Review of Frostbite

Frostbite by J. Emery. 2019. I really enjoyed this vampire/monster hunter snowed in New Years m/m romance! It's full of tropetastic goodness, lovely chemistry, and hits the enemies to lovers aspect just right. I fell really hard for queer fem vampire Ezra in his heels and poutiness, and I also adored the monster hunter Morgan …

#PrideLibrary19 Day 6: Green books

I thought I’d do a recommendation list for day 6, which focuses on green covers. All the books on this list are queer; I tried to have a bit of a cross-section, identity-wise. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary queer fiction, esp romance, but also includes historical romance, speculative fiction, YA fiction, litfic, …

#PrideLibrary19 Day 4: Orange Books

I thought I’d do a recommendation list for day 4, which focuses on orange covers. All the books on this list are queer; I tried to have a bit of a cross-section, identity-wise. This list definitely shows my bias towards contemporary queer fiction, esp romance, but also includes speculative fiction, essays, YA romance, litfic, aromantic …

#RomBkLove: Geek Romances

This post is part of #RomBkLove, a month-long Twitter event where folks share their recs for romances that fit particular themes. For the purposes of this post, geek romance is a romance that centers characters who are enthusiasts of something, be it a special interest, a hobby, a subject, a fandom. "geeks are fans of their subjects, …

Review of Team Phison Forever

Team Phison Forever by Chace Verity. 2019. Content Warnings for review: discussion of abusive family, familial estrangement, depression Team Phison Forever gave me so many feelings. It was rather different, and substantially more angsty when compared to Team Phison, which I also really enjoyed, as a fluffy cozy grumpy/sunshine geek foodie romance between two queer …

Review of Rafe: The Buff Male Nanny

Rafe: The Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon. 2018 Read by Lacey Laurel. Content Warnings for review: References to an abusive relationship in the past and sex on the page. Hilarious, hot, and full of heart, this romance between a surgeon and her new nanny for her twin daughters feels exactly like the domestic sweetness …

2019 Autistic Pride Readathon TBR

Becca from BeccasBookRealm is hosting an Autistic Pride Month readathon this April (#AutisticPrideReadathon) and this is my TBR! I like to have options for reading challenges, so I'm including four for each category. I am marking the books/stories with #ActuallyAutistic authors with two asterisks**. These books lean to romance, YA and SFF as my reading does (esp romance). I …

Alpha Recs: G

Recently, the wonderful Dahlia Adler did a thread on Twitter where she recommended five good books for each letter in the alphabet. She suggested I might do a similar set of recs, and that sounded like a lot of fun to me, so I have decided to do a weekly series of alphabet-based book recommendations. Here is …

Review of Coffee Boy

Coffee Boy by Austin Chant. NineStar Press. 2016. Content Warnings for review: discussion of trans antagonism, misgendering and sex I recently finished my third read of this book, and it is absolutely my go-to reread when I need a dependable trans romance comfort reread that I know I will love. This read, I was particularly struck …

Review of Criminal Intentions: Junk Shop Blues

Criminal Intentions: Junk Shop Blues by Cole McCade. 2018. Content Warnings for review: Discussion of trauma and sex.  This is episode 2 in a contemporary police procedural slow burn m/m romance between homicide detectives on the Baltimore PD. It's incredibly queer and complex and I have been excited about it since I first heard the …