Genre: LGBTQ+

My Top 5 Favourite Books of 2020 so far – the year of sequels and debuts!

Posted July 6, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Book List, Booked-In, Favourites / 4 Comments

Hello my lovely readers, so it’s July, over half way throughout the year. It certainly hasn’t been a great start to 2020 with the current situation but that hasn’t stopped me from reading. If anything it’s what I needed, books to escape into away from this reality. I’ve read some amazing books and I’m not the quickest of readers so rather than list loads, I thought I would list my top 5 from the beginning of 2020. So let’s forget the world right now and focus on my favourite books of the year so far especially during Booked-In. Top 5 […]

Top 5 Pride books I can’t wait to read

Posted June 8, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Book List, Bookish Post, LGBTQ+, TBR, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Monday my lovely bookworms, hope you had a wonderful weekend. I finally got my reading mojo back and thoroughly enjoying Aurora Rising. I have another top 5 book list for you, I know everyone seems to enjoy them and I love creating new topics. As its Pride month I wanted to show you the top 5 books I’m going to be reading (hopefully) all this month. These are mostly recent releases and a lot of these have had amazing reviews especially from my friend Steph (bookslovereaders). Top 5 Pride books I can’t wait to read I […]

Let’s Talk Books #5 – 3 Books that might not be on your radar this Month

Posted June 5, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Book List, Bookish Post, Let's Talk Books, LGBTQ+, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Happy Friday my lovely bookworms. It’s the end of the week and the first week of June already. Today’s is another Let’s Talk Books, a feature I cohost with Emily A Short Book Lover. A weekly series where we are highlighting particular books (Teen/YA/ Adult etc) coming out during this time, that we will review, or get bookish content from authors and so much more. Today’s post for me is all about books that I’m looking forward to their release and to reading. I decided to pick a few books that I think might not be on your radar that […]

Let’s Talk Books #4 | Guest Post – Why Hideous Beauty is my first LBGTQ+ novel by William Hussey

Posted May 29, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Guest Post, Let's Talk Books, LGBTQ+, UKYA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms. Happy Friday! Another week, another Let’s Talk Books – a feature I cohost with Emily A Short Book Lover. A weekly series where we are highlighting particular books (Teen/YA/ Adult etc) coming out during this time, we will review, or get bookish content from authors and so much more. This week both Emily and I are featuring a new LGBTQ+ YA thriller HIDEOUS BEAUTY by William Hussey. It was released yesterday and this is another book I can’t wait to read. I have so many but now is the best time with lockdown. When I was […]

Book Review | The Paper and Hearts Society: Read with Pride by Lucy Powrie

Posted May 27, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Book Review, Favourite Author, LGBTQ+, UKYA / 2 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms. Happy Wednesday! On Monday I was talking about Books and Books and I’m so excited to read the sequel to The Paper and Hearts Society. I literally just finished Read with Pride last night and I have so much to say about it, so here is my fangirly review, I hope you enjoy it. I loved it! My Review In The Paper and Hearts Society, I found me people, I found my inner Tabby, she is my teenage self. Read with Pride spoke to me in a different way, from the point of a librarian and […]

Let’s Talk Books | In the Mind of an Author – Camp by L.C. Rosen

Posted May 22, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, In the Mind of an Author, Let's Talk Books, LGBTQ+, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my lovely bookworms, it’s nearly the bank holiday week and half-term for many of us. It feels kind of strange doesn’t it?! But I will be enjoying it by escaping in literary worlds of new found favourites and enjoying the sunshine. I digress, Today I’m merging two of my features, Let’s Talk Books and In the Mind of an Author for an exciting post. Don’t forget to head over to Emily at A Short Book Lover to see her pick for Let’s Talk Books. Let’s Talk Books, formerly Let’s Talk YA, is a weekly series where we are […]

Book Review | Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales

Posted May 18, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Book Review, LGBTQ+, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely readers, today I’m sharing my review of Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales. ‘Tell me more, tell me more how good is this book?” I’m sorry I couldn’t resist starting my review in a sing song of Grease. After all it is a queer imagining of Grease, so I couldn’t not. It might not be the last either. I also happened to have watched Grease fairly recently so I was so up for this. My Review ‘I met a guy crazy for me and he met a boy as cute as can be.’ Ollie’s family changes their […]

Let’s Talk Books | EXTRACT – The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

Posted May 15, 2020 by Emma in 2020 books, Bookish Post, Extract, Let's Talk Books, LGBTQ+ / 0 Comments

Happy Friday my lovelies! Today myself and Emily from A Short Book Lover, are back with Let’s Talk Books. Together we’ve created list of all of the books coming out and going in release order. Let’s Talk Books, formerly Let’s Talk YA, is a weekly series where we are highlighting particular books (Teen/YA/ Adult etc) coming out during this time, we will review, or get bookish content from authors and so much more. We will then start to focus on books that are maybe underrated in the future and build a conversation about it. It’s all very exciting and we […]

UKYA Mini Reviews – SING (Like No One’s Listening) by Vanessa Jones & Alex in Wonderland by Simon James Green

Posted August 22, 2019 by Emma in Book Review, Friendship, LGBTQ+, Mini-Review, Music, Summer, UKYA / 3 Comments

Hi Everyone, It’s been a long time since I’ve done some book reviews, I have quite a few to catch up on, some going back to May. 🙊 Today I bring you two very different but perfect Summer YA reads. I would like to point out that by doing mini-reviews this is in no a bad reflection of the books. It sometimes nice to do short and sweet reviews. Do you like the Step-Up movies? Well your in for a treat. I loved this book, whilst it had elements of that finding your talent or where you fit in, with the […]