Review: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain #1) by Margaret Killjoy (2017)
Rating: ★★★★ Genre: Urban Fantasy, Horror, Eldritch, Paranormal Categories: F/F, Queer, Ghosts/Spirits, Demons Content Warnings: (Highlight to read) References to a character’s previous suicide (off-screen). Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Itinerant traveler Danielle Cain arrives at the “ghost town” of Freedom, Iowa, a haven for squatters and anarchists living off the […]
Review: Threshold (Whyborne & Griffin #2) by Jordan L. Hawk (2013)
Rating: ★★★★½ Genre: Paranormal, Horror, Romance Categories: M/M, mystery, eldritch Content Warnings: N/A Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Having survived one eldritch horror already, philologist Percival Endicott Whyborne and his lover and partner, private detective Griffin Flaherty, are two of the few people able to answer his father’s request to investigate paranormal […]
Review: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (2014)
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy Categories: Fairies (elves/goblins), Political Intrigue, Royalty and Nobility Content Warnings (Highlight to read): References to past (offscreen) child abuse Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Maia, the youngest son of the elven emperor, was somebody nobody thought would inherit the throne. Half-goblin and the result of a loveless political […]
Review: Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin #1) by Jordan L. Hawk (2012)
Rating: ★★★¾ Genre: Paranormal, Horror, Romance Categories: M/M, ghosts/spirits, mystery, eldritch Content Warnings: N/A Buy It At: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Repressed scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne prefers to hide away in his museum office with books in dead languages to avoid any and all attention—and so, when attractive ex-Pinkerton private detective Griffin Flaherty […]
Review: Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (2015)
Rating: ★★★★½ Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, Romance, Drama Categories: M/M, hidden identity Content Warnings (highlight to read): Deals with homophobia & includes homophobic slurs. Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Simon, a high schooler in a small town, is gay, and nobody should know except for the mysterious boy with whom he exchanges anonymous emails. […]