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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

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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 […]

You Had Me At “Queer Monster Love Story”

Hollow Heart by Paul Allor

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I was excited to have my novel nominated for an Indiana Authors Award this year. Since I didn’t win this round, of course I had to pick up a copy of the winning book in the Genre Fiction category, a graphic novel titled Hollow Heart. I was thrilled to see it described as “A queer monster love story about the choices we make between giving our loved ones what they want and giving them what we think they need.” El is a test subject in […]

done with this world for now :(

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

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While I enjoyed this last entry in the Saint of Steel series (especially because we do see our favorites from the prior two books!), in a nutshell I think it suffered from 1) being more of a standalone story (with the smooth skin man issue being solved in the prior novel) and 2) the moral of the story overshadowing the main plot as well. In this novel, we have the story of Gay Galen, who knows for a sure 1000% fact that he doesn’t want […]

Writing Your Own Happy Ending

Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey

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This one grew on me after kind of a rocky start. A combination of it taking it’s time working through an awkward setup and taking some time to warm up to the writing style meant that I spent the first couple of sessions pretty cold on the whole thing, but I came around by the mid point. Rosie and Jane are many things to each other – Customer and bookshop owner, author and reader, twitter mutuals with a budding friendship, Awkardly, between an online pseudonym […]

Finding Hope in Confronting the Past and the Present

The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

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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 […]

so very many thoughts about this book

Husband Material by Alexis Hall

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CW: for the ongoing homophobia of Oliver’s family from last book I don’t mean to knock this book at all, but I will say that reading it (and wanting to give it a four) made me realize that Boyfriend Material should have been a five (that has been rectified, even before my re-read) (re-re-read, I should say). I would also recommend anyone who hasn’t re-(re-)read Boyfriend Material since it came out to re-read it before plunging into this novel. I went back and forth on whether I should–full disclosure, […]



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