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ARCs, Book Reviews, Fiction

Lobizona by Romina Garber | ARC Review

29th April 2020
Lobizona (Wolves of No World #1) by Romina Garber
- Publisher: Wednesday Books, 2020
- Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
- Format: eARC
- Page Count: 400 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
Manuela Azul has special eyes. Eyes that her mother made her hide behind sunglasses. Raised in Miami to a single Argentine mother, Manu dreamed of the day when she would be a U.S. citizen and the end of her almost 17 years of hiding. But when her “grandmother” was injured and mother taken away by ICE, Manu was left to fend for herself for the first time in her life. A life she understood almost nothing about.
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The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen | ARC Review

15th April 2020
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen
- Publisher: Wattpad Books, 2020
- Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
- Format: Paperback (eARC)
- Page Count: 304 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
This was an intense book. I laughed, I fumed, and I sobbed. Upon finishing, I had to sit back to compose myself.
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What the Heart Remembers Most by M. Ullrich | ARC Review

25th March 2020
What the Heart Remembers Most by M. Ullrich
- Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
- Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
- Format: Paperback (eARC)
- Page Count: 266 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
Love was waning, and the seventeen-year relationship between Jax Levine and Gretchen Mills was no longer worth fighting for. The last few years of their marriage had been hellish. But after an accident that left Gretchen unconscious in the hospital for days, she woke up to Jax sitting by her bedside and without memories of the past three-and-a-half years. She couldn’t figure out what broke their marriage apart or what memories were real. Would this incident be the almost-clean slate the soon-to-be ex-wives needed to love again?
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ARCs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Every Grain of Sand by David P. Wichman | ARC Review

4th March 2020
Every Grain of Sand: A Memoir by David P. Wichman with Heather Ebert
- Publisher: W. Brand Publishing, 2020
- Genre: Biography, LGBTQ+
- Format: Paperback (eARC)
- Page Count: 278 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
TW: This book contains contents of child abuse, child molesting, alcohol and drug addictions.
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Princess of Dorsa by Eliza Andrews

5th February 2020
Princess of Dorsa (The Chronicles of Dorsa #1) by Eliza Andrews
- Publisher: Eliza Andrews, 2018
- Language: English
- Genre: Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Romance
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 589 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
A book that leaves me a puddle from my own sheer emotion is always a good book.

I haven’t read fantasy in a couple of months and Princess of Dorsa has made me want to find all the fantasy books with strong, queer, female leads and read them. While I would not say it is perfectly written (an example, and sole example to date, of a perfectly written fantasy is Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn), the overall story is amazing and I love it for igniting all kinds of emotions within me.
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