Book of the Week Winners!
Here are the winners of this week’s Book of the Week Poll.
Both will go through to the Book of the Month Poll
The Devil Inside by Nicky James
REVIEWED by Jen B.
TITLE: The Devil Inside
AUTHOR: Nicky James
PUBLISHER: Nicky James
LENGTH: 294 Pages
RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2020
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Their love was innocent and pure…
Until they were forced to believe differently.
Until they were brutally schooled on the “right” way to love.
Oakland is not gay.
Jameson is not gay.
Being gay is wrong. It is immoral. It is a sickness they must fight. It is the devil inside that needs to be purged.
At least that’s what they’ve been conditioned to believe.
They’ve spent years trudging through the wreckage left behind after eight months in conversion therapy as teenagers.
When their lives collide again fifteen years later, the denial they’ve lived with for years gets harder and harder to fight.
They loved each other once. Can two broken men find a way to love each other again?
**Please heed trigger warnings. Use Look Inside feature before purchasing to view them**
Eating Stars by Angel Martinez
Reviewed by Anabela
TITLE: Eating Stars
AUTHOR: Angel Martinez
PUBLISHER: Mischief Corner Books
LENGTH: 121 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 26, 2020
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Flee. Scatter. Take your mates and your offspring and run.
A new Science Fiction Romance from Angel Martinez
The escape pods fall to Earth one by one over the course of weeks, a mysterious and diverse alien diaspora, each pod containing a different alien race and leaving the world’s governments scrambling to deal with this unexpected immigration. Serge Kosygin, still grieving and isolated after his husband’s death, watches events with gray disinterest until one day he witnesses a pod crash for himself while driving home. Two of the alien visitors have died, but one survives, badly injured, and Serge is determined that if this alien is also going to die, it won’t be under the harsh lights of a government facility.
Devastated by the loss of his life mates in their desperate effort to reach safety, the knowledge that Een is the last Aalana in this sector of the galaxy only compounds his sorrow. He wakes in an alien dwelling under the care of one of the native dominant builder species, a being who appears to share nothing with Een besides a bipedal structure. Slowly, with the help of his patient and kind host, he discovers they are more similar than he imagined as they share harmonies and his host assists him with language acquisition.
Their tentative first contact soon evolves into a deepening friendship, a balm for two grief-weary souls. They’ll need each other and their growing bond for the troubles lurking just ahead.