Best Gay & Lesbian Short Stories
Haunted by memories of his troubled past—and the omnipresent threat of danger in his present—he isolates himself in his sprawling mansion far away from Capitol City, only daring to venture into civilization when he’s heavily medicated. If Roam finds an alpha on OmegaDate , then it won’t be his first trip around the block—he’s got a three-year-old son from his previous relationship to show for it. How is Roam supposed to find another mate when every alpha he encounters rejects him the second they catch wind of his son? Odin Nightshade is on a mission—a mission to make you moan, groan and cry out for mercy.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Roam and Tarly meet on omega date."
"Like reliving the actions and emotions of burgeoning relationships in the real world."
"What do you do, when it's been 4 yrs since your love has passed? Has never kissed anyone or made love with anyone, due to the "affliction" he has. Let me say this though, this is a wonderful story with a couple of supporting characters that you will love as well as the MC's."
"I find along with the sexy times and love story that there is always something that speaks to me. In this story it is Taly's personal struggles with his Wolf and the fact that he cannot control when or where he shifts."
"This is only the second book by Odin I have read, and i have not read the others in this series but intend to do so when I have the chance. If you enjoy books that bring the characters to life and make you feel like you are a part of the tale, you need to read ALL of Odin's books!"
"Roam, the single father, is my favorite, though, as he decides to leave tragedy behind and risk himself for a second chance at love."
"Roam is a very brave wolf who lost his mate before giving birth, so now he is a single father trying to love again and not get his heart broken in the process."
"Lonely and seeking a new partner, he logs on to OmegaDate, but soon learns he's being rejected because of his son, so be deletes that part of his profile. His family had abandoned him to institutions at age 6 due to a DNA congenital defect which made him violent after shifting."
After watching his older brother convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, it’s the entire reason he left his pack to become a shifter defense attorney in Capitol City. And though first date with fellow attorney Jax Hollister begins with intense mutual attraction, it soon turns disastrous, leaving them both trying to forget that the encounter ever happened. And when it becomes clear that there’s more at stake than just their careers, the anger and passion that threatens to consume them may end up changing the course of their professional and personal lives forever. Odin Nightshade is on a mission—a mission to make you moan, groan and cry out for mercy.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a lovely story I'm glad Jax and Kris found each other so exciting and fantastic i enjoy reading this book i will recommend."
"Jax and Kris each have valid points of their views but also flaws, what I liked is that both characters are also wrong because the issue is not black and white. The end felt a bit rushed, don't get me wrong, it was a nice ending but the way things were left, it makes me worry about their future... yes I'm one of those people who keeps thinking about characters even after a story is over."
"Jax Hollister, lawyer and alpha shifter, is lonely and looking for an omega he can love and care for. He takes a case pro bono, of snide, arrogant Nathan Peverell, accused of attacking and seriously injuring two young girls, which he denies doing. Kris Jameson, also lonely, is an omega shifter working in the justice department as a prosecutor."
"I don't usually like stories that involve court cases or the law in general, but this book really held my attention. Just one problem, they're both working on the same court case except Kris is the prosecutor, and Jax is the defense attorney, which...... Could be a Spoiler........naturally results in conflict."
"The other stories in the collection are some of the poorer quality ones from the author's backlist and just make for quick reads of less than hour when you need something kind of mindless."
"Liked the story but disappointed as it is only about 30% of the book."
In Still Dancing acclaimed author Jameson Currier brings together twenty of his short stories that span three decades of the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community. Written over the course of three decades, Jameson Currier's latest collection of stories some new, some previously published reveals a long, textured chronicle of gay men, gay life, and the horrific AIDS epidemic that both threatens and empowers an entire population. His tales tell of the initial shock and bewilderment in trying to come to grips with a deadly new menace to gay men's health in the 1980s, coupled with an unending sense of grief and hopelessness.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Asked to reissue and add to that compilation now, the author's "Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories" make it clear that HIV has made an indelible mark on the lives of so many people, especially gay men. There are stories of survival and hope, and of loss and remembrances, of people reacting with emotions ranging from somber depression to conscious denial, and the chance to value each day of life as a gift not to be taken lightly."
"Besides, it is too intriguing to search the faces of his characters for my likeness, or someone we know, and though I have yet to find evidence of a single similarity I do find the author's biological details surface here and there in the men who populate his fictionalized version of New York. These stories are not just about survival of those who were left behind to pick up the pieces and forge on, but about living in the city, living as gay men, and dancing, loving, and enjoying our freedom in the folds of a society we have created on our own."
"I have so far read only one book of his, Still Dancing, but have two others, Where the Rainbow Ends and Haunted Heart, waiting their turn. If they tell of death and dying, they tell equally of family, friends, lovers past and present, dead and living. Currier's stories don't whitewash the physical ugliness of AIDS, or the pain, the fear, or the grief. In less skilled hands it could have been a dreary laundry list of things taken to comfort a dying man: flowers, pajamas, books, etc. But because even the most mundane object carried to the fragile, beloved, and sometimes cantankerous Adam, are symbols not only of caring but also of helplessness, the story is unforgettable. Dennis is handsome, talented, a dancer and actor, graceful, humorous, kind, and the embodiment of Je ne sais quoi. Shortly after burying his lover, for whom he was the devoted caregiver, Dennis, too, is losing his life to the virus. At the end of the story, as if flipping the bird to frailty and his own mortality, Dennis can still spin a graceful, perfect double pirouette on a cold New York City street."
Best Gay & Lesbian Romance
Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three Time Academy Award Nominee James Ivory. A USA Today Bestseller. A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A Vulture Book Club Pick. An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Elio—17, extremely well-read, sensitive and the son of a prominent expatriate professor—finds himself troublingly attracted to this year's visiting resident scholar, recruited by his father from an American university. Their shared literary interests and Jewishness help impart a sense of intimacy, and when they do consummate their passion in Oliver's room, they call each other by the other's name.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Set in 1988 and on the Italian Riviera, which adds to the charm and appeal of the novel, Call Me By Your Name is narrated by and tells the story of a seventeen-year-old American-Italian-Jewish youth, Elio Perlman, and his six-week, summer love affair with Oliver Ulliva, a university professor who is seven years older than Elio and who has been selected to live in Elio’s parents’ home as a guest “resident” while finishing a manuscript for publication as part of the parents’ way of aiding budding writers. Much of the first half of Call Me By Your Name has a “stream of consciousness” feeling to it as Elio, a very precocious and intelligent but shy young man, defies his better intuitions and finds himself more and more attracted to Oliver. By time both Elio and the reader are aware of Oliver’s true feelings toward the younger man, a new sense of urgency, an even greater feeling of sensuality and eroticism, and a more intense atmosphere of anxiety and impending doom enters the story—all of it exquisitely captured by Aciman’s exquisitely accomplished writing."
"An Achingly Beautiful Prose of Art. Winner of the 20th Lambda Literary Award. Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman. Is an Ethereal Masterpiece; A Mythical Gem of Queerdom. The Novel exudes the Transformative Power of Words, Language, and Imagery. with Disarming Clarity & Volatile Poignancy. The After Effects of this book is perfectly encapsulated. By the Immortal Words of Elio to Oliver. "All That Remains is Dreammaking and Strange Remembrance" pg199. The Audiobook narration by Armie Hammer is Eargasm Heaven!!"
"You felt like you were 17 again and feeling all those emotions of someone being the most important thing in the world to you."
"Looking forward to the movie."
"A bit slow at parts."
"I wanted to read the book before watching the movie, but somehow it never happened."
"Such a sweet and rewarding story about true love and friendship."
"Easy read!"
Best Lesbian Fiction
Grieving over the loss of her family and feeling like her life is unraveling, Lindsey McDermott quits her job, gets a puppy, and retreats to her grandparents’ home in the Texas Hill Country. When Jack and Lindsey form an unlikely friendship, Hannah reluctantly joins them and the three spend the summer swimming and healing as laughter eventually replaces tears. Gerri Hill has thirty published works, including the 2014 GCLS winner The Midnight Moon , 2011, 2012 and 2013 winners Devil's Rock , Hell's Highway and Snow Falls , and the 2009 GCLS winner Partners the last book in the popular Hunter Series, as well as the 2013 Lambda finalist At Seventeen.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The best part of this story for me, is that though the story is full of emotional moments, there isn’t any crazy misunderstandings drama. Most stories like to add the whole nine yards of drama with people misunderstanding and jumping to negative conclusions, and I never thought I would say that a story about the death of loved ones would be less depressing and frustrating than those interpretation drama in other stories."
"Each, in his/her own way stumbled into a new relationship that gradually replaces the nearly overwhelming weight of their sadness with love, hope, happiness and family."
"I loved this book."
"Excellent story of people over coming their grief and sorrow together and eventually finding love, romance, and family."
"Great story about two hurting people, done with the right amount of subtly."
"Truly enjoyed this story.not too much angst which was refreshing."
"This was a yet another wonderful book by Gerri Hill."
Best Gay Fiction
Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three Time Academy Award Nominee James Ivory. A USA Today Bestseller. A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A Vulture Book Club Pick. An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Elio—17, extremely well-read, sensitive and the son of a prominent expatriate professor—finds himself troublingly attracted to this year's visiting resident scholar, recruited by his father from an American university. Their shared literary interests and Jewishness help impart a sense of intimacy, and when they do consummate their passion in Oliver's room, they call each other by the other's name.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Set in 1988 and on the Italian Riviera, which adds to the charm and appeal of the novel, Call Me By Your Name is narrated by and tells the story of a seventeen-year-old American-Italian-Jewish youth, Elio Perlman, and his six-week, summer love affair with Oliver Ulliva, a university professor who is seven years older than Elio and who has been selected to live in Elio’s parents’ home as a guest “resident” while finishing a manuscript for publication as part of the parents’ way of aiding budding writers. Much of the first half of Call Me By Your Name has a “stream of consciousness” feeling to it as Elio, a very precocious and intelligent but shy young man, defies his better intuitions and finds himself more and more attracted to Oliver. By time both Elio and the reader are aware of Oliver’s true feelings toward the younger man, a new sense of urgency, an even greater feeling of sensuality and eroticism, and a more intense atmosphere of anxiety and impending doom enters the story—all of it exquisitely captured by Aciman’s exquisitely accomplished writing."
"An Achingly Beautiful Prose of Art. Winner of the 20th Lambda Literary Award. Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman. Is an Ethereal Masterpiece; A Mythical Gem of Queerdom. The Novel exudes the Transformative Power of Words, Language, and Imagery. with Disarming Clarity & Volatile Poignancy. The After Effects of this book is perfectly encapsulated. By the Immortal Words of Elio to Oliver. "All That Remains is Dreammaking and Strange Remembrance" pg199. The Audiobook narration by Armie Hammer is Eargasm Heaven!!"
"You felt like you were 17 again and feeling all those emotions of someone being the most important thing in the world to you."
"Looking forward to the movie."
"A bit slow at parts."
"I wanted to read the book before watching the movie, but somehow it never happened."
"Such a sweet and rewarding story about true love and friendship."
"Easy read!"