Grace Porter – call her Grace or Porter, she answers to both – is so not the kind of girl who gets married in Vegas after drinking too much champagne and yet she did. To a girl whose name she doesn’t know and who is gone before she wakes up, leaving a note and a … Continue reading Honey Girl – Morgan Rogers
4.5⭐️ - Calling this novella a queer retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel is both true and inaccurate. Elna Holst takes the fairytale, breaks it apart and puts it back on with her very own twists, turning it into a completely different yet still familiar story. Whatever happened to Gretel and her … Continue reading Gretel on Her Own – Elna Holst
The Art of Almost is a bittersweet short story written by Natascha Graham, one half of the couple behind Tipping the Scales. It’s more bitter than sweet, to be honest. Gillian is thirteen in 1983 and her plans to enjoy the fair on her own are thwarted when her best friend Teddy asks her to … Continue reading The Art of Almost – Natascha Graham
Tipping the Scales is a new lesbian literary and arts journal which was launched last year by Natascha and Lori Graham more or less on a whim. A journal isn’t, technically speaking, a book, but that’s not the reason I didn’t review it sooner. The only reason is lack of time. And here we go, … Continue reading Tipping the Scales, Issue One
4.5* - I liked so many different things in this book, so many things I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy. At fifty-six, Maggie Ambrose is on her way to the top. She's about to announce her plan to run for President of the United States as the Democratic candidate and to support her bid, she's writing … Continue reading Undertow – Jazzy Mitchell
I’m going to come right out and say it: I do not like Liz Stolz in this book. And I’m not sure I like Lucy as much as I did in the previous ones (more on that below). Or any of the characters, to be honest. I’ve been categorizing these books as romance novels individually, … Continue reading Thirsty Thursdays (Hobbs, #4) – Elena Graf
Ríona and her mother moved from Ireland to Nebraska after Ríona’s father was killed in a fire. All Ríona has left of him is his fiddle (not a violin). Now a music student a few weeks from graduating, Ríona has to reinvent her life without her mother and away from the farm she grew up … Continue reading Traveller: A Ríona Kilbride Novel – Caitríona Page
Some people are brave. And by people, I mean authors. Jenn Alexander in this case. Grief, especially the grief for a lost child, as the topic of a debut novel couldn’t be handled by just anyone. Alexander does it masterfully. Rachel Murray is a good mom but she can't see it. Her six-year-old son Declan … Continue reading The Song of the Sea – Jenn Alexander
After years of underestimating Caren J. Werlinger’s books, I now know when I open one that it’s going to be wonderful. There will be romantic aspects but it won’t be a romance novel. It’s going to be beautifully written, probably bittersweet, full of love and the need to belong. Because that’s what life is about. … Continue reading Face the Wind (Little Sister Island #2) – Caren J. Werlinger
A book by Caren J. Werlinger is never just a book. You know, going in, that it will get into you, move you, change you. I wasn't in the right headspace to tackle it when this second edition was released in April, complete with a short story, Just a Normal Christmas, that was initially published … Continue reading Turning for Home – Caren J. Werlinger
