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Just for Christmas by George Seaton

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Title: Just for Christmas
Author: George Seaton
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Length: 11 pages
Buy the book: Publisher , Amazon Kindle
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Blurb:
Christmas is a holiday with family at the heart of the season. In this short story from the author of CONTINUUM, THE COLORADO COW AND OTHER STORIES and ANOTHER FINE CHRISTMAS, Frank discovers that sometimes discovering who you are is […]

Read the review at Three Dollar Bill Reviews:
http://threedollarbillreviews.com/2011/02/01/just-for-christmas-by-george-seaton/
http://threedollarbillreviews.com/?p=2104

A Dangerous Man by Anne Brooke

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A Dangerous Man
Title: A Dangerous Man
Author: Anne Brooke
Publisher: Bristlecone Pine Press (ecopy) and Cheyenne Publishing (paperback)
Length: Novel / 250 pgs
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Blurb:
Michael Jones, a young gay artist and part-time prostitute will do anything to stage his first exhibition. When he falls in love with rich financier, Jack Hutchinson, he seems set to achieve his […]

Review:

After finishing A Dangerous Man I’m incredibly impressed with Brooke’s ability to evoke emotion, tension, angst, and mystery. This novel is a compelling story that left me breathless, heart broken, and depressed. I’m glad I could experience the author’s incredible talent yet I wish I’d never read this either. I can easily recommend the story but with the caveat that it’s not easy and definitely no happy ending, yet the brilliance of the writing is something to experience.[…]

Read the whole review at Three Dollar Bill Reviews:
http://threedollarbillreviews.com/2010/12/21/a-dangerous-man-by-anne-brooke/
http://threedollarbillreviews.com/?p=1936

Or at Goodreads HERE!

Kelland by Paul G. Bens, Jr.

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KellandTitle: Kelland
Author: Paul G Bens
Publisher: Smashwords, Casperian Books
Length: Novel / 210 pgs
Buy the book: ebook , Print

My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Review:
Kelland proves that Paul G Bens is an exceptional author. After reading his collection of short stories, I knew I wanted to read Kelland and it doesn’t disappoint. While well written and technically easy to read, the topics broached are anything but light. The characters suffer, deeply, but this isn’t a depressing book. Instead it’s compelling, interesting, and dynamic on several levels. You can’t put the book down and don’t want it to end yet you know what’s coming isn’t necessarily good.

Read the rest of the review at Three Dollar Bill HERE or at Goodreads HERE!

White, Christian by Christopher Stoddard

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White, ChristianWhite, Christian by Christopher Stoddard

Blurb:

The borderline lifestyle of twenty-year-old Christian White is a carnival of drugs and sex, accessorized by designer clothes and frequent stealing or scamming. Underneath the decadence are haunting memories of childhood abuse, the death of a brother and a father’s criminal past.

Expecting to make a fresh start, Christian relocates from San Francisco to New York, just as his friends are being rounded up by the police; but life only spirals farther out of control in the new setting. Instead of drugs, Christian’s existence is beginning to center around sex. He has let himself slip into prostitution, and he may have even played a part in the murder of a successful architect, although he can’t remember the evening entirely. It has become increasingly clear to Christian that the only way to save himself is to come to terms with the past, no matter how painful ~ or how dangerous ~ the trip.

My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

shocking but fabulous

The Glass Minstrel by Hayden Thorne

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The Glass MinstrelThe Glass Minstrel by Hayden Thorne

My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Title: The Glass Minstrel
Author: Hayden Thorne
Publisher: Bristlecone Pine Press
Length: Novel / 200 pges

Blurb:
The Christmas season in mid-19th century Bavaria is brought to life in the THE GLASS MINSTREL, a new, original historical novel from acclaimed author Hayden Thorne. Two fathers, Abelard Bauer and Andreas Schifffer, are brought together through the tragic deaths of their eldest sons. Bauer, a brilliant toymaker, fashions glass Christmas ornaments and his latest creation is a minstrel with a secret molded into its features. [contd..]

http://threedollarbillreviews.com/2010/10/19/the-glass-minstrel-by-hayden-thorne/
http://threedollarbillreviews.com/?p=1636

A Red-Tainted Silence by Carolyn Gray

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A Red-Tainted SilenceA Red-Tainted Silence by Carolyn Gray

Blurb:
I’ll never forget the first time I saw him–the wild shock of black hair, the beautiful blue eyes, the full lips with that perfected pout. Such a diva, even from the beginning. I was entranced, smitten, mesmerized. He had the face of an angel, and the voice of one, too–and almost from the start I began the pattern of losing Nicholas. I was good at that–I guess I never believed I really deserved him, what he would bring to us both. What we would experience, because of him. What we could be, because of him. What I could be because of the strength and belief he had in me.

Denial denial denial.

Damn, I was good at that. But I was going to have to get good at trust and acceptance, if I wanted to keep him. If, that is, if I could find him again. It was almost as if he’d never been.

But he had existed. I’d heard him, felt him, experienced him. I had his words in my heart to prove it. It would, I knew, just be a matter of time before I found him again, and then I would never, ever let him go.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

you always hurt the ones you love.. when you’re an idiot

One More Soldier by Marie Sexton

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One More SoldierOne More Soldier by Marie Sexton

Blurb:
Houston, 1970

Will has known Bran since he first taught him to swim, when Bran was eleven years old. But now, seven years later, Bran has returned from a year of hard work on a ranch outside of Houston and he is no longer the boy Will remembers. He’s now eighteen, quite grown up, and making no secret of the fact that he’s interested in a sexual relationship with Will. At first, Will is horrified. He has a hard time forgetting the Bran he knew as a child, and given their seventeen-year age difference, he can’t understand why Bran is interested in him. But everything changes when he finds out that Bran has been drafted.

Will and Bran will have only two weeks together. But two weeks may be enough to change Will’s life.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

who doesn’t love virgins?