I was more than a little excited to pick up my copy of Star Cursed, the sequel to Born Wicked and book two of The Cahill Witch Chronicles by Jessica Spotswood. After Wicked‘s climactic ending — involving a serious choice and the chaos of discovering manipulation — I was sure that the Cahill sisters wouldRead More
Marcia reviews Desire: Stories of Longing by K.L. Joy
Opening with a cover that features rope bondage, and the party following the collaring ceremony of two of lead character Vivianne’s friends, it is immediately clear that Desire: Stories of Longing by K.L. Joy is not straight-forward (pardon the pun) erotica. The short novel follows new Domme Vivianne as her life in the BDSM sceneRead More
Marcia reviews Stumptown vol. 2, by Greg Rucka, illustrated by Matthew Southworth
It is only in certain circles that one hears Greg Rucka’s name added to the discussion about not-necessarily-heterosexual women in fiction. He stands (in my mind) alongside Gail Simone and Ed Brubaker when listing the writers who have made a positive mark on comics (specifically the DC Universe) when it comes to women. I wroteRead More
Marcia reviews Born Wicked: The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book One, by Jessica Spotswood
Quick note: This review does not discuss in-novel lesbianism at length, as I consider the hints and reveal to be a pretty significant spoiler. You’ll just have to trust me. Lesbians are here. The year is 1896, the place is New England — but it is not the New England we know, not even theRead More
Marcia reviews Legal Briefs edited by S. L. Armstrong & Carrie Cunn
I’ll kick this review off with a bit of full disclosure: I’m an asexual queer who doesn’t particularly enjoy erotica on screen or in print unless it deals with character building. Perhaps I made an odd choice to choose Legal Briefs, a six-story anthology with legal and erotic themes. The collection by Storm Moon PressRead More
Marcia reviews Dysphoria by Karelia Stetz-Waters
Dysphoria by Karelia Stetz-Waters Artema Press, 2013, 350 pp Dysphoria. On its own, the word means simply the state of feeling unwell. It is a loaded term, however, especially in the queer community. Trans*-folk use the word to describe the feeling of incongruity between how the body exists and how the brain expects the body toRead More
Marcia reviews The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap by Paulette Mahurin
Set in rural Nevada in the mid-1800s in a town that reminded me of childhood marathons of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman – where every townsperson is a character worth knowing and a lot of the population are simply, unequivocally good or evil when it comes to the protagonist and the issue of the week –Read More
Marcia reviews Gravel Queen by Tea Benduhn
Gravel Queen By Tea Benduhn 2003 “The dark screen begins to fade into image as the music rises. There’s a round yellowish girl with dark hair driving a beat-up blue pickup truck with some rust around the fenders. That’s me.” As a former teen who still dedicates most of her reading time to YA lit,Read More
Marcia reviews Love Devours: Tales of Monstrous Adoration by Sarah Diemer
I really wanted to like Love Devours: Tales of Monstrous Adoration, a short collection of short stories with a dark fantasy/sci-fi theme by Sarah Diemer. That isn’t to say that the collection is wholly without merit, but some combination of the stories themselves and how they were organized seemed determined to hit me somewhere around “prettyRead More