Tag: favourite books

• 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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• 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…

  charkinzie

  3 Oct 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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• Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee

  The short blurb bit: The first thing I want to write is that “The Fever King” is going straight onto my list of best books of 2019. Yes, I’m that confident. I read a lot of books, always have, and when I read one that has an original concept … presented in a way that…

  charkinzie

  14 Mar 2019

  lgbtqia content, sci-fi / fantasy

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