Tag: adult
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Review: Yagi the Bookshop Goat by Fumi Furukawa
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Fumi Furukawa’s Yagi the Bookshop Goat is a sweet and spicy yaoi manga intended for adults. Yagi is a goat who loves books and desperately wants to work in a bookshop. Since Yagi is a goat, he…
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Review: Jackals Wild by Abby Kaitz
**I was provided an electronic ARC through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Abby Kaitz presents Jackals Wild, a queer new adult contemporary romance. College mathematician Adam is all about making sure he is acing his classes and putting in the work to get there. Adam is thrown off by his annoyingly attractive…
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Review: The Middling Affliction by Alex Shvartsman
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Alex Shvartsman presents The Middling Affliction, the first in a new urban fantasy series set in New York. The series follows Conrad Brent, a middling, who is able to see magic, but cannot use magic himself…
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Review: The City of Dusk by Tara Sim
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Tara Sim returns with the ambitious first book of an epic fantasy series, The City of Dusk. Sim has created a world of multiple coinciding realms and those realms are accompanied by an incredible amount of species,…
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Review: Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Marie Rutkoski’s adult debut, Real Easy, delves into the backstage of a strip club. The story is told in multiple perspectives and discusses the day to day happenings of the club as well as an ongoing double…
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Review: Moth by Michael Takeda
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through BookSirens as a prize in a giveaway. I provide an honest review of my own accord.** 4 stars With Moth, Michael Takeda explores Urbino, Italy through the lens of a young gay man with a heroin addiction. The grungy underbelly of the city and the…
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Review: Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audio galley of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Comfort Me With Apples is Catherynne M Valente’s newest novella that seems to defy genre. There is a bit of horror, a bit of fabulism, and a literary sort of vibe all wrapped…
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Review: Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 5 stars Jarrett Melendez presents a new adult queer romantic comedy with Chef’s Kiss. Readers follow Ben Cook and his trio of roommates. Ben is a recent college graduate who is trapped in the cycle of needing experience for entry…
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Review: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** TJ Klune’s newest work, Under the Whispering Door, explores life, death, and grief with care and humor. Readers follow Wallace Price, who is a white-collar attorney and a bit of a jerk. When Wallace has a heart…
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Review: The Past is Red by Catherynne M Valente
**I was provided an audiobook ARC from the publisher through NetGalley.** Actual rating: 3.5 Catherynne Valente reworks the short story “The Future Is Blue” into the novella The Past is Red. Valente lends her unique style and imagination to climate science fiction with this newest work. Tetley lives in Garbagetown, a city that floats along…
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