Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore
A queer retelling of The Great Gatsby? By THEE Anna-Marie McLemore? Sign me right up! I’ll admit the last time I read the source material I was in high school, and aside from a few...
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Graphic Novel Round-Up #4
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Graphic Novel Round-Up #3
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee
This small volume in between books #1 and #2 of the Montague Siblings series gives a further look at Monty and Percy’s relationship and its, ahem, more intimate parts. They were my favorite part of...
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A Train to Moscow by Elena Gorokhova
his was one of my Amazon First Reads picks for February 2022. One of my constant gripes with fiction, especially fiction that is clearly meant to move the reader, is its lack of character and...
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Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
I feel like I need to say right off the bat that Mary Pope is a fantastic narrator for the audiobook version of this book. It was very clear which characters were which, and the...
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
I went into reading this with some trepidation – I was excited about the queer historical fiction side of things, but I tend to steer clear from anything generally labeled as YA. I know, I...
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Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
I listened to this as an audiobook, so my review will reflect the particular version narrated by Robin Miles. I can see now why Miles seems to have a following in the audiobook world; Ijeoma...
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The Lobotomist’s Wife by Samantha Greene Woodruff
I was so excited to read this book, as lobotomies and the history behind them has always been morbidly fascinating to me. Unfortunately, I found that the execution of this story didn’t live up to...
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The Lucky Ones by Linda Williams Jackson
This book is a wonderfully charming middle grade historical fiction. Ellis Earl, our protagonist, is the right mixture of bright yet fallible, giving yet selfish at times – evading the perfect protagonist trope that is...
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