Feature: A Prideful Recap Back in early June we posted our Pride TBR with great intentions and a very ambitious list. June is now over. It is time to account for ourselves. Spoiler: we both read a lot of queer books this month. Whether those books were on our actual […]
Cover Crush: A (Dead) Thing Like Me by E.G. Young When Maria Ingrande Mora tells you to read something, you read it. That is how A (Dead) Thing Like Me by E.G. Young landed on our radar (and us on the street team)! A teenage ghost named Hot Dog haunts […]
Author Interview: Where You’ll Find Us by Jude St. Jude There are books that feel like they were written for exactly this moment, and Where You’ll Find Us by Jude St. Jude is one of them. Cal is a trans teen who stumbles upon a place called Amaranth, a farmhouse […]
Blog Tour & Book Look: Being Aro: A Collection of Aromantic Fiction about Love, Connection, and Empowerment edited by Madeline Dyer & Rosiee Thor Twelve stories across genres, all centered on aromantic characters finding connection, breaking generational curses, and refusing the idea that romance is what makes a story worth telling. […]
Young Adult New Releases May 26th 2026 It’s the day before my birthday and what a special way to celebrate in sharing with you all my favorite things…new books! So please as a gift to me, buy yourself a book maybe one of the new releases below or any ebooks, […]
Books on Our Radar: They Want Us Dead by C.L. Montblanc If Pride or Die lived in your head rent-free, C.L. Montblanc is about to do it again, only this time, things are significantly more stabby. Their new one, They Want Us Dead, follows Sam Tombs, a seventeen-year-old running a […]
Feature: What We’re Reading for the Trans Rights Readathon We have been doing this long enough to remember when trans stories in YA were rare, fragile things. A book here, an anthology there, authors writing characters into existence with one eye on the market and one eye on survival. We […]
Author Interview: Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson Fairy tales promise happy endings, but Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson asks a darker question: what happens when love itself becomes the risk? In this sharp, emotionally layered reimagining, Amala and Kha’dasia don’t just fight fate; they fight the expectations placed […]
Blog Tour & Book Look: Time-Tripping Over You by Brennon Lane Time-Tripping Over You is a queer time travel debut written by Black, queer, trans author Brennon Lane, who has said he hopes his books offer the diverse representation he always wanted. The story follows Silas, a Black and trans […]
Review: Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of Celestial Monsters, the final book in the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas. I thought to myself, how will I promote this special release, and then I realized that I technically never posted a review on […]