Queering Him

Rating: 2 stars, maybe 1.5. I have mixed feelings about this book. So I’m going to break my thoughts into positives and negatives. Let’s start with the positives. For a debut novel, this story is well written. The narrative is easy to follow, the language has a good flow, and I found it engaging thro......more

I will start with what I appreciated about this novel: for a debut author, Bogen has a pretty good ear for dialogue. With some notable exceptions, like when our heroine Avra turns into a queer studies lecturer, I thought the dialogue flowed naturally. Characters were given distinct enough voices tha......more

2 October 2025 2.5 stars This debut novel was a read I was really looking forward to as I follow Katherine Bogen on social media and find her entertaining. The book is entertaining but in the same way that unbelievably loud music is - you can’t tune it out so you just keep hoping it ends soon. Or a c......more

I feel conflicted about this book, because on the one hand it exceeded my expectations in some ways, but on the other hand I’m not sure I’d recommend it to anyone. Two caveats, the first is that I read this as an ARC from NetGalley. The second is that the reason I requested it from NetGalley (actual......more

Oh. My. God. I don't think this was written as a romance novel. It absolutely speaks into love and sex and longing, but more than anything it explores biphobia (internal and external), growing up queer, and the devastatingly confusing struggle of knowing who you are and what you want. Both Avra and Ki......more