ARC Review: You Asked For Perfect | Perfection is Served

TITLE: You Asked for Perfect
AUTHOR: Laura Silverman
SERIES: N/A
RELEASED: March 2019; Sourcebooks Fire
GENRE: YA Contemporary
FORMAT: eBook

KEY INFO: Academia, friendships, romance, anxiety
REPRESENTATION: bisexual Jewish MC, gay South Asian Muslim MC, lesbian Korean (side), Jewish family, anxiety

Content Notices

hospitalisation, anxiety, panic attacks, forgetting to eat, descriptions of skin blisters from over-practice

 

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ARC Review: In the Vanishers’ Palace | Magic, Mythology, and F/F Monster Romance

TITLE: In the Vanishers’ Palace
AUTHOR: Aliette de Bodard
SERIES: N/A
RELEASED: October 2018; JABberwocky Literary Agency
GENRE: Fantasy
FORMAT: e-book

KEY INFO: Novella, retelling, romance, dragons, colonialism, healing, agency, magic and mythology
REPRESENTATION: Vietnamese, f/f romance, female protagonists 
CONTENT NOTICES: woman held prisoner, sexual scene, poverty

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ARC Review : The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories | An Enchanting, Sexy and Outstanding Anthology

TITLE: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
AUTHOR: edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
SERIES: N/A
RELEASED: September 2017; Solaris
GENRE: Fantasy
FORMAT: Paperback

KEY INFO: anthology, diverse stories about djinn, cultural diversity
REPRESENTATION: women of color, people of color, m/m, Muslim 
CONTENT NOTICES: possession of children, physically binding women, explicit sexual scenes, incest between siblings, death, torture

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Book Review: River of Teeth | Feral Hippos and a Rag-Tag Bunch Come Together in this Diverse Alt-History Novella

TITLE: River of Teeth
AUTHOR: Sarah Gailey
SERIES: American Hippo
RELEASED: May 2017; Tom Doherty Associates
GENRE: Fantasy/Alternate History
FORMAT: e-Book

KEY INFO: novella, fantasy western, human-animal relations, scoundrel mission
REPRESENTATION: non-binary, people of colour, queer romance, pregnancy, gender fluidity
CONTENT NOTICES: violence, gory deaths

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Book Review: Lumberjanes Vol.1 | Kooky, Diverse, Friendship to the Max

TITLE: Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
AUTHOR: Stevenson, Ellis, Watters & Allen
SERIES: Lumberjanes
RELEASED: April 2015; BOOM Box!
GENRE: Graphic Novels
FORMAT: Library Paperback

KEY INFO: cute and diverse graphic novel, friendship, relationships, camp
REPRESENTATION: all female MC’s, women of colour, f/f romance, possible trans feminine character
CONTENT NOTICES: n/a

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