young adult

Book Reviews ► June 7, 2022

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

At first glance, Home Field Advantage is the age-old love story of a high school cheerleader and the football quarterback…except it’s sapphic! Jack, the football team’s new quarterback, has just moved to town to replace...

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Spotlight ► June 2, 2022

Publisher Spotlight: First Second

I first learned about First Second as they were the publishers of Ngozi Okazu’s Check Please! graphic novels, which were originally a webcomic I was obsessed with for a brief period. Since then, I’ve been...

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Book Reviews ► May 20, 2022

The Loophole by Naz Kutub

The Loophole is a modern fantasy about Sayyed, a gay Muslim teenager, trying to find his (ex-)boyfriend Farouk on the other side of the world. With the help of Reggie, who grants Sayyed three wishes,...

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Book Reviews ► May 16, 2022

Out of the Blue by Jason June

Out of the Blue is an empowering fish-out-of-water (literally!) YA queer romance. Sean, a lifeguard and aspiring film director, has just been publicly dumped by his boyfriend when he meets Ross, a stranger who seems...

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Book Reviews ► May 10, 2022

Café Con Lychee by Emery Lee

Café Con Lychee is a Romeo-and-Juliet queer YA romance about two boys whose families own competing cafés in the same town. Used to only having each other to vie for customers’ attention, when a new...

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