Unicorn's Bookshelf

Hello! Here I am, with my first monthly wrap-up. I hope I'll be able to do it every month from now on. First, some stats: Books read: 14 Pages read: 4807 Favourite book: Cemetery Boys Average rating: 3,5 Now, to the books. For the first two weeks of June I've participated in two readathons, Queer Lit Readathon and Read Your Gays . I've linked both and I recommend you guys check them both out! *** The first book I've read is The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson. I've read this for Queer Lit Readathon  for the rainbow cover prompt. My rating of this book was 1 star mostly due to the presentation of the Conservative party, which was at best insensitive and at worst intentionally harmful. I'm by no means an expert on American politics but I still felt deeply uncomfortable with how things were presented here. The message of this book is basically that it doesn't matter if your parent wants to strip groups of people of their human rights as long as she a...

Disclaimer: I have voluntarily reviewed this book after receiving a free copy from Edelweiss+, thank you! Title: Girl, Serpent, Thorn Author: Melissa Bashardoust Genre: YA, fantasy, lgbt, retelling Rating: 3,5/5 Goodreads / Amazon / My Instagram / My tumblr So like… This book has monster girlfriends and if that doesn’t convince you to read it I don’t know what will? Soraya is a princess cursed by a div. She’d heard this story millions of times - the story of her mother freeing a woman in a forest and having her captor make her firstborn daughter poisonous to touch. Due to her condition, Soraya has been hidden away in the palace and kept a secret from most of the country. At least until her brother captures a div and brings it to the palace as a prisoner. On her way to find a way to get rid of her curse, Soraya may just have to question everything she’d known about how it came to be. First of all - I love the concept. The inspiration from Persian mythology is refreshing, and the att...