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Cozy Queer 📚🦊

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This was the first omegaverse shifter story I read - and it was a very cute entry to that world. It has a nice length (21.000 words) to read in one evening.

Link to free short story in 🧵.

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Cover of the short story gaming fate by D.C. Emerson

November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

Oh wow.
The chemistry … just wow.

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Review, 2 alternate covers of the novel Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
rivals, opposites, attraction

November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

A sweet and cozy new adult romance for fall.

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Audiobook review
Cover of novel XOXO by Christina Lee and tropes

November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

October 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

October 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

There are some book challenges on instagram for people in Gaza - and I wanted to share this one here as well. If you want to help the cause (distributing 50 food parcels) you can check out the fundraiser here: chuffed.org/project/1499...

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11 queer romance books with a purple cover - full alt text in thread

October 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

I started the series - to finish “Heated Rivalry“ before the show airs 🤗
I get the hype now.

Books by @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social

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Chickpeas and spinach on sweet potatoes, eating this while reading: cover of game changer by Rachel Reid

October 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

This is how I want "why choose" novels to be written: You don't have to choose between people, because you can love more than one - and you can do it in a way so nobody feels less important. Nice and a little bit funny representation for polyamory in a very fairytal-y way.

October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

Ohh this queer fairytale retelling was fascinating!

"Once upon a time, a beautiful prince met seven little men." written by @kitbarrie.bsky.social

Whole (long 😅) review, content warnings and full alt text in 🧵.

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Cover of Snow White and the Seven little Miners by Kit Barrie with tropes and quotes - full alt text at end of thread

October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

October 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

This wonderful spicy novel about a high school reunion is released today!
great genderfluid, trans and androsexual representation ❤️
My first - and not last - book by @lincolnmercerbooks.bsky.social .

Review, alt text and content warnings in the 🧵.

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#queerBooks #TransBooks ]

Cover of Atlas and Miles by Lincoln Mercer. Recommendation - full alt text for all pictures at end of thread

October 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

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@robinjomargaret.bsky.social wrote a new interesting story!
A recommendation for a queer monster erotica & romance: “Fan Service“

Review, content notes and full alt text in 🧵.

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Recommendation for fan service by robin jo Margaret with tropes and representation - full alt text end of thread

“Rory… the porn actress Bryce had been obsessed with for a while now. The gorgeous plus-size woman with the wild, wavy green hair that reached just below her clavicles, and with all those adorable moles all over her face and body.”

“Two short horns stood on his head, and he had a small golden earring hanging on his left ear. Rory thought about those horns a lot in the following days, wondering how they would feel if she used them as handles to hold on to.”

September 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

A cute achillean, inclusive novella 🍂🍁
“Haunted Mediation“ by D.C. Emerson

Coming October 1st

Arc-review and full alt text in 🧵.

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Cover of the novella haunted mediation by D.C. Emerson, tropes, representation, full alt text at end of thread

"A fall harvest. That’s what he tasted like. A delicious combination of spice and oranges, and the turning of seasons. His hair felt like a cashmere sweater, and the warmth of his body under James’ was like drinking hot cocoa after playing in piles of leaves.”

"’But whatever has made you feel like this, and think like this…we’re gonna fucking fix it, okay?’"

Things I want to learn while reading cozy books:
"‘What’s a faefriend?‘ Leon asked quietly, keeping an eye on the teens in case they tried to make a break for it.
‘It’s like girlfriend or boyfriend but for nonbinary folk,’ James said.”

September 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

@emory-winters.bsky.social wrote a wonderful fairytale retelling: The Elves and the Shoemaker.

Arc-Review in 🧵.

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Tropes and representation for the book - full alt text in thread

"It doesn’t lessen what I feel for you. It’s just different, I think."

September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

fantasy
the long way to a small, angry planet by Becky Chambers (nr. 1 of a series of 4, space)
Mooncakes by Wendy Xu & Suzanne Walker (grafic novel)
Nixe: 14 days with a merman by TaMoé (comic on tapas, not completed, but I recommend it anyways)

romance I want to read:
Triple Sec by TJ Alexander
My best friend's honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
Pride and Prejudice and the City by Rachael Lippincott

romance I want to read:
Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake
Hani and Ishu's guid to Fake dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
If You Still Recognize Me by Cynthia So
Highly Suspicious and unfairly cute by Talia Hibbert

September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

September is Bi Visibility Month, Bi Visibility Week just happened - and today is Bi Visibility Day!
So let me show you some of my most favourite bi characters!

Which are your favourite bi characters / books?

Continued in 🧵!

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bi visibility day - September 23
15 romance novels with bi representation I enjoyed
all pictures have the background of green tree branches in front of a blue sky, starting with picture 2: book covers of the mentioned books and small notes

romance
Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
Brad & Finn by D.C. Emerson (part of a multi-author series)
Felix ever after by Kacen Callender
Take a hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

romance
Delilah Green doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake (nr. 1 in a series of 3)
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks (grafic novel)
You sould see me in a crown by Leah Johnson

fantasy:
Fire Spells Between Friends, Shade Spells Between Strangers by Sarah Wallace and S.O. Callahan (nr. 2 & nr. 3 of a queernormative series of 4)
Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace (nr. 1 of a queernormative series)
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (nr. 1 of a trilogy, same MCs)

September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

New cover for book 2 in the series: wishlists lead to this and tropes and representation

September 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

Look at this cute cover for the 3rd book in this queer series!
Today is cover reveal day 🎉
I‘m so looking forward to Zea‘s story.

By @kayworx.bsky.social

Full alt text in 🧵.

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Cover reveal: Cover for “a mutual connection“ by Kay Claire: 2 people in front of and behind a reception desk. The title is written like text messages.
Coming out 19 November
ARCs and preorders are open

Cover and tropes and representation in the book:
Online friends
Tattoo studio
T4T
e/em/er pronouns
Adhd rep
They/them pronouns
Pan4pan
Hidden identity

New cover for book 1 in the series: all roads lead to this and tropes and representation

September 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

“She seemed to know everything, except that they were the kind of forever friends that people wrote songs about.“

“Even tough Brad was on top and ostensibly the one in control, he sort of felt like begging for more right now. He wanted more mornings like this, […]. He wanted more opportunities to make Finn look just like this.“

September 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

A Recommendation for a high school reunion with a romance between a former football and cheerleading captains.

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Recommendation for a high school reunion
Book cover of brad & finn by dc emerson
former football & cheerleading captains
found family
“anything can happen when the past and present collide“
representation: adhd, trans male main character, queer platonic love, asexuality (side characters)
Flags: progressive pride flage with disability inclusion, trans, bi, gay, achillean

“Finn‘s eyes strayed down to Brad‘s mouth, and he could feel it almost like a caress. Brad licked his lips, chasing the sensation, and his stomach tightened as Finn bit his bottom lip. Moving slowly, Brad placed his hand on Finn‘s hip and pulled him in.“

Friends supporting each other in everything:
“‘Chloe-‘
‘You‘re probably dehydrated, too. You need to be hydrated for all the coming you‘ll be doing tonight.‘“

“‘Finn,‘ Brad groaned into his mouth.
The sound of Brad‘s honeyed voice saying his name, the name he‘d chosen-the one that represented everything he was and everything he hoped to become as a man-nearly undid him. […]
When was the last time kissing had gotten him going like this? He ground his hips against Brad experimentally and bit back a whine.“

September 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

Books featuring sports I liked:

She drives me crazy: basketball & cheerleading (sapphic)
Six times we almost kissed: swimming & canoeing (sapphic)
Letters to half moon street: boxing & horse riding (achillean)
Fella enchanted: horse riding & horse polo (achillean)

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Book cover she drives me crazy by Kelly Quindlen

Book cover six times we almost kissed (and one time we did) by Tess Sharpe

Book cover Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace

Book Cover Fella Enchanted by S.O. Callahan

August 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

Fat Liberation Month is an intersectional celebration of fat joy and fat visibility, including tools for fighting anti-fatness and inspiration for fat justice and freedom.

On my to be read list: blessed by the cupid distribution system, Cubs & Campfires

August 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Cozy Queer 📚🦊

@cozy-queer.bsky.social

some queer book recommendations for the plus size readathon

August is Fat Liberation Month.
It was created in 2021 by the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

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