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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Own Voices (B)
#OwnVoices is a term coined by the writer Corinne Duyvis, and refers to an author from a marginalized or under-represented group writing about their own experiences/from their own perspective, rather than someone from an outside perspective writing as a character from an underrepresented group.
And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew: Book Review
And 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
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Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron: Book Review
Cinderella 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
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The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase: Book Review
The 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
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Femme Tales by Anne Shade: Book Review
Femme 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,
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Queerleaders by MB Guel: Audiobook Review
Queerleaders 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
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Neither Here Nor There by Nikki Harmon: Book Review
Neither 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
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Judge Me When I’m Wrong by Cheryl A Head: Book Review
Judge 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
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Two Wings To Fly Away by Penny Mickelbury: Book Review
Two 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
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Both Ways by Ileandra Young: Book Review
Both 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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