@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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Will Tavares is the dream summer fling—he’s fun, affectionate, kind—but just when Ollie thinks he’s …
... but it didn't really stand out either, you know? Or maybe I'm just too old for coming-of-age stories.
At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but …
A horror-movie recreation camp that turns out too real? Check. A weirdo cult that murders people as a sacrifice? Check. Alphabet mafia? Check.
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. And she's happy for all of them, truly. …
Everybody who's read 'Delilah Green Doesn't Care' or 'Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail' already knows that Iris Kelly is an absolute goddess. If you haven't read those, do that first, it's a trilogy.
Now imagine our beloved Iris in a goddamn Fake Dating plot! Yes okay, I see, the Fake Dating trope is quite common these days and it's always the same predictable main arc, but I love well-written Fake Dating stories, so let me enjoy this treat. And it is really WELL MADE.
AHB just doesn't disappoint, this book is entertaining and full of well working side arcs. Turns and twists that feel "just right", instead of easy choices. Mostly.
What I cannot really stomach is Iris moving to New York. For fuck's sake, Ms Blake, you moved Delilah from NY to Bright Falls and into the friends group just to move Iris away from them two books later?? How …
Everybody who's read 'Delilah Green Doesn't Care' or 'Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail' already knows that Iris Kelly is an absolute goddess. If you haven't read those, do that first, it's a trilogy.
Now imagine our beloved Iris in a goddamn Fake Dating plot! Yes okay, I see, the Fake Dating trope is quite common these days and it's always the same predictable main arc, but I love well-written Fake Dating stories, so let me enjoy this treat. And it is really WELL MADE.
AHB just doesn't disappoint, this book is entertaining and full of well working side arcs. Turns and twists that feel "just right", instead of easy choices. Mostly.
What I cannot really stomach is Iris moving to New York. For fuck's sake, Ms Blake, you moved Delilah from NY to Bright Falls and into the friends group just to move Iris away from them two books later?? How cruel is that D: And how in hell has Delilah become so soft that Astrid - Astrid! - is often more rad than her these days?
it's so sweet when authors reference each other in their book dedications
Ashley H. Blake in "Iris Kelly": "For Meryl and Brooke" Meryl Wilsner in "Cleat Cute": "For Ashley, and so"
Coincidence? I don't think so
A prophecy poisoned. A queendom at stake. A magic vial of tears holds their fates. …
All of this is some multi-layerey power play (which I like) with kissing girls (which I also like). But then again, most of it is about spirituality, prophesies, and birthright (which I don't like).
Un homme d'affaires douteux projette de transformer le portail spirituel, situé au cœur de la …
Allons-y, pour le première fois j'essaye de lire un livre en français D:
Margot Cooper doesn't do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so …
There were a handful of entertaining moments, but mostly it's just the old, overrated and overused trope where both girls think "too bad she just want's casual" instead of just talking to each other. Apart from all the petit-bourgeois stuff about weddings. Oh and apparently it's the third part of a trilogy, but the summary and backcover don't indicate that. What the fuck.
Just remembered this banger scene, where the characters fly from the US to Turkey on a private plane, but take an immediate stop in France for ... CUSTOMS!?!?
Sure, French customs totally cares about what you carry between two totally unrelated countries. Ms Bayron, have you ever been outside the US?
Margot Cooper doesn't do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so …
The cat is called Cat. Do I even have to comment on that?? Though I think I did once read a book where the cat was called Hund....
Annalie jobbt in den Ferien in der örtlichen Eisdiele und wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als …
Die Geschichte dreht sich vollständig um ein rassistisches Graffiti, und wie verschiedene davon betroffene oder nicht betroffene Menschen damit umgehen. Wie unterschiedlich die einzelnen Auswirkungen auf den Alltag sind. Und schließlich wiedergefundener Schwesternliebe.
Jubilee has it all together. She's an elite cellist, and when she's not working in …
Oh well, let's pour all the mental health challenges and daddy issues into a mixer and watch it all explode
In the dominions, the dead linger, violent and unpredictable, unless a bonesmith severs the ghost …
What a joy to read! Wren's job is fighting ghosts, but after some useless goldsmith prince is kidnapped she goes further and commands literal zombies, while driving some ironsmith knight to madness. Spooky warrior-girl romcom galore.
Nineteen-year-old Rhia Greenbrook has lived in the sleepy town of Oakriver in a house with …
It's obvious Philline Harms poured so much love into this book. All those little situations that do nothing for the plot but are nice to read. Of course I also enjoyed one of the main characters carrying my name.
However, it's kind of a slow burner (pun intended). All of the plot happens on the last 150 pages, after 200 pages of meet-cute.
Nineteen-year-old Rhia Greenbrook has lived in the sleepy town of Oakriver in a house with …
Content warning very far into the story
Valerie: burns down her girlfriends greenhouse, then almost burns the entire town, almost killing everybody Quinn: “Fuck you, Valerie”, they said into Valerie's shoulder. “Great art project you made there. Ten out of ten.”
In the City of Alante, the descendants of the Greek gods live alongside mortals.
Io …
Such wise rules, but they all break them sometimes, and look what the fucking bloody results are. There's bloodshed, magic based on several mythologies, queers of many genders, an ACAB worldview, and did I mention the zombies? I loved it, all of it.