Love Bytes 5 Year Celebration: Guestpost & Giveaway — Jess

One of our newest reviewers Jess is sharing her reviewers celebration post. We are so glad she joined our team with her love for all books especially f/f!

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Hey there, everyone! I think I’m the newest reviewer here on Love Bytes, so I was a little nervous trying to write this. I still feel like the new kid in class. But whenever I feel nervous about anything, I try to put it in writing, so I hope that works here today!

Let’s see. A little about myself. My name is Jess, I live in Minnesota, and I’m a 24-year-old graduate of creative writing and literature. While my SEO-writing job might not be the most glamorous creative option, it still allows me to write daily, which is great. I also work nights a few times a week at a gas station, so I meet a lot of interesting people while drinking a lot of free coffee. My hobbies include listening to podcasts, going on walks, taking way-too-long naps, and watching true crime shows. I also have a cat named Miss Fuzz who has no eyes. She might walk into stuff sometimes, but she walks into my heart every day! Sorry, that was an awful joke.

I can’t remember exactly when I started reading LGBT romance, but it was a layered journey. I’m a lesbian woman who enjoys LGBT works of all genres, not just lesfic and not just romance. I’d read a few Sarah Waters historical books before college and loved them, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex is one of my favorite books of all time. My first M/M book I read was Damon Suede’s Hot Head when I was in my first year of college. Two years later, when I’d come out to my friends and family, I read my first F/F book—Radclyffe’s Above All, Honor. These two books awakened things in my that I never thought even needed awakening. As a gay person, I’ll always feel closest with other gay people. I’ll always have an intimacy with them, an understanding, that I might not get with straight people. And these books allow me to have those little intimacies with hundreds of LGBT men and women every time I turn the page. It was like finding a special sort of family who understands and loves me for exactly who I am.

In 2018, I managed to carve myself out my perfect work schedule—four very long 12-hour days at two different jobs followed by three days completely to myself. This opened up my schedule to having plenty of time to do exactly what I love most—reading! Nothing makes me happier than settling down with a Starbucks and my Kindle to read the latest LGBT romance. Love Bytes has made this even more fun, because I can share with so many others which books made me laugh, cry, and cheer. I can share the way those books make me feel. And what’s better than that?

Thank you for reading this small part of my journey as a reader and reviewer. Love Bytes has been such a fun experience so far, and I hope to be with the blog for many years.

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