imagines the final days of the poet and novelist Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage), who died of TB at age 28 in 1900. At the same time, White also imagines and writes The Painted Boy, a work that he has Crane say he began in [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 2½ stars, America, Edmund White, England, Europe, Fiction, Reviews, Victorian | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 16, 2011 by Erastes
When Victorian private investigator Nick Romney’s step-father, an Anglican bishop, is murdered, Nick refuses to get involved. At the urging of his family, though, Nick and his lover Davy step in to investigate. Together they uncover the truth of the bishop’s involvement in the dark and horrifying world of child prostitution, the reason why he [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, detective, Europe, Fiction, five stars, Murder Mystery, Reviews, Victorian | 8 Comments »
Posted on January 20, 2011 by speakitsname
They once faced each other on a battlefield. Now soldier-turned-spy Jonathan Reese must keep watch over the man he’s never forgotten. A close encounter reveals Karl von Binder, the count’s son, also recalls the day he spared Jonathan’s life. Sparks fly between the former enemies and Jonathan begins to lose perspective on his mission. He [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, Bonnie Dee, ebook, England, Europe, Fiction, five stars, Reviews, Summer Devon, Victorian | 4 Comments »
Posted on December 14, 2010 by speakitsname
CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR!
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Posted on December 10, 2010 by speakitsname
CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR!
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Posted on December 8, 2010 by speakitsname
CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR!
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Posted on September 19, 2010 by Erastes
Greetings, ye sons and daughters of the bilge. Today, for those less enlightened souls, is the world-famous Talk Like a Pirate Day and so we are celebrating here – on The Macaronis AND on the Speak Its Name Chat Group with a myriad of piratey based fun. That doesn’t necessarily mean we will be keel-hauling [...]
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Posted on September 9, 2010 by speakitsname
Twenty year old Richard Giles is living on the streets of London in the year 1660, scrounging for food and shelter the best he is able after the closure of his place of employment and death of his mother. After being given shelter for the night by a kindly old man Richard is back on [...]
Filed under: 1 star, 17th Century, ebook, England, Europe, John Simpson, novella, Restoration, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Posted on July 15, 2010 by speakitsname
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 [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2010 by Erastes
“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 [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 19th Century, Anel Viz, Europe, Fiction, five stars, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 7, 2010 by speakitsname
‘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, pirates, Reviews, three stars | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 11, 2010 by Leslie
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 »
Posted on March 9, 2010 by Alex Beecroft
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, ebook, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, pirates, Reviews | Tagged: 18th Century, 1½ stars, Age of Sail, ebook, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, pirates, Reviews | 24 Comments »
Posted on March 5, 2010 by Erastes
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. [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 4½ Stars, Age of Sail, Fiction, graphic novel, pirates, Reviews | Tagged: 18th Century, 4½ Stars, Age of Sail, Fiction, graphic novel, pirates, Reviews | 6 Comments »
Posted on February 27, 2010 by Erastes
Antoine Auguste, Marquis de Vernnay, is twenty-four and bored. Bored with women at the house he frequents on la rue Charles V, and bored with the elaborate rituals and devices he must use in order to achieve an orgasm. But then he meets Honey at an exclusive men’s club, and has his first sexual experience [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 1½ stars, Christiane France, ebook, Europe, novella, Reviews | Tagged: 18th Century, 1½ stars, Christiane France, ebook, France, novella, Reviews | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 25, 2010 by Erastes
Charles Latham, wastrel younger son of the Earl of Clitheroe, returns home drunk from the theatre to find his father gruesomely dead. He suspects murder. But when the Latham ghosts turn nasty, and Charles finds himself falling in love with the priest brought in to calm them, he has to unearth the skeleton in the [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, Alex Beecroft, Authors, England, Fiction, five stars, novella, Reviews | Tagged: 18th Century, Alex Beecroft, Authors, England, Fiction, five stars, novella, Reviews | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 15, 2010 by Alex Beecroft
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 [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 4½ Stars, Age of Sail, M Kei, Reviews | Tagged: 18th Century, 4½ Stars, Age of Sail, M Kei, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 1, 2010 by Alex Beecroft
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: Fiction, Reviews, Age of Sail, 17th Century, 18th Century, 3½ Stars, pirates, Julia Talbot, Sean Michael, Mychael Black, Willa Okati | Tagged: 17th Century, 18th Century, 3½ Stars, Age of Sail, Fiction, Julia Talbot, Mychael Black, pirates, Reviews, Sean Michael, Willa Okati | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 2, 2010 by Erastes
Life at sea brings new experiences to Vincent, but tragedy eclipses the happiness in his heart. Blurb: As Le Frai De Demon coasts the ocean waves, Vincent and Julian continue their love affair. Upon arriving at Hellion to trade wares, Julian takes Vincent to a special place where the crack of a whip brings them [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 2½ stars, Age of Sail, ebook, Sarah Masters, short stories | Tagged: Age of Sail, book review, Sarah Masters | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 29, 2009 by speakitsname
Hidden Conflict presents four novellas that tell the experiences of gay military men, their families and friends, during times of conflict and war. Each story presents a unique voice at a distinct time in history. Review by Vashtan I’ve been in a reviewing funk over the question how to review and to what end. While [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 1910's, 19th Century, 4½ Stars, Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, E N Holland, Fiction, Jordan Taylor, Mark R Probst, Reviews, World War I, World War II | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 27, 2009 by Erastes
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 [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2009 by speakitsname
Posted on November 21, 2009 by Alex Beecroft
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 »
Posted on November 12, 2009 by Erastes
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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Posted on November 7, 2009 by Erastes
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, ebook, Fiction, pirates, Reviews, Stevie Woods | Tagged: 18th Century, book review, m/m, Stevie Woods | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 30, 2009 by Erastes
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 »
Posted on October 19, 2009 by Alex Beecroft
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, ebook, Fiction, Reviews | 4 Comments »
Posted on October 17, 2009 by speakitsname
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, novella, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 13, 2009 by Leslie
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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Posted on September 21, 2009 by Erastes
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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Posted on May 18, 2009 by Leslie
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, five stars, Leslie H Nicoll, Reviews | 9 Comments »
Posted on May 4, 2009 by speakitsname
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, ebook, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, Reviews | Tagged: 1 star, 18th Century, ebook, Fiction, G.A. Hauser, Reviews | 11 Comments »
Posted on November 24, 2008 by Erastes
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, graphic novel, Reviews, yaoi | 5 Comments »
Posted on August 30, 2008 by Erastes
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, ebook, Fiction, Phaze, pirates, Reviews, Stevie Woods | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 22, 2008 by Erastes
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 »
Posted on August 21, 2008 by Erastes
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 [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, ebook, Fiction, five stars, free read, Reviews | Tagged: Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, free read, gay historical romance | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 8, 2008 by Erastes
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, ebook, Erastes, Fiction, novella, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 9, 2008 by emmacollingwood
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, history, Reviews, Victorian | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 5, 2008 by speakitsname
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 »
Posted on January 24, 2008 by Hayden
After his mistress is killed by rogue highwaymen, servant Bailey ends up in the hands of Lord Charles, the man his lady was to marry. Sick with fever, exhausted from his ordeal, Bailey can only remember that someone cared for him gently when he first arrived, and that the mysterious Lord Charles seems to have [...]
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