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Marcia reviews Star Cursed, The Cahill Witch Chronicles Book #2, by Jessica Spotswood

October 22, 2013 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews Desire: Stories of Longing by K.L. Joy

September 2, 2013 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews Stumptown vol. 2, by Greg Rucka, illustrated by Matthew Southworth

August 5, 2013 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews Born Wicked: The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book One, by Jessica Spotswood

July 1, 2013 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews Legal Briefs edited by S. L. Armstrong & Carrie Cunn

June 3, 2013 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews Dysphoria by Karelia Stetz-Waters

May 17, 2013 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap by Paulette Mahurin

December 10, 2012 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews Gravel Queen by Tea Benduhn

December 9, 2012 by Danika Ellis

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

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Marcia reviews Love Devours: Tales of Monstrous Adoration by Sarah Diemer

October 2, 2012 by Danika Ellis

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

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