Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Sweet yet angsty. Coming of age and coming out stories. A meet cute that’s…not so cute. Jewish holiday rom com. All the big, tender feels of young love. Non-stop cackling, except when you take a break to have a good cry. A prominently featured corgi. These are aRead More
Meagan Kimberly reviews Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Ready to cut loose from her life serving the Ninth House and a doomed future, Gideon makes plans to escape the planet, but Harrow has other plans for her. Harrow has been summoned by the Emperor to engage in a trial of necromantic skills and intellect. If eitherRead More
Nat reviews Her Royal Happiness by Lola Keeley
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link If there’s a perfect time to read about the English monarchy and all its drama, well, it’s probably right now. Her Royal Happiness is low on the angst without glossing over the big ticket issues. Classism, racism, colonialism—Keeley touches on them all, without ever delving too far into seriousRead More
Nat reviews Guava Flavored Lies by J.J. Arias
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Ever since I read J.J. Arias’s Guava Flavored Lies, I’ve wanted to go to Miami so bad, just to hit up a Cuban bakery or three for a pastelito de guayaba and a cafecito. It’s been a while since I’ve read a book by Arias, and, as withRead More
Meagan Kimberly reviews The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Every year the witch queen of Caldella must choose a lover from the town to sacrifice to the dark tide, saving the island and its people from annihilation. Every year another boy is taken and everyone accepts it. But when Lina’s brother is in danger of becoming theRead More
Danika reviews I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Chloe Green and Shara Wheeler have been academic rivals since Chloe arrived in this Christian small town high school with its suffocating rules and homophobic culture. But at prom, as the fight for valedictorian is almost at a close, Shara kisses Chloe and disappears. She soon realizes SharaRead More
Danika reviews She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link If you want a teen romcom in an F/F YA book, this is the read for you! I’m getting caught up on 2021 reviews, and I listened to this several months ago and don’t remember a lot of details, but what more do I really need to sayRead More
Til reviews Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Gearbreakers bounces between high-octane mecha fights, rebellion, intense emotions, and savage banter. It’s a story about a wasteland outside a glittering, high-tech city. It has plot twists and schemes, and characters always willing to break the rules. And somehow, it manages to be overwhelmingly dull. The action scenes shineRead More
Nat reviews Thorn by Anna Burke
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link My recent infatuation with the Compass Rose series should have been all the warning I needed not to start an Anna Burke book just before bedtime. This dark, Grimm style and very gay retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” kept me reading well past midnight to get justRead More
Marieke reviews The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett
This was a mildly frustrating read, and depending on what you’re looking for in your fantasy romance this may or may not be for you. In premise it’s relatively similar to Queen Of Ieflaria or Of Fire and Stars: a woman of royal heritage is expecting to marry a male royal of another country, butRead More