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The End – Review

[image error]Genre: Horror/Post-Apocalyptic

Pairings: N/A

Queer Rep: Bisexuality

Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, gore, discussion of self-harm, suicidal ideation

[Note: I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.]

Synopsis

Being a teenager is rough. Being a queer teenager? Moreso. And being a queer teenager during the zombie apocalypse, well… at least it can’t get any worse.

Cate’s life takes a cataclysmic turn on her seventeenth birthday. Now living in a world where the de...

Nightmare Magazine: Queers Destroy Horror – Review

[image error]Nightmare Magazine is a literary magazine dedicated to collecting quality short dark fantasy and horror for its readers. I found the magazine when I happened upon Alyssa Wong’s “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” years ago. Never able to shake its imagery, I re-found the piece, re-read the piece, and bought the entire collection. I would have happily given the 2.99 just for Wong’s story alone; it was an easy price to pay. After reading the rest of the pieces, I can assure everyone it’s a f...

Ardulum – Review

[image error]Genre: Sci-Fi / Space Opera

Pairings: F/F (setup for future novels)

Queer Rep: NBs! Queers!

Warnings: Graphic depictions of  violence.

Synopsis

Neek is the pilot of a run-down transport ship, where she and her eclectic crew work to make ends meet. Exiled from her home world for not transcribing to the belief of the traveling planet Ardulum and its godly inhabitants, she seeks a way to earn favor to see her family again.

It seems like a normal day when the crew stumbles across a battle between...

The Luxorian Fugitive – Review

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Genre: Sci-Fi

Pairings: M/M

Queer Rep: so many gay men

Warnings: BDSM, violence, torture, allusions to nonconsensual sex. Note: all on-page sex is entirely consensual. There’s a lot of it.

[Note: I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.]

Synopsis

Sergeant Liam Jacks has been traveling aboard the transport vessel “The Santa Claus” in an effort to escape his past and etch out a peaceful existence in a tangled universe. During a pit stop on Luxoria, a mysterious—and fri...

The Space Between the Stars – Review

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Genre: Light Sci-Fi? Romance? – M/F

Tags: None. And why isn’t this queer, you ask? I bought it for the genre and because I sometimes get down with the hets

Synopsis

A virus sweeps through the galaxy and decimates the population. With the tiniest fraction of human life remaining, Jamie Allenby must find a way off world and toward the distorted message she received on her communication device. She finds herself in a group of lost and varied souls, and their ideals and destinations clash.

Gene...

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Oops, Caught and Bank Run – Review

 

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Genre: Sci-Fi

Pairings: M/M

Queer Rep: cis gay

Warnings: None

[Note: I received Advanced Reader Copies of these works in exchange for an honest review]

Synopsis

Mark Noland is trapped in an enemy holding cell after a mission goes awry. Alongside him is an elite Stella officer by the name of Gavnson, who makes no effort to contain his distaste for Noland or his escape plan. Fortunately or unfortunately, Gavnson’s beautiful body almost makes up for his nasty attitude.

Together they work tow...

Oops, Caught and Bank Run — Review

 

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[Note: I received Advanced Reader Copies of these works in exchange for an honest review]

Synopsis

Mark Noland is trapped in an enemy holding cell after a mission goes awry. Alongside him is an elite Stella officer by the name of Gavnson, who makes no effort to contain his distaste for Noland or his escape plan. Fortunately or unfortunately, Gavnson’s beautiful body almost makes up for his nasty attitude.

Together they work toward escape, secrets pour out, and a bond is formed.

General

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Dalí – Review

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Dalí Tamareia is a Sol Fed Diplomat, genderfluid changeling, and badass. Dealing with the painful loss of their family, Dalí struggles to find a purpose, especially as their home system targets changelings for their newest crusade.

That crusade and the cruel underworkings of the Sol Fed soon become Dalí’s reason for living—someone is targeting and abducting third-gender changelings, and Dalí has all the components to become the perfect undercover operative.

General

Honestly? Holy shi...

Fiction Rec: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers

Those of you who follow me on twitter know that a week ago I decided to tear the internet apart in search of a short story I’d read over a year ago. There was a lot of noise and dead ends, but eventually I reached my destination: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong.

Don’t let the title trick you—this is a short story with heavy paranormal themes and a streak of horror. Even over a year later I was never able to shake the feelings or intrigue it left behind. Not only is the sto...