Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson: Book Review
Can you imagine never hearing a bird’s song again? The absence that would lay just under the surface of the everyday clatters of civilization. When would that silence become too
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Can you imagine never hearing a bird’s song again? The absence that would lay just under the surface of the everyday clatters of civilization. When would that silence become too
Read moreAnd Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew is a hard science fiction/cyberpunk novella that made my geeky, AI loving heart soar. And then the steamy, D/s lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers relationship set it
Read moreCinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron is a YA fantasy that takes place 200 years after the death of Cinderella. It’s a fun, feminist take on the popular fairytale. The
Read moreThe Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase is an anticolonialist fantasy/dreamscape novel about the importance of family, love and one woman’s fight to preserve her identity and her
Read moreFemme Tales by Anne Shade is a compilation of contemporary butch/femme romances loosely based on fairy tales. Anne Shade uses the classic tales of Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty,
Read moreQueerleaders by MB Guel is a queer teen rom com that made my heart burst with joy. Mackenzie Gomez is smitten with the head cheerleader, Veronica. She spends far too
Read moreNeither Here Nor There by Nikki Harmon is a near future science fiction novel with a bit of action, a bit of mystery and a heavy focus on the choices
Read moreJudge Me When I’m Wrong by Cheryl A Head is the fourth book in the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery Series. The elders have always said that trouble usually comes in
Read moreTwo Wings To Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury braids together the historic, romance, and thriller genres in a story about personal and racial relationships and found family in Philadelphia on
Read moreBoth Ways by Ileandra Young is a new urban fantasy thrill ride and part of The S.P.E.A.R. Mission Files. Danika Karson is the best agent SPEAR (the Supernatural Prohibition, Extermination,
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