ARC Review: Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar Nelson, by Tara T. Green

I'm still hoping to read more nonfiction books in 2022, so I jumped on the chance to get this one through NetGalley - the biography of a queer, Black woman who was a writer and activist from the late 1800s to the 1930s. The Book Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson is …

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Book Review: Soulstar, by C. L. Polk

This is the last novel in the Kingston Cycle, and I had to wait a little bit for the audiobook to become available, but it was worth the wait. You can see my reviews of Witchmark and Stormsong as well. There will be possible spoilers for the first two books at least, in the review …

Review: A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark

On this blog, we stan P. Djèlí Clark. I've yet to be disappointed by anything he's written, and his books are generally kickass, magic-filled, queer, feminist books. I had been looking forward to this for ages, and was just waiting for the audiobook (as I've read both other novellas in this universe in audio and …

Book Review: Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas

I promised a full review of this book... a few months ago when I read it with all the other Lodestar YA novels. I've been procrastinating on the delivery, but I still love the book just as much as when I first read it! The Synopsis Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t …

Book Review: The Galaxy and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers

I've owned this book for a while but despite absolutely loving Becky Chambers' every book I've read so far, I was not starting it. I think because it's the last in the Wayfarers series, which made me really sad. I could honestly read 20 more books in this universe, I dream of a sitcom set …

ARC Review: Seven Mercies, by Laura Lam & Elizabeth May

Seven Devils was one of my favourite books of 2021, and I Could Not Wait for the follow up, so I jumped at the chance to review the ARC from Netgalley! I also buddy-read it with Tessa, mostly for support and general yelling "wtf" at each other. (spoilers for Seven Devils in the following review, …

Book review: The Wife in the Attic, by Rose Lerner

I'd had this book recommended to me a few times as a great historical sapphic romance. I had been keeping an eye on it, and by total chance I won the author's Halloween giveaway. Given a choice of ebook or audio, I of course took the audiobook - and binged it over one weekend! So …

Small reviews: Lodestar Award for Best YA

Part 3 of the hugo series, after novellas and short stories: the Lodestar's not technically a Hugo but the ballot is the same. As an aside, I've decided I'm not going to review the Novels because I've not read about half of them. Harrow the Ninth requires me to reread Gideon because I forgot the …

Review: No Man of Woman Born, by Ana Mardoll

This book was part of my OcTBRChallenge reading list, for one very shameful reason: I got the ARC for it like 2 years ago, before I even HAD a blog, when I was still using tumblr and basically only had the vaguest idea of how NetGalley worked. I downloaded it and then... completely forgot about …

Review: A Dowry of Blood, by S.T. Gibson

I requested this book as an ARC back when this blog was fairly new - and I was fairly new to Netgalley... so I then did not download it in time, it got archived, and I couldn't access it anymore. But the concept - brides of Dracula, but make it queer(er), kept intriguing me, so …