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  • Pride Month Recommendations

    Pride Month Recommendations

    I know this is an oddly timed post for Friday, but, I wanted to do this list and I completely forgot that today was Friday, so, here we are! There we have it! These are some of my favorites, but don’t worry there’s so much more out there if none…

    Jun 5, 2021
    Book Review
    aromantic, asexual, book list, Fantasy, gay, lesbian, lgbtq reads, lgbtq+ recommendations, lgbtq+ rep, lgbtqia rep, nonbinary, pansexual, pride month books, queer, queer rep, questioning, reading list, scifi, transgender
  • In The Ravenous Dark Review

    In The Ravenous Dark Review

    My Review SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD Content Warning (from the author): -Death (lots, major and minor characters)-Death of queer characters, but most main characters are queer and also these deaths aren’t exaaactly permanent!-Parent death, on page and off-Sibling death by suicide (off page)-Fratricide-Violence (lots)-Blood (lots)-Gore (not excessive, but there’s, uh, a scene…

    Jun 2, 2021
    Book Review
    blood mage, Book Review, content warnings, Illumicrate, in the ravenous dark, lgbtq reads, lgbtq+ rep, pansexual, poly love, readalong, special edition, spoilers, standalone, YA Fantasy
  • Pride Month TBR

    Pride Month TBR

    Hey all, it’s pride month, I want to try and get a TBR for it, I usually make sure to add a few books each year but this time I actually have a lot of kindle books to get through that would be perfect for pride month! (This also helps…

    Jun 1, 2021
    Book Review
    a dark and hollow star, adrienne tooley, ashley shuttleworth, dean atta, dread nation, heather walter, justina ireland, lagbtqia + rep, malice, pride month, sweet and bitter magic, tbr, the black flamingo
  • Sistersong eARC Review

    Sistersong eARC Review

    GoodReads: 535 AD. In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, King Cador’s children inherit a fragmented land abandoned by the Romans. Riva, scarred in a terrible fire, fears she will never heal.Keyne battles to be seen as the king’s son, when born a daughter.And Sinne, the spoiled youngest girl, yearns for…

    May 28, 2021
    Book Review
    bookreview, eARC, Fantasy, historical fiction, history, lgbtq+ rep, lucy holland, netgalley, panmacmillan, retelling, sistersong, transgender rep, twa sisters
  • Videogames and Books #5

    Videogames and Books #5

      Another video game and books post! Why? Because I haven’t done one in a while and it felt right. There, solid reasoning.< I’ll just keep this cause it’s still true.     What are my current game plays? Ghost of Tsushima What did I recently finish? Horizon Zero Dawn…

    May 26, 2021
    Book Review
    book blogger, Books, comics, comixology, novels, rpg, videogames, wild hunt, witcher, witcher III
  • 5 Diverse Scifi Reads I love

    5 Diverse Scifi Reads I love

    5 Love wasn’t an outfit you slipped in and out of when it suited you; it was your skin, your bones, your blood.” ― Valerie Valdes, Chilling Effect 4 Infinity was never built for you; it was built for dreamers.” ― Akemi Dawn Bowman, The Infinity Courts 3 They will say that if you…

    May 25, 2021
    Book Review
    A Spark of White Fire, Akemi Dawn Bowman, chilling effect, diverse reads, Joan He, Sangu Mandanna, scifi, the infinity courts, The Ones We're Meant to Find, tochi onyebuchi, valerie valdes, war girls
  • The Gilded Serpent eARC Review

    The Gilded Serpent eARC Review

    GoodReads: THEIR BATTLES ENDED IN VICTORY BUT THE WAR HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN Lydia returns to Mudaire to enter training at the healing temple. But instead of fighting to save lives, she’s convinced she is doing more harm than good. She delves into the history of the gods only to…

    May 24, 2021
    Book Review
    adventure, Book Review, Danielle L. Jensen, Dark Shores, dark skies, eARC, Fantasy, netgalley, romance, tarnished empire, the gilded serpent, tor teen
  • Ariadne Review

    Ariadne Review

    GoodReads: As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. The Minotaur – Minos’s greatest shame and Ariadne’s brother – demands blood every year. When Theseus,…

    May 21, 2021
    Book Review
  • Talking about my Slump

    Talking about my Slump

    Thought I would share more about this slump that has had me more in semi-hiatus mode than ‘new minimal post schedule.’ I’m still reading, just, not with this desire to aside from the couple of books I’ve managed to finish. I’m still here, I exist, but it feels like I…

    May 6, 2021
    Book Review
    book blog, book blogger, discussion post, reading slumps, slump
  • The Ones We’re Meant to Find – Blog Tour

    The Ones We’re Meant to Find – Blog Tour

    Blurb Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her. STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home…

    May 5, 2021
    Book Review
    Blog Tour, Book Review, dystopia, Joan He, May Release, scifi, The Ones We're Meant to Find, towmtf, xpresso tours, ya novel
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