Starting the week with a review of “Ice Prince” by J. C. Owens. #Fantasy #MMRomance #GayBookReviews

Aiden was raised by four guardians. He has no memory of family or who he is. The guardians ensure Aiden is well educated and knows how to defend himself, but they aren’t nice about it. The young man has learned to at least act submissive in their presence. Aiden has no knowledge of the outside world until the day two generals arrive at the isolated fortress and tell him he is a prince. They are to take him back to a kingdom he has never heard of to take the throne. On the way, Aden’s carriage and it’s escort are attacked and the young man is taken prisoner by Torin, the leader of a resistance army who is certain Aiden is an impostor with no right to the throne. When both men are taken prisoner by Aiden’s former captors, the two must work together the find freedom.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-ice-prince-jc-owen/?ref=mastodon

Time for more sexy adventures in “Farmed Out 2: City Heat” by Alex Pendragon. #Erotica #MMRomance #gayBookReviews

Mason is back home in the city but he can’t forget his experiences with Alfie and his friends back on the farm. He has a hard time reconciling what he did with the image he had of himself, and struggles to come to terms with what it means. There’s no going back, though, so he invites Alfie to visit him. If Mason thought being in the crowded big city would make Alfie moderate his reckless sexual behavior, he is sadly mistaken. Boundaries get pushed and Mason learns even more about his best friend Carl.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-farmed-out-2-alex-pendragon/?ref=mastodon

“To Love the Dragon King” is the start of a new #Fantasy series by Antonia Aquilante. #MMRomance #gayBookReviews

Sascha was born without the Talent to shift into a dragon, so he was raised to believe his only value was to be offered up as a concubine to bring his parents money and powerful connections. As soon as he comes of age, Sascha is packed off to Lord Jannick, whom he has never met. His sense of foreboding proves to be well founded when he arrives at the isolated castle to be met by an unattractive and clearly cruel man. But Sascha doesn’t even have a chance to get to his room before the castle is overrun by the king’s guards, soon followed by the king himself. It seems that Lord Jannick was near the center of a plot to overthrow the king and discard a centuries-old tradition of secrecy that has kept the dragon kingdom safe. As a traitor, all of Jannick’s property, including Sascha, now belongs to the king.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-love-dragon-king-antonia-aquilante/?ref=mastodon

Time for another tale from the Suitable ‘Verse with “A Suitable Brat” by R. Cooper. #Fantasy #MMRomance #gayBookReviews

Westin is an outguard but is getting too old for the life on the road, sometimes sleeping rough, especially in the cold. He has resolved to retire and return to his family’s estate. There’s just one problem: another outguard called Sun. Unlike most outguards like Westin, Sun’s brief is wide-ranging, so their paths often crossed. The much younger man has a sharp tongue and a way of getting Westin, or almost anyone, to do exactly what he wants, which includes sharing a bed. Westin indulges Sun because he believes the younger man deserves some pleasure in what Westin knows has been a rough life. Sun is what Westin will miss the most when he leaves the outguard, but he can’t believe the much younger man will want to follow him into the quiet life he anticipates after retiring.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-suitable-brat-r-cooper/?ref=mastodon

The latest book review is of “Red Ruby Booty Shorts and a Louisville Slugger” by Lexi Ander. #MMRomance #GayBookReviews

Diego has “known” things since he was a young boy, and his grandmother encouraged it along with telling him stories of vampires, witches, and werewolves. But when Diego was 12, his older brother got involved in a dangerous gang and disappeared. Diego turned his back on his fantasies and took up parkour with his best friend, Denise. He goes to college, meets Beck, who becomes his best friend, and leaves the Los Angeles neighborhood where gangs dominate. Years later, Diego and Beck are still roommates, but Diego wants to be more than friends. He resolves to discuss his feelings, but Beck’s work keeps getting in the way.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-red-ruby-booty-shorts-louisville-slugger-lexi-ander/?ref=mastodon

“Dauntless” is a mystery-romance set on an isolated Australian island written by J.A. Rock and Lisa Henry. #MMRomance #GayBookReviews

The residents of Dauntless Island are proud of their history as mutineers who lynched their tyrannical captain after being shipwrecked on the island 200 years ago. Joe is a direct descendant of the leader of the revolt and is well aware of the power that gives him on the island, although he is careful about how he exercises that control. Eddie is a history graduate student descended from the captain the mutineers lynched. He’s never set foot on the island, but he’s come into possession of a diary written by one of the sailors, which contradicts the story handed down by the islanders. Sparks are bound to fly when Eddie sets foot on the island, just not the ones anyone expects.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-dauntless-lisa-henry-ja-rock/?ref=mastodon

Starting the week with a review of the first three books of the “Loving” series by M.A. Innes. #Taboo #MMRomance #GayBookReviews

When he was fourteen, Kevin was almost kidnapped, but his older brother, Jeremy came to the rescue. The incident throws the brothers closer than they’ve ever been. Kevin has nightmares, and his savior Jeremy is the only one who can keep them at bay. For his part, Jeremy can’t forget what might have happened and doesn’t like letting his little brother out of his sight. Four years later, the two are still sharing a bed, although they keep that fact a secret from their parents. Kevin and Jeremy independently realize that what they feel for each other is more than brotherly love or dependence. They make plans to go off to college together, away from their parents’ increasingly toxic behavior.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-loving-1-3-ma-innes/?ref=mastodon

This week’s #SaturdayShort is “Gilded Cage of the Tentacled Elite” by Kit Luxe. #SciFi #Dystopian #MMRomance #gayBookReviews

The Galactic Alliance arrived on Earth with promises to make everything better, and they did, for some. Theo lives on the streets, outside the system. He eats food he finds discarded in dumpsters and sleeps in alleys well out of sight from the main streets. That’s to avoid the “sweepers” that round up homeless people. There are all sorts of stories about what happens to the humans collected by the alliance sweepers. One particularly cold night, Theo is starving when he stumbles on a box with food and warm blankets in it. Part of him knows it’s a trap, but Theo is so cold and so hungry that he falls into the clutches of the Alliance. He wakes to find himself in a vast warehouse where he is cleaned, collared, and purchased by one of the aliens to be a sexual plaything.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-gilded-cage-tentacled-elite-kit-luxe/?ref=mastodon

Two young men are thrown together on a space voyage full of mysteries in “The Darkness Outside Us” by Eliot Schrefer.
#SciFi #MMRomance

Ambrose wakes up on board his ship, and is told by the craft’s AI that he was injured during the launch and has been in a coma. He remembers all his training for this special mission to rescue his sister, who was sent to see if Saturn’s moon Titan could be colonized, but he doesn’t remember getting on board the ship or the accident that apparently injured him. There’s something else that’s concerning: Ambrose’s ship has been joined to another craft, that of his country’s primary competitor, and that ship is occupied by another spacefarer, Kodiak. The two young men must work together to unravel the mysteries and contradictions that seem to cloud their real mission.
#YoungAdult #GayBookReviews

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2021/review-darkenss-outside-us-eliot-shrefer/?ref=mastodon

The adventures of Devlin Taylor, Earth Ambassador continue in “Diplomatic Liability” by Rebecca Cohen. #SciFi #MMRomance #GayBookReviews

Devlin is settling in on board the Chroalian ship Endeavor as Earth’s first ambassador. His boyfriend, Zal is in the cabin next door, but the two have to be discreet. If people knew of their prior relationship, it might undermine Devlin’s position. Their plan is to make it appear that the relationship started after Devlin came on board. Unfortunately, that means Devlin has to run a gauntlet of younger Chroalian crewmembers competing to bed the new human. That’s not the biggest challenge for Devlin. A series of incidents on board the ship and on the planets they visit are very suspicious.

https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2026/review-diplomatic-liability-rebecca-cohen/?ref=mastodon