When you open up a book and it includes a map, family tree, glossary, and a pronunciation guide, you know you’re getting into something big. Hild is the first book in a (3 part?) series that explores the life of St Hilda of Whitby. Hild starts with her childhood and her ascent into being a king’sRead More
Danika reviews Lyme Light by Natalie H.G. London
Lyme Light is a memoir by Natalie H.G. London that focuses on her experiences with Lyme disease. This is the first time I’ve read a memoir focused around an illness, and I’ll admit, I was skeptical about how much London could write about having Lyme disease without rehashing the same topics. I was definitelyRead More
Link Round Up: August 28 – September 3
Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted This Year’s Queer Offerings from the Canadian Publishing Season. Lambda Literary posted Rebecca Coffey: On Sigmund Freud’s Relationship with His Lesbian Daughter Anna and Using Fiction to Explore the Truth. Women and Words posted My LATE post 2014 GCLS. SR Silcox posted On bad things happening to lesbian characters because they’re lesbians.Read More
Nicole reviews Out of This World by Maggie Morton
For once, I’ve found a lesbian erotica novel that has good proofreading, a solid plot, and steamy scenes that don’t make me cringe. And it’s not every day that I find one of those. Let’s get into a bit more detail here. First, the synopsis. Protagonist Iris finds herself trying to make a new beginningRead More
Abigail reviews Puzzled by the Clues by Jean Sheldon
“Fill me in, Nora. A dope-buying professor, a group of Nazi sympathizers, this is way beyond Chicago politics as usual.” That quote seems to nicely encapsulate the ambience of the second book in the Nic and Nora series. Puzzled by the Clues is involved with a much more dramatic plot than its predecessor, She OverheardRead More
TB reviews Daite by Hildred Billings
Daite by Hildred Billings has the makings for an entertaining romance. There are sexy women, drama, love, broken hearts, and steamy scenes. Jun is dedicated to her job and she hopes to run her family’s hotel business someday. When she finally thinks her uncle is about to hand over the reins to her, she discoversRead More
Link Round Up: August 22 – 27
AfterEllen posted An Alternative School Reading List: Here Is Every YA Novel With Lesbians. Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #53: A To-Read Pile To The Moon. Diverse Book Tours posted We don’t just need diverse books, we need to market them too. Gay YA posted We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 2. Lambda Literary posted Francine Prose: On Her NewRead More
Rachel reviews Gravity by Leanne Lieberman
For many gays and lesbians, religion, be it Christianity or Judaism, can be very hard to reconcile to and keep true to their identities at the same time. Gravity by Leanne Lieberman explores these very problems for a lesbian Orthodox Jewish teenager. It is the summer of 1987 in Canada, and fifteen year old EllieRead More
Danielle Ferriola reviews Emlyn and the Gremlin by Steff F. Kneff and illustrated by Luke Spooner
Upon discovering rummaged jewelry boxes and messes young Emlyn knows she did not create, Emlyn confronts her two mothers about the probability of a mysterious gremlin sneaking into her bedroom at night. Determined to find out which creature was indeed responsible for displacing shiny items in her room, Emlyn disregards her mothers’ claims that noRead More
Anna M reviews Jolt by Kris Bryant
Jolt is the first novel by Kris Bryant and will be published in September by Bold Strokes Books. I read a review copy courtesy of Netgalley. Mystery author Bethany Lange hasn’t recovered from a bad breakup three years ago, when her closeted partner abruptly left her to be with someone else. Since then, Bethany hasRead More
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