Author: laMax

dont want you like a best friend-written by Emma R.Alban follows two princesses from different kingdoms Beth and Gwen, Beth needs to get married quickly or else she and her mother will have to live out on the streets, while Gwen has no interest in finding a husband ever and decides to help Beth and her mother out. Rather then Beth going out and marrying a random Wealthy husband, why dont beth’s mother and Gwens father get married? the only problem with that is both of their parents hate each other, when all of a sudden a handsome suitor shows up and asks Beth for her hand, which makes Gwen Jealoooouussssssss.

i loved this book so much, it has so much character too it and so much excitement in it that i couldnt put it down, i actually had too put the book down a couple of times and make myself do other thing because i couldnt stop myself from reading, all of the character are loveable and silly and i totally recomend this book to everyone

Last night at the telegraph club-written by Malinda Lo centers around a 17 year old Chinese American women named Lily Hu in the year 1954, where she tries to come to terms with the fact that she is a Homosexual. She finds comfort in a women named Kathleen Miller and the two of the start to hit it off-without Kathleen knowing that Lily is a Lesbian, but later on Lily finds out that Kathleen is also a Homosexual, and Kathleen asked Lily to go to the Telegraph club and lily is overjoyed to see all of these people. After some incidents Lily finds out her fathers Citizenship has been taken away by the FBI because he didnt admit to one of his patients were a communist.

This book was a wonderful read for myself, it had great LGBTQ rep and the story itself was interesting and a joy to read, i didnt feel like any of the characters fell into steriotypes nor did any of the character feel “out of place” every character felt like they were there for a reason and i really enejoyed that. So if your looking for a good book with lesbians i totally reccomend this book

Fable for the end of the world-written by Ava Reid, follows two main characters in a SI-Fi reality were people are chosen at random to fight against cyborg women-an “angel”, Inesa-a woman who works as a taxidermist to make money (points) to keep her family safe, finds herself in a sistuation that she couldnt fight back from-being chosen for these fights. And Melinoe-a girl who had given herself up in exchange to become an “angel” fighting against people who find themselves in these fights. Both of their stories coming together in a chaotic, lesbian love story that will keep you hooked.

Honestly i loved this book so much!! the book itself is a great setting-a si-fi reality that has basically everyone looking at their screens, like a futureistic hunger games-or game of thrones, having that feeling of reality since it was written not to long ago, and so it puts what is happening in the book into a real light which i loved. The base for a story already hade me hooked, but also the plot of the main characters falling in love? that shocked me because i enjoyed it so much. I never read Romantic books because they never hook me into them, always found them cheesy-but this book didnt feel cheesy it felt nice-slowly building the bond between the two main characters so that it actually feels like they fall in love with one another, and also im a sucker for LGBTQ+ characters, so i recommend this book to everyone who loves Si-fi, romance, and a bit of a darker take on the future

Crafting For Sinners, writen by Jenny Kiefer is about a couple named Ruth and Abigail who live in a small town of Kill devil Kentucky, a town that has been over run by religion and bigotry. Abigail wants to leave the town while Ruth wants to save their money and then leave, and not having a lot of options Ruth decides to do commissions for crotche, the book follows ruth going to get more yarn for her crafts-only to get stuck in the arts and crafts store by the workers, who are apart of a religious “cult” that has infected the town, dose ruth have the power to leave the store or even the town with the woman of her dreams?

I absolutely loved this book! i love stories that have LGBTQ+ characters in them, especially characters that i can connect too, Ruth is a very connectable character-with her being apart of the LGBTQ community like i am, and also having a love for crotche which i do too, but it also shows how people in these environment react, like Abigail-she’s a character who has heavy Anxiety, is paranoid about her neighbours seeing the both of them together, which in my opinion is writen so well, and it also shows that Ruth-while agreeing with Abigail, believes that they are fine since nothing has happen to the both of them yet, and their writen in a way that you can agree with both sides of this conversation-which i love so much. I recomend this book to anyone who loves a bit of horror, and strong LGBTQ characters.

Compound Fracture is a book made by Andrew Joseph White, written in 2024 it follows a trans boy named Miles Abernathy who lives in a small town in west Virginia, his family-the Abernathys have had a history in there town about misfortunes happening to them and there family, Miles grandfather got killed while working on the local railroad, and his father recently got hurt due to a car crash that was caused by the local sheriff, Miles finds out about this and gets evidence about the “accident” which leads him to be injured and almost dies, now he has the powers to see the dead ghost of his grandfather, which watches over him while he tries to bring to justice his family.

This is the newest book that Andrew had written and I have read all 3 of his book and I have to say I really enjoyed this one, it had many parts of the story in which I related to the main character and the how he feels about himself and how others see him, and I really enjoy how the author made Miles in this book, and I also like many of the secondary characters and even the background characters, I think that this one might be one of-if not my favorite book that he has written so far, but I’ve said that with almost all of his book, and I really highly recommend this book to anyone who likes suspenseful books or who just wants a good read

Hell follows with us, written by Andrew Joseph White follows a trans boy named Benjamin (benji) who had recently escaped from a cult of Religious worshippers who pray to these things called Seraphs, who had come down from heaven in this thing called the flood, which had turned the world into a post apocalyptic wasteland. Benji finds himself being taken to a church where he was supposed to be sacrificed to the Seraphs where he was to become a monster who was to destroy the earth and to make a new one, but they were attacked and Benji ran away. After that he was found and brought to this place called the ALC, which basically is “the gay version of the YMCA” and meets up with a bunch of other LGBTQ+ kids who are surviving, and throughout the book Benji tries to put his past behind him and help the ALC and the people living in it survive, and try not to become the monster that he had said to become.

This book for me was a mix of emotions, I really liked how it covered over somethings that I had not seen other books do with diverse LGBTQ topics, like with one of the characters having neo-pronouns, using Xe/Xem pronouns, and I enjoy how there are a little bit of everything in this book, making each character unique and special, but something that I didn’t like about it was the story spacing, at some point it seemed as though the plot wasn’t going as fast as I would have liked, and then sometimes there were points where I didn’t really understand what the Author was getting at with there description, but I didn’t have big problems about this book, while I think that out of the 3 book that Andrew has written this one is my least favorite, that dosnt mean I don’t like it I enjoyed it a lot and highly recommend it to anyone who likes books with heavy religious topics and with LGBTQ+ topics.

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, written by Andrew Joseph White is a story set in the late 1800’s, the main character is a trans, autistic boy named Silas bell who is born with a special gift, his unique violet eyes make him have the power to “break the veil” between the living and the dead, but this trait is mostly used in men and is punishable by law If a women is seen using this power. Silas wants to be a surgeon just like his brother, but he also wants something else-to be able to be seen to the world as a man, after a situation that made him almost get killed, and learning that he Is to be married off Silas is told that he was diagnosed with “veil-sickness” which is given to women who use the powers of the veil regularly and “outbreaks” of emotions, and because of this Silas is brought to the Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium where he can be “cured” of the sickness and to be a good wife to his husband. What secrets dose this school hold? Dose Silas leave the school?

This is one of the best books that I have read in a long time, this book had a way of connecting to me in a way that no other book has, I found myself connecting to Silas in many ways with what he says and how he feels, and it has helped me see that other trans men have felt how I’ve felt before, and has genuinely made me feel more confident about myself. and I absolutely love the dark and horror theme of this book too. I highly recommend this book to anyone who like scary books or to anyone who like psychological horror or body horror.

The Corpse queen, written by Heather M.Herrman, is about a young orphan girl named Molly green who deals with the grief of her best friend kitty, who was supposed to run away with her lover Edgar. After Kittys death Molly is suddenly found by her “aunt” who takes her away from the Orphanage and into her home but for a price, as the book goes on Molly Learns that she has to take dead bodies from the morgue/graves and bring them to her aunt, who cleans them and lets student doctors used them. Throughout the whole story Molly is always brought back to her dead friend Kitty, and has a distaste for her lover, and having to deal with multiple theories like a man called the tooth fairy, and the corpse queen herself.

I personally loved this book so much, I though that the depth of it was very intense and the way that Heather described some of the scenes in detail was very good, I also enjoyed how the story would keep bringing back Kitty, showing that Molly’s whole strive is to find out who killed her best friend, and even that Kitty is somewhat haunting her, making her stay on her toes all the time. I loved the scary and horror that was in this book, and I seriously recommend this book to anyone who doesn’t mind scary things

she who became the sun was a book written by Shelley Parker-chan and it follows the life of a young girl in China named who lived with her father and brother in 1345. During this time a drought had riddled the land for years and had made the land almost impossible to live off of, but the family still lived there, her brother Zhu Chongba was told that he would become something great when he got older and his father saw hope in that, but one day there village was attacked by bandits and both the father and Zhu Chongba died that day, but the girl did not die, she decided that she would take up the act of her brother Zhu, changing herself to look like a man so she can survive. Zhu finds herself at a monastery for a lot of her life, and worked her way up the latter with only one person finding out her secret.

I really enjoyed this book, I liked how the author was able to show the struggles that Zhu went through during her life, and how she was able to overcome them with the limited space that she had, for most of her life she thought she was nothing since that was what everyone told her, but she was able to pick herself up and survive while taking up her brothers destiny. This book heavily makes me think of Mulan in many ways, from Zhu pretending to be a man to join a group that is 99% made of men, having to learn how to do basic things without anyone finding out her secret, and liking her determination that she held onto from the day that her brother and father died, that determination to survive at any cost, I respect that a lot as a person and as a reader