Review Archive by Genre

All the reviews I’ve written are linked on this page and sorted by genre. Within the genre sections, the books are listed alphabetically by the author’s last name. If a book has more than one author, the book is only listed once based on the last name of the first author listed on the book cover.

Here’s a short key for notable elements of some of my reviews:

Key

  • 🏳️‍🌈 = Queer MC
  • 💎 = Five-star read
  • 🚩 = Negative review

*Note: I don’t keep track of queer side characters, and some books like The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms might not have recognizably queer main characters, but they are set in queernormative worlds. I won’t add the emoji to these books, but I will clarify that the world is queernormative in the short descriptions I provide.

Fantasy

  • Baldree, Travis – Legends & Lattes | Adult | Sapphic MC, cozy fantasy, light romance 🏳️‍🌈💎
  • Bandele, Antoine – By Sea and Sky (The Sky Pirate Chronicles #1) | Adult | Pirate fantasy, unique magic system, and worldbuilding
  • Chorn, Sarah – Of Honey and Wildfires (Songs of Sefate #1) | Trans and sapphic MCs, Old West-inspired world, hope mixed with tragedy 🏳️‍🌈
  • Conway, Nicole – Savage (Dragonrider Legacy #1) | YA | Symbiotic possession trope
  • Conway, Nicole – Harbinger (Dragonrider Legacy #2) | YA | Symbiotic possession trope
  • Cordova, Zoraida – Incendiary (Hollow Crown #1) | YA | Amnesia, overthrowing a corrupt kingdom
  • Jemisin, N.K. – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy #1) | Overthrowing a corrupt god, queernormative world
  • King, Amanda & Swanson, Michael – Things They Buried | Adult | Pansexual MC, dark fantasy with sci-fi & horror elements 🏳️‍🌈🚩
  • Kuang, R.F. – The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) | Adult | Historical fantasy, rivals to reluctant allies, two-part structure 💎
  • Lee, Fonda – Jade City, Jade War (The Green Bone Saga Trilogy) | Adult | Gay MC, gangsters x family drama, lots of action 🏳️‍🌈💎
  • McClung, Michael – The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids | Adult | Murder mystery, fast-paced, horror/thriller elements
  • Monet, Ashia – The Black Veins | YA | Bisexual MC, ragtag team on a quest, queer found family 🏳️‍🌈
  • Nicole, Amber – The Book of Azrael | Adult | M/F fantasy romance, enemies to lovers, villain MC 🏳️‍🌈🚩
  • Ostertag, Molly K. – The Girl from the Sea | YA | Lesbian MC, graphic novel, coming out, first love 🏳️‍🌈
  • Pinguicha, Diana – A Curse of Roses | YA | Lesbian romantic fantasy, lesbian MC, religious trauma recovery 🏳️‍🌈
  • Ross, Amanda – To Astera, With Love | YA | Novella, paranormal fantasy, vampires vs. witches
  • Shapkowski, Andrzej – The Last Wish (The Witcher #1) | Adult | Translated work | Reluctant hero trope, disability rep
  • Shaw, Silvia – Rand | Adult | Lesbian romantic fantasy, lesbian MC, portal fantasy 🏳️‍🌈
  • Stewart, Andrea – The Bone Shard Daughter*, The Bone Shard Emperor, The Bone Shard War (The Drowning Empire Trilogy) | Adult | Epic fantasy, multi-POV, lots of mystery and creative magic system, M/F romance and sapphic relationship 🏳️‍🌈
    • *Did not review
  • Street, M. – Prophase (Mitosis #1) | YA | Insta-love trope
  • Suri, Tasha – The Jasmine Throne, The Oleander Sword, The Lotus Empire (The Burning Kingdoms Trilogy) | Adult | Epic fantasy with lesbian romance, multi-POV, beautiful worldbuilding, sacrifice and yearning 🏳️‍🌈💎
  • Tahir, Sabaa – An Ember in the Ashes (series review) | YA | Enemies to lovers, Ancient Rome-inspired world
  • Vo, Nghi – When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle #2) | Adult | Hostile campfire story time with three hungry tigers, sapphic love story 🏳️‍🌈💎

Romance

  • Armas, Elena – The Spanish Love Deception | Adult | Fake dating, contemporary, enemies to lovers 🚩
  • Blake, Ashley Herring – Delilah Green Doesn’t Care | Adult | Sapphic romance, lesbian and bisexual MCs, contemporary romance loosely based on Cinderella, family drama, MILFs 🏳️‍🌈
  • Kaur, Gurpreet – Awkward | YA | Short read, romcom
  • Lee, Emery – Meet Cute Diary | YA | Trans boy MC, contemporary romcom, fake dating trope 🏳️‍🌈
  • Rogers, Morgan – Honey Girl | Adult | Lesbian Black woman in academia, contemporary, burnout, perfectionism 🏳️‍🌈💎
  • Rose, Tallie – Calla Falling | Adult | Paranormal sapphic romance, bisexual MC, Beauty and the Beast retelling 🏳️‍🌈

Sci-Fi

Horror

  • Danforth, Emily M. – Plain Bad Heroines | Adult | Sapphic and lesbian MCs, historical fiction, slow-burn horror, haunted film set, time jumps between history and present 🏳️‍🌈
  • Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis | “What if you woke up and you were a horrible vermin? WHAT THEN?!”, Sucky family trope
  • Moreno-Garcia, Silvia – Mexican Gothic | Adult | Slow-burn horror, creepy mansion and family with a dark history, anti-colonialism 💎
  • Reid, Ava – Juniper & Thorn | Adult | Gothic horror-romance, a young woman uncovers the secrets behind a mysterious man-eating monster and her even more monstrous father 💎
  • Stevenson, Robert L. – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Adult | Creepy, what if a good person had a dark side
  • Veen, Johanna van – My Darling Dreadful Thing | Adult | Gothic horror, historical fiction, sapphic love story, creepy ghost story about bog bodies in the Netherlands 🏳️‍🌈