Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1) 4.75⭐ Dungeon Crawler Carl is like if the Hunger Games Arena, Borderlands Video Games, and Twitch Streaming had a baby. Full review: buff.ly/ZytBVXH 💙📚🪐📚⏰

Selkie by Nataly Gruender with Siobhan Waring 3⭐ Quinn is a selkie, living most of her life as a seal, until one day she takes of her pelt to turn into a human. Full review: buff.ly/Wn9Y3nG 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly with Robin Miles 3.75⭐ Rarely when we think of the space race or the early fighter jets do we think of those behind each invention. Even rarer still is to think of the Black women who played vital roles. Full review: buff.ly/OUd9V1W 💙📚💡📚🎧

The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski with Nikki Massoud 3.5⭐ Set in 1870s Chicago, triplets Anna, Beatrix, and Violet run a tea room. But not just any tea room, they read the fortunes in their customers tea leaves. Full review: buff.ly/RALuVAy 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚⌛

A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen (Saga of the Unfated Duology #2) 3.25⭐ Once again, Bjorn and Freya are enemies and it seems like everyone is out to get them. A war is still looming on the horizon, but who is in the right and deserves her shield? Full review: buff.ly/RQdEfin 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone 3⭐ Marie Jones is a 29 year old divorcee with two cats: Meatloaf and Meatball. She gets called in to find a missing cast member of the show "Sex Island". But, before she can find him he finds her...dead...in her bath tub. Full review: buff.ly/dyJvwwP 💙📚⚡

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 5⭐ Set in 1950s Hollywood it seems like every actress is vying for the role of Salome, a biblical figure known for her dance of the seven veils. Full review: buff.ly/MvZUv35 💙📚⌛📚🎧

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky Trilogy #1) 4.75⭐ I have a whole lot of feelings. Between Earth and Sky just won the Hugo Award for Best Series and oh my does it deserve it. Full review: buff.ly/W3Qfgwu 💙📚🪐📚🎧🌈

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky Trilogy #1) 4⭐ The year of the crow has begun. Eternal twilight reigns and no one is prepared for what is coming. Full review: buff.ly/6ge2QST 💙📚🪐📚🎧🌈

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky Trilogy #1) 4.25⭐ A disgraced sailor, a priestess, a soldier, and god incarnate. Full of LGBT+ and disability rep, Black Sun is an epic fantasy that lives up to the hype. Full review: buff.ly/jho7yWR 💙📚🪐📚🎧🌈

Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado 4.25⭐ Want to feel the same deep pain of The Poppy War? Here you go. Full review: buff.ly/Rp9Dy6G 💙📚🪐📚

Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright 3.5⭐ When you tell me a book is a gothic fantasy with political intrigue, vampires, trans love interest, and poly endgame I am IN. Sadly, I was disappointed . Full review: buff.ly/295UR7p 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 4⭐ Princesses are supposed to dream of marrying a prince and living happily ever after. After seeing her sister be abused Marra sets out to kill the prince and save her sister. She just has to complete 3 impossible tasks first. Full review: buff.ly/czh3bJv 💙📚🪐

Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas (Sunbearer Duology #2) 4⭐ That awkward moment when you don't commit murder and accidentally start the apocalypse. Full review: buff.ly/aywtWwn 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (Sunbearer Duology #1) 4.25⭐ Teo is a 17-year-old trans son of Quetzal (Diosa/Goddess of birds) is thrust into the Sunbearer Trials. If he wins, he becomes the Sunbearer. If he comes in last, he will be sacrificed . Full review: buff.ly/SbdjVIP 💙📚🪐📚🎧

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem 5⭐ One kiss from her would kill him. But that will never stop him from chasing her. The Jasad Crown is the end of the Scorched Throne duology. Full review: buff.ly/3koRVd5 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Isle of Ember by Alycia E. Anderson 3.5⭐ Surviving Verdance looks easy compared to what the Isle of Ember has in store. Full review: buff.ly/e8byGUt 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett 4.5⭐ If you're going to take over a government or throne that is usually the end of the story. Except Wendell Bambleby never does anything the way he's supposed to. Full review: buff.ly/PxXVhpR 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚⌛

This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman 4.5⭐ In this hilarious play on the tale of The Twelve Huntsman an adventurous princess has to figure out who is trying to kill her. Full review: buff.ly/RT0i3QN 💙📚🪐📚🌈

Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne 4.5⭐ Thank you to Rebecca Thorne (author) and Jessica Threet (narrator) for making me cry in my car ON MULTIPLE OCCASSIONS. Full review: buff.ly/hVZf8H3 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🎧

Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean 4.5⭐ Happy release day to this sexy romantasy from the author of The Phoenix Keeper (be warned Voidwalker has VERY different vibes)! Full review: buff.ly/hBF404H 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Any recommendations for fantasy books with an intersex main character? 💙📚🪐📚🌈

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty 5⭐ If you're anything like me you are tired of teenagers saving the world. This epic tale follows Amina al-Sirafi, single mother in her 40s who has retired from a life of piracy to live a quiet life Full review: buff.ly/jXhPnYa 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa 4⭐ Not Elizabeth. Oliver. If you are looking for a quick read, a classic retelling that sticks mostly to the general story, and a young adult queer love story, Most Ardently is for you. Full review: buff.ly/cpvukoz 💙📚🌶️📚🌈

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club by Gloria Chao 3.5⭐ You find out you are one of three women dating one guy. What do you do? You all get revenge. Except after putting your DNA all over his bathroom and smearing poop in his office you find him...dead. Full review: buff.ly/9w6150H 💙📚🌶️📚🎧

A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais 4.5⭐ Lured out to a mysterious island for a job she didn't apply for, Destiny Whip fights to learn out about her family and ends up embroiled in a mystery. Full review: buff.ly/Ntopsg5 💙📚🪐📚⚡📚🎧

Happy release day to Lore of the Tides by Analeigh Sbrana 3.75⭐ As the only human known to wield magic, Lore is sought out to find the twin to her Deepening Lune Grimoire. Sought out is a nice word. She was kidnapped. Full review: buff.ly/yIfIdMW 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne with Jessica Threet 4.5⭐ Reyna and Kianthe make planning a wedding and a royal coup d'état look easy. (Jessica Threet is an AMAZING audiobook narrator.) Full review: buff.ly/zFIIDrX 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🎧

Ten Incarnations of Rebellion by Vaishnavi Patel 5⭐ Full of feminine rage, anti-colonialism, queer identity, religion, and politics, Ten Incarnations of Rebellion is the book we all need right now. Full review: buff.ly/DGnhmdT 💙📚⏳📚🌈

Happy Pride Month! Some of my favorite LGBTQIA+ books are: Legends and Lattes The Flowers of Prophecy Gay the Pray Away 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🌈

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett 4.5⭐ Emily and Wendell are off on another adventure, this time with Emily's niece, and the head of the dryadology (the study of faeries) department. Oh and Wendell's stepmother is trying to kill him. Full review: buff.ly/9czIyvx 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🎧

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods 4.25⭐ I was expecting a book about a cozy bookstore. While that is part of the story, it is also about not losing yourself in your trauma and holding onto your dreams. Full review: buff.ly/pqvQKoM 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne 4.5⭐ Pirates, queer love, tea, and crochet. Not really sure what else you could ask for in a book. Full review: buff.ly/93cyFVj 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🌈📚🎧

Monstrous Nights by Genoveva Dimova 3⭐ I don't know if it was the book itself or the narrators, but Monstrous Nights felt extremely slow. I loved all the monsters and side characters, but there was no sense of urgency. Full review: buff.ly/TS01tNf 💙📚🪐📚

Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan 3.75⭐ Unfortunately, Immortal did not live up to the Daughter of the Moon Goddess. Full review: tinyurl.com/57zm84fw 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚⏰

The Ending Fire by Saara El-Arifi with Dominic Hoffman and Nicole Lewis (Narrators) 4.25⭐ Our time with Anoor, Aylah, Hassa, and Jond has come to an end and I wasn't ready. Full review: buff.ly/xfqibSu 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚🌈

The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi 5⭐ So many series/books have fake high stakes. You think that character you love is going to die? Nah, they'll be fine. Not with Saara El-Arifi, she will break your heart and you will thank her for it. Full review: tinyurl.com/3a7kw2hz 💙📚🪐📚🎧📚🌈

Do we have the same taste in books? 10 points if you've read it, 5 points if it is on your TBR. Let me know how many points you got! 💙📚⏰

The Voice of the Ocean by @kelseydangerous.bsky.social 4.5⭐ A young siren gives up her dream of being a to save two humans and their dog. In order to be accepted back into her kingdom, Celeste agrees to kill the very prince she saved. Full review: tinyurl.com/4szmuhan 💙📚🪐📚🌶️

Gay the Pray Away by @natalienaudus.bsky.social 5⭐ Natalie Naudus ripped out my heart and put it back together again in this story that shows that love wins and that it is possible to unlearn what you have been taught. Full review: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/40ef... 💙📚🌶️📚🌈 #Netgalley

The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com 5⭐ One of the most beautifully written stories I have ever read. It is truly impressive how Amal El-Mohtar was able to create such an enchanting world in just 133 pages. Full review: tinyurl.com/3w7yh7e6 💙📚🪐📚 #Netgalley #TorPublishing

The Enchanted Isles by @authoralycia.bsky.social 4.5⭐ Adorable and flirty banter, a dangerous mission by sea, books, magic, and a love square? pyramid? (No idea what you call one person having three people interested in them.) Full review: tinyurl.com/3d3xyf4a 💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚⏰ #thenerdfam

Turbulent Magic by E.M. Peterson 4.25⭐ After suddenly losing his magic, top student Tal becomes a flight attendant for a budget dragon airline. Yes, majestic beasts we normally think of now have cabins strapped to their backs and are used as transportation. Full review: tinyurl.com/3pvj5fhh 💙📚🪐

April was a great reading month. I finished the Ending Fire Trilogy and got to read three very anticipated ARCs (Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, The Ashfire King, and Voice of the Ocean). What was your favorite read this month? 💙📚🌶️📚⏰📚🪐📚🎧 #Storygraph

Happy release day! Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker with @natalienaudus.bsky.social 5⭐ Do I like horror now? Bat Eater mixes the myths of hungry ghosts with real life hate crimes perpetrated against East Asians during Covid. Full review: tinyurl.com/yzk8hz7w 💙📚🩸📚🎧

The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi with Dominic Hoffman and Nicole Lewis (Narrators) 4.25⭐ Three women. Three blood colors. Three fates. El-Arifi paints a world of chaos, despair, and classism with just enough hope to keep you cheering for each narrator. Full review: tinyurl.com/yaux45cs 💙📚🪐📚🎧

Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally?

If a book is the start of a series PLEASE tell me so I can emotionally prepare myself for a cliffhanger. 💙📚⏰

"But she did notice his left hand clench ever so slightly as he walked away". ~Voice of the Ocean by @kelseydangerous.bsky.social 💙📚🪐📚⏰📚🌶️

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