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
Til reviews Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Artie and the Wolf Moon is a graphic novel about middle schooler Artie, a budding photographer who discovers that her mom is a werewolf. Artie is a lonely kid. She’s one of the few students of color at her school, and she’s bullied by some of her classmates.Read More
Maggie reviews Thornfruit by Felicia Davin
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Thornfruit by Felicia Davin is a delightful queer fantasy adventure with some interesting world-building twists and memorable characters. Thornfruit follows two girls, Ev and Alizhan, as they come of age in a flurry of intrigue and romantic pining. Ev helps her father take their farm produce to market, practices fighting andRead More
Cath reviews The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Cara can travel between parallel worlds – but only because her life has been cut short on those other worlds, by disease or turf wars or a million other things. On 372 parallel worlds in total, to be exact. But on this world, Cara’s survived, and she’s beenRead More
Rachel reviews No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Caldwell Turnbull’s No Gods, No Monsters (Blackstone Publishing 2021) is an absolutely unputdownable blend of science fiction and fantasy set in a dark (and queer) world where all manner of creatures live and walk. The central plot of the novel focuses on Laina, who receives news one morning that herRead More
Shana reviews Passion Marked by Ophelia Silk
Passion Marked is a fantasy novel set in a magical world where people’s lives are constrained by whether they have light magic, dark magic, or neither. The worldbuilding inelegantly parallels modern-day racism, and I found it a frustrating read. Ellie is an aspiring horse trainer who has been working her whole life towards joining aRead More
Maggie reviews She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link In She Who Became the Sun, Zhu, a peasant girl in ancient China, watches as a fortune teller predicts greatness for her brother and nothingness for herself. Days later, she is the only one alive in her family, and she makes the decision to assume her brother’s identity, andRead More
Rachel reviews Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Described as Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid’s Tale, Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow (Penguin Random House, September 21st 2021) is a must-read blend of Chinese history and science fiction that also combines compelling writing with an original plot. Although the plot of this YA novel is complex andRead More
anna marie’s 3 best sapphic books of 2021 so far, with honourable mentions
Here are some of the best sapphic books i’ve read so far this year, which i think everyone should read immediately considering how incredible, prescient, inspiring and sexy they are. The gilda stories by jewelle gomez – this is my favourite vampire story i’ve ever read and i’m sad it took me so long toRead More
Kayla Bell reviews The Fallen by Ada Hoffmann
Remember last month, when I said that I love the publisher Angry Robot and the book that made me fall in love with them was Ada Hoffman’s The Outside? Well, manifesting works, because this month, I get to review The Fallen, The Outside’s sequel. This review will include some spoilers for The Outside, so IRead More
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