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Covenant, Vol. 1 by LySandra Vuong, explodikid

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adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Sam can show me her holly spirit. AMEN.
This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Nicole Melleby, Katherine Locke

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emotional hopeful lighthearted slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I liked this book. Not every short stories, but it was fun. BUT Ashley Herring Blake left a sour taste. Like, it's not because you have a crush on an enby person, that you are be. Gay and lesbians can be/date enbies. Also, imagine there's someone telling you that her name is now Jenna, but you're still call her by her (what can be considerate) deadname. Even if it's in your head/thougts... I swear to god I thought I was gonna throw my kindle under a car
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

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challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

3.75

This is not me rating the book "story' because you can't rate someone's life and experience.

This books was really interesting. I'm notnreligious and don't know a lot about religions. So listening/reading someone's experience with religion and queerness was interesting. 
The author shed light on things we don't really think about us as white queers. Immigration, experience with religion, experience with family, loosing everything you know, struggling w/ identities, not seeing yourself anywhere. 

Sometime though the writing felt a off, like fla  and slow. But nothing too bad obv. Also i want to see her work 
Tsé, être aimée, ça fait (tellement mal) du bien by Ana Zaharova

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Okay. Hit too close to home hein. Un superbe livre mais ca m'a trigger de fou. Normalement j'aurais pas mis autant de temps a lire un livre de cette taille. Surtout que l'écriture est hyper fluide. L'histoire belle. Mais a ce que je vois j'ai encore un peu de travail sur certaines choses
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 53%.
idk I just can't finish books... Plus, I have to return it in 2 days. Too much works to finish it
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

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adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

AITA For trying to make my crush jealous and killing a guy by accident  because I made his d!ck explode?

That's it. That's the premise of this book. I loved that we have a whole queer friend group trying to deal with their mess. But the book... at first I was like "meh the writing feels off". Then "okay... this is interesting..." and finally "wait. That's it? The book is over? Just like that?"

So yeah. The story is enjoyabl , but Kind of underwhelming. Especially the ending. It feels like something is missing
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La plus belle couleur du monde by Golo Zhao

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Je pensais que c'était un GL avec la couverture. La couverture est super belle. Bon c'est pas un GL, mais c'est vraiment bien. Un magnifique livre, une histoire dure mais belle. 
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What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems by Grant Chemidlin

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emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

Okay I guess but irregular 
Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms by Jamar J. Perry

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adventurous informative sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

At first, I was... more than perplexed. But I started enjoying the book. Is it perfect? Not really. The pacing was off sometimes and the author lost me. But the characters are good and we get attached to them. I just wish we saw more of Alilyah and Zion. Especially the first one. Kind of hard to understand her
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Boire pour fuir ma solitude by Nagata Kabi

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challenging emotional slow-paced

5.0

Pfiou. Comment elle fait pour faire ça ? Je veux dire autant aspirer les lecteurices 
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