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Book Reviews

Review: “Monster” by Soren Summers

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Title: Monster Series: Vertex #1 Author: Soren Summers Genre: MM Romantic Horror Publisher: Amazon Word Count: 88,000 Blurb Bloodied corridors. Mangled bodies. Deranged test subjects. Just another day at Vertex, a corporation devoted to perfecting humanity by any means necessary. It’s up to Jarod Samuels to keep the hallways pristine and safe, but scrubbing bloodstains and bagging bodies is losing its luster. Then someone new joins his department, this man with a huge ego and an even huger mouth. Gabriel Anderson is infuriating but intriguing, as brash as he is beautiful, and almost enough to keep Jarod preoccupied. Almost. But … Read more

REVIEW: “Renewal” Gets 5 Stars

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Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words

Another great review for “Renewal” – this one from Melanie at Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words: I am such a fan of flash fiction, the ability to tell a complete story in 300 words or less. Renewal is Queer SyFy’s Fourth year’s collection of flash fiction and what an incredible winner it is. Like a library full of tiny jewels, Renewal‘s flash fiction is glorious in it’s presentation of the dizzying array of imaginative themes and world building by it’s host of authors… Such power, such beauty. And this collection is full of such haunting tales. As J. Scott Coatsworth … Read more

Review: “Debris Dreams” by David Colby

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Title: Debris Dreams Series: The Lunar Cycle #1 Author: David Colby Genre: YA Lesbian Science Fiction Publisher: Thinking Ink Press Pages: 237 Blurb The year: 2069 The place: Sun-Earth Lagrange Point L1, 1.5 million kilometers above the surface of the Earth The objective: Survive Sixteen-year-old Drusilla Zhao lives in the Hub, a space station used by the Chinese-American Alliance as a base to exploit Luna’s resources. Desperate to break free of the Alliance, a terrorist group from the Moon destroys the space elevator, space’s highway to Earth. In a flash, Dru’s parents are dead and she is cut off from … Read more

QSF Reviewers Wanted!

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Hello Queer Sci Fi followers! We admins have exciting news: we’re opening up a couple book reviewer positions! Turns out you guys all read–and write–a ton and we’d like to try and keep up with the heavy volume by adding more book reviewers. How it works: as authors submit review requests, I’ll post them to a file and all reviewers will have access to these requests. Reviewers can select any books they’d like and submit a review to me a couple to a few weeks later. I’ll post those reviews on our website and they can be shared around from … Read more

Review: “Lord of the White Hell: Book One” by Ginn Hale

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Lord of the White Hell

Title: Lord of the White Hell Book One Series: Lord of the White Hell #1, The Cadeleonian Series Volume #1 Author: Ginn Hale Genre: Gay Fantasy Publisher: Blind Eye Books Pages: 353 Blurb Kiram Kir-Zaki may be considered a mechanist prodigy among his own people, but when he becomes the first Haldiim ever admitted to the prestigious Sagrada Academy, he is thrown into a world where power, superstition and swordplay outweigh even the most scholarly of achievements. But when the intimidation from his Cadeleonian classmates turns bloody, Kiram unexpectedly finds himself befriended by Javier Tornesal, the leader of a group … Read more

Review: “Teresias Bound” by Rebecca James

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Title: Teresias Bound Author: Rebecca James Genre: Trans Sci-Fi/Fantasy Publisher: Self Publish Length: Novel Blurb Aiden is a man in a woman’s body. His dream is to fly to Aquarix where the elusive Fluens–the only species capable of changing his life record and physically making him a man–reside, and for years he’s been working at a seedy brothel in Solarias to save enough money to make that dream a reality. Lydo, the prince of Teresias, has spent his youth leading his father’s army and avoiding his responsibilities on his home planet. On brief leave during a dangerous mission, he stops … Read more

Review: “Slow Heat” by Leta Blake

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Slow Burn

Title: Slow Heat Author: Leta Blake Genre: MM Paranormal Romance Publisher: Amazon Pages: 436 Blurb A lustful young alpha meets his match in an older omega with a past. Professor Vale Aman has crafted a good life for himself. An unbonded omega in his mid-thirties, he’s long since given up hope that he’ll meet a compatible alpha, let alone his destined mate. He’s fulfilled by his career, his poetry, his cat, and his friends. When Jason Sabel, a much younger alpha, imprints on Vale in a shocking and public way, longings are ignited that can’t be ignored. Fighting their strong … Read more

Review: “Root of the Spark” by Michele Fogal

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Root of the Spark

Title: Root of the Spark Series: A Wild Seed Novel Author: Michele Fogal Genre: Nonbinary Fantasy Publisher: Loose Id Pages: 210 Blurb Dell doesn’t want to hide anymore. As the first hermaphrodite on the human colony planet of Ameliaura, Dell has spent the last year trying to blend into the crowd. Dell used to snub the public eye with flamboyance and scandal, but lately the attention just feels like loneliness. After surviving a vicious attack, Dell falls into the arms of Zavvy, a man who has made it his mission to help abandoned hermaphrodite children. Zavvy has been alone for … Read more

Review: “Brobots” by Trevor Barton

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Brobots

Title: Brobot Series: Brobots #1 Author: Trevor Barton Genre: Gay Science Fiction Publisher: Amazon Pages: 350 Blurb Artificial intelligence can’t be programmed. It has to be grown. Some machines are learning who they are, and humans could do with a bit of that, too. Jared takes home a cute man he finds in a dumpster and then gets drawn into a world of robots, parenting and conspiracy. Review I love it when a book starts off with a murder, or attempted murder. Brobots are androids created by an independent corporation. When they were hard to sell, because of their premium … Read more

Review: “The Girl in Gold” by Beth Lyons

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Title: The Girl in Gold Series: Vox Swift #2 Author: Beth Lyons Genre: Lesbian Urban Fantasy Publisher: Amazon Pages: 212 Blurb Vox Swift returns for a second mystery. This time Vox stumbles upon the body of a strange girl in a sparkly gold dress, dead in the library of one of the richest men in Thornbury. Who is she? Who killed her? “No one knew the girl in gold. She seemed the most improbable of murder victims, at least on the surface. But as happens in life and in murder cases, you follow a path of ideas, theories, wrong turns, … Read more