Tag: Helene Dunbar

• REVIEW: The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickles

  

  The Official Description: Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson’s death brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, Lambda Literary award-winning author Carter Sickels’s second novel shines light on an overlooked part of the epidemic, those men who returned to the rural communities and families who’d rejected them. Six short…

  charkinzie

  14 Feb 2020

  5 stars, Contemporary, general fiction, lgbtqia content, mental health

  2019 Review, AIDS, book, book review, Book Reviews, Books, character who is dying, character with AIDS, character with hiv, David Brendan Hopes, Edelweiss, family discord, Flannelwood, Helene Dunbar, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, Raymond Luczack, review, shame, The Falls of Wyona, We Are Lost And Found

• My Fave Reads of 2019!!

  

  Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley: Such an original premise, I was hooked from the very first pages. Nat and Cam have ended up on opposite sides of a table where a deposition is happening. There’s been violence between them and it’s time to unravel what happened. Favorite bits: This is one of the most unique books…

  charkinzie

  1 Jan 2020

  Books, my faves

  Alexander C. Eberhart, Birdie Milano, boys meets hamster, Brave Face, David Brendan Hopes, Deposing nathan, enter the aardvark, heartsong, Helene Dunbar, Jessica Anthony, last bus to everland, lock & west, Shaun David Hutchinson, sophie cameron, t. j. klune, The Falls of Wyona, the fever king, the past and other things that should stay buried, victoria lee, We Are Lost And Found, Zack Smedley

• REVIEW: We Are Lost And Found by Helene Dunbar

  

  The descriptive bit: We Are Lost And Found by Helene Dunbar tells an important story that took place in the 80s. Michael is a young man who is just becoming comfortable with his sexuality, and he’s living in a time when he has to contemplate the fact that having sex might kill him. HIV/AIDS is…

  charkinzie

  3 Aug 2019

  HIV, lgbtqia content, young adult

  book, book review, Books, Helene Dunbar, HIV/AIDS fiction, homophobia, lgbtq+, LGBTQIA, lgbtqia fiction, lgbtqia literature, LGBTQIA+ Content, netgalley, review, sourcebooks fire, We Are Lost And Found, Young Adult Fiction