Review: Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Jamaica? No, she wanted to. This is possibly the grittiest and most "literary" book I'll read this year. I mean it. It's the kind of book you study in high school and hate, but read on your own and love. It's one powerful piece of writing, and it reminded me of The Color Purple but even bleaker. Here...

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Review: The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium #4) by David Lagercrantz

  The girl with the dragon tattoo still has it. Summary  She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.Late one night, Blomkvist receives...

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: Gladiatrix (Gladiatrix #1) by Russell Whitfield

Genderbent Spartacus with lesbians. The good It's about female gladiators! Hell to the yeah! Scheming Romans  The book assumes the reader knows stuff about ancient Rome, because you'd hardly read it if you didn't (thank you, author, for treating us as the knowledgeable people we are) LGBTQ...

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5 Things I Loved About Goddess by Kelly Gardiner

If this swashbuckling heroine doesn't define awesome, I don't know what does. Hi everyone! This is my first review in a long time because I'm finally back. I read this book a month or two back, and I loved it so much I had to take notes so I could share the awesomeness with you all. So without...

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Top Ten LGBTQ-Related Films

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is movie freebie, so here are ten films that feature LGBTQ characters and themes. Links go to IMDb pages. 1. The Perfume of Memory (2016)  2. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) 3. Heavenly...

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Top Ten F/F Relationships on TV

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is to do a television-related topic, so I've chosen to do my ten favourite female/female relationships on television, past and present. Some of these are ships, some are friendships, some are antagonistic relationships....

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Girls don't want boys; girls want more LGBTQ characters in genre fiction

I see plenty of LGBTQ books (especially in YA) being published these days, and this is a fantastic step for representation. These sorts of books are essential for young LGBTQ readers to know that they are valid and are not alone in having their experiences. They're also important as they help non-LGBTQ readers to understand the issues our community faces. It's all well and good to have these sorts...

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Curses & Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii by Vicky Alvear Shecter

Finished reading on: 16 February 2016 I'm experimenting with review styles, so let's see how this goes. Tell me what you think of this format. The good Gorgeous cover Great for young Classics nerds and fans of Spartacus (and therefore me) – Gladiators! Roman women! Pompeii! Satisfied my...

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Top Ten LGBTQ Characters

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week is freebie week, where you pick a topic "near and dear to your heart". Since LGBTQ representation is extremely important to me, I thought I'd pick my ten favourite characters belonging to this group. 70% are from...

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium Trilogy #3) by Stieg Larsson

 Date finished: 11 October 2015 I just finished the last book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, and I'm worried that I'll never be able to enjoy anything I read ever again. I feel that no other book will compare in complexity and intrigue. It's by no means a perfect book but it...

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Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

  Date finished: 22 August 2015 Ask the Passengers is one of the best novels I've read in 2015, and as you can see from my previous reviews, I've read some pretty good books this year. It's so good that I read it in one day, unable to put it down. The plot is pretty simple, but nice. I...

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