Tag: lgbt+

Review | All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

6. August 2019

Publisher: Soho Press Release date: June 18th, 2019 Genres: Young Adult, Magical Realism Pages: 360 Goodreads rating:  3.56 Goodreads summary: Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: … More Review | All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

Review | Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing by Topaz Winters

8. April 2019

Publisher: Topaz Winters Release date: May 27th, 2019 Genres: Poetry, Mental Health, LGBTQ+ Pages: 74 Goodreads rating:  5.00 Goodreads summary: Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing is an award-winning, omnivorous collection of poetry residing in the space between confessional & manifesto.  Portrait is interested in the immediacy of language; in girlhood as wolfhood; in the cartography … More Review | Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing by Topaz Winters

Review | On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

18. November 2018

Publisher: http://www.onasunbeam.comRelease date: 2016Genres:  Webcomic / Graphic Novel, Science Fiction, LGBT+Pages: 20 ChaptersGoodreads rating:  4.30Goodreads summary: An epic graphic novel about a girl who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long lost love, from acclaimed author Tillie Walden. Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting … More Review | On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Review | Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton

19. September 2018

Publisher: Margaret McElderry Books Release date: September 18th, 2018 Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, LGBT+ Pages: 389 Goodreads rating:  3.85 Goodreads summary: Once, a witch made a pact with a devil. The legend says they loved each other, but can the story be trusted at all? Find out in this lush, atmospheric fantasy novel that entwines love, lies, … More Review | Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton

Review | More Than This by Patrick Ness

26. February 2018

Publisher: Candlewick Press Release date: September 1st, 2013 Genres: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult, LGBT+ Pages: 480 Rating: 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸(5.00) Goodreads rating:  4.03 Goodreads summary: A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place? As he … More Review | More Than This by Patrick Ness

Review | History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

7. January 2018

Publisher: Soho Teen Release date: January 17th, 2017 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult, LGBT+ Pages: 320 Rating: 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸(5.00) Goodreads rating:  4.14 Goodreads summary: When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him … More Review | History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

Review | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

24. September 2017

Publisher: Balzer + Bray Release date: April 7th, 2015 Genres: YA, Contemporary, LGBT+, Romance, Fiction Pages: 320 Rating: 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 (5.00) Goodreads rating:  4.26 Goodreads summary: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. … More Review | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli