Tag: queer
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Review: Fraternity by Andy Mientus
3 stars **I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Andy Mientus presents Fraternity, a young adult novel centered on queer students at a boarding school where something metaphysical is about to change everything. Blackfriars is a school known for putting out students who go on to be…
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Review: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
4 stars **I received an Audio Review Copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Ruthanna Emrys presents her newest scifi novel, A Half-Built Garden. Readers follow Judy as she accidentally becomes the human who engages in first contact with two alien species. The aliens have said they have…
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Review: Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** DNF at 29% Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor was marketed as Kushiel’s Dart as written by Brandon Sanderson. Readers follow Kore, a disgraced bastard son turned prosperous courtesan as he attempts to influence the political landscape and seek revenge…
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Review: Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
4 stars **I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Robert Jackson Bennett wraps up the Founders Trilogy with the final novel, Locklands. Of course, for the concluding novel, it is difficult to discuss without spoilers. I will do my best to avoid them, but proceed with caution…
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Review: Vows of Empire by Emily Skrutskie
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Emily Skrutskie completes the Bloodright Trilogy with Vows of Empire. This book picks up shortly after the cliffhanger ending of book two, and any real discussion of the plot will undoubtedly spoil the first two books. Suffice…
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Review: Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Kathryn Harlan presents Fruiting Bodies, a short story anthology that seems to defy any genre other than to classify it as speculative. There are some stories than lean into scifi, fantasy, or horror, but there is also…
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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: 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: Oaths of Legacy by Emily Skrutskie
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Emily Skrutskie returns with the second installment in the Bloodright Trilogy, Oaths of Legacy. Readers follow Gal in the aftermath of the end of book one, Bonds of Brass. This second book picks up very shortly after…
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