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 ARC copy from the publisher via Edelweiss, thank you! Author: Sarah Harian Rating: 4/5 Genre: young adult, dark fantasy Goodreads / Amazon This book has been pitched as Suicide Squad meets Six of Crows and honestly? This is the most unfitting thing I’ve ever seen and sadly it made a lot of people go into the book with a false idea of what they’re going to get and end up disappointed.  Larkin is an Empath - a person with magic power that can catalyze emotions into destruction or creation. In the city, where she lives Empaths are marginalized and feared. They are used to mine a mineral that takes away their powers, they live in poverty and are demonized by every non-magic user. This is why Larkin isn’t surprised that after she steals from a shop, the Queen’s guards come to her doorstep and arrest her and her brother. However, it quickly turns out that there’s more to her arrest than...