The Fae Keeper

Reading (well, listening to) The Witch King last year was an experience of magic and anger and queerness and social justice that just really hit the spot. So, I was excited to get to this second book in this series pretty soon after it came out. The Fae Keeper by H. E. Edgmon "You fight like hell for…

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it was never going to be okay

The biannual (ish) poetry collection time has come again. I had never heard of this one before and chose it randomly from the poetry available at the library one day while I was shelving. That’s the danger of shelving time – it gives me the time to look through sections of the library with great…

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven

But that title though! I mean, there really isn't that much more to say here - if you're going to title your novel something that makes me infer that witches and magic and royalty are involved, you'll pretty much ensure that it gets added to my TBR. Also, was I the first person at the library to…

Light from Uncommon Stars

This book was marketed as aliens/space and violins and donuts and queer and bargains with demons and, honestly, there's nothing there I don't love (or, in the case of the demon-bargains, I at least love reading about them - the demon was my favorite part of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, as you know). So.…

A Lady for a Duke

Well, y'all, the ‘rona got me...the day before I was scheduled to work at the library and planning to pick up this hold, which I was so hype for. So I sent my partner in to get it for me, because what is better sickbed reading than a queer Regency romance?! (Answer: nothing.) But apparently when he got…

Sorrowland

This is one of those books that I knew I wanted to read. Both of the previous books I've read by Solomon (An Unkindness of Ghosts and The Deep) have been phenomenal. But I also knew it was going to be pretty heavy, as all their books have been, and also this one in particular leaned into horror (according to…

The Natural Mother of the Child

I, like so many people in the book world, was sucked into the Barnes and Noble 50% off hardbacks sale at the beginning of this year. It was basically irresistible. And this memoir was one of the selections I made. I haven't really seen it around much, but with a background in childbirth and breastfeeding education…

Detransition, Baby

This one has been on my TBR since before it came out, and during the time between publication and me getting to it, I got super lucky and found a used copy of it at one of my local library's online book sales. Woohoo! Needless to say, I bought it asap. And I am freaking…

The Witch King

I'm getting marginally better at remembering where I get book recommendations from (go me!), so here I'd like to just shout out @trans_cending_literature for being the first person to put this book on my radar/TBR. I added a request for the library where I work to purchase it, but it wasn't happening fast enough for me because it…

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

I don’t read, or watch, a lot of Westerns. The Old West, as a setting and genre, has just never been one that holds a lot of interest for me. But as time went and I read more and more reviews for this one, I realized it might be a look at this location and…