Tag: contemporary queer fiction

• 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…

  charkinzie

  16 Dec 2025

  5 stars, Books, grief, lgbtqia content, mental health, part of series, read the trigger warnings, sci-fi / fantasy, self-discovery

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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…

  charkinzie

  11 Nov 2025

  5 stars, Books, diverse characters, grief, lgbtqia content, mental health, part of series, read the trigger warnings, sci-fi / fantasy, self-discovery, sequel, suspense

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