Review: Timekeeper by Tara Sim (2016)
“Danny had most certainly fallen down the rabbit hole. He didn’t know if he ever wanted to return.” – Timekeeper, Tara Sim Rating: ★★★½ Genre: Fantasy, YA Categories: M/M, alternate history Content Warnings (highlight to read): N/A Description: Danny is a clock mechanic, tasked with keeping the world’s clocktowers running in an alternate Victorian world. These clocktowers literally keep […]
Review: Junk Mage by Elliot Cooper (2016)
“It’s a gift, not a trade.” Or it wasn’t a sly trade anymore, anyway. I couldn’t handle his haunted look, as if I’d just given him everything and he wasn’t allowed to keep it. – Junk Mage, Elliot Cooper Rating: ★★★½ Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, romance Categories: M/M, cyborgs, wizards, technomancy, personhood arc Content Warnings: N/A […]
Review: Peter Darling by Austin Chant (2017)
“That’s the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same.” Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. “You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.” – Peter Darling, Austin Chant Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy, fairy tale, romance Categories: M/M, trans, enemies to lovers, fairy tale retelling Content Warnings (highlight to read): Deals with societal & familial transphobia. Some […]
Review: Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (1987)
“Above him, the stars shone frosty and remote in the clear sky. They wouldn’t dare to twinkle at him, not in the position he was in.” – Swordspoint, Ellen Kushner Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy, romantic (but not a romance) Categories: M/M, M/F, politics & intrigue, royalty and nobility, hidden identity, swords & swordplay Content Warnings (highlight to […]
Review: A Tree of Bones
5/5 stars. Buy at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble A Tree of Bones by Gemma Files is the third book in the Hexslinger trilogy, with the first two being A Book of Tongues (which I review here) and a A Rope of Thorns (which I review here). I’m not trying to avoid spoilers for the […]