Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 25

Going 69 in a 50 zone

“Friends are great. Friends with benefits are better.

Xander wants to show off his new car to his friend, Luka. The plan was to take Luka out for a night time drive, but the moment Luka hops into the car the two go for a different sort of ride.

‘Going 69 in a 50 zone’ is a sweet and erotic short story adapted from the game, Wrong Number, featuring the two main characters. Luka, an aromantic working adult who likes to have a good time, and Xander, a bisexual university student who is new to...

The Sunshine Court

This is the story of Jean after he leaves (or is taken from, rather) the Raven’s Nest. It is the story of how he finds hope again after everything was taken from him so many years ago.
It is a good story, but I have to admit it was not what I expected, or wanted, from it – and it’s extremely frustrating to read without having the sequel ready to go right after finishing.

My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas.
It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a ...

Husky Love

“Danny

I may be young, but I’ve done a hell of a lot of growing up in the past year. I watched my big brother deal with the challenges of loving someone, went through some medical stuff myself, and changed my career plans and my city. Gaynor Beach is smaller than where I was, but it has two attractions—my brother’s big new house, where he’s letting me live for now, and Rob Dunn. When I met Rob, just, damn. Like my brother, I wanted to help that sweet, stubborn guy and his cute kids get back o...

COVERS! Covers! COVERS!

Did I mention covers?

There are a ton of queer books coming out soon and I am just too excited to hold it in any more. I am one of those people that 100% judges a book by its cover, partially because I don’t often read a full book description.

LOOK

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THESE

COVERS!

You already know that McIntyre is a go-to, must buy author for me. This one should be no surprise. It is part of a shared world set in a very queer diner. I am SO EXCITED. There is even a Diner Days Reader Group t...

The Paper Magician

Cute regency/victorian (?) era with an interesting magic system based on man-made materials.

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever.
Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn o...

Late Bloomer

“A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding’s signature sparkling voice!

Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin’s’s life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can’t seem to stop saying yes.

With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides to protect herself by any means necessary, wh...

Vessel

Interesting SciFi thriller about an astronaut who, after years of being presumed lost/dead in space, returns to earth – without the rest or her crew, or any memories about what happened to them, or herself, really.

An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…. A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.

After Catherine Wells’s s...

Silk

“Farz and his family are Silki-charmers; they follow the giant, spiderlike creatures known as “Silkis” through their jungle home, harvesting their precious silk. It’s been their family’s tradition for generations. But Silkis can be dangerous and not everyone wants them around. Farz may be ready to try a different life, but he doesn’t want the Silkis to disappear forever.”

I got an ARC of this book.

Remember how wild I was about Maze? I do. It is a book I have talked about a bunch since ...

Dear Wendy

“Dear Wendy’s Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao

Sophie Chi is in her first year at Wellesley College (despite her parents’ wishes that she attend a “real” university, rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aromantic and asexual identities. Despite knowing she’ll never fall in love, she enjoys running...

Whalefall

To be completely fair to the book, I was fully aware that this wouldn’t be entirely up to my speed. But I am committed to finding more SciFi/deep sea horror books, so I gave it a chance.

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the c...