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Beáta’s Reviews

Review: Because My Mom Said So – Or M. Bialik

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Because My Mom Said So - Or M. Bialik

Genre: Sci-Fi, Spy; Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Poly, Trans MTF Reviewer: Beáta Get It At Amazon About The Book Ismat’s dating life is terrible, and a lot of it has to do with honesty. Not that he doesn’t want to be honest, he just can’t – or it will ruin his life. He can’t tell anyone he works for the Dominion Security Bureau counter-terrorism division; he can’t tell his date who his father is, even if he knows them, and he most definitely can’t tell them how he actually feels about the gender he has to wear. A … Read more

Review: The Reluctant Undertaker – Angel Leigh McCoy

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The Reluctant Undertaker - Angel Leigh McCoy

Genre: Dark Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Trans MTF Reviewer: Beáta Get it On Amazon About The Book After her mother’s death, Isabella put her dreams on hold to take over the family business—the Fandelli Funeral Home. She’s back in Wyrdwood, single, fighting with her sister, and trying hard not to act out in frustration. It’s hard to be the responsible one, especially when that’s the last thing you want. When the beat drops, people die. After a moonlit rave, a young woman ends up on Isabella’s slab. The evidence suggests it was no ordinary overdose, and more deaths follow. As Isabella … Read more

Review: The Sea of Clouds – Sheila Jenné

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The Sea Of Clouds - Sheila Jenné

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book After the events of the previous book, Lucy and Moira find themselves headed in different directions. Lucy is sent to the cloud cities of Venus and finds herself ensnared in a diplomatic incident and investigating a murder. Moira visits her family on Mars, where a populist revolution is heating up and violence becomes a regular occurrence in the capital city. Will the common people finally make their voices heard, or will it all end in blood? The Review The Sea of Clouds is the second part … Read more

Review: Bisection – Sheila Jenné

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Bisection - Sheila Jenné

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Bi, Poly, most of the characters are queer but it’s not really a focus Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book Tria and Resa have shared the same body since they were born. Like everyone on their home planet of Kinaru, their mind and body are divided down the middle: the logical right and the emotional left. Tria, the right, has a budding career as a biologist, while Resa dreams of more freedom than their home planet grants her. When aliens land on Kinaru, Tria and Resa seize the opportunity to be the … Read more

Review: Terror at Tierra de Cobre – Michael Merriam

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Terror at Tierra de Cobre - Michael Merriam

Genre: Horror, Western, Weird West LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Bi, Lesbian Reviewer: Beáta Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Kobo | Apple | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book An ancient evil has awakened… Strong women, ancient magic and the walking dead make for a heady mix. In Michael Merriam’s tale, seven women are called to protect a small mining town in the New Mexico Territory, Tierra De Cobre, against an evil that has killed or stolen the town’s men and is twisting the souls of the townswomen. The Sihuanaba is part siren, part shapeshifter, possessed of the body of a beautiful woman, her face a horse’s skull … Read more

Review: Black Sails to Sunward – Sheila Jenné

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Black Sails to Sunward - Sheila Jenne

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Romance Subplot LGBTQ+ Category: Bi, Lesbian Reviewer: Beáta Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Kobo | Universal Buy Link About The Book In a world of frock coats, solar sails, and rigid class boundaries, Lucy joins the Martian Imperial Navy as a midshipman. Mars and Earth are at war, and Lucy hopes for quick promotion. But when she arrives aboard ship, she finds harsh officers and a crew on the verge of mutiny. And worse: her former friend, Moira—a commoner and a radical—is a member of the crew. It’s clear where Lucy’s duty lies. As an officer and a gentlewoman, she … Read more

Review: Transform the World Anthology

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Transform the World

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Gay, Lesbian Reviewer: Beáta, Ulysses Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book “Today I swam through MOMA. Leon says it was a waste, encasing the art, then flooding the museum—frivolous and elitist. I say it was a gesture of optimism, a triumph of technology and political will.” Want to thrill to the possibilities of a hopeful future? We asked a bunch of sci-fi writers to spin tales of a better future, imagining ways in which the world might become a better place. From a swim through an underwater museum to a joyous … Read more

Review: Endurance – Elaine Burnes

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New Release: Endurance - Elaine Burnes

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book Winner—2023 GCLS Award for Science Fiction/FantasyFinalist—2023 GCLS Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award “Imagine Star Trek Voyager, but done right” — nerds of a feather, flock together What if you were stranded. On a spaceship. Four light years from Earth. With a hundred tourists. And you are the captain. Then things start to go wrong. Welcome aboard the Endurance. It’ll be the trip of a lifetime. For five years, Captain Lyn Randall of the Endurance has ferried tourists around the solar system for Omara Tours. Now, as … Read more

Review: Awry with Dandelions – J.S. Fields

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Awry With Dandelions - J.S Fields

Genre: Sci-Fi LGBTQ+ Category: Intersex, Lesbian, Non-Binary Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book When do dreams become reality? Orin sells dandelion latex at a no-name market, barely scraping by. Mette is a princess. Maybe. What Orin does know is that for thirty seconds every night, Mette visits Orin in xir dreams. Orin has long since written the fancy ghost woman off as a recurring nightmare, but when Mette insists upon meeting in real life, Orin’s inner world turns out to be more substantive than imaginary. Along with best friend Blathnaid, Orin embarks on a journey to discover … Read more

Review: Consecrated Ground – Virginia Black

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Consecrated Ground - Virginia Black

Genre: Paranormal LGBTQ+ Category: Lesbian Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless. Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected Calvert, Oregon from vampires by strengthening the land with spellcraft. Pushing back against tradition, Joan defied her father and left town to become a war witch, one who fights the monsters hand-to-hand. But when her father dies, Joan returns to find her hometown assailed by a … Read more