L-J Baker

I skipped stories from authors that rate all their books. It's not the case with those that only rate antologies; I still don't like it but I can understand it like a recognition to their co-authors.


The Legend of Mountain Ash by Ruth Sims - 3 stars
Inner Truth by Alex Beecroft - 2 stars
Turnabout by Lee Rowan - 2,5 stars
Under the Shadow of Your Wings by Gillian Palmer. - 2 stars
Home Cooking by Brian Holiday - 4 stars
Mister Right by Rob Rosen - Skipped
Two Men: A Fugue by Sophia Deri-Bowen - 5 stars!!
Stripes by Nigel Puerasch - 4 stars
Morbidly Obese by Rick R. Reed - 2 stars
The Song Inside by Nexis Pas - 3,5 stars
Hitched by Michael Gouda - 1,5 stars
Cakewalk by Nathan Burgoine - 4 stars
Ships That Pass by Jamie Freeman - 2 stars
Work Experience by Bruin Fisher - 3 stars
Even Guys Cry by D.C. Juris - 2 stars
Touche by James Buchanan - 2 stars
Mallory's Gift by L-J Baker - 3 stars
The Uneven Chance by Charlie Cochrane - 3 stars
Honolulu Hula by Neil S. Plakcy - Skipped
Elephants in Her Tea by Julia Rios - 1,5 stars
Aim Higher by J.L Merrow - 3 stars
Ganymede by Lenore Black - 2,5 stars… (meer)

Adijan gets back from a business trip to find that her asshole brother-in-law has taken her wife Shalimar back to his house, and he plans to force them to get divorced. Adijan loves Shalimar more than anything, but a poor courier who was raised in a brothel has no chance of winning a legal battle against an influential man like Shalimar’s brother. Her only hope lies in the magical locket that has somehow wound up in her possession … except the being trapped inside it isn’t a traditional genie. The only wish she can grant is “give me the best sex of my life”, and she hates doing that, and hates everyone who’s ever demanded it of her. Adijan doesn’t like her much, but you can’t just leave someone as a sex slave, so they set off on a quest to free the genie and get Adijan’s wife back.
I think my favourite part of this is that Adijan fits a character trope that we see all the time, but pretty much never in women. She’s an eternal fuckup, with big dreams but a low-paying job she struggles to keep, she drinks too much and pisses everyone off, but deep down she has a good heart and loves her wife more than anything in the world. Kind of like if Homer Simpson were a cute Middle Eastern lesbian.… (meer)