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November 28, 2021
2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: The Beginning of Everything
The Beginning of Everything by Cara Malone
Good mix of historical and love story. The characters were adeptly drawn and the atmospheric touches were perfect. Plot was a bit drawn out and the writing was good except for overuse of adverbs. A little editing and tightening in spots would enhance book. Overall, a solidly good read.
https://amzn.to/3DWluWi
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Good mix of historical and love story. The characters were adeptly drawn and the atmospheric touches were perfect. Plot was a bit drawn out and the writing was good except for overuse of adverbs. A little editing and tightening in spots would enhance book. Overall, a solidly good read.
https://amzn.to/3DWluWi
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November 27, 2021
2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Other Girls Like Me
Other Girls Like Me by Stephanie Davies
Aspects of this book are nearly poetry, with a unique poignancy and a lyricism that gives this author a special voice. The issues are relevant and handled beautifully. The references to music were alive and perfect as the author recasts the past in ways that have a universal appeal and tap into whatever reservoirs of healing that bravery and pride leverage for a sense of life.
https://amzn.to/313Oey4
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Aspects of this book are nearly poetry, with a unique poignancy and a lyricism that gives this author a special voice. The issues are relevant and handled beautifully. The references to music were alive and perfect as the author recasts the past in ways that have a universal appeal and tap into whatever reservoirs of healing that bravery and pride leverage for a sense of life.
https://amzn.to/313Oey4
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2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Eye of the Damned (Terran-Novan Universe Series #3)
Eye of the Damned (Terran-Novan Universe Series #3) by Sandra Barret
This book has inventive and intriguing world building, a great page-turning pace and the kind of satisfying plot arc that one wants in such a series. The style is read-easy and comfortable.
https://amzn.to/3nUo2Pg
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This book has inventive and intriguing world building, a great page-turning pace and the kind of satisfying plot arc that one wants in such a series. The style is read-easy and comfortable.
https://amzn.to/3nUo2Pg
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2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Trafalgar & Boone Against the Forty Elephants
Trafalgar & Boone Against the Forty Elephants by Geonn Cannon
This is a charming, and yet, relatably realistic, series. This particular book shows why Geonn Cannon remains a consistently excellent writer—great characters, terrific dialog, the setting is reach-out-and-touch realistic and the storyline is superb. This book introduces some new concepts and twists in relationship status, and because Cannon is so good, one can buy into the serendipity of the relationship(s).
https://amzn.to/3E1IDGM
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This is a charming, and yet, relatably realistic, series. This particular book shows why Geonn Cannon remains a consistently excellent writer—great characters, terrific dialog, the setting is reach-out-and-touch realistic and the storyline is superb. This book introduces some new concepts and twists in relationship status, and because Cannon is so good, one can buy into the serendipity of the relationship(s).
https://amzn.to/3E1IDGM
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2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: How to Steal a Star
How to Steal a Star by Geonn Cannon
Excellent character development and pacing in service of a decent if somewhat repetitive theme and plot and predictable outcome. Cannon is a very good writer and that saves this book from mediocrity.
https://amzn.to/3DZ1y5c
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Excellent character development and pacing in service of a decent if somewhat repetitive theme and plot and predictable outcome. Cannon is a very good writer and that saves this book from mediocrity.
https://amzn.to/3DZ1y5c
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2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: The Thing About Tilly
The Thing About Tilly by G. Benson
An angsty, slow burn coupling where coming to terms with intimacy and secrets is the big barrier that must be overcome. Well written, even poetic in places, this is a well-crafted character study of friendship that becomes so much more. This book will delight lovers of these tropes.
https://amzn.to/3nXTOuC
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An angsty, slow burn coupling where coming to terms with intimacy and secrets is the big barrier that must be overcome. Well written, even poetic in places, this is a well-crafted character study of friendship that becomes so much more. This book will delight lovers of these tropes.
https://amzn.to/3nXTOuC
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November 26, 2021
2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis and Other Stori
The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis and Other Stories by Xequina Maria Berber
This collection is a most refreshing, poignant and smart group of Stories and re-imagined folk and fairy tales written from the point of view of, or focused on, lesbians. The themes are universal---getting unceremoniously dumped, jealousy, love, passion, sex and imagined and real selves facing a world of uncertain acceptance. But the heroines are magical, with each casting her fate to the winds of reality, each confronting life on its own terms with dignity and grace, or humor and wit. And some heroine remain untrusting but refusing to blame anyone as they try to hide from a life of fears and hurts with the simple and quiet resolve of one ambushed one too many times by the frivolous insensitivies of friends, lovers and strangers. A surprise volume of brilliance.
https://amzn.to/3cNPcRh
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This collection is a most refreshing, poignant and smart group of Stories and re-imagined folk and fairy tales written from the point of view of, or focused on, lesbians. The themes are universal---getting unceremoniously dumped, jealousy, love, passion, sex and imagined and real selves facing a world of uncertain acceptance. But the heroines are magical, with each casting her fate to the winds of reality, each confronting life on its own terms with dignity and grace, or humor and wit. And some heroine remain untrusting but refusing to blame anyone as they try to hide from a life of fears and hurts with the simple and quiet resolve of one ambushed one too many times by the frivolous insensitivies of friends, lovers and strangers. A surprise volume of brilliance.
https://amzn.to/3cNPcRh
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2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Ensnared Hearts (Mistress#2)
Ensnared Hearts (Mistress#2) by Anna Stone
Whew---get OUT of here! This is the hottest, page-burning, libido-turning, mind-churning book submitted to this contest; the second place one is Stone’s OTHER book, Forever Theirs. The rest of y’all, just pack it in, go home, stick to your day job. Nothing and No One is Anna Stone!
https://amzn.to/3xp2xsU
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Whew---get OUT of here! This is the hottest, page-burning, libido-turning, mind-churning book submitted to this contest; the second place one is Stone’s OTHER book, Forever Theirs. The rest of y’all, just pack it in, go home, stick to your day job. Nothing and No One is Anna Stone!
https://amzn.to/3xp2xsU
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2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: The Road to Kalazad
The Road to Kalazad by K.L. Mitchell
This is a massively refreshing, if supremely quirky, fantasy storyline with a centaur and her girlfriend as the protagonists. Once one accepts the basic premise of the story, where otherness and difference combine to sweet resolution, the story is extremely well written. The dialog is hilarious, the characters well formed and the odyssey a non-stop travelogue of freaks, weirdoes and perfectly normal misfits. This is a true sleeper of a good book and deserves to be widely read as the clever metaphor it is.
https://amzn.to/3cQ2wEX
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This is a massively refreshing, if supremely quirky, fantasy storyline with a centaur and her girlfriend as the protagonists. Once one accepts the basic premise of the story, where otherness and difference combine to sweet resolution, the story is extremely well written. The dialog is hilarious, the characters well formed and the odyssey a non-stop travelogue of freaks, weirdoes and perfectly normal misfits. This is a true sleeper of a good book and deserves to be widely read as the clever metaphor it is.
https://amzn.to/3cQ2wEX
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2020-2021 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Taming the Wind (Warrior Class #2)
Taming the Wind (Warrior Class #2) by S.L. Kassidy
A non-stop action fantasy/thriller/romance all wrapped up in goddess silk and gold. Clever juxtapositions of East and West cultures, and the love story between the two women is sexy, funny and tender, all at once. These are feisty ladies in control of their own destinies…ultimately if not initially. A good read, and seems like a gereat setup for the third book in the series.
https://amzn.to/30YadGn
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A non-stop action fantasy/thriller/romance all wrapped up in goddess silk and gold. Clever juxtapositions of East and West cultures, and the love story between the two women is sexy, funny and tender, all at once. These are feisty ladies in control of their own destinies…ultimately if not initially. A good read, and seems like a gereat setup for the third book in the series.
https://amzn.to/30YadGn
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