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Empire Ascendant – LGBT Book Review

Empire Ascendant is the second book of Kameron Hurley’s Worldbreaker Saga. I’ll be honest, I can never remember what events take place in the second book of a trilogy, the…

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August 18, 2020
Dark Fantasy / Fantasy / Female Author / Queer Reads / Series

The Mirror Empire – LGBT Book Review

My absolutely favourite review of The Mirror Empire (favourite because it’s just….such white cis man who is scared of of feminist, diverse fantasy type of review) says it is a…

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August 11, 2020
Female Author / Queer Author / Science Fiction / Standalone / Thriller

Into The Drowning Deep – LGBT Book Review

Mermaids, but make it science and make them ready to eat you. I picked up Into the Drowning Deep when on vacation in New York in March (we flew home…

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August 4, 2020
Female Author / Queer Reads / Science Fiction / Standalone

The Stars are Legion – LGBT Book Review

I read The Stars are Legion immediately after The Light Brigade, and it was kind of a letdown for me. I didn’t really resonate with either of the POV characters…

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July 7, 2020
Female Author / Queer Reads / Science Fiction / Standalone

The Light Brigade – LGBT Book Review

"We kept going. Because that's what war is. You keep going until it's over. Or you're dead." I read this book ages ago, but it’s taken me a while to…

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June 30, 2020
Female Author / Queer Reads / Science Fiction / Series

Unconquerable Sun – LGBT Book Review

Unconquerable Sun hooked me on the premise of a genderbent Alexander the Great. And with further research, Kate Elliot confirmed that it was sapphic. And while the sapphic elements were…

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June 23, 2020
Fantasy / Female Author / Queer Author / Queer Reads / Series

The Unconquered City – LGBT Book Review

I received an ARC from Tor and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.  Remember when I said that The Impossible Contract upped the emotional game for me. Well The…

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June 16, 2020
Fantasy / Female Author / Queer Author / Queer Reads / Series

The Impossible Contract – LGBT Book Review

Thana is the daughter of the Serpent, Ghadid’s most famous, or infamous, assassin. Trained to be an assassin since childhood, Thana has a lot to live up to. And where…

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June 10, 2020
Fantasy / Female Author / Queer Author / Queer Reads / Series

The Perfect Assassin – LGBT Book Review

The Perfect Assassin is K. A. Doore’s first novel in the Chronicles of Ghadid trilogy set in a Sahara inspired fantasy world.  Amastan is an apprentice historian and a new…

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June 2, 2020
Female Author / Science Fiction / Standalone

Station Eleven – Review

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a story, not truly of civilization’s downfall, or the effects of a pandemic. The book was too far removed from that story…

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May 19, 2020
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