I love shapeshifter characters for the many dualities they can represent, and I also like reading about lonely, troubled girls, so my paranormal pick for this October was the young adult novel On the Wings of la Noche by Vanessa L. Torres. Estrella (Noche) Villanueva straddles two worlds. At school, she’s a science whiz who keeps toRead More
A Gentle Queer Awakening: Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie
Racquel Marie’s Ophelia After All follows high school senior Ophelia Rojas, a boy-crazy rose gardener. With prom and the end of high school swiftly approaching, Ophelia is reluctant to let anything else change, least of all her understanding of who she has always thought she is, but when she finds herself crushing on her classmate Talia Sanchez,Read More
Zombies, OCD, and Finding Good Where You Can: If We Survive This by Racquel Marie Review
Racquel Marie’s If We Survive This is in some ways a familiar story. Set in an alternate present where rabies has mutated into what is ultimately a zombie-fying disease, society has collapsed into an apocalyptic wasteland. Following the disappearance of their father, Flora and her brother, Cain, decide to follow him up to the cabin they vacationedRead More
Exploring the Ace Spectrum: Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez
Librarian Angela Gutierrez has never been kissed. But after posting a video about her late bloomer status and ace identity, she’s finally ready to get some firsts out of the way. Using her new influencer status to come up with a scavenger hunt idea in which the winner earns her first kiss, Angela realizes sheRead 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
Queer, Revelatory Joy in The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
Already a fan of Molly Knox Ostertag’s The Girl from the Sea, I had a good feeling about the weighty tome that is The Deep Dark. Friends, this poignant graphic novel delivered and then some. It’s like someone translated the sensation of waiting for the other shoe to drop and described the steps someone would take toRead More
Grief and the Gay Supernatural Alliance: Jasmine is Haunted by Mark Oshiro
Jasmine Garza is tired of moving, she’s tired of switching schools, and she’s tired of her Mami not believing her. Ever since her father died, she’s been haunted—but not by him. By a ghost who wants to ruin her life, apparently, because it keeps getting her into trouble. She’s tried to talk to her MamiRead More
The Queer Graphic Novel That Had Me Sobbing at 3 A.M.: The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! You’re all fired for not tell me how good this is. I liked The Girl From the Sea, so I put a hold on Ostertag’s newest sapphic graphic novel, but I hadn’t heard anything about it, so I my expectations were pretty grounded. IRead More
A Rivals to Lovers Soccer Romance: You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Racquel Marie’s You Don’t Have a Shot is a YA romance that centers around Valentina Castillo-Green, a high school soccer star whose life revolves around the sport. After an abrupt end to her junior year soccer season, Vale ends up at soccer camp, co-captaining a teamRead More
A Painfully Oblivious Lesbian Love Story: Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Your enjoyment of Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream will depend heavily on how you feel about reading hundreds of pages of a truly oblivious queer main character. The kind of character who googles, “Can you be straight and have a sex dream aboutRead More