Mormon

Review: All That You Do by Jamie Craig

Feb 28, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Christopher might wish for the solitude of his own apartment, but being the wingman and designated driver for his good friend, Rev, is something he doesn’t really mind doing. It’s that loyalty...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Sammy's Reviews
TAGGED: friends to lovers, Jamie Craig, JMS Books, Mormon, musician, virgin

Review: Saint Unshamed: A Gay Mormon’s Life by Kerry Ashton

May 1, 2019 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Saint Unshamed: A Gay Mormon’s Life depicts playwright and actor Kerry Ashton’s painful, tumultuous, and empowering journey to physical, spiritual ,and emotional truth and healing, and living life...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Jovan's Reviews, Non Fiction
TAGGED: conversion therapy, Kerry Ashton, Lynn Wolf Enterprises, memoir, Mormon, rape, religion, suicidal thoughts, suicide

Review: Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

Sep 12, 2018 | 24 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel When we were asked to find books for Diverse Books Week in our 2018 Reading Challenge Month, I knew that pairing a bisexual, half Jewish boy with a devout LDS Mormon boy could not get much better in...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Contemporary, Sammy's Reviews, Young Adult
TAGGED: bisexual, Christina Lauren, college, coming of age, coming out, high school, Mormon, Reading Challenge Month 2018, Simon & Schuster, young love

Review: Mild to Wild in Massachusetts by Paul Walkingsky

Apr 27, 2017 | 0 comments

Rating: 2.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Brett is a 27-year-old closeted, gay, Mormon in Salt Lake City. He was raised by his maternal grandparents after his drug-using hippie mom couldn’t/wouldn’t take care of him. His aunt and uncle...

FILED UNDER: 2.75 stars, Contemporary, Veronica's Reviews
TAGGED: Dreamspinner Press, Mormon, Paul Walkingsky, States of Love collection, virgin

Review: Simmer Anthology

Feb 24, 2016 | 1 comment

Rating: 4.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | All Romance | Amazon UK Length: Anthology This baker’s dozen of stories has food and love at their center. Not only do we get cute stories of two men finding each other and falling in love, but we get the recipe for the central...

Review: No Distance Left to Run by L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov

May 13, 2014 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novel The night before leaving for their Mormon missions, Chris and Joshua gave in to their attraction to one another, thinking it would be two years before they saw one another again. But one year later,...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Contemporary, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: Aleksandr Voinov, coming out, Distance Between Us series, L.A. Witt, lovers reunited, military, Mormon, Samhain Publishing

Review: Hard Fall by James Buchanan

Mar 2, 2013 | 2 comments

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | All Romance Length: Novel When Deputy Joe Peterson first lays eyes on Kabe Varghese, he knows he is in trouble. Kabe is all brown muscles, intensity, attitude, and a whole lot of temptation for Joe. But he is also an ex-con...

FILED UNDER: 4.75 stars, Contemporary, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: athlete, coming out, Deputy Joe series, James Buchanan, Jock Week, law enforcement, MLR Press, Mormon