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[Writer Resources] Review Sites

Here is a linked list of book reviewers in our genre. This list is not a duplicate of the list Dreamspinner Press uses, but is meant as a guide for authors and readers to find reviews and reviewers.

If you know of a book reviewer not listed, please leave a comment. If you have positive comments that would help an author decide the best reviewer to submit to, please leave a comment. Examples would be, “XYZ reviewer prefers paranormal romance set in South America.”

3 AM Book Reviews
A Bear on Books [Tom Webb]
A Passage to Now [Alan Chin]
All About Romance
Amos Lassen @ Reviews by Amos Lassen
Attention is Arbitrary
Babbling About Books and More
Bay Area Reporter [Jim Provenzano]
Bending the Bookshelf
Between the Covers
Bitten by Books
Blackraven Reviews
Bodice Ripper Reviews
Book Reviews & More by Kathy
Book Wenches
Booked Up Reviews – Archive Only – Moved to Confessions of Romaholics
Books a la Mode
Books Complete Me
Boys in Our Books
Boys on the Brink – Gay YA and New Adult Fiction
Brief Encounters Reviews
Coffeetime Romance and More
Confessions of Romaholics
Crystal’s Many Reviews
Dark Diva Reviews
DforDarla’s Definite Reads
Dreaming in Books
Echo Magazine [Bob Lind]
Edge on the Net
Elisa Rolle – My Reviews and Rambling
Fallen Angel Reviews
Forbidden Book Reviews
Fresh Fiction
Frock Magazine
GayListBookReviews
Gayrotic Reviews
GLBT Bookshelf
Good Choice Reading
Guilty Indulgence Book Club
Guilty Pleasure Book Reviews
Hearts on Fire Reviews
Joyfully Jay
Joyfully Reviewed
Kit Moss Reviews Books
Lambda Literary [Drewey Wayne Gunn]
Literary Nook
Literary Nymphs
Live Your Life, Buy the Book
Long and Short Reviews
Love Romances and More
Manic Readers
Miz Love Loves Books
MM Good Book Reviews
Mrs Condit Reads
Mrs. Giggles
My Fiction Nook
Naughty in the Backseat – Archive Only
Night Owl Reviews
Novelspot
Obsidian Bookshelf
On Top Down Under Book Reviews
Out in Print [Jerry Wheeler]
Out Magazine
Outlaw Reviews
Pants Off Reviews
Paranormal Romance Guild [Gloria Lakritz]
Philadelphia Gay News
Rainbow Book Reviews
Randy’s Book Bag
Rarely Dusty Books
Red Hot Books
Reviews by Jessewave
Rikki’s Teleidoscope
Rogue Librarian’s reading list
Romance After Dark
Romance in the Backseat – Archive Only
Romance Junkies
Romancing the Book
Sensual Reads
Series & TV
Shh Moms Reading
Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews
Smexy Books
Smitten with Reading
So I Read This Book…
Speak Its Name
Supernatural Snark
The Armchair Reader
The Black Dog Reads
The Blog of Sid Love
The Book Vixen
The Bookaholic Cat
The Bookpushers
The LL’s Word
The Novel Approach
The Outer View
The Romance Reviews
The Romance Studio
Three Dollar Bill – Archive Only
Top-2-Bottom Reviews
Twilb Reviews
Twinsie Talk – Book Review
Two Lips Reviews
Under the Covers Book Blog
USA Today
Wayward Things
Whipped Cream Reviews – Archive Only – Merged with Long and Short Reviews
Wilde Oats
World of Diversity Fiction Reviews
YAM
You Gotta Read

If you find a broken link, closed site or other technical issues, leave a comment, and I’ll update the list as quickly as possible.

Published in Writer Resources

12 Comments

  1. Anyone know if any of these lean toward fantasy?

  2. Hi, Andi,
    Almost all of them will accept fantasy. There are a few the specialize in paranormal, but that isn't an exact fit. I threw out the question on Twitter. I'll let you know what I find out and will mark the list above accordingly.
    Elizabeth

  3. For what my opinion is worth, I give props to Long and Short Book Reviews, Gaylistbookreviews, and Fallen Angel Reviews because they were willing to read a book that did not fit the norm of Harmony Ink releases or even gay-themed releases (i.e. the m/m romance isn't the main plot.) Kudos also to Reviews by Jessewave and The Novel Approach for agreeing to read my "different" book after I personally asked. The only other site I requested a review from that responded positively was Boys on the Brink (Jamie Deacon), which I didn't see listed here. He graciously agreed to check out my book and he writes very thoughtful reviews. You might want to add that one to your list. As to the others, so far as I know they never even considered reviewing my book and thus I have no personal knowledge regarding them. Hope this helps.

  4. I forgot to mention Amos Lassen – sorry Amos! He was actually the first to review my book – another chance taker, so if your book differs from the norm, check him out for a review.

  5. E.E. Ottoman replied, "Cole over at the Armchair Reader reads and reviews a lot of m/m fantasy but hasn't been doing a lot of reviews lately."

  6. TTG TTG

    There's a new m/m book blog that launched this month, manned by a group of GoodReads readers.

    Boys in Our Books: http://boysinourbooks.com/

    They have a crew of reviewers, so have a wide range of tastes, from contemporary to mystery to fantasy to dystopia/sci-fi to f/f. (Their "About us" is here for what they each read: http://boysinourbooks.com/about/)

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