There are many great and popular queer books, such as Heartstopper or Red, White & Royal Blue. But everyone’s been talking about it, and they also have cinematographic adaptations. Yet, these aren’t all queer books. In the depths of the ocean of books, lie many unknown and underrated queer books, mostly from indie authors, waiting to be read. And this is what the challenge is about!
Our Book Guild officially opened now with our first challenge! As it happens to be Pride Month, of course it will be about LGBTQIA+.
Theme: underrated queer book
Read and review anything – books, comics, mangas, graphic novels, poem collections, short stories, etc – that you think is underrated and maybe also unknown.
How to take part
- Write a review of an or multiple underrated queer books
- Post the review here on Pending Plays
- Add the tag BookGuildJune2024 to your post
Rules
- Read the book in June (a book of the same franchise you already know counts too, it just shouldn’t be from the same storyline/series)
- It should be publicly underrated/unknown, not just in your mind (i.e., your fav book has “only” 2000 ratings and you want it to be even popular, so you believe it’s underrated cause other books have 5000+ reviews. That doesn’t count, as 2000 ratings are not underrated/unknown).
- Timeframe to read and review: 1st to 30th June
Make sure to join our Discord and get the Book Guild role, to not miss out on any announcements or other info!
How to know whether something is underrated, when you’ve never read it?
- It could be a franchise you’ve been following for a while, so you know not many people know about it.
- Go to review sites (such as Goodreads or StoryGraph for example) and filter books by “fewest ratings/reviews”.
- Google the book. If there are only images that lead to shops, it’s likely that no one’s written a review for it yet.
- Ask in book communities, whether they’ve ever heard about the title.
Looking forward to your reviews!
~Arden Skye
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