Tag: new adult

• 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…

  charkinzie

  17 Aug 2023

  5 stars, Books, coming out, Contemporary, diverse characters, grief, horror, lgbtqia content, mental health, new adult, read the trigger warnings, young adult

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• REVIEW: The Best Hardcore Band in Pa by Bill Elenbark

  

  The Best Hardcore Band in PA is the coming of age story of Cyrus, Jeff, and Mindy as misfit teens in a place where they’ll never be considered “normal”—Cyrus for being gay and losing his mother at age twelve; Jeff for playing hardcore music featuring the “devil’s lyrics” and questioning his sexuality in this town…

  charkinzie

  8 Jun 2023

  Books, coming out, Contemporary, diverse characters, lgbtqia content, mental health, new adult, self-discovery, 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: Billions of Beautiful Hearts by Kevin Craig

  

  The Official Description: Wen Devante is Insta famous with a massive following and a flare for fashion. At almost 18, they have already published a book on gender nonconformity, released several songs on Spotify and appeared on television. During the first wave of Covid-19 lockdown, they reach out to an unsuspecting Kaye, one of their…

  charkinzie

  6 Feb 2021

  5 stars, Books, canadian, Contemporary, diverse characters, gender identity, lgbtqia content, my faves, new adult, own voices author, romance, young adult

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• Release Blitz, Excerpt, Review and Giveaway! The Midnight Gardener by R.G. Thomas

  

  Release Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway: The Midnight Gardener by R.G. Thomas   The Town of Superstition, Book 1 Thaddeus Cane and his father have moved thirty-two times in all of Thaddeus’ fifteen years. Every time his father uproots them without a reason, it leaves Thaddeus friendless once again. Superstition is the town they’ve settled in…

  charkinzie

  24 Jul 2020

  Contemporary, lgbtqia content, own voices author, Paranormal, part of series, sci-fi / fantasy, young adult

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• QUICK REVIEWS: July 2019

  

  Overthrow by Caleb Crain: I really struggled with this book. I’m probably not the appropriate audience for it. I found the start to be really interesting and I was drawn in but I got a bit lost in the politics of it all. I also found that I couldn’t really stay with any of the characters…

  charkinzie

  31 Jul 2019

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