I love a good slow burn, but Tori and Kendra spend so little time together on the page, that when their happy ending finally arrived, I wasn’t particularly convinced by or invested in it.
Tag: queer fiction
Book Review: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
This novel is pure epistolary; while some books advertised as epistolaries intersperse more narrative chapters between the correspondence, everything in this book happens in a letter or other communication.
Book Review: Triple Sec by TJ Alexander
Triple Sec by AJ Alexander is a romance about a bartender which actually, gets this, has scenes of the main character tending bar and coming up with new cocktail recipes.
Book Review: Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Sometimes a novella is just the right length, and sometimes it’s too short. Now you know that if that’s the line I’m opening with, this book was just too short to tell the story it wanted to tell.
Book Review: The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett
A lot of the romance I’ve read this year has leaned more in a rom-commy direction, so it was oddly refreshing to read The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett and be hit with a heavy but not overwhelming amount of angst.
Book Review: Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
If you liked Elatsoe, you’ll probably like this. If you felt Elatsoe was too slow-paced or otherwise had issues with this, I don’t think Sheine Lende will win you over.
Book Review: We Could Be Heroes by Philip Ellis
In case you’re wondering, yes, I did decide to read We Could Be Heroes by Philip Ellis this right after We Shall Be Monsters because of the symmetry between the titles.
Book Review: We Shall Be Monsters by Tara Sim
We Shall Be Monsters is what, the fifth Frankenstein-inspired book I’ve read in the past year or two?
Book Review: A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
For the most part, this is a nice little book about two mostly lovely people riding bikes around Cornwall to prove some manly men wrong.
Book Review: The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
This is some real trauma porn. It’s got Jewish trauma, gay trauma, war trauma, refugee trauma, drug abuse trauma, just trauma for days. Or decades, really, since the book spans more than 30 years and then has a 21st century epilogue.