Category: LGBTQ+

Book Review: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

In the Lives of Puppets is whimsical and weird, but also tender and quietly profound. It’s about love, identity, and what it means to be free, even when you’re made of wires and code. Plus, there’s a neurotic vacuum named Rambo. Come for the Pinocchio vibes, stay for the heartbreak and hope.
Book Review: The Book Eaters

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean is dark, unsettling, and strangely sympathetic. Everyone’s a monster, and I loved it.
Book Review: This is How You Lose the Time War

Grappling with the idea of nature vs. machine, This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is a sci-fi love story like no other.
Book Review: Legends and Lattes

This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree is a 296-page cozy fantasy book and is the first in a series. It follows Viv, a battle-weary orc, who hangs up her sword after a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed and aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. However, old and new rivals stand in the way of success—not to mention…
Book Review: When Katie Met Cassidy

This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri is a 264-page lesbian romance novel. Katie Daniels is a perfection-seeking 28-year-old lawyer living the dream in New York. She engaged to a charming art curator, Paul Michael, and has successfully made her way up the corporate ladder at a multinational law firm. She’s come a long way from growing up in Kentucky. But when she’s suddenly dumped by…
Book Review: Red, White and Royal Blue

This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston is a 448-page YA queer romance novel. First son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to America having a prince. With his sister and the VP’s granddaughter, they’re they White House Trio, an effective millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides though, especially when photos of a confrontation with his…
Book Review: The Nightmare Before Kissmas

This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sarah Raasch is a 368-page romance novel with the main focus being Christmas Price Nicholas “Coal” Claus and Halloween Price Hex. It’s the first in the Royals and Romance series. Here is the book blurb: Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape…
Book Review: The Honeys

This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! The Honeys by Ryan La Sala is a 344-page Young Adult horror novel. Mars has always been the shadow to his twin sister Caroline’s radiance. However, when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars must learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who’d grown distant in the months leading up to her death. Mars’s genderfluidity means he’s often excluded from the traditions and expectations of his…
Book Review: Bury Your Gays

This post contains spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Bury Your Gays is a commentary on the Hollywood tendency to either not explicitly acknowledge a character is gay or to kill off the gay character. Misha Byrne is a screenwriter for a very popular TV show: The Travelers. When the executives want him to kill off the two female leads after revealing they’re in love instead of allowing them to have their happy ending, Misha…
Book Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

A lyrical retelling of the Iliad through the eyes of Patroclus, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller explores love, fate, and heroism in a story as tender as it is tragic. Read the full review of this modern Greek myth retelling.