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The premise is the only redeeming feature and even that’s somewhat derivative

The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen

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Bingo 12: Free I’m going to be up front about this: if this hadn’t been a free download from the Tor.com book club, I’d have been annoyed to have spent any money on it. The story is predictable, and the plot is both mostly lacking and also incomplete. I am reminded in a way of the Goosebumps series; I never really got into that as a kid in part because of how the endings were often not entirely endings. Same problem here. The Infinite Noise […]

A book overflowing with queer kindness

Tell Me Anything by Skye Kilaen

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The thing about Skye Kilaen is that she has so much compassion for her characters and her stories are so full of kindness that when she rips my still beating heart out of my chest in chapter one, I keep reading because I trust my heart in her hands. Skye writes beautiful LGBTQ+ romances, she’s self published, and unless you hang out in the right book circles, you probably don’t know who she is. But you should, because she’s so gooooooooood. Tell Me Anything is […]

A Romance That Needs More Magic

The Sumage Solution by G. L. Carriger

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I am not sure how or why I ended up with The Sumage Solution; I do like Gail Carriger (or G.L. Carriger as she is here), but straight up romance is really really not my genre. The world of the story is probably my favorite part; it’s modern day San Francisco, but it’s mostly supernatural beings. Our main love connection is a mage and a werewolf, but some of the other couples involve werewolf-merman, a pair of kitsune, and a kelpie and her partner (species […]

Two Gaming Nerds Go on a Road Trip and….

Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert

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I’m not sure how Conventionally Yours ended up on my radar since I’m not a reader of romance novels generally speaking. Basically, it’s a queer romance with a twist on the standard enemies to lovers plot, namely the setting is serious card gaming and convention. On the one side, there’s Conrad the good-looking friendly guy who seems to have the perfect social life and image, but is actually dealing with major issues in his life. On the other side, there’s Alden, the seemingly uptight, prissy, […]

When the romance isn’t too believable

Moonstruck Vlume 3 Troubled Waters by Grace Ellis, Shae Beagle

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I wasn’t too sure about the Moonstruck series after volume 2; volume 3 has redeemed things a bit. Even though it kind of splits of the coffee shop gang a little, with Chet (centaur) going off for an internship and Julie goes with Selena to a mermaid Festival. Most of the volume follows Julie and Selena, who meet up with Selena’s friend and roomie, the mermaid Skyla (Julie apparently has never met her and didn’t know Skyla and Selena live together). Naturally things don’t go […]



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