Serenity by Jesse J. Thoma
TW: drug abuse.
This is an amazing book. I don’t rate books outside integers, but this one is a high-four for me.
Still Not Over You by Jenny Frame & Carsen Taite & Ali Vali
I absolutely love the first novella My Forever Girl by Jenny Frame. Its tone is sad from the beginning yet we feel the immense love and caring between Braydon and Faith. Because of unfortunate circumstances, they are divorced and have been avoiding seeing each other for four years. But their friends invite them on a cruise and force them to share adjacent rooms for two weeks. Melancholy flowed relentlessly through the story as Bray and Faith work to forgive each other and, most importantly, themselves. Frame did not disappoint with this emotional butch-femme story and oh what I would give to have a full length novel of them!
What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin
Lex was trafficked, and in that life, she was Poppy. When Lex’s aunt Krys came to take her home after the police’s rescue, she had the chance to live as Lex again. But soon, her new boyfriend and his friends sexually assaulted her. Would Lex decide to own her past and fight back as an activist?
Every Grain of Sand: A Memoir by David P. Wichman with Heather Ebert
TW: This book contains contents of child abuse, child molesting, alcohol and drug addictions.
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
Trigger warning: this book contains discussions on sexual abuse and addiction issues.
JVN, thank you for being so honest with the readers in this incredible memoir (and for being the beautiful human you are).