Summer has moved back to Austin, Texas, after years away in college and teaching in California, and she finds out that the school her grandmother founded is imminently being gentrified. She goes to the site to walk down memory lane—and maybe take some souvenirs—and runs into an old high school crush she’d had a missedRead More
Vampires Living in Symbiosis: Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor Review
Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor begins in 1999 in New York, takes the reader back to Ghana in 1799, and finally presents a vision for the future, all in the space of a novella. Cynthia, a human, is in a committed relationship with the vampire Safoa. After eight years together, she still hasn’t learned about howRead More
The Queer Historical Broom-Racing Comic You Didn’t Know You Needed: Brooms by Jasmine Walls, illustrated by Teo Duvall
I got the recommendation for Brooms, written by Jasimine Walls and illustrated by Teo Duvall, off of a random list of graphic novels to buy your teens for Christmas, and I couldn’t believe that it’s been out since 2023 and I hadn’t heard of it! It’s so exactly up my alley. Now, I am bringing it to yourRead More
A Sweet Chef Romance: Taste the Love by Karelia & Fay Stetz-Waters Review
As January is always freezing where I live, I turned to a heartwarming contemporary romance: Taste the Love by (to my delight) wife duo Karelia & Fay Stetz-Waters. On the day they graduated from culinary school, Kia Jackson and Alice Sullivan’s rivalry culminated in a kiss. Their careers led them down separate paths, but sixRead More
A Fictional Account of a (Maybe) Real Pirate: The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
Briony Cameron’s The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye takes the story of the legendary pirate Jacquotte Delahaye and imagines her rise to captain of a fleet of over a hundred pirates. While her existence is debated, her legacy nonetheless makes for a fascinating story, one that deserves to be shared as widely as any other historical (or semi-historical)Read More
Between Devotion and Obsession: Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu Review
In “Lonely Crowds,” we follow the complex relationship between protagonists Ruth and Maria. The two meet as children at their all-girls Catholic school in New England and become fast friends. Ruth is the only child of recent immigrants, and Maria is an orphan under the care of her mentally ill aunt, and the two are someRead More
A Cozy, Black Sapphic Love Story: The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee Review
I’ve never read a book that would fall into the “low-angst romance” category, until I picked up The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee. The book is the third in a series that takes place in a quaint small town called Peach Blossom. This Black sapphic romance follows two women in their late 20s, Dani and Zoey,Read More
A Cozy Queer Christmas Romance for Fans of The Holiday: I’ll Be Gone for Christmas by Georgia K. Boone Review
I watch The Holiday every December, so when I heard about a sapphic book coming out with the same premise—two strangers swap houses over the holidays and fall in love with people from each other’s lives—I knew I had to pick it up. As you’d expect, we have two main characters: Clover, who left herRead More
A Queer Black Holiday RomCom: There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson
This book feels like a teen holiday romcom movie in book form—if those movies ever starred queer Black main characters. We switch between two points of view: Dominique, who took off to New York City to chase his influencer dreams; and Andy, his cousin, who stayed in their hometown and is pursuing her career goalRead More
Love and Rocket Science: To the Moon and Back by Eve Noble
Finally, someone taps the vast romantic potential of mathematics and physics. To The Moon is a historical fiction novel set during the Space Race following two NASA employees: Katrina Ivanova, a mathematician and Soviet turncoat, and Gloria Johnson, a brilliant Black physicist stuck working as a secretary for her white peers. Katrina fled from the SovietRead More
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