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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · 2d

Stronger Than Blood by Adam J Ridley @authorblakeallwood.bsky.social

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New Release Book Review: Stronger Than Blood by Adam J. Ridley (Blake Allwood)

Stronger Than Blood drew me straight in, starting with a prologue where we find out about the traumatic incident that Mick endured as a child, which is still haunting him in more ways than one. I c…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · 2d

This Might Hurt by Riley Nash

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New Release Book Review: This Might Hurt by Riley Nash

4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ Riley Nash sure knows how to write an emotional story about lost and broken boys finding each other. This Might Hurt made me hurt for Jude and Andrew and what their families had done to t…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · Jul 14

#bookreview Cleats & Pumps by @authorblakeallwood.bsky.social

⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

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New Release Book Review: Cleats and Pumps by Blake Allwood

4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 Amos and Tommy’s story was a wonderful read. The book included the prequel to Cleats and Pumps, Alec in Wanderlust, originally published in the Romance is a Drag anthology, which I …

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · Jun 10

New weekly post

#booksky #reading #fiction #lgbtromance #scifi #books

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It’s Monday! What are you reading?

First seen over on Book’d Out, I’m going to try to do this post regularly, linking to It’s Monday! What are you reading? at BookDate. Last Tuesday evening I went to local author Holden Sheppard&#82…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · Jun 8

Monthly #6Degreesofseperation post

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#6Degrees of Seperation – June 2025

This is a monthly link-up hosted by KateW at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · Jun 2

New post up on my blog, lots of sci-fi this last week

#booksky #reading #books #scifi #lgbtreads

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It’s Monday! What are you reading?

First seen over on Book’d Out, I’m going to try to do this post regularly, linking to It’s Monday! What are you reading? at BookDate. I had a good week of reading last week, well I s…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 27

Special visitor at the beach today

#socool #beachpics #natureisawesome

Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 12

It's Monday! What are you reading?

New blog post

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It’s Monday! What are you reading?

First seen over on Book’d Out, I’m going to try to do this post regularly, linking to It’s Monday! What are you reading? at BookDate. I only read two books the previous week, so…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 9

#bookreview The Legend Next Door by @jessehreign.bsky.social

🌈🩷 I loved this! 🌈🩷

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Claire Louisa's review of The Legend Next Door (Totally Pucked, #2)

5/5: I loved this 💕 Ben and Jeremiah 'Jelly' were exactly the couple I needed to read about; along with Ben's son Luca, this was one of my favourite MM reads so far this year. This was a sweet, feel...

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 7

I know I will, I'm already enjoying it. Doubt I'll be able to go to bed before I finish it lol.

Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 7

It arrived in my inbox earlier, I can't wait to read it.

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 7

Blog post: West Australian authors

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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors in my state

I saw this post on Portobello Book Blog and thought I might join in too, when I can anyway so maybe not every week but we will see.Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten li…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 6

It’s #coverreveal GLITTER by Kayla Halleur, releasing June 2nd!

An outgoing scientist and a quiet engineer

🌸 Preorder today getbook.at/Glitter_KH

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Cover Image of a man laying down, arm thrown over his head, his head rests on pink flowers, he is wearing a white off the shoulder garment

Tropes
Workplace romance
Revenge plot
Introvert/extrovert
Low angst

Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 6

#currentlyreading Not Alone by @christiegordon.bsky.social

Dive into a heartfelt, angsty rockstar romance about love, healing, and second chances!

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Not Alone: A Hurt/Comfort Rockstar MM Romance (The Swarm Book 1)

Not Alone: A Hurt/Comfort Rockstar MM Romance (The Swarm Book 1) eBook : Gordon, Christie: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 3

#6degreesofseparation monthly blog link up

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#6Degrees of Separation #12 – May 2025

This is a monthly link-up hosted by KateW at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t…

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 3

Stepbrother Mine by @felsnowauthor.bsky.social now available on Audio!!

Narrated by Nick J. Russo!

Available EXCLUSIVELY on payhip.com/b/FU7qy

Opposites attract stepbrother erotica with low angst, high steam, MINIMAL PLOT. It has explicit content, intended for adults only.

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

It's only bizarre to people who want to live a good life and who believe in equality for all not just the few. Which I hope is more of the population than not. But those who use it for their own gain have the loudest voices.

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

Yes, using religion as a reason to hate or oppress makes me so angry. I'm not at all religious and it's because of these sorts of things that I dislike it so much. Too many pretend 'christians'

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

It's supposed to be in our politics too as far as I'm aware, but the bad ones always manage to use it to try and forward their agenda. Keep your fingers crossed for us on Saturday.

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

Yes I'm in Australia. I don't know if there's a large fundamentalist Christian influence, possibly more so on the east coast, but it doesn't seem to be a big thing here on the west coast. I think religion and politics should not be allowed to influence the other.

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

We have them too unfortunately 😔

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

We have voting here on the 3rd, all of the people I know are very worried that the Liberal government will get in. He's already declared he agrees with many of trumps policies. We are hopeful that will shift the vote away from him.

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

And not just in the US, it's like it's catching or something, or people feel they've been given permission to be hateful and discriminatory

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

It's discouraging how many people are crawling out of their holes with hate against people who are different to them. It's awful to see the world going backwards, so much progress being lost to hateful people and agendas.

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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews) @clairesreads.bsky.social · May 1

Wow, go mum! We all need to step up more, do more, say more. I need to make that my goal from now on.

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