#LGBTGIA thriller series

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Review: Slay Ride (Saint Brothers Book 1) by Davidson King

Rating: 4.5🌈 I have to admit that early on, my thoughts were that Slay Ride was just one more story about a group of psycho revenge killing brothers, a trope gaining popularity in LGBTQIA romance. The elements haven’t varied enough, 5 brothers, killing, torture, etc, so that only one or two authors have made it really fascinating. But Slay Ride turns into something else that is side adjacent…

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Review: Runaway Magic (Guardians of Boston Book 1) by Zile Elliven

Rating: 4.5🌈 Zile Elliven is a relatively new author for me as I’ve only read one other book by them, a very interesting and engaging one. So I immediately picked up Elliven’s newest release to see what it was about. What Runaway Magic holds is an amazing array of elements in its narrative , beginning with the fascinating characters. This is especially true of the main couple of Cym and…

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Review: The Elf Beside Himself (Beyond the Veil Book 6) by KM Avery

Rating: 5🌈 The Elf Beside Himself finishes PI Valentine Hart’s storyline group within the Beyond the Veil series. This paranormal series has been following a format that sees each wildly different couple, each of whom has been effected by the Arcanavirus in various ways, through the all the travails of their intense relationships. The author creates such a wonderful, culturally diverse group of…

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Review: Under The Gun (Accidentally Undercover Novel) by Cari Z

Rating:3.75🌈 Part of a LGBTQIA espionage/spy thriller romance series, Under the Gun by Cari Z delivers the exciting action packed scenes and storylines we’d expect from this genre. The romantic suspense plot line arrives in the form of museum art archivist, Joey Cole. He’s taken a side job for a Russian oligarch to catalog his private art collection for insurance purposes. However, everything…

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Review: Matrimonial Merriment (Valor and Doyle Book 7) by Nicky James

Rating: 3.75🌈 I had real trouble arriving at this rating. Matrimonial Merriment is the last Valor and Doyle book by Nicky James. It’s a 7 book series that I found incredibly strong and emotionally compelling at the start, only, imo, to chart a very strange path for the characters and their various storylines. This story has its strengths and its weaknesses, much like its characters. Quaid…

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Review: A World Apart: An MM Urban Fantasy Romance (Learning to Breathe Book 2) by Carole Cummings and Andy Gallo

Rating: 5🌈 A World Apart picks up from the events of the last novel, A World Away, the first in Cummings and Gallo’s excellent LGBTQIA syfi series. Best friends and now lovers, Camilo Almenara and Nathan Duffy have been through unbelievable hardships, family losses ,and challenges, which have included Nathan’s paralysis, then gaining the experimental implants that allowed the military to draft…

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Review: One (Angels of Wrath Book 1) by Paulina Ian-Kane

Rating:2.75🌈 I’ve been reading several newly discovered (to me) authors recently, one of which is Paulina Ian-Kane. Kane’s books, from the descriptions, fall under the trope of “psychopathic killers for good” dark romance fiction. One, the first novel in the author’s Angels of Wrath series, follows one of a group of men rescued as children from a horrific, abusive secret government experimental…

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Review: The Hitman's Guide to Codenames and Ill-Gotten Gains (The Hitman's Guide, #5) by Alice Winters

Rating: 5🌈 I believe this is the last in The Hitman’s Guide series and if it is, it’s a fantastic way to see this series off. I laughed out loud, and at the end, I may have sniffled a bit, because Winters layered in some moving, emotional scenes of deep love and growth for retired hitman Leland and his now husband, Jackson, along with those of outrageous hilarity. But before we get to those…

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Review: Black Flagged (A Lights Out Novel) by Emma Jaye

Rating: 3.75🌈 Black Flagged (A Lights Out Novel) by Emma Jaye is a book that had me waffling over the rating because Black Flagged is actually two different novels, one that’s a tad more successful than the other. Unfortunately, the better one doesn’t really have much of anything to do with racing but rather with past murders, current murder attempts, and the mercenary brotherhood, the orta,…