TJ Klune wraps up his YA superhero trilogy, The Extraordinaries, with Heat Wave which sees teenager Nick launching into his superhero career, as well as launching into his fully-fledged relationship with Seth. Quick note: being the last part of a trilogy, there’s no way to avoid spoilers for the previous books in this review. Nick... Continue Reading →
Get ready to say “awwwww” a lot as you read the new queer romance anthology Young Men in Love. These twenty comic stories range from sweet first loves to parables of adversity with everything from pirates, superheroes, sentient light bulbs and more thrown into the mix. Editors Joe Glass (writer of queer comic The Pride)... Continue Reading →
Inter-gay-lactic assassins turned goodies-for-hire, Alex and Max are sent on their first non-murdery job, to rescue some kids from political prison. To pull off their mission they’ll need to dodge their ex-lovers, a very angry (and fluffy) monkey, Captain Bieti (whose ship they stole), and try not to start a war when they get there.... Continue Reading →
If you’re looking for a cute, contemporary gay romance to snuggle up with then Kris Ripper’s Book Boyfriend is a good place to start. Behind it’s rom-com trappings, it has hidden depths and a beautifully flawed lead character in PK. Preston ‘PK’ Harrington is an editorial assistant (and wannabe author) working at a book publisher... Continue Reading →
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has had many lives. From serialized chapters in The San Francisco Chronicle, to a series of novels, TV and radio adaptations, and a stage musical by Jake Shears. Now it has been turned into a charming graphic novel by Isabelle Bauthian and Sandrine Revel, potentially the first of a... Continue Reading →
Chris McCrudden is slowly carving out his own niche in sci-fi with his space comedy Battlestar Suburbia series, and the third entry Sashay to the Centre of the Earth, brings the action down to Earth; way, way down into the Earth. In McCrudden’s universe the “war with the machines” was less Terminator-style and more about... Continue Reading →
Orphans Adan Testa and Bo Shen are best friends living under the yoke of the Bolvar Union, a restrictive society that will soon drag them into five years of mandatory military service. To escape, they hatch a plan to get over the wall that surrounds the city and out into the wild landscape of the... Continue Reading →
Jon Ransom’s debut novel, The Whale Tattoo, is filled with prose that picks you up in its wake and takes you on a journey. Complex, fraught and violent, The Whale Tattoo reads like an early Tracy Lett’s play - a steaming mix of blue-collar rage and menace. Joe Gunner is working in a chip shop... Continue Reading →
The release of the Schitt’s Creek book Best Wishes Warmest Regards is of course the stuff of fan dreams, jam-packed with the kind of carefully curated, and heartfelt content that they love so much. There’s an added element to this book though, yes, it’s a tribute to the show, a brilliant marker of the little... Continue Reading →
For some people, life starts at 40. For miserable, corporate manager Wallace Price, life started when he died. Better late than never. TJ Klune’s new novel, Under the Whispering Door, takes his breezy fantasy stylings and tackles a love story beyond the grave. When Wallace attends his own sparsely attended funeral, he meets Mei—a reaper... Continue Reading →
