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  • ARCs,  Book Reviews,  Fiction

    Coyote Blues by Karen F. Williams | ARC Review

    6th June 2020
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    Coyote Blues by Karen F. Williams

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 312 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

    Riley E. Dawson and Fiona Bell were teenagers when they fell in love. And they had sex. But the post-sex excitement possibly triggered Riley’s first coywolf transformation, and witnessing their daughter turning into a beast, Riley’s adoptive parents cut ties with her and sent her away. She never saw Fiona again. Until twenty years later. As an experienced clinical social worker and psychotherapist, Riley found herself losing control the moment Fiona showed up in her therapist office.


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    Drawn by Carsen Taite | ARC Review

    1st June 2020
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    Drawn by Carsen Taite

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Mystery, Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 240 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)

    Artist Riley Flynn was about to get her big break when Detective Claire Hanlon entered her life, investigating in a murder case that occurred where she was painting. And then came more cases with the same MO (modus operandi). With the escalating stakes as well as mutual attraction, Claire knew it was a horrible idea to get involved with Riley, one of her suspects. But what should they do about the growing bond between them?


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    By Design by J.A. Armstrong

    29th May 2020
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    By Design (By Design #1) by J.A. Armstrong

    • Publisher: J.A. Armstrong Books, 2015
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+, Novella
    • Format: Ebook
    • Page Count: 117 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐ (1/5)

    By Design is the kind of book that makes you wonder if you just read the same book as everyone else.

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    Love on the Night Shift by Radclyffe | ARC Review

    17th May 2020
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    Love on the Night Shift (A Rivers Community Romance #6) by Radclyffe

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 242 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)

    Blaise Richelieu has been living a safe and organized life while raising her teenage daughter and working night shifts in the ER. When the younger attending Grady McClure joined the Rivers and made pursuing Blaise a personal mission, Blaise did not plan on opening up to this attractive stranger. But not everything goes as planned.


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    The Road Home by Erin Zak | ARC Review

    10th May 2020
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    The Road Home by Erin Zak

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2020
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Paperback (eARC)
    • Page Count: 263 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

    Gwendolyn Carter left home seventeen years ago and never looked back. When she went home to celebrate her father’s birthday after failing to get a big acting role, Gwen came to face Lila Machowicz, a woman who basically became the Carters’ second daughter over the last fifteen years. Getting off on the wrong foot yet mutually attracted, Gwen and Lila had to work together and navigate through Carol Carter’s life-threatening cancer as well as other familial issues.


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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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