Author: lizzykingbooks

REVIEW: Roger Crenshaw by Taylor Titmouse and R/L Monroe

Folklorist Roger Crenshaw is invited to dinner by a charming Yale professor who shares his taste for vampire stories--among other queer predilections. That night, as a frigid storm breaks over New Haven, an even colder welcome awaits him at Professor Reed's gothic townhouse, but Roger's blood runs too hot to be put off. A series … Continue reading REVIEW: Roger Crenshaw by Taylor Titmouse and R/L Monroe

REVIEW: Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach—a shore famed … Continue reading REVIEW: Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

REVIEW: Fence: Striking Distance by Sarah Rees Brennan

Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion who dreams of getting the proper training he could never afford. After earning a place on the elite Kings Row fencing team, Nicholas must prove himself to his rival, Seiji Katayma, and navigate the clashes, friendships, and relationships between his teammates on the … Continue reading REVIEW: Fence: Striking Distance by Sarah Rees Brennan

REVIEW: Beast Blood by Sato Fumino

Desperate to escape her successful sister’s shadow, Euphemia seeks independence as a biotech researcher fixated on destroying Nightz, a dangerous narcotic sought across the colonies. She never believed her life was in danger until a group of men pulled her from her car at gunpoint. Euphemia had also never met a Beast Blood, the nonhuman … Continue reading REVIEW: Beast Blood by Sato Fumino

REVIEW: Trapped: Her Love Story by Shannon Youngblood

Trapped in their basement.Raped, beaten, and broken.All I have left is my sanity.Preston took my name, and my body.Paxton took my heart.Existing only for him.Don't make me walk away.Warnings: Noncon, Violence, CSACategory: M/F Trapped is a hardcore sex trafficking noncon erotic novel. Be warned: despite the subtitle, this has much more in common with the … Continue reading REVIEW: Trapped: Her Love Story by Shannon Youngblood

REVIEW: The Flying Carpet: A Tale of Fertilia by Xi Xi

From the pen of one of Hong Kong’s leading writers, Xi Xi (1938 - ), Flying Carpet mirrors the past and present of Fertillia, an island city situated on the south-eastern coast of the huge country of Dragonland. Fertillia is of course Hong Kong, and the novel is part history and part imagination, a rich … Continue reading REVIEW: The Flying Carpet: A Tale of Fertilia by Xi Xi

PODCAST: Squick Me Not!

If you like my blog, you'll be into my new project! Announcing my new erotic literature review podcast, Squick Me Not! Updating every other Saturday, episode one has just launched! Starting out the gate with book one in the Forbidden Game series! Listen to Squick Me Not on Spotify!

REVIEW: The Fancy Dancer by Patricia Nell Warren

A young Catholic priest in a small Western town is compelled to recognize that his vocation is at risk as he finds himself attracted to one of his more problematical parishioners.Warnings: Abelism, Misogyny, Usage of slurs, Depictions of homophobia, Depictions of racismCategory: M/M The Fancy Dancer is a queer novel from the 70s about sexuality … Continue reading REVIEW: The Fancy Dancer by Patricia Nell Warren