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Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

These Heavy Vinyl volumes are so cute and sweet, quite a cozy femme and queer world in throwback late 90s. It's lovely. Please make more.

Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio, Vol. 1 by Nina Vakueva, Carly Usdin

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

This volume of Heavy Vinyl is so cute. Gayness everywhere and the stakes are still valid while also being cozy somehow. Looking forward to the next installment.

Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
Did not finish book. Stopped at 6%.

The story is too chilly and sad for where I am mentally right now.

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.

The queerness is excellent but the plotting is too lax for me. Over a quarter in and barely anything has happened, I need to move on.

Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition, Book 1 by W. Maxwell Prince

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This series maintains a balance between cryptic and entertaining. Sometimes I'm impatient to know how the episodic nature of the anthology ties into the overarching narrative. It's a little exhaustive in a 12 issue burst but still interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Body horror

Making It So by Patrick Stewart

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This memoir is quality and I highly recommend the audiobook, read by Sir Patrick Stewart himself and he acts out so many bits and does all the voices, it's gotta be the superior version.

There are many years to cover but at 19 hours, this is probably the longest memoir I've read. At a certain point, some of the theater stuff begins to blur together. With Stewart reading, it was all part of the fun but I would have found those sections harder to get through in print.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Tiffany Morris has made a mighty fine atmospheric eco-horror novella. Blending art creation with death, grief and life while also having nightmare creatures is a beautiful concoction and it deserves witnessing. Highly recommended. 

Saga, Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This Volume reread was pretty good. Vaughan still used the f-slur so I'm not giving it 5 stars. I loooove Fiona Staples' art.

The Amazing Alligator Girl by Kristin Dearborn

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

This novella is a fun time, highly recommended for fans of horror thriller creature features. Once the alligators are set off in a gleefully dangerous eco sci-fi villain way, the deadly ride just doesn't slow down. Although not a book for much character development, the constant panic more than makes up for that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

The Vampire Slayer, Vol. 4 by Sarah Gailey, Hannah Templer

adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Sarah Gailey's ultimate Buffy fanfic draws to a close and it was most definitely a fun ride. This volume was maybe a tad too sweet for my taste, I would have liked the stakes to have been a little more dire, but it's still queer relationships, fantasy strangeness and reliable coziness  in a Willowverse storyline and I love it for that.