I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In A Letter to the Luminous Deep, E. Cidnosin lives in the Deep House, a technological …
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In The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, Michael grows up in London, uncertain of who he is. He doesn’t feel that he’s Jamaican enough, or Greek Cypriot enough to identify with either group. And then there’s his sexuality, as it becomes more and more apparent as he grows up that he’s definitely not straight. So …
In The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang, we flit back and forth between three different time periods, 4 BCE, 1740 CE, and the present day. In the first, a young man is tasked with seducing the emperor but quickly learns that the situation is far more complicated than he expected. In the …
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I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown, Cassie is working in a bookstore, trying to make ends …
I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan Love. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out, Arthur is nearly eighty years old when he …
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