Andrea Marks-Joseph

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Review: The Rest is Silence, by Chii Rempel
[fa icon="calendar'] Feb 15, 2019 9:45:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in review, cover reveal
Review: Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night, by Katherine Fabian & Iona Datt Sharma
[fa icon="calendar'] Jan 25, 2019 9:45:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in review
Told from two perspectives: Layla, a bi pathologist PoC who loves her wife and kids but is uncomfortable inside suburban life, and Nat, a blue-haired, genderqueer composer who runs charity that supports young queers. Nat and Layla are metamours who are uninterested in being friends. And the dislike between them is amplified when their strange and mysterious magician lover, Meraud, goes missing mid-spell, leaving only clues for them to find him. When they eventually they decide to work together, (For example, when they pose as an engaged couple to get into a church meeting and "Nat attempts a cisheteropatriarchal smile" Lol) they find a joy in each other that turns the ending into something that --while not romantic-- is totally totally sweet.
It's worth it alone for the excellent descriptions of what a real life house and headspace is like while raising young kids, but there are also AWESOME queer side characters that I hope we get to see in future books! If you're looking for a Romance arc, this isn't gonna hit the spot.. but it's delightful and charming and feels like a drop in the ocean of good queer content. It's the perfect read for an evening spent by the fireplace.
Content warnings: there's a couple mentions of Meraud liking to be tied up, marks on his wrists. It's never explicit, just flashes of memory relating to it. Nat was a foster kid, and we hear from some of the people at his charity, mention of what life as a foster child and queer youth in the foster system. There is also at some point a corpse discovered, that is believed to be Meraud but it is not.
Andrea's Best of 2018
[fa icon="calendar'] Dec 21, 2018 9:45:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in list, top reads
I don't mention it in every description, but all of these are queer. There is literally one hetero romance in here and I am not sorry. So if you're like me and you're like "Oh that book sounds great, you know what would make it greater? If it was queer!" --now you already know that it is. :)
Review: A Taste of Agapi, by Chris Ethan
[fa icon="calendar'] Oct 15, 2018 9:30:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in review
Review: Of Echoes Born, by Nathan Burgoine
[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 3, 2018 10:00:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in review
I am not particularly fond of anthologies; in fact about a year ago I decided not to read them anymore. I don't enjoy the inevitability of being pulled into and away from characters, emotionally investing in them and then being told to move on. But I've been wanting to read a Nathan Burgoine book for a while, and was promised a collection of unabashedly queer stories with (videogame reference alert) easter-eggs scattered like jewels between them, and so I simply had to read Of Echoes Born.
Romantic Occupations
[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 25, 2018 10:00:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in list
Review: Unfit to Print, by KJ Charles
[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 2, 2018 10:00:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in review
Review: The Kiss Quotient, by Helen Hoang
[fa icon="calendar'] May 23, 2018 10:00:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph
Review: You, Me & Her, by Tanya Chris
[fa icon="calendar'] May 16, 2018 10:00:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in review
Review: Wanna Bet?, by Talia Hibbert
[fa icon="calendar'] Apr 21, 2018 10:30:00 AM / by Andrea Marks-Joseph posted in review