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“How wonderful! I, too, am filled with an encroaching dread over my own mortality.”

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

April 12, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

“Don’t you wish you were here?” Arthur Parnassus, headmaster of an orphanage for magical children, has got a reasonably good life going on. His life on a small island with the love of his life Linus Baker, the local sprite Zoe Chapelwhite, her girlfriend Helen Webb, and the six wonderful children whose adoptive father he is desperately wanting to become. However, when the government branch in charge of magical beings raise their heads to investigate the island, and a new child comes to the island […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: found family, LGBQT+, TJ Klune

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: found family, LGBQT+, TJ Klune ·
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Lost a job, found love in her parents basement

I Hated You in High School by Kathleen Gros

April 11, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I Hated You in High School by Kathleen Gros is A LGBTQ “friend’s kid sister to friends to enemies to friends to lovers” story that shows even in adulthood you can be unsure of yourself and can still be coming of age and terms with who you are. Overall it is a fun graphic novel that is not too sappy or pushy, but does have a few moments of very Pro-Pride that could be a little sugary. Things are pretty obvious where they are going […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: family, friendship, Kathleen Gros, LGBQT+, siblings, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:192 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: family, friendship, Kathleen Gros, LGBQT+, siblings, Social Themes ·
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Ragtag Crew of Humans Saving the World

Unstoppable #1 Victories Greater Than Death  by Charlie Jane Anders

April 11, 2025 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

There are a lot of good things that are included in Unstoppable #1 Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders. However, not only is this a book that while you can stop after book one you need the series to fill in blanks, there are events that I just could not like. I know that this is a controversial statement due to the subjects included. We deal a lot with gender (in fact it is such an important part of things, when someone introduces themselves […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, History, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: action, Aliens, charlie jane anders, friendship, LGBQT+, Social Themes, space opera, War & Military

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:189 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, History, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: action, Aliens, charlie jane anders, friendship, LGBQT+, Social Themes, space opera, War & Military ·
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Be Gay, Solve Crime, Take Naps

The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth

March 13, 2025 by finnyfinfinn Leave a Comment

I would never regret dying in a cat costume. I am now actively plotting how I can do so. Should I dress like a cat all the time just in case?  Because I am totally willing to do that. The Undetectables came together when they were fourteen at the site of their first murder, that of Theodore Wyatt of the infamous cat costume. Six years later his murder is still unsolved and the girls have scattered. Mallory has been struggling with fibromyalgia, Diana is busy […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, Courtney Smyth, fibromyalgia, ghosts, LGBQT+, mystery, Scooby Gang, witches

finnyfinfinn's CBR17 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, Courtney Smyth, fibromyalgia, ghosts, LGBQT+, mystery, Scooby Gang, witches ·
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Sabrina the Teenage Witches

The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

March 13, 2024 by finnyfinfinn 2 Comments

Well they are all teenagers but definitely not the ABC Family Sabrina type witches, more the Netflix PG-13 type Sabrinas. Sadly no wisecracking Salem the cat here either, though there is a big silent demon. Zara Jones is desperately trying to find a way to bring her murdered sister back from the dead. Jude Wolf is a billionaire’s daughter suffering from a curse gone horribly wrong. Both girls urgently need a real witch to help them. Emer Byrne is a curse writer from a deceased […]

Filed Under: Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: horror, Krystal Sutherland, LGBQT+, London, teen witches, witches, Young Adult

finnyfinfinn's CBR16 Review No:9 · Genres: Horror, Young Adult · Tags: horror, Krystal Sutherland, LGBQT+, London, teen witches, witches, Young Adult ·
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Tennal the Chaos needs more Motivation

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

June 12, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I really liked Everina Maxwell’s debut Winter’s Orbit, so I made sure to get Ocean’s Echo as soon as it came out. I saved it for June as school is out and also Pride month. Ocean’s Echo is not a direct sequel which is sort of too bad but fine since I already knew that, but it’s definitely got some parallels. Basically an order vs chaos pair are forced together and must work through their personal and public problems; this worked out quite well the […]

Filed Under: Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Everina Maxwell, LGBQT+, LGBT Romance, Ocean's Echo, pride month, romace

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:51 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Everina Maxwell, LGBQT+, LGBT Romance, Ocean's Echo, pride month, romace ·
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