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Soft Queer Love – Ethical Non-Monogamy Edition

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen

February 1, 2022 by Emmalita 1 Comment

Twitter may be a hellsite most of the time, but it brought me to so many great writers I wouldn’t have found otherwise. I don’t know how else I would have found Skye Kilaen, an absolutely delightful queer self published author who should be more widely read. Shake Things Up is the second in her Love at Knockdown series and I feel like I’ve been eagerly anticipating it forever, but probably only about a year, what is time? We meet Noelle just after she’s been […]

Jolie had known for six months and two days that her life was now temporary.

If I Were a Weapon by Skye Kilaen

December 17, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

On a near future Earth, alien ships appear and then moments later all the aliens die. As they die, clouds of nanites infect the area around the ships, killing many and leaving some with powers. Some time later, Deneve is making her way to Austin from Houston. She’s had a flash of a vision, just enough to know someone is in danger. Deneve has been on the road, unwilling to stay anywhere too long since the aliens arrived. The nanites that infect her body lead […]

A book overflowing with queer kindness

Tell Me Anything by Skye Kilaen

July 31, 2021 by Emmalita 2 Comments

The thing about Skye Kilaen is that she has so much compassion for her characters and her stories are so full of kindness that when she rips my still beating heart out of my chest in chapter one, I keep reading because I trust my heart in her hands. Skye writes beautiful LGBTQ+ romances, she’s self published, and unless you hang out in the right book circles, you probably don’t know who she is. But you should, because she’s so gooooooooood. Tell Me Anything is […]

It’s a sapphic scifi romance bodyguard novella.. enough said!

Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen

July 13, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 1 Comment

I’ve read a few of Skye Kilean’s books and enjoyed all of them, so of course I had to read her sapphic scifi romance princess/bodyguard book. While that’s not a trope I usually seek out, The Unbroken reminded me of how much fun it is (and how much pining there is) when done right. The novella is told from Elsenna’s first person POV. She’s the Vice-Captain of the despotic king’s guard, quite a rise in the ranks from two years ago when she was the […]

Sure, it’s a dystopia, but it’s a very comforting one

The Home I Find With You by Skye Kilaen

April 21, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

The author calls this book “hopepunk” and that’s definitely a good description. Despite the fact that it’s set in a world reeling from climate changes and the after effects of war, it’s really quite sweet, full of chosen family and people doing their best to heal and help others heal. Van’s partner died three years ago in a battle with raiders. Irene had run defense for the circuit towns, a group of settlements who’ve banded together loosely for protection against raiders. After her passing, Van […]

It’s like I see the beginning of something and my brain goes right to the end.

The Home I Find With You by Skye Kilaen

February 23, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

It was profoundly strange to read a dystopian romance set in a United States after a climate change and racism driven civil war while my city and state were going through a climate driven disaster exacerbated by racist policies. If it had been written by another author, I probably would have put it aside as too close to home, but Skye Kilaen was writes with such kindness that it was a balm to read about her characters working together as a community to survive. Set […]

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