• All Reviews,  Literature

    ARC Review: Love Like This

    1 October, 2018
    40183920

    Sometimes the most imperfect match is the most perfect surprise. 

    Hadley Cooper believes in happily-ever-afters with her whole heart. Described by her friends as a wide-eyed, eternal optimist, she looks for the bright side in most any situation. However, when her job as the assistant manager of Silhouette, a posh boutique on Rodeo Drive, is on the line, she realizes it’s time to pull her head out of the clouds and find a way to turn business around, and that just might mean partnering with the most stubborn up-and-coming fashion designer she’s ever encountered. 

    Spencer Adair has a passion for fashion, but hates the fact that it rhymes. She’s serious about her designs, fiercely protective of her work, and is waiting patiently for her big break. What she didn’t plan on, however, was the unsolicited opinions of that overly friendly blond boutique manager. Or the way her heart beats faster every time she’s around.

    Love Like This

    Melissa Brayden

    Rating: 2/5 🌈
    Published: 16th October 2018
    Goodreads
    Rep: lesbian mc and li (ownvoices), Latina(?) li (not ownvoices, also never specified)

    Her soul soared, her heart sang, and her life could go in so many different directions.

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  • All Reviews,  Literature

    Book Review: Almost Like Being in Love

    30 September, 2018
    239092

    A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They keep in touch at first, but then slowly drift apart.

    Flash forward twenty years.

    Travis and Craig both have great lives, careers, and loves. But something is missing …. Travis is the first to figure it out. He’s still in love with Craig, and come what may, he’s going after the boy who captured his heart, even if it means forsaking his job, making a fool of himself, and entering the great unknown. 

    Told in narrative, letters, checklists, and more, this is the must-read novel for anyone who’s wondered what ever happened to that first great love.

    Almost Like Being in Love

    Steve Kluger

    Rating: 4/5 🌈
    Published: 11th May 2004
    Goodreads
    Rep: gay mc and li (ownvoices)

    And as long as I’m being brutally candid, I only wound up teaching American History because I followed a cute ass into the country-and-western section at Barnes & Noble (…).

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  • Other

    An Introduction

    29 September, 2018

    Welcome to Reads Rainbow

    a blog dedicated to LGBT media, where we aim to give you reviews, recs and information about new releases!

    A little bit about the blog: we hope to provide you with reviews of already released books, films and tv shows, as well as offering rec lists and keeping you apprised of new LGBT releases. We want to primarily consider ownvoices media, but we will also be reviewing non-ownvoices media, and reccing those we think are good. We will also try to indicate where the media is diverse in other ways, and whether that is ownvoices representation or not.

    ABOUT ANNA 

    (twitter @ heresthepencil)

    Hi, I’m Anna! I’m a 30 year old lesbian from Poland and I work full-time at a city hall. Nowadays I usually read YA literature (I might be old, but the feelings described in those books are relatable to all & somehow more real than in adult lit) and more specifically contemporary books, with some sff thrown in every once in a while. I’m also very big on poetry. The list of my favourite authors is quite long but to name just a few: Melina Marchetta, Natasha Pulley, Kayla Ancrum, Brandon Sanderson, and for poets: Ocean Vuong, Richard Siken, Ada Limón, Sappho, Kaveh Akbar.

    ABOUT CHARLOTTE

    (twitter @ mahitdzmare)

    Hi, I’m Charlotte! I’m 22 and studying for my Masters degree in Sport Psychology this year. My reading oscillates between finishing something in a day, maybe two, and not finishing it for months on end. (There really is no in-between.) My favourite genres are historical mystery and fantasy (and probably also sports fiction, now I think about it). Some of my favourite authors are Patrick Ness, Melina Marchetta, and Megan Whalen Turner. I also blog over at tealeafreads.

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