Tag: lgbtq books

The Forbidden Book By Sacha Lamb

The Forbidden Book Thank you to NetGalley and Levine Querido for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Dybbuks. Illegal printing. A genderqueer lesbian with a knife. Set against a backdrop of literary censorship and growing Jewish political consciousness, Sydney Taylor and […]

First Lines Friday: June 14, 2024

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “It should have been more difficult to assassinate […]

The Midnight Kingdom By Tara Sim

The Midnight Kingdom Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: gore, blood, violence, death, grief, torture The second book in Tara Sim’s sweeping dark fantasy series, in which the four heirs to […]

A Shadow Crown By Melissa Blair

A Shadow Crown Thank you to Union Square and Co. and Jenny Lu for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, blood, mention of self-harm, alcoholism, parental abandonment, PTSD, addiction, gore To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, […]

State Of The ARC #28

I finished May with 17 ARCs left to be read.  I was originally planning to make some serious progress on my ARCs in June, but things got super busy in June. I ended up going to two fairs with friends, went to my nephew’s high school graduation, and […]