#LGBTGIA science fiction

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Check out the fantastic Cover Reveal for The Death Bringer by J. Scott Coatsworth! Excerpt included!

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci-fantasy book coming out in September, The Tharassas Cycle book four, and we have the cover reveal: The Death Bringer. AIK WILL NEVER BE THE SAME… AND NEITHER WILL HIS WORLD War is coming. Aik has become the Progenitor, and the Seed Mother has released him to transform the world for her alien brood. Silya and Raven, Aik’s former friends, are the only ones…

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Review: It Doesn't Translate by Ofelia Gränd

Rating: 4.5🌈 Another short fantastical story by the strange, imaginative mind of author Ofelia Grand. It Doesn’t Translate originated as a casual bunch of texts amongst a group of friends/authors who wondered about a wandering (very dead) body that would pop up in various places, no matter the context, universe, or even trope. Before long a series, the Tattooed Corpse stories, was…

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Review: A World Apart: An MM Urban Fantasy Romance (Learning to Breathe Book 2) by Carole Cummings and Andy Gallo

Rating: 5🌈 A World Apart picks up from the events of the last novel, A World Away, the first in Cummings and Gallo’s excellent LGBTQIA syfi series. Best friends and now lovers, Camilo Almenara and Nathan Duffy have been through unbelievable hardships, family losses ,and challenges, which have included Nathan’s paralysis, then gaining the experimental implants that allowed the military to draft…

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Review: The Earl and the Executive: An Imperial Space Regency Novel by Kai Butler

Rating: 4🌈 As a long time fan of the novels of Georgette Heyer, I’ve loved to see the trope of regency romance given various interpretations by other writers, whether it’s keeping the stories within the same genre‘s era but in a LGBTQIA framework. Or, as Butler and a few others have , taken Regency Romance right into Space and beyond! The Earl and the Executive is the first of three released…

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Review:  Why Did The Alien Cross The Galaxy? To Find a Fake Boyfriend and Befriend a Vacuum Cleaner by A. M. Rose

Rating:  4.75🌈 When you are wheezing at a book so hard that your dog is looking at you with concern you know you have a fabulous story in your hands!   So it is with A. M. Rose’s amazing holiday science fiction novel “Why Did The Alien Cross The Galaxy? To Find a Fake Boyfriend and Befriend a Vacuum Cleaner.”  If I hadn’t already found it by the great recommendations, that bright, goofy, and…

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Review:  Chaos Station (Chaos Station Book 1) by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen

Rating: 4.5🌈 I’m absolutely hooked by this universe.  A science fiction epic romance adventure, originally published in 2013, authors Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen have released this marvelous series again, starting with their first novel written together, Chaos.  I missed this first time around so I’m so excited to read this series and book now.  The tale of the journey of the crew of the space…

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Review: Cosmic Husband (Cosmic Romances Book 1) by Mars Quinn

Rating: 4.25🌈 The “I was abducted by aliens “ trope isn’t one I normally read but the reviews for this were good and the author is new to me. Science fiction can be a tricky subject, especially where the world building and species is concerned. I read other books where the aliens just resemble funny colored humans living in their own humanistic world instead of actually describing what a truly…

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Review: An Ex-Hero's Guide to Axe Handling (Subpar Heroes story) by Jenn Burke

Rating: 5🌈 As a fan of this author, I couldn’t wait for her contribution to the multi-author Subpar Heroes series. It’s excellent! One of my favorites so far. An Ex-Hero’s Guide to Axe Handling includes the two ends of the super hero spectrum. One, Ward Sullivan aka Firefox, a man’s whose talent was so powerful that it’s got him damaged permanently. Now Ward’s bitter and angry about his past…

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Review:  Skip Trace (Chaos Station Book 3) by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen 

Rating: 4.5🌈  Skip Trace had several hurdles to overcome just by being the book that followed Lonely Shore, a novel that was full of huge emotional storylines, momentous moments, and blockbuster payoffs in terms of narrative development and character development.   Skip Trace picks up after Lonely Shore’s events , which saw the return of Zander Anatolius and the highly emotional reunion that is…

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Review:  Cosmic Soul: A MM Sci-fi Romance (Cosmic Romance 2) by Mars Quinn

Rating: 4.5🌈 I was intrigued by the theme of the book when Mars Quinn introduced the characters and concept at the end of the first story.  That a human ghost had traveled, somehow, to the stars and stumbled upon a strange planet and being able to see him? Fascinating as a certain other well-known character would say.  Cosmic Soul: A MM Sci-fi Romance (Cosmic Romance 2) by Mars Quinn turns out…

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Review:  Whiskey and Warfare: The Team Huntress Flights by E. M. Hamill

Rating: 5+🌈 E. M. Hamill’s Whiskey and Warfare is such an exceptional book that, once I finished, I went out and bought a hardcover copy for my collection and bedside.  It’s a book that’s so powerful and personal a story for me that I needed to make sure it’s kept as close physically to me as it is feels emotionally. It’s my comfort read and a joyful journey that I cherish. Hamill’s incredible…

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Review:  Lonely Shore (Chaos Station Book 2) by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen

Rating: 4.75🌈 The journey of Felix Ingesson, his broken ex super soldier partner , Zander Anatolius, and the rest of the crew of the ship, Chaos, continues in the fantastic novel, Lonely Shore. The novel picks up after the events of Chaos Station, Zander has become a part of the crew but the effects of the alien stinn poisoning are increasingly felt throughout his system and he’s functional…

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Review: A World Away (Learning to Breathe #1) by Carole Cummings and Andy Gallo

Rating: 4.5🌈 I was immediately intrigued to hear about a new series being launched by two authors I respected. That’s the marvelous Carole Cummings and Andy Gallo and their Learning to Breathe series. The series revolves around two young men, who’ve grown up together, in a world at war. I wish the authors would establish more of the current universe structure the characters inhabit but a huge…

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Review: The Harvest Young: Bound by Fate (The Next Generation Book 1) by M.A. Church

Review: The Harvest Young: Bound by Fate (The Next Generation Book 1) by M.A. Church

Rating: 3 🌈 It’s been a while since I read M.A. Church’s series , The Harvest Taken (2014), but I do remember liking those stories. Which I why , aside from the terrific cover , I picked up The Harvest Young: Bound by Fate (The Next Generation Book 1) by M.A. Church. I’m not sure that I either enjoyed this as much or remembered the other very well. Because I found I had quite a few issues with…

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Review: Rarely Pure and Never Simple (Varient Configurations Book#1) by Angel Martinez

Review: Rarely Pure and Never Simple (Varient Configurations Book#1) by Angel Martinez

Rating: 5🌈 Angel Martinez is a auto buy for me for a reason and Rarely Pure and Never Simple (Varient Configurations Book#1) is a fantastic example why. We get a taste of the world the events take place so quickly. So typically Martinez. Breathtakingly simple in her ability to deliver a picture of a world rendered apart, catastrophically environmentally destroyed in the not too past, by some…

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Review: The Tower (The Spell Saga: Book 2) by Cari Z

Review: The Tower (The Spell Saga: Book 2) by Cari Z

Rating: 4🌈 The Spell Saga continues with the The Tower, a book that , unlike The Train, starts to show how little or how flawed the world building is here. While The Train’s plot and tight storylines were held to the constraints of a moving train, and the exposition was used to move forward the mystery there. Here the series arc, the characters background, even the very foundation of the…