Tag: queer
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Review: Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingranda Mora
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Maria Ingrande Mora’s Fragile Remedy is part dystopian, part scifi, all unrepentantly queer. Gathos City was ravaged by a lung rot disease which led to the development of GEMs- Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogates. The GEMs provided…
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Review: The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass by Adan Jerreat-Poole
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 2 stars The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass is Adan Jerreat-Poole’s YA fantasy debut. The story involves all the sorts of things you would hope for in a YA fantasy; witches, assassins, magic, adventure, and more. Readers follow Eli,…
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Review: Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Andrea Contos’ Throwaway Girls is a stunning mystery thriller surrounding one missing girl who everyone wants home, and the other missing girls who were forgotten. The reader follows Caroline, a queer teenager who is just trying to…
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Review: Drive by Courtney Maguire
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 4.5 stars Drive is an intense MM contemporary romance surrounding mechanic, Red, and the mysterious, wealthy Victor. Red is raising his sister, Katie, trying to build a new friendship with Sean, and doesn’t quite know what it…
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Review: Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley.** Actual rating: 2.5 Genevieve Hudson’s Boys of Alabama is part coming-of-age, part magical realism and a strangely unique experience to read. Readers follow Max, a German boy who has recently moved to Alabama. Max has the power to consume death, therein restoring things to…
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Review: Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Melissa Bashardoust brings Girl, Serpent, Thorn, a young adult fantasy inspired by Persian mythology and folklore. Readers follow Soraya, a princess cursed to have poisonous skin. When Soraya is no longer content to be hidden away…
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Review: From the Dark We Came by J Emery
**I was provided an electronic copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars J. Emery brings their take to a vampire and hunter queer paranormal romance with From the Dark We Came. The story follows Cassian, our vampire newly awakened after having gone into a deep sleep, and Belar, our…
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Review: Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco
2 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Rin Chupeco’s most recent release, Wicked As You Wish, follows Tala, a member of the cursed Makiling line who can negate the effects of magic. Tala’s story takes place in a world where fairy tale places exist…
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Review: The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi
3 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Roshani Chokshi’s newest book, The Silvered Serpents, is the sequel to The Gilded Wolves. Readers follow a group of characters in shifting perspectives who make up a found family, and they have a new heist in this…
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Review: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
**I received an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 3 stars Alechia Dow creates a story in the not-so-distant future where alien races have landed on and conquered Earth. We follow two characters: Janelle Baker, a Black human girl who runs an illicit library, and M0Rr1S, a lab made…
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