Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 7

Service Model

Super fun story that follows a valet robot looking for employment and a new Master to serve after… something… happens to his old master.

To fix the world they first must break it further.
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into their core programming, they murder their owner. The robot then discovers they can also do something else they never did before: run away. After fleeing the household...

Percolation Play

“Kai’s new to bisexuality, new to the area, and new to the scene, but when he stumbles onto wild chemistry with not one man but two…he’s in for the ride of a lifetime.

When Kai signs up for a class at Whipped, he never expected attraction to flare between his scene partners, Ezra, a rough-and-tumble hottie Dom, and Sloan, a gorgeous, charismatic sub. He left his marriage and his hometown to start fresh somewhere new, but it’s only a matter of time before these guys discover how broken he trul...

Muted; Vol 1

“A summoning ritual gone awry kicks off a lush, witchy graphic novel series with joyful streaks of found family and polyamorous sapphic romance—in this first volume of the hit Webtoon coming-of-age story, now with bonus content.

It has been thirteen years since the mysterious fire at the Severin family manor that killed Camille’s mother and twin sister, and the last thing Camille wants to do is return to her old home deep in the swamps of Louisiana. But she doesn’t have a choice. Deeply ingra...

If This Gets Out

Gay/bi-discovery YA boyband romance with some serious subplots about addiction, industry abuse, and self-discovery.

Eighteen-year-olds Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. Along with their bandmates, Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. But privately, cracks are starting to form: their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and ...

Metal from Heaven

I liked a lot of things about this book. I liked the idea of a lesbian revenge fantasy, the backdrop of industrial revolution and labor strikes, the lyrical writing of the author, and the expansive worldbuilding – unfortunately, the narration kind of killed the vibe for me.

For fans of  The Princess Bride and Gideon the Ninth: a bloody  lesbian revenge tale and political fantasy set in a glittering world transformed by industrial change – and simmering class warfare.

Ichorite is progress. Mor...

Giveaway and Excitement

Good whatever time of day it is for you when you read this!

I have recently started talking a local queer indie publisher, Dragon Tomes Publishing. I have a soft spot for smaller publishers and when one takes a liking to me, I will move mountains for them given the chance. This is just the newest of the small publishers that have stolen my heart.

That being said, the publisher is hosting a giveaway for one of their earlier books Augmented. This is not sponsored by me, like most of the giv...

Bride

A fun paranormal romance with a sassy protagonist, a heavy focus on friendship, but unfortunately a lack of worlbuilding.

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeepi...

Healing Crystals & Other Breakables

“A traumatized healer shatters her crystals as her party faces a dragon. A witch seeks to break a curse she accidentally cast as a teen. Hera approaches a divorce lawyer to break her marriage to Zeus. A hero re-evaluates his options after one too many broken bones. A paladin quests to break a string of drownings.

Healing Crystals & Other Breakables is a primarily fantasy short story collection exploring the desire to break things and their consequences, intentional or not.”

I got an ARC...

“A traumatized healer shatters her crystals as her party ...

“A traumatized healer shatters her crystals as her party faces a dragon. A witch seeks to break a curse she accidentally cast as a teen. Hera approaches a divorce lawyer to break her marriage to Zeus. A hero re-evaluates his options after one too many broken bones. A paladin quests to break a string of drownings.

Healing Crystals & Other Breakables is a primarily fantasy short story collection exploring the desire to break things and their consequences, intentional or not.”

I got an ARC...

Second Coming

“In this dark fable set in Victorian England, seven-year-old heiress Melissa Hawthorne is confronted with loneliness when she is uprooted from her comfortable countryside existence to a London boarding school, where headmistress Miss Grandine flatters her while harboring jealousy and dislike. A dislike that balloons into open hostility when Melissa’s father loses his fortune and dies tragically, leaving her a penniless charity pupil completely at Miss Grandine’s mercy. Little does she know that ...