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If You Want Me Close

I am quite sure that I need time with you more than I need star sprinkles.

If You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen

May 13, 2022 by Emmalita 4 Comments

Skye Kilaen does a fantastic job of gentle hurt-comfort queer stories. One of the things you know you will find in one of her books, is care and respect for its inhabitants. A lot of queer stories are stories of families of choice. In If You Want Me Close, Simon has a very close and queer friendly family of birth. He calls is family of blended Czech and Mexican heritage The Borg, because it assimilates everyone. The exception is his friend Ziah, a gay ex-Mormon […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: If You Want Me Close, Skye Kilaen

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:58 · Genres: Romance · Tags: If You Want Me Close, Skye Kilaen ·
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If You Want Me Close

“I’d possibly started down the road of caring about him differently. Albeit in a very slow, easily spooked car.”

I You Want Me Close by Skye Kilaen

May 7, 2022 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

If it’s a new Skye Kilaen, you know I’m going to read it! While this is set in Austin (and there’s a brief mention of Knockdown), it’s not part of that series. What it is is lovely and emotional friends-to-lovers romance. Look, it says hurt/comfort on the tin and holy crap that’s exactly what you get! Simon’s a larger bisexual guy, pleased to finally be working at a place that doesn’t care about his sexuality. He has two work friends: Mina, who sits in the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: contemporary, Romance, Skye Kilaen

llamareadsbooks's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Romance · Tags: contemporary, Romance, Skye Kilaen ·
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Adorable, funny polyam road trip romance

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen

April 6, 2022 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

The first book of this author’s I ever picked up was Get it Right, the first in this series, and that prompted me to binge, uh, pretty much everything else by her. So of course I was ridiculously excited for the next book in the series and even more excited when I heard it was a polyam road trip romance! While this is the second in a series, it can easily be read as a standalone. After getting fired from her job, the last thing […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: contemporary, polyam, Romance, Skye Kilaen

llamareadsbooks's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Romance · Tags: contemporary, polyam, Romance, Skye Kilaen ·
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Soft Queer Love – Ethical Non-Monogamy Edition

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen

February 1, 2022 by Emmalita 1 Comment

Twitter may be a hellsite most of the time, but it brought me to so many great writers I wouldn’t have found otherwise. I don’t know how else I would have found Skye Kilaen, an absolutely delightful queer self published author who should be more widely read. Shake Things Up is the second in her Love at Knockdown series and I feel like I’ve been eagerly anticipating it forever, but probably only about a year, what is time? We meet Noelle just after she’s been […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Shake Things Up, Skye Kilaen

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Shake Things Up, Skye Kilaen ·
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Jolie had known for six months and two days that her life was now temporary.

If I Were a Weapon by Skye Kilaen

December 17, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

On a near future Earth, alien ships appear and then moments later all the aliens die. As they die, clouds of nanites infect the area around the ships, killing many and leaving some with powers. Some time later, Deneve is making her way to Austin from Houston. She’s had a flash of a vision, just enough to know someone is in danger. Deneve has been on the road, unwilling to stay anywhere too long since the aliens arrived. The nanites that infect her body lead […]

Filed Under: Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: advance reader copy, All These Gifts, f/f, If I Were a Weapon, Skye Kilaen

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:112 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, All These Gifts, f/f, If I Were a Weapon, Skye Kilaen ·
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A book overflowing with queer kindness

Tell Me Anything by Skye Kilaen

July 31, 2021 by Emmalita 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, LGBTQ romance, Skye Kilaen, Tell Me Anything

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:72 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, LGBTQ romance, Skye Kilaen, Tell Me Anything ·
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