@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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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.
The gym is Lizzie’s life—it’s her passion, her job, and the only place that’s ever …
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.
Die Lunte brennt - und das nicht nur auf ihrer Freizeit, die nach ein paar …
Nachwirkungen eines abgebrochenen Ferienlagers. Alle Charaktere sind super simpel gestrickt, aber der Zufall macht daraus trotzdem wieder unterhaltsame Wendungen. Und ich dachte, Novellen seien ausgestorben.
Josh Chester loves being a Hollywood bad boy, coasting on his good looks, his parties, …
Both Josh and Van really are good characters from Behind the Scenes that desperately needed their own stories. Whenever a romance story is told from two alternating points of view, you automatically assume they're the couple. You're in for a surprise then...
High school senior Ally Duncan's best friend may be the Vanessa Park - star of …
I am a bit disappointed how it all boiled down to "oops we didn't communicate" again. Same applies to "Cool for the summer" btw. None of Dahlia's books have a really elaborate creative plot, but they're still fun to read and hard to put to the side.