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Failing up and into my heart

Party of One by Dave Holmes

April 19, 2023 by carmelpie 1 Comment

“What to the untrained eye looked like vegging out in front of the television was actually me silently plotting a way to crawl inside.” “Looking back, I think my family raised me right. There were probably some lessons about decency and fairness and manners in there somewhere – who can remember? – but the main thing my parents and brothers taught me by example was how to appreciate pop culture and music. I want to thank them and also explain to them that I am […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Celebrity Memoir, dave holmes, LGBTQ author, the nineties

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: Celebrity Memoir, dave holmes, LGBTQ author, the nineties ·
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“I think everyone should just figure out what works for them and enjoy it on their own terms.”

I Think Our Son Is Gay Vol. 3 by Okura

I Think Our Son Is Gay Vol. 4 by Okura

March 12, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is a very sweet slice-of-life series that follows Tomoko, a mother who suspects that her son Hiroki is gay. Throughout the course of the series, she challenges her own internalized prejudices and learns more about how to support her son even if he’s not able to come out to her yet. I think what stands out to me the most with this series is how grounded in reality it is. The author, Okura, is gay, and I think that lends itself to the books […]

Filed Under: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: growing up/coming of age, LGBT fiction, LGBTQ author, manga, Okura

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: growing up/coming of age, LGBT fiction, LGBTQ author, manga, Okura ·
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Farewell Katia, See You As Soon As You Publish The Next One

Just Might Work by Katia Rose

November 30, 2022 by Abi 1 Comment

And so, my journey through the sapphic romances of Katia Rose comes to an end. Originally this review of Just Might Work was going to be “Oh hey so this one has the best smut of the lot” but then I read Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner and frankly that blew everyone out of the water in the smut department, so with all due respect to the smut, I will be forced to talk about the way in which I liked the characters, very much […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: catching feelings, enemies to lovers, fake dating, Katia Rose, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, non-binary character, sapphic romance, they were roommates, transgender, transgender characters

Abi's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: catching feelings, enemies to lovers, fake dating, Katia Rose, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, non-binary character, sapphic romance, they were roommates, transgender, transgender characters ·
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It made Felix feel good to know the man who so tirelessly championed their past apparently had people in his present, too.

Felix Navidad by ‘Nathan Burgoine

November 22, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

I saw this on NetGalley a couple of days after I raved about ‘Nathan Burgoine’s Handmade Holidays in the HEAforTransKids’ Winter Wonderland bundle. I requested it immediately. Burgoine is one of my new favorite, will read everything they’ve written authors. Felix Navidad lived up to the hype I gave it, while also being more than I anticipated. Felix is a nurse who works with clients in their homes. He became a nurse after experiencing the positive impact a nurse could have on patients and families […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: ‘Nathan Burgoine, advance reader copy, christmas, Felix Navidad, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:126 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ‘Nathan Burgoine, advance reader copy, christmas, Felix Navidad, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, NetGalley ·
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I Swear the Fact That This Book Uses Photograph by Nickleback as an Emotional Beat is Good, Actually

The Devil Wears Tartan by Katia Rose

September 23, 2022 by Abi 3 Comments

So funny thing about me is that I’m Scottish, kinda. I’m like, the right amount of kinda Scottish to vibe with the way in which this book is kinda Scottish. It’s set in Ottawa. I live in London. Moira Murray (a name so Scottish my parents are wishing I’d changed mine to something similar instead of making it so that my Scottishness is no longer the first thing that anyone immediately knows about me) and Kenzie Andrianakis (closer to my current level of Scot) are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Sports Tagged With: a little found family as a treat, a little generational trauma as whatever the opposite of a treat is, highland dancing, Katia Rose, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, nickleback as an emotional bond (not joking), rivals to lovers, scotland (eh), sex scenes so good I had to stop reading in public

Abi's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Sports · Tags: a little found family as a treat, a little generational trauma as whatever the opposite of a treat is, highland dancing, Katia Rose, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, nickleback as an emotional bond (not joking), rivals to lovers, scotland (eh), sex scenes so good I had to stop reading in public ·
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Finding Hope in Confronting the Past and the Present

The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

August 28, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

A lot of the queer fiction I have been recently has featured characters living in either New York or the Pacific North West, or both. Places with widespread acceptance of queerness, or at least enough that the characters are rarely under threat for it within the text, regardless of the real world. The Secret of You and Me on the other hand, draws much of it’s power from the inverse, from a lack of acceptance in community, of what it feels like when you are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: best friends, late in life lesbian, Lesbians, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, lovers to enemies to lovers, Melissa Lenhardt

Abi's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: best friends, late in life lesbian, Lesbians, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, lovers to enemies to lovers, Melissa Lenhardt ·
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