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Red, White, and Royal Blue – LGBT Book Review

Soooooooo, this is an extremely unpopular opinion, but I didn’t enjoy Red, White & Royal Blue. This is a book that made me feel justified in not reading contemporary romance/NA…

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September 8, 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 / 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
Female Author / Queer Author / Queer Reads / Science Fiction / Standalone

Ascension – LGBT Book Review

When I first discovered and read this book I was starved of science-fiction with LGBTQ+ Protagonists. I enjoyed it in my whirl wind read through. But, now I have had…

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May 5, 2020
Female Author / Queer Author / Science Fiction / Standalone / Thriller

Goldilocks – Review

I received this book from Orbit through netgalley for my honest opinion. Goldilocks comes out on May 5th!Laura Lam's Goldilocks follows a scientific crew of five women on their mission…

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April 21, 2020
Black Author / Fantasy / Own Voices / Queer Author / Standalone

A Taste of Honey – LGBT Book Review

Kai Ashante Wilson’s A Taste of Honey is an own voices fantasy novella that follows Aqib, fourth-cousin to the Olorumi royal family and the youngest child of the Master of…

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April 14, 2020
Black Author / Fantasy / Own Voices / Queer Author / Standalone

The Deep – LGBT Book Review

Rivers Solomon’s The Deep imagines a world where mermaids are the descendants of the pregnant African slave women who were thrown overboard by slave owners. A really interesting concept to…

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April 7, 2020
Fantasy / NB Author / Queer Author / Queer Reads / Standalone

Upright Women Wanted – LGBT Book Review

Who doesn’t love an old west aesthetic? But what if that rough, desert setting is actually in the future? A future where conservative men's already tight hold on the world…

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March 31, 2020
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