Tag: queer
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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 Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Authors Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms writing together as MA Carrick present the first installment in a new fantasy series with The Mask of Mirrors. Readers follow main character Ren who is an orphan, former street kid,…
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Review: Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Lilah Sturges returns with her newest work, Girl Haven. Ash’s mother wrote about a fantasy world called Koretris where only female creatures live and only female travelers can pass through. When Ash and his friends (Eleanor, Junebug,…
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Review: Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Rebecca Roanhorse begins a new epic fantasy series with Black Sun. The series is inspired in part by the mythology, lore, and legends of the pre-Columbian Americas. Riddled with prophecy, betrayal, magic, and politics, Black Sun…
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Review: Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Adam Sass hits hard with this LGBTQ contemporary about a gay teen, Connor Major, who is sent to an island conversion camp after coming out to his mother. As if a conversion camp wasn’t bad enough, Connor…
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Review: The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O’Neill
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 5 stars Kay O’Neill’s third installment in the Tea Dragon series of graphic novels, The Tea Dragon Tapestry, continues with the previously established characters on a new story arc. I had already pre-ordered The Tea Dragon Tapestry before I…
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Review: The Revolutionary and the Rogue by Blake Ferre
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 2.5 Blake Ferre’s The Revolutionary and the Rogue brings readers to the French Revolution where the Committee hunts down those accused of treason against the new Republic. English aristocrat, Perrin de Vesey, shouldn’t be drawn to Committee…
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Review: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Rory Power’s newest release, Burn Our Bodies Down, is part mystery, part horror, and all page-turner. Readers follow Margot Nielsen, who has grown up as the only child of a neglectful parent. Margot has asked her mother…
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Review: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Alexis Hall’s newest release, Boyfriend Material, is a m/m contemporary romance with tons of humor and a fake dating trope tying it all together. Luc O’Donnell is the son of two rock stars, which makes him a frequent…
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