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  • Book Reviews,  Fiction

    Kiss the Girl by Melissa Brayden

    8th July 2020
    Cover of Kiss the Girl (Melissa Brayden)

    Kiss the Girl (Soho Loft #1) by Melissa Brayden

    • Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2014
    • Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Ebook
    • Page Count: 305 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)

    Brooklyn Campbell and Jessica Lennox are rivals in the New York advertising scene, but neither of them knows that when they run into each other at a bar. The attraction is evident, but then they need to work against the odds if they want to stay in the business and together.

    This is my first try on Melissa Brayden’s books! I don’t know what took me so long to pick one up, but I am so glad I eventually did. Kiss the Girl is light and cute and everything you need for a mood lift.

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    What the Heart Remembers Most by M. Ullrich | ARC Review

    25th March 2020
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    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
    Cover of Every Grain of Sand (David P. Wichman)

    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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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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