Gateway Reviews

DEADSTREAM Teresa doesn't leave the house much these days. Not since the accident. It's safer inside, where she can be in control. It's safer inside, where she doesn't have to let anyone get to close. Her closest friends now are those she's met online, those she's connected to via streaming, gaming, and online content-making. It's just safer that way. But one night, the safe bubble Teresa has built around herself bursts. While watching one of her favorite creators stream, she sees something she shouldn't, something she can't: a shadowy figure, looming just behind him. A shadowy figure that appears just before he dies, live on stream in front of thousands of viewers. Before she realizes what she's witnessed, Teresa has clipped this moment and posted it to her own channel. Suddenly, she finds her inbox flooded with notifications, and those notifications only grow as other streamers start going down, live...

PRIDE OR DIE Eleanora Finkel just wants to finish her senior year in peace. Establishing her legacy—i.e. securing the future of her Texas high school's LGBTQ+ club after her graduation—would be nice as well. But even just getting the bullies to back down would be a positive. So of course all of those plans are dashed when a club meeting inconveniently coincides with a vicious attack on the school's head cheerleader, making Eleanora and all of her friends prime suspects. With the future of her club in jeopardy and a would-be killer on the loose, Eleanora knows it's only right to track down who actually tried to kill Kenley. For everbody's safety. Especially for the safety of her friends and fellow LGBTQ+ Club members, who make such easy scapegoats. But nobody seems to want to help with the investigation. Nobody except for Kenley herself, the only one who seems to think the club is innocent... ...

I LOVE YOU S'MORE After a devastating (and very public) breakup, Ivy Raines can't wait to escape to camp for the summer. Theatre camp has always been her escape, ever since she was a kid, and heading back there now as a counsellor is a dream come true as well as the first step toward her dream of becoming a teacher. So of course her ex-best-friend Rynn is also a counsellor. And a counsellor that everybody already knows and loves. Probably more than they could ever love Ivy. Rynn is bossy. She's a know-it-all. And she broke off their friendship years ago without any second thoughts. And now she's vying to direct this year's end-of-summer musical production. Something that Ivy had her own eyes on. Being co-director with her super annoying, super cute ex-bestie isn't the summer Ivy had in mind. Especially not when the drama of her breakup seems to have made it all the way into these mountains as well. ...

THE SUMMER I ATE THE RICH Because it is always the people who have been victimized who are asked to consider their reaction to the harms done against them and never the other way around. Brielle Petitfour has a secret: she's a zombie. But not, like, the undead flesh-eating kind. Or at least not entirely. She's closer to the zonbie of her Haitian roots, made of dark magic and something more-than-human. Mostly, she's been a burden to her immigrant mother, who has had to remind her all her life to be more likable, more friendly, more human . Brielle has done her best to comply. When her chronically ill mother suddenly loses her job, Brielle knows she has to step up to earn some extra cash. Even if that means tapping into her latent zombie power. Even if that means using her culinary skill to serve the very people who have used and abused her mother and other poor immigrants like her. The rich elite of Miami are begging for unique flavors, and Brie...