Wrap-up: April 2021

Another month gone, another intro I don’t know how to write…welcome to May everyone! I hope your Aprils were as great as mine (I beat Anna in shows/films watched). Aaand yeah I have nothing more to say.

Let’s get on with it then…

What we read

Anna

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (Indian-American gay mc with depression, gay mc with generalised anxiety disorder, OCD & a panic disorder, Chinese-American bi side character, lesbian side character, Black ace bi side character with anxiety, gay side character, Muslim pan side character, Black bi side character) – 3.5 🌈 tw panic attacks, biphobia, homophobia, vomitting [review]
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Indian inspired characters and setting, lesbian mcs) – 5 🌈 tw homophobia, gore, violence, execution by burning, forced drug use, torture, death, body horror [review]
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (memoir) – 4 🌈 tw eating disorder, self harm, vomiting
These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy (lesbian mc & li) – 3 🌈 tw blood, fire, torture, death [review]
If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich (gay Spanish-American mc, bi mc with an eating disorder) – 4 🌈 tw abusive parents, homophobia, drugs & alcohol use [review to come]
The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid (sapphic side characters) – 4 🌈 tw magic requiring self harm, blood, body horror, eye horror, gore, dismemberment, torture, antisemitism, ethnic cleansing, child abuse, animal death

Charlotte

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (Indian-American gay mc with depression, gay mc with generalised anxiety disorder, OCD & a panic disorder, Chinese-American bi side character, lesbian side character, Black ace bi side character with anxiety, gay side character, Muslim pan side character, Black bi side character) – 4 🌈 cw panic attacks, homophobia, biphobia [review]
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist (bi mc, bi li, gay side character) – 2.5 🌈 cw gore, violence, murder
Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin (lesbian mc, bi li) – 2 🌈 cw domestic abuse, sexual assault, past child sexual abuse [review]
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (biracial Black mlm trans mc, gay li, bi side character, nonbinary side character) – 5 🌈 cw mentions of past transphobic violence, religious homophobia [review]
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin (lesbian mc with anxiety & depression, trans(?)/gnc(?) side character with alcohol & painkiller addiction) – 4 🌈 cw ableism, suicidal ideation, self harm [review]

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (memoir) – 3 🌈 cw eating disorder, self harm, vomiting
The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman & Laura Blackett (sapphic mc, Latino gay side character, mlm trans side character, nonbinary & sapphic side characters) – 3 🌈 cw abusive relationship, past deaths/injury in a car accident [review]
Blackheart Knights by Laure Eve (sapphic mc, bi, gay & nonbinary side characters) – 5 🌈 cw violence [review]
Oculta by Maya Motayne (Latinx-coded gay mc) – 4 🌈 cw violence, gore, body horror [review]
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Egyptian lesbian mc, sapphic li) – 4.5 🌈 cw immolation, gore, self-mutilation [review]

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (bi mc, lesbian character) – 4 🌈 cw body horror, gore, past suicide, compulsion, sexual assault
I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander (Jewish lesbian mc, Jewish bi mc, gay side characters, sapphic trans side character) – 3 🌈 cw stalking [review]
Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn (biracial (Black, white) lesbian mc, bi mc, gay mc) – 5 🌈 cw past child abuse, gore [review]
Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria (Mexican American bi mc) – 3.5 🌈 cw torture, blood [review]
The Sisters of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis (Black sapphic mc, bi li, lesbian side characters, Black trans side character) – 4 🌈 cw past sexual abuse, mentions of child prostitution, torture [review]

Windfall by Shawna Barnett (bi mcs) – 2 🌈 cw attempted rape, domestic abuse, torture [review]
The Ophelia Girls by Jane Healey (lesbian mc, gay side character) – 3 🌈 cw grooming, adult-minor relationship, drowning, homophobia, cheating [review]
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (bi mc with PTSD, gay mc with epilepsy) – 5 🌈
Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (sapphic mc, nonbinary li, sapphic side characters) – 4 🌈 cw gore, immolation, violence [review]
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey (lesbian characters, gay mcs, Black gay character, nonbinary mc, bi mc, sapphic trans mc, Iranian American sapphic side character) – 3 🌈 cw homophobic slurs, homophobia, sexual assault, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, car accidents, internalised homophobia, animal death

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (bi Bangladeshi Bengali Muslim Irish mc, sapphic Indian Bengali Irish mc) – 3 🌈 cw biphobia [review]
Wilde Fire by Lucy Lennox (gay mcs) – 1 🌈 cw homophobia
His Haven by Con Riley (gay mcs, mc with anxiety) – 1 🌈
Fairs’ Point by Melissa Scott (gay mc, bi mc) – 4 🌈
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson (Black bi mc, Black lesbian mc, Black sapphic side character) – 4 🌈 cw shooting, revenge porn [review]

Justice League of America, Vol. 1: The Extremists by Steve Orlando (gay mc) – 3 🌈
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott (lesbian mc, biracial Japanese American lesbian li) – 4 🌈 cw death of a parent [review]

What we watched (and listened to)

Charlotte

The Irregulars (ep. 1) cr. Tom Bidwell (Black gay character)
Den Store Dag (2005) dir. Morten Arnfred (gay mcs) – 2 🌈
Why Are You Like This? (S1) cr. Mark Samual Bonanno, Naomi Higgins & Humyara Mahbub (Bengali Australian Muslim bi mc, gay mc)

Anna

Shadow and Bone (2021; S1), dev. Eric Heisserer (Black bi mc, side mlm characters, side Black sapphic character) – 3 🌈 tw abusive relationship, racism, blood, murder, gore, dismemberment