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  • Book Reviews,  Fiction

    Laid Bare edited by Astrid Ohletz & Jae

    5th December 2020
    Cover of Laid Bare (Astrid Ohletz & Jae)

    Laid Bare edited by Astrid Ohletz & Jae

    • Publisher: Ylva Publishing, 2019
    • Genre: Erotica, Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Ebook
    • Page Count: 204 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

    This anthology covers a fairly wide range of erotica, including very light BDSM, throuple, masturbation, phone sex, public sex, and more. I really like how we get drastically different stories in one book.

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    Presidential by Lola Keeley | ARC Review

    13th September 2020
    Cover of Presidential (Lola Keeley)

    Presidential by Lola Keeley

    • Publisher: Ylva Publishing, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: eARC
    • Page Count: 235 pages
    • My Rating: ★★★ (3/5)

    Content warnings: shooting, off-page deaths, parental loss, spousal loss, biphobia from antagonists, uses of ableist language

    There have been a lot of discussions on how this book closely resembles Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay The American President. Since I have never seen the film, I decided to read Presidential first, rate it, then skim through the script. Therefore, the similarities between the two works do not affect my rating. I consider Presidential as Keeley reimagining a queer, female The American President.

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Lí-hó!! I am Hsinju (they/she), a Taiwanese book blogger, writer, and full-time grad student in engineering. Here, I mainly review books featuring authentically represented LGBTQ+ characters and/or written by LGBTQ+ authors. You’d usually find me going about life with my heart stuck in the last book I finished.

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