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Escaping Exodus – LGBT Book Review

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden is a weird book. It’s also a really good book; the two terms aren’t mutually exclusive. Just be aware the tentacles might be going in…

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September 1, 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
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 / Science Fiction / Series

Gideon the Ninth – LGBT Book Review

So, I didn’t like Gideon the Ninth. It feels kind of sacrilegious to say because the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. But here I am, saying I did not enjoy Gideon…

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May 12, 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
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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The Lost Future of Pepperharrow – LGBT Book Review

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow is Natasha Pulley’s third book, but the direct sequel to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. The story picks up approximately four years after the events…

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March 24, 2020

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