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Claire Louisa (Claire's Reads and Reviews)
@clairesreads.bsky.social
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Reader, Reviewer, Blogger, Poet, Artist, beach lover
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Stronger Than Blood by Adam J Ridley @authorblakeallwood.bsky.social

#booksky #MMromance #bookreview #bookblogger #lgbtqiaromanceread

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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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October 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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This Might Hurt by Riley Nash

#booksky #MMromance #bookblogger #lgbtqiaromance #bookreview

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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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October 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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#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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July 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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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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June 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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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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June 8, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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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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June 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Special visitor at the beach today

#socool #beachpics #natureisawesome
May 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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It's Monday! What are you reading?

New blog post

#booksky #reading #books #lgbtreads #historicalfiction #memoir #fantasy #YAreads #audiobooks

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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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May 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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#bookreview The Legend Next Door by @jessehreign.bsky.social

🌈🩷 I loved this! 🌈🩷

#booksky #lgbtromancereads #mmromance #lgbt

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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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May 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Blog post: West Australian authors

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#booksky #bookblogger #aussieauthors
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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May 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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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
May 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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#currentlyreading Not Alone by @christiegordon.bsky.social

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

#mmromance #booksky #lgbtromance
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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May 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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#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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May 3, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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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.

#booksky #mmreads
May 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I'm participating in a poetry challenge this year #12poemsin12months . The prompt this month was 'Tell'

#griefjourney #griefandloss #grief #poetry #prompts #emotional #emotions #love
There is a hole Like an empty doorway Where you once stood Not so long ago You filled the space So solid and sure Tell me Where are you now? If I look hard enough Will I find you Filling other spaces of my life No longer a solid presence But still a sure presence Still somehow listening Waiting for me to tell you Of my life since you left To tell you I’m carrying on That even though the doorway is empty You are all around me still
May 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I'm posting late - It's Monday! What are you reading?

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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 know it’s now Tuesday, but that can…
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April 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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This judge is on fire 🔥

#lgbtrights

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April 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#bookreview The Unquiet Grave by @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social

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New Release Book Review: The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan
4.5⭐⭐⭐⭐⚡ The Cormac Reilly series is one of my favourite crime fiction series. I am so glad Dervla McTiernan has given us a fourth book to add to this series. As well as the investigation, Cormac a…
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April 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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#currentlyreading Cost of Redemption by @haydenhallwrites.com

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Six days A photo of a shirtless young guy in jeans with his arm up behind his head and the cover of the book Cost of Redemption by Hayden Hall which has the same guy on in the same pose, just flipped with a different background behind him.
April 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Please, please use universal links if you want me to buy your books 📚

#booksky
Graphic says I appreciate authors who put universal links in their posts and newsletters We don't all live in the US or the UK Thank you to those who do this 💜 With a picture of a stack of books in the bottom left hand corner
April 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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New Release Book Tour
Lampwick and the No Strings Friend by CD Rachels

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Release Tour: Lampwick and the No Strings Friend by CD Rachels
What if Pinocchio saved Lampwick from his dark fate? What if, years later, the two reunited and became more than best friends? That puppet boy saved me from a life as an ass—literally.  A…
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April 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Out Now: Cocky Bastard! 🖤✨

📖 Get it now on Kindle, KU & in Paperback
Find it here: mybook.to/cockybastard

It's got a charming bastard, an actor desperately pretending their ten years of hooking-up means nothing, burger shop dates, pistachio croissants, oblivious pining, "kitten", & lots of steam!
April 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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#audiobook #bookreview Tentacles Rock by @kccarmine.bsky.social

⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ I adored this so much.

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Claire Louisa recommends Tentacles Rock: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance
4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ I adored this so much, I've been looking forward to K.C. Carmine's tentacle romance since she announced it and it was everything I was hoping for. Sweet characters, hot, spice tentacle acti...
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April 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Tentacled Rock audiobook now available in all major retailers and libraries!🐙🎧🎸

And directly from me!

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April 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Happy release day to Freddie Wills and me! 🎉

The Sinner's Penance is out on audio today!
Get yours on Audible!

🔥🖤🙏 The Sinner's Penance
🔗 mybook.to/SinnersPenance

#mmromance #booksky #QueerBookworms #audiobook
April 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM