@vivavaleria@eldritch.cafe on the mammooth site. Reading mostly wlw rom-coms, with the occasional exceptions. I try to rotate languages, but it isn't really easy to find queer romance books in other languages than English. Reviews and comments usually in the same language as the book.
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Laylay und Zeeto reisen durch das Ödland auf der Suche nach einer Möglichkeit, Zeetos Leben …
Und so schön viel linke Kultur darin. Was ich weniger appreciate ist dass allen ernstes irgendsoeine Universal-KI die Rettung sein soll die mal eben alles löst. Come on...
Der Schauspieler Leo beginnt einen Job als Kleindarsteller in dem historischen Themenpark „Regency Park” und …
Pluspunkt allerdings für »sier« bei einem der Hauptcharaktere. Ansonsten liest es sich wie ein früher Entwurf zu einem Buch, das noch ein paarmal durch Lektorat und Revisionen gehen muss.
Imogen Scott has questions…
Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she’s got the World’s …
Okay, maybe not obviously. In fact, this is the first Albertalli book that I actually like. But it is amazing, and I've read it in just two days.
Oh, btw, from the beginning it looks like this is a cheap girl-stumbles-into-the-wrong-conversation-and-jumps-to-conclusions-and-throws-away-everything plot - don't worry, it's not. It's really not :3
I also loved all the references to other sapphic authors. Casey McQuiston is named explicitely many times, and Imogen has three copies of One Last Stop in her bookshelf. The teacher is called Ms Dugan. And the book is dedicated to Sophie Gonzales. I love stuff like this, it's so cute. It's what I usually read the Acknowledgements chapters for (which I love).
In Louviec, einem kleinen Ort in der Bretagne, gehen merkwürdige Dinge vor sich: Ein Wildhüter …
Reagan Forrester wants out - out of her trailer park, out of reach of her …
I'm bored. I have high opinions of Dahlia Adler and I loved many of her other books, so I really wasn't ready to be so bored :(
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the …
did not finish, it's just not my genre :(
Kat mixt erst die Drinks und anschließend die Männer. Als Barkeeperin ist die Nacht ihr …
Ich shippe heimlich schon Rafael und Jonas, die wären schon cute zusammen... Und das ganze Ruhrpott-Setting fühlt sich einfach gut an, genau wie Lydias humoristischer Schreibstil. Auch du verdienst alles unter dieser Sonne.
Upon meeting in a bar one night, Elsie and Jimmy are immediately attracted to each other, but there's a hitch—she's …
Emsy has always lived in sunny California, and she’d much rather spend her days surfing …
... and found family. It's not really deep though, and the witch categorization is pretty similar to the one in Isabel Sterling's novels (no surprise, given that the authors are friends).
When Garland Moore's husband gifts her divorce papers on Valentine's Day, it feels like she'll …
Cute bisexual lovestory. However, this is one of those books where the main arc passes pretty fast, but then there's still sooo many more chapters. So many more chapters that you begin to suspect a "person walks into wrong situation and jumps to conclusions" plot twist (which are the worst). Well that's not what happens, but still, at ~60% the plot is basically over.
A vengeful girl. A hollow boy. A missing god.
Rui has one goal in mind-honing …
This book is so full of cute absurdities, it's amazing. Hell's selection mechanism is AI driven? Homoerotic flirting between a human and a zombie? HELL YES! And even if the main romance arc is wlm, the entire book is so fucking gay.
This irresistible adult debut from beloved YA author Jennifer Dugan is a queer romcom for …
Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her …
What's frustrating to me, is that all of the time, different poems are mentioned, are their meanings referenced, but they're not printed. Also, the main character says some shitty racist stuff at some point (and gets punished for it), but doesn't really make up for it later.
2 sapphic lovers-to-enemies accompany their dying old teacher on his death trip and stumble upon loads of nudes of him. Also, they fall in love again.
In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …
To be clear: This book is quite often called a "retelling of Alice in Wonderland", but I don't really agree with that description. The book is full of references - for instance, you'll find an Alice (Icca's middle name), a Rabbit (Caro's last name), a Red Queen who asks for chopped-off heads, a Hattie (the Red Queen's first name), a Cheshire (the apothecary's last name), jabberwockies, and, of course, a Wonderland. And regular nonsense. But apart from that, Off With Their Heads has nothing to do with Lewis Carroll's classic.
It is quite fucked-up though, and confusing (probably on purpose). Fucked-up girls in a fucked-up world, lovers-to-mortal-enemies, siding with the Queen or against her. Slaying saints.
Oh right, that is a consistent Mikuta feature: Every one of her books is about killing religious entities. In Gearbreakers and sequel, the girls slay gods. In Off With Their Heads, they decapitate saints. …
To be clear: This book is quite often called a "retelling of Alice in Wonderland", but I don't really agree with that description. The book is full of references - for instance, you'll find an Alice (Icca's middle name), a Rabbit (Caro's last name), a Red Queen who asks for chopped-off heads, a Hattie (the Red Queen's first name), a Cheshire (the apothecary's last name), jabberwockies, and, of course, a Wonderland. And regular nonsense. But apart from that, Off With Their Heads has nothing to do with Lewis Carroll's classic.
It is quite fucked-up though, and confusing (probably on purpose). Fucked-up girls in a fucked-up world, lovers-to-mortal-enemies, siding with the Queen or against her. Slaying saints.
Oh right, that is a consistent Mikuta feature: Every one of her books is about killing religious entities. In Gearbreakers and sequel, the girls slay gods. In Off With Their Heads, they decapitate saints. I love that, can't wait for her next book. Whatever it is about, I'm sure some divinities are going to eat shit.
And is this a fucking throuple at the beginning?? A gay throuple as main characters?
Contra: Lots of violence against birds. Probably to demonstrate that the protagonists are horrible people, but I'm sure that message already comes across without torturing crows all the time.