Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines is a dual-timeline horror that follows the mysterious happenings of Brookhants School for Girls. In 1902, two teenage girls fell in love, both with each other and with the scandalous writing of Mary MacLane, only to die tragically with the book by their side. More mysterious deaths follow, until the schoolRead More
Little Shop of Horrors, but Bisexual: Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin Review
Baby is a monstrous plant that feeds on humans, biding his time in a dying shopping mall. He relies on Neve, the flower shop owner, to feed and protect him. But what he really wants is her heart—to meld the two of them together. While she provides for all his other needs, this is whereRead More
The Fight Isn’t Over: Ten Incarnations of Rebellion by Vaishnavi Patel Review
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion takes place in an alternate version of 1960s India, where British colonists’ brutal crackdown successfully quashed earlier attempts at independence. We meet Kalki as a teenager. Her father’s fight for freedom forced him to flee their home, and Kalki hasn’t heard from him since. Despite his rebellion liking costing his life,Read More
A Messy Love Story in Verse: Couplets by Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner’s Couplets is a novel-in-verse that explores the fierce intensity of falling in love and how it affects one’s expression, especially when the initial excitement begins to falter and fail. This debut reads like a challenge to form itself: can desire, betrayal, and queer longing be woven into the rigid dance of couplets without dulling theirRead More
Bisexual Latina Romantasy: Blood & Brujas by Mikayla D. Hornedo
Dayanara, daughter of the Acna, the witch’s feared leader, is a weapon for her mother’s vicious vendettas. To end an ongoing war between the witches and the vampires, her mother tricks her into marrying the prince of the vampires, Kaizer. Dayanara has to play a political game to save her clan, but still find aRead More
A Second-Chance Foodie Romance: The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Exes and former childhood best friends Kit and Theo accidentally book the same European food tour four years after their breakup. Try as they might to stay away from each other, they can’t help but fall back in love all over again. But maybe this time, they’ll get it right. It’s hard to find eitherRead More
Not-So-Dark Academia: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
I was very excited to get an ARC for The Incandescent by Emily Tesh, because Some Desperate Glory was one of my top books of 2023. Magical boarding school is a jump from space dystopia redemption arc, but Emily Tesh continues not to disappoint. The Incandescent is a zippy, fresh perspective of a boarding school story that sucked me from the beginningRead More
A TBR Shame Spiral in Six Titles
As a librarian, my TBR (to-be-read) shelf is never ending. Every time I think I am going to crack down on my whole bookshelf of unread books, something amazing comes through the returns chute, or my VERY well-meaning coworkers share something that they think I will love (most times they are right on the money)Read More
A Sentimental Romance That Takes You for a Ride: Whenever You’re Ready by Rachel Runya Katz Review
Despite not reading reviews about Whenever You’re Ready by Rachel Runya Katz, I set my expectations high for this contemporary romance. Estranged childhood friends-to-lovers, a road trip, siblings, grief and healing, a dual timeline, and third person present tense? Maybe I have some specific selling points, but consider me sold.
Guilty as Sin?: A Review of Say A Little Prayer by Jenna Voris
Jenna Voris’s most recent novel, Say A Little Prayer (released March 4, 2025), follows stubborn, outspoken, theater kid, Riley, who has recently left her conservative small town church after coming out as bisexual. When Riley’s older sister, Hannah, is kicked out of the church for getting an abortion, Riley makes it her personal mission toRead More
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