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A Queer, Anti-Colonial Sci-Fi Novella: Countess by Suzan Palumbo
This review contains spoilers. Countess by Suzan Palumbo is a short science fiction novel that is a love story to the West Indies and its people even... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
The Beauty of Decay: Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
Last weekend was Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon, which I've done every year for the past ten years. For the October readathon, I save up horror and other... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Not Quite Scared Straight: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
"I was a cog in a terrible machine for years, and now I'm honored to be the monkey wrench dismantling it." Rose grew up in the extremely religious town of... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Pick Up These Sapphic YA Graphic Novels for a Halloween Romp
Last weekend was Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon, and every October readathon, I pack my TBR full of short Halloween-themed reads. Naturally, those are usually... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Finding Love in the Smog City: Kari by Amruta Patil
This review contains spoilers. Kari by Amruta Patil is considered the first lesbian graphic novel in India. The book opens with a double suicide pact, which... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
The Successor to House of Leaves: We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
If you're looking for a haunted house story to really get under your skin, We Used to Live Here is for you. It's a slow build, but by the end, it was the kind o... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
A Brutal Colonial Horror Story: To the Bone by Alena Bruzas
To the Bone is the story of Ellis, an indentured girl in the Jamestown settlement of the Virginia colony. Ellis aspires toward little more than goodness; born... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
An Immersive Steampunk Mystery: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark is many things: a steampunk mystery, an anti-colonial historical, an at once dark and whimsical fantasy, and more. But if I... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Feral Eldritch Ballerinas: I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamiso...
Laure is a ballet dancer who has devoted herself entirely to her profession. She spends every waking moment honing her skill. And she is perfect. But as she soo... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
The Ghosts and Secrets of Suburbia: The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
If I had a nickel for every book I've read recently about a suddenly haunted suburb, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but I guess authors are stepping u... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
A Sapphic & Sanguine Vampire Gothic to Satisfy All Your Cravings: Thirst by...
Are you searching for a spine-tingling sapphic read to round out your October TBR? Look no further! Thirst is a gorgeous Gothic novel that follows two women... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
All of the Sapphic Vampires, None of the Victorian Homophobic Overtones: An...
Like many queer women, I'm sure, I have a strange relationship with the original . On the one hand, sapphic vampires are objectively sexy. On the other hand, th... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
The Perfect Queer Gothic to Read on Halloween: My Darling Dreadful Thing by...
I've been trying to spend the fall reading Gothic fiction, and as Halloween approaches, Johanna van Veen's queer Gothic horror novel, My Darling Dreadful... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Escaping Comphet Is In the Cards: The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion
When an advertisement for Rebekah Faubion's The Lovers, a second chance romance about a tarot reader finding love again, came across my Instagram feed, I... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Queer Small Town Livin’: Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin
Mara loves basketball-which is a problem, because she's currently not allowed to play. After getting in a fight during a game, her coach kicks her off the... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Beyond the Surface: I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
There's only one thing standing in Chloe Green's way of winning valedictorian: the town's favorite and Chloe's rival, Shara Wheeler. A month before graduation,... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
5 Sapphic Vampire Books That Are Perfect for Spooky Season!
One thing that you need to know about me is that I love vampires! Whether it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, or What We Do in... Read more
Posted on 10 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
If Shirley Jackson Wrote Severance: Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling
The first thing you'll notice when reading the blurbs for Last to Leave the Room is that every reader seems to think it's a different genre. Isaac Fellman says... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Blood, Sex, and Poetry: An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson
"She kissed me with a martyr's agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on." I've been eagerly anticipating this book since it wa... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ -
Must-Read Poetry Collections by Queer Women
It can be easy to feel overwhelmed during trying times, and to feel like you have less time/energy to sit down with a book and really immerse yourself in plot o... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2024 BOOKS, LGBTQ