Book Title: Employing PatienceAuthors: Saxon JamesRelease Date: May 31, 2023Genres: M/M Later-in-Life RomanceTropes: Bi-awakening, employer/employee, rich/poor, small-townMy Rating: 4.75/5 Stars Synopsis Art When it comes to regrets, I have none. My life is perfect. I own a bar, work hard, party harder, and smother my niblings in all the love they deserve. I don’t need […]
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Book Title: Fake Dates and Mooncakes Author: Sher Lee Release Date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ+ My rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis: Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians in this heartfelt, joyful paperback original rom-com that follows an aspiring chef who discovers the recipe for love is more complicated than it seems when he starts fake-dating a
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Book Title: Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl Authors: Brianna R. Shrum & Sara Waxelbaum Release Date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ+ My rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis: Margo Zimmerman is gay, but she didn’t know until now. An overachiever at heart, Margo is determined to ace her newly discovered gayness. All she needs
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Book Title: In the Lives of Puppets Author: TJ Klune Release Date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, LGBTQ+ My rating: 5/5 Stars Synopsis: In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots–fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum
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Book Title: Meet Me in the Blue Author: A.M. Johnson Release Date: March 2, 2023 Genres: Adult, MM Romance, LGBTQ+ My rating: 5/5 Stars Synopsis: Meet me… in the place where the sun kisses the horizon and sinks into blue shades of you and me. Meet me there… where everything was always perfect. You and me
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Book Title: Spell Bound Author: F.T. Lukens Release Date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Magic, LGBTQ+ My rating: 5/5 Stars Synopsis: Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is
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Book Title: Clash of Fate and Fury Author: Rachel Menard Release Date: March 26, 2023 Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBTQ+ My rating: 5/5 Stars Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Gen may have rescued her beloved father from prison, but she hasn’t saved him yet. If she fails her end of a bargain with the Olympian Empresses, they will send
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Book Title: The Witch and the Vampire Author: Francesca Flores Release Date: March 21, 2023Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Retelling, LGBTQ+ My rating: 3/5 Stars Synopsis: Francesca Flores’s The Witch and the Vampire is a queer Rapunzel retelling where a witch and a vampire who trust no one but themselves must journey together through a cursed forest with danger at
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Book Title: Ring of Solomon Author: Aden Polydoros Release Date: February 21, 2023Genres: Middle Grade, Fantasy, Jewish Mythology, LGBTQ+ My rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis: This exciting and adventurous start to a middle-grade trilogy follows a queer boy and his family as they try to halt the chaotic effects of a mysterious ring, drawing upon Jewish mythology
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Book Title: My Dear Henry Author: Kalynn Bayron Narrators: Clifford Samuel Release Date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Retelling, LGBTQ+ My rating: 4/5 Stars Audio Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Synopsis: In this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend’s disappearance—and the arrival
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