Tag: Fiction

Review: An Education In Malice by ST Gibson

Sage Elliott, 13 January 202612 January 2026

An Education in Malice by ST Gibson is a retelling of Carmilla. Is this vampire-filled novel worth your time? My thoughts inside.

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Review: These Heathens by Mia McKenzie

Sage Elliott, 29 July 202518 November 2025

Seventeen-year-old Doris goes to Atlanta for an abortion and gains a lot of perspective in Mia McKenzie’s novel These Heathens.

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Cover: This Is Where We Die by Cindy R.X. He

Review: This is Where We Die by Cindy R. X. He

Sage Elliott, 22 July 202512 January 2026

This is Where We Die is a locked room mystery of sorts featuring a group of friends on an isolated island. Can you solve this mystery?

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Cover: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Review: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Sage Elliott, 15 July 202512 January 2026

Meet Benji, a trans teen on the run from a cult. Can he survive with the help of his new allies? Find out in Hell Followed With Us.

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Review: Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Sage Elliott, 8 July 202512 January 2026

What if your body starts to change in unexpected ways? That’s what the main character in Rivers Solomon’s novel, Sorrowland, experiences.

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Review: Bottling His Ghosts by SH Cooper

Sage Elliott, 1 July 202512 January 2026

Bottling His Ghosts by SH Cooper is a novella that explores the ghosts we carry with us and how societal expectations determine how we’re “allowed” to grieve.

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Cover: The Reckless Kind by Carley Heath

Review: The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath

Sage Elliott, 24 June 202512 January 2026

I went into The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath expecting to love it. A queer platonic relationship? An asexual character? A gay couple? Disability rep? Yes please. But was Heath’s novel really all I hoped it would be?

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Cover: Psychosis Diagnosis by Nikki Minty

Review: Psychosis Diagnosis by Nikki Minty

Sage Elliott, 3 June 202512 January 2026

I was intrigued by the description of Psychosis Diagnosis. I was looking forward to an audiobook that explored mental health & featured supernatural elements. Did it live up to my expectations?

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Review: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Sage Elliott, 20 May 202512 January 2026

Meet Kaz and his group of outcasts. Can they pull off an impossible heist that will give them a life-changing amount of money?

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Review: Magica Riot by Kara Buchanan

Sage Elliott, 8 April 202512 January 2026

Queer magical girls save Portland in Magica Riot, a self-published debut novel by trans author Kara Buchanan.