Non Fiction

Review: Saint Unshamed: A Gay Mormon’s Life by Kerry Ashton

May 1, 2019 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Saint Unshamed: A Gay Mormon’s Life depicts playwright and actor Kerry Ashton’s painful, tumultuous, and empowering journey to physical, spiritual ,and emotional truth and healing, and living life...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Jovan's Reviews, Non Fiction
TAGGED: conversion therapy, Kerry Ashton, Lynn Wolf Enterprises, memoir, Mormon, rape, religion, suicidal thoughts, suicide

Review: You Always Change the Love of Your Life (For Another Love or Another Life) by Amalia Andrade

Jan 17, 2019 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Everyone has a bad breakup now and again. In You Always Change the Love of your Life (For Another Love or Another Life), author Amalia Andrade guides readers through the stages of love lost. Unlike...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Camille's Reviews, Non Fiction
TAGGED: Amalia Andrade, Penguin Books

Review: Ripe by Alan Semrow

Nov 29, 2018 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Anthology This collection of micro essays chronicles the flings, romances, and loves of author Alan Semrow. The essays are formed like impromptu letters to the narrator’s former lovers. Each one has a...

FILED UNDER: 4.25 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Non Fiction
TAGGED: Alan Semrow, epistolary, friends to lovers, lovers reunited, memoir

Review: Raised by Unicorns: Stories by People with LGBTQ+ Parents, edited by Frank Lowe

Jul 31, 2018 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Anthology Raised by Unicorns is a collection of essays written by people who were raised in LGBTQ+ families. There are fourteen essays altogether; the youngest contributor is 15 years old and the oldest is...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Non Fiction
TAGGED: Cleis Press, Frank Lowe

Review: Tinderbox by Robert Fieseler

Jun 12, 2018 | 2 comments

Rating: 5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel One Sunday, a patron of the UpStairs Lounge at the corner of Chartres and Iberville streets in New Orleans was ejected for getting into a fight with another customer. Before he was tossed out, no less...

FILED UNDER: 5 stars, Camille's Reviews, Historical, Non Fiction
TAGGED: homophobia, law enforcement, Liveright publishing, Robert Fieseler, W.W. Norton & Company

Review: My Horrible Gay Dating Life by Dimitrius Jones

Feb 5, 2018 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella There is a lot to be desired about Dimitrius Jones’ love life. The man he thought he’d finally be able to start building a future with is married, with children. That, however, is just the latest...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Non Fiction
TAGGED: autobiography, cheating, coming of age, Dimitrius Jones, self published

Review: Queen Called Bitch by Waldell Abraham Goode

Sep 15, 2017 | 30 comments

Rating: 2.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Recounting a sometimes tumultuous, sometimes confusing adolescence, Goode explores the turns his life has taken and how they have shaped his him. His journey focuses on the angst-filled teenage...

FILED UNDER: 2.5 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Non Fiction
TAGGED: child abuse, gender queer, NineStar Press, Reading Challenge Month 2017, Waldell Abraham Goode

Review: The PrEP Diaries: A Safe(r) Sex Memoir by Evan J. Peterson

Jun 16, 2017 | 2 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Evan J. Peterson’s journey of sexual discovery started out more or less as an unmitigated disaster. Growing up in the thick of the AIDS pandemic, there was so much stigma attached to gay men, it would...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Camille's Reviews, Contemporary, Non Fiction
TAGGED: Evan J. Peterson, Lethe Press, memoir, non-binary, sexual abuse