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Book Review: My Roommate from Hell by Cale Dietrich

My Roommate from Hell is a fun YA romance that I absolutely loved! Our main character Owen is off to college, where he ends up rooming with the Prince of Hell, Zarmenus. The pair have a rocky start, and don’t appear to be well suited as roommates. Their rocky start comes to a tipping point when Zarmenus asks Owen to be his fake boyfriend in order to help improve his image. Owen agrees and his life at college begins to change. When I first started this book, I was a bit worried about not liking the main character as I found Owen to be a bit annoying and a goody two shoes. He tries very hard to be perfect in every aspect of his life which I found grating at first. However, as I kept reading and learned more about Owen, and as he evolved over the course of the book, I ended liking his character a lot more! I love the scenes where Zarmenus and Owen are together. They have such great chemistry and their banter is just perfect! The fake dating aspect is the best part of the book. I would def...
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Book Review: Finna by Nino Cipri

Finna by Nino Cipri is a sci-fi novella that takes place in an IKEA-like furniture store. We follow our main character, Ava, and her ex-partner Jules, who are both employees at the store, as they go on an adventure through a wormhole that spawns in the middle of the labyrinth-esque box store. An older customer has gotten lost in the wormhole and it it up to this duo to retrieve her. They travel through the multiverse, meeting interesting (and some scary!) people along the way. Even in such a short story, there is a ton of queer representation throughout. Jules is nonbinary and they talk about how difficult it is being misgendered by customers. Though currently not dating, we learn about the relationship between Ava and Jules. That relationship is one of the main focal points of the book. One of my favorite quotes from the story is: It’s an old sadness … doesn’t heal, but you get used to bearing it. This is the first book in the LitenVerse series, and I will definitely be reading ...
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Book Review: These Vengeful Gods by Gabe Cole Novoa

These Vengeful Gods by Gabe Cole Novoa reminded me of a mix of the Hunger Games books and the TV show Arcane in the best way! I’ve read other books by this author that I really enjoyed but this might be my favorite one yet! In this book, we follow Crow, a trans teenager living with his uncles in the Shallows, the lowest and most neglected part of the city. Crow is a descendent of the god of death, and has survived a genocide that wiped out most of the other descendants of death. Because of his godly heritage, Crow has some supernatural abilities and uses those abilities as an underground street fighter to earn money. When Crow’s uncles are arrested for helping Deathchildren refugees escape the city, Crow vows to save them by entering a championship known as the Tournament of the Gods, where the winner is granted a boon from the gods. This book has so many elements that I absolutely loved. The world building is so good- I felt like I was in the city with them as they travelled around ...
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Book Review: And They Were Roommates By Page Powars

I thought the title of this one was so fun that I had to read it! And They Were Roommates follows our main character Charlie, a trans teenager who is attending a prestigious but very strict boarding school as a scholarship student. We see Charlie struggles as he deals with rigorous coursework, athletic requirements, making friends and dealing with his roommate who he previously had a fling with at summer camp. We meet a cast of characters from Delilah, Charlie’s best friend who attends a sister school, to Jasper, Charlie’s roommate and a brilliant poet. Overall, this book was fun and lighthearted! I like Charlie and felt he was the most fleshed out of the characters. He seems very relatable and reminds me of some of my friends growing up. His journey to finding his place at the school is very real and heartwarming. I think most of us have been through times where we felt like we didn’t fit in and the writing really does a good job of putting the reader in that headspace. This is a boo...
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Book Review: The Prince and the Player By Nora Phoenix

The Prince and the Player is a fun, lighthearted romance book, with vibes similar to the movie The Prince and Me as well as Red White and Royal Blue. We get dual alternating POVs from the two main characters, Farron and Tore. Farron is a senior in college from Ohio and captain of the soccer team. Tore is a prince of Norway who enrolls in the same university as Farron and joins the soccer team. With Tore quickly becoming a rising star on the team, the two clash almost instantly. Farron immediately seems to dislike Tore, both because of Tore’s talent on the field and Farron’s perception of Tore’s wealth and privilege. I inhaled this book, reading it pretty much in one sitting. I thought both main characters were well written, and I particularly liked Tore, who just seemed so sweet and thoughtful. Farron, while grumpy at times, was also likable as a character and I think we get a lot of depth from them both beyond just grumpy/sunshine. Though they both act like idiots at certain points ...
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Book Review: The Pairing By Casey McQuiston

I’m a big fan of Casey McQuiston’s work and this one did not disappoint! In The Pairing, we follow Theo and Kit, a former couple who by chance have ended up on the same food tour of Europe. They were previously supposed to go on this tour together, but broke up right before the tour started. This was their last chance to use the funds from their original tour and not have them be wasted. The two end up overcoming some of their differences, start talking again, and eventually start a competition of who can hook up with someone else in each of the cities they go to. The descriptions of the food and the cities make me want to go on this food tour so badly. I read the majority of this book on a plane and it made me want to immediately hop on another plane to go do a European food and wine tour. It just sounds so fun! I thought the two main characters Theo and Kit were very relatable and I would want to be friends with them in real life. They were so cool, but they were also flawed and I ju...
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Book Review: Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi is an excellent start to what I think will be an incredible series! This is a fantasy story told in dual points of view between two sisters- Yeeran, a colonel in the Elven army who can wield drum battle magic and Lettle, a diviner who uses the deaths of magical creatures called obeah to tell the future. Yeeran is exiled from the Elven lands after disobeying orders and getting soldiers killed. Yeeran asks a loyal captain of hers, Rayan, to watch out for her sister as she is exiled but Lettle instead follows her sister into exile with Rayan tagging along to protect her. As they try to hunt a huge obeah so that Yeeran may return with honor to the Elven lands, the group is captured by the fae. The fae were previously thought to be extinct and the group is thrust into their mysterious world. I really enjoyed this book! The amount of diverse, queer representation is phenomenal! I thought the world building was also excellent- really immersive, but not overwhel...
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