The Dead Room by Catriona McPherson
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Not too much to say here except I almost DNFed this one like 4 times. Nothing happens for a good portion of this book until the 70 percent mark. And even then it had me going what is going on … [Read more]
Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark
Ring Shout is set in 1915 Georgia, where Maryse Boudreaux and her friends Chef and Sadie work as bootleggers by day, and demon hunters by night. But unlike their K-pop counterparts, this trio of demon hunters is after Ku Kluxes: terrifying, pointy-headed monsters that fill the ranks of the KKK … [Read more]
An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr
In the lives of these two young people there was no middle distance. The result was bound to be either love or hate, and in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Bodman it was hate of the most bitter and arrogant kind. ― Robert Barr, An Alpine Divorce The term "Alpine Divorce" came to my attention a few weeks … [Read more]
The Last Father-Daughter Dance: A Short Story by Lisa Wingate
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes 1) by Travis Baldree
I don’t know if you can call this first book exactly cozy, but it was definitely comforting. Along with the storyline, there’s something comforting (to me at least) about a short story. There are character arcs, plot twists, and usually everything is tied up by the end. It calms the soul to not … [Read more]
He Who Drowned the World: The Radiant Emperor Duology Book 2 by Shelley Parker-Chan
This finale to Shelley Parker-Chan’s The Radiant Emperor Duology was outstanding. As with the first book (She Who Became the Sun), Parker-Chan focuses on the political and military machinations of a handful of ambitious individuals, each desperate for power and/or revenge. Parker-Chan has created … [Read more]
Be Gay Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos by Molly Llewellyn (editor), Kristel Buckley (editor)
Once again, I’m a sucker for a good title, and Be Gay Do Crime got me immediately. It’s a short story collection edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, and I went in assuming that it’d be a series of riots. The name evokes the proud history of queer militancy to me — the anti-normative ethos … [Read more]
