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Zombies, OCD, and Finding Good Where You Can: If We Survive This by Racquel Marie Review

July 5, 2025 by Vic

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

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A Queer Futuristic Take on a Classic Mystery Setup: The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles By Malka Older

March 27, 2024 by Emory Rose

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I love sapphic novellas with an unconventional blend of genre elements—so of course, after reading The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older last year, I eagerly awaited the sequel, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles. I had the sense I’d enjoy it even more as a series,Read More

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Creating Utopia in Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead

January 24, 2024 by Emory Rose

“Tomorrow will be kinder,” I whisper as I am swept into the rushing river of my dreams.  —”The Ark of the Turtle’s Back” by jaye simpson  Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead, is a follow up to the anthology Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time. TheseRead More

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Til reviews The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell by Kate Brauning

October 24, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This is the sort of review best begun with a caveat that I intend no ill will toward those who enjoyed the book… but maybe they’ll want to give it a miss, because I really do not like this book. In fact, I found the reading experience soRead More

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Mary reviews Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

May 5, 2020 by Danika Ellis

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future and trying to figure out what it will look like. Will this blow over in a couple of months and will things steadily return to normal? Or is the future forever changed and doomed? I guess it’s nice to think that even if it is the worst-caseRead More

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Danika reviews All Good Children by Dayna Ingram

May 1, 2016 by Danika Ellis

This book is a trip. All Good Children is set in a post-apocalyptic world where The Over–huge, mythological bird creatures–have conquered the human race. Life goes on almost as usual, except that a good percentage of children are taken by the The Over for food and reproduction. Some are selected at birth, while others are taken in theirRead More

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Laura reviews “Thicker Than Blood” by Avery Vanderlyle

October 16, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Publisher’s Blurb: When the Nanotech Plague began killing off the large population of America using the tiny, implanted robots, the so-called “normals” took it upon themselves to wipe out the rest to prevent the spread. Now, fourteen years later, performer Ayana is in a dangerous position. Her nanotechnology implants are impossible to hide, having beenRead More

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