2013 Rainbow Book Awards

We want to congratulate ALL winners and runner-ups.  However please give a special shout-out to our Torquere/Prizm winners!!!

The link for all winners is:  http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org

Best LGBT Young Adult
2. Jere' M. Fishback - Tyler Buckspan

6. Huston Piner - My Life as a Myth

7. Laura Hughes - Don't Ask


Best B/T & LGBT Debut
2. Laura Hughes - Don't Ask


Best Gay Debut
9. Huston Piner - My Life as a Myth


Best LGBT Novel
3. Laura Hughes - Don't Ask

Review Round-Up May 11 - July 2013

Enjoy our latest Review Round-Up. As always if you have additional reviews we have not listed please send them to kristi@torquerepress.com or add them in the comment section.


Reviews by Jessewave

My Life as a Myth by Huston Piner 


Rarely Dusty Books

Monster Town by Dakota Chase 


Long and Short Reviews

Bittersweet by Dallas Coleman 
Shel's Moor by Jessica Ennis 



Goodreads Review by Jeff Erno

My Life as a Myth by Huston Piner 


Fallen Angel Reviews

Don't Ask by Laura Hughes 
Dreamcatcher by Iyana Jenna 

Don't Ask by Laura Hughes

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Don't Ask

$6.99

Cat and Mike have been best friends forever, but freshman year of high school finds them growing apart. Cat proudly flies her freak flag; Mike tries to fade into the background. Cat checks out the gay pride group; Mike joins the military club. It’s fall 2010, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is still in effect. Mike likes that -- he doesn’t want to ask or tell.

While Mike falls in love with the military club’s values of strength, honor, and courage, Cat falls in love with Calliope, an impossibly sophisticated sophomore girl. Her world is a roller coaster of grand gestures, romantic declarations, and messy, public drama. Mike is quieter with his feelings, but he’s finding it harder and harder to deny them -- especially his crush on the guitar-playing new boy. The safety of DADT is beginning to feel more like a burden. Mike believes in courage, but who is the brave one? Can these two best friends, more alike than they know, find their way back together?

by Laura Hughes
Pages: 200 / Words: 55500
ISBN: 978-1-61040-461-7
Genre: Contemporary, LGBT
Age Rating: Edgy Young Adult

Looking for a great coming of age story?

New Release - Don't Ask from Laura Hughes

New this Week from Prizm Books...

Don't Ask
By: Laura Hughes

200 pages / 55500 words
$6.99
Buy Link: http://www.prizmbooks.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=58
Blurb:
Cat and Mike have been best friends forever, but freshman year of high school finds them growing apart. Cat proudly flies her freak flag; Mike tries to fade into the background. Cat checks out the gay pride group; Mike joins the military club. It’s fall 2010, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is still in effect. Mike likes that -- he doesn’t want to ask or tell.
While Mike falls in love with the military club’s values of strength, honor, and courage, Cat falls in love with Calliope, an impossibly sophisticated sophomore girl. Her world is a roller coaster of grand gestures, romantic declarations, and messy, public drama. Mike is quieter with his feelings, but he’s finding it harder and harder to deny them -- especially his crush on the guitar-playing new boy. The safety of DADT is beginning to feel more like a burden. Mike believes in courage, but who is the brave one? Can these two best friends, more alike than they know, find their way back together?
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