Tag: death of character

• REVIEW: So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

  

  Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive. Arek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom…

  charkinzie

  16 Mar 2022

  Books, Comedy, diverse characters, lgbtqia content, new adult, Releases and Cover Reveals, sci-fi / fantasy, young adult

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• REVIEW: Calm Undone by Garth A. Fowler

  

  Calm Undone is a young adult novel that tackles many of the issues relevant to young people today (feelings of loss, a dawning sense of self, and the awakening of attraction) with a gentle, accepting approach. Seventeen-year-old Tyler wants three things from his summer at the family beach-house: Run along the beach to get ready…

  charkinzie

  22 Jan 2022

  Books, Contemporary, grief, lgbtqia content, mental health, new adult, Novella, read the trigger warnings, self-discovery, young adult

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• REVIEW: Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

  

  NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn’t have answered. Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia—but he remembers everything. He…

  charkinzie

  11 Jan 2022

  Books, Contemporary, horror, lgbtqia content, mental health, mystery, Paranormal, read the trigger warnings

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• REVIEW: The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom

  

  The Whale Tattoo’ is a stunning achievement – one of the most impressive and assured debuts I’ve ever read’  Matt Cain ‘A bold, brilliant and beautiful debut” Susannah Dunn Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer. When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach it tells Joe…

  charkinzie

  4 Jan 2022

  Books, Contemporary, lgbtqia content, mental health, Nature, physical disability, read the trigger warnings, self-discovery, sexually explicit

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