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REVIEW: The Boy With the Heart of Sea Glass by Laura Livingstone
When the end of a relationship brings eighteen-year-old Sam back to the Cornish Island where he was born, he’s forced to face dark family secrets lurking just below the surface. Meeting Tryste, a fisherman with eyes like thunderstorms, provides Sam with a distraction from the truth about his father, but Sam’s wounds run deep, and…
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REVIEW: Isaac by Curtis Garner
Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac interrogates masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love. After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app – a disappointing yet addictive experience – he spends his final months…
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REVIEW: Imposter by J.M. Rose
NIKOLAI PETROV HATES LIES. Finding out he’s supposed to be the next Vampire King of Raspien was not something Nikolai Petrov ever expected. Torn from his family and his home, Nikolai is thrust into an unfamiliar world with unfamiliar people. But it does not feel like the court of vipers he was warned about. Nikolai…
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REVIEW: Gifts Between Us by C.C. Adams
Elderly Londoner Augustus has lived a long, miserable life. Having driven his few remaining loved ones away years ago, he now whiles away his time drinking rum and hoping for the end. One night his death wish is nearly granted by a mugger, but a local youth called Michael intervenes. Much to the old man’s…
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REVIEW: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara Raasch
Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing―or falling for―each other. Will they conjure love, or evoke chaos? Two rival wizards are about to find out. Sebastian Walsh: twenty-four. Grad student at Lesiara University in the Mageus of…
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REVIEW: The Question of Us by Jay Hogan
The nightmare is over. Or so I keep telling myself. Bruised and battered, we’d narrowly escaped with our lives. I should be grateful. Grateful that my captors are in custody. Grateful that the chilling, roller-coaster of events, actually brought Nick and I closer. Grateful that we’ve finally taken a step toward something more than…
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REVIEW: June 2025 reads!
It’s time for my June reads summary… Little art by me and short reviews! 🖤 The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson will make you cry so many times it will feel like the new normal. 🖤 A Game of Monsters by Ben Alderson is an epic conclusion to a brilliant…
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REVIEW: Looney! by Stephen Kozeniewski and Gavin Dillinger
When beloved cartoon characters come crawling out of her TV, army recruiter Gabriella Harman expects a zany romp instead of the hellish nightmare that follows. One night, haunted by her memories of Iraq, Gabriella downs a stomachful of pills and booze. When her favorite cartoon characters, the Kooky Toons, start crawling out of the…
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REVIEW: Static Snow by Matthew R. Corr
Still haunted by the horrors they survived underwater, Ander and Liam arrive at Knotty Oak Ski Lodge—a remote Minnesota retreat— searching for answers about Ander’s crystal necklace. But the lodge is already hosting an annual New Year’s Eve reunion for the cast of the classic sitcom Neighbors. When a blizzard traps everyone in the…
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REVIEW: Another First Chance by Robbie Couch
They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult novel from New York Timesbestselling author Robbie Couch that explores all the different ways love can live on after tragedy. It’s been a year since eighteen-year-old River Lang’s best friend died in a car accident. And every day…
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REVIEW: The Caretaker by C.P. Harris
The only thing Noon Waters is sure of is his undying love for his wife. But when a devastating accident ripped both her and a good deal of his memories away from him, he’s left to navigate a new life weighed down by grief, anger, and confusion. After stumbling upon an old receipt dated one…
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REVIEW: Your Lonely Nights Are Over
Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school’s Queer Club. Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable. From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been…
