@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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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.
Nora O'Malley's been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets …
Entertaining thriller, where girls kiss girls, build bombs, and stab misogynist shitpieces.
Since a crushing breakup three years ago, Nina Rice has written romance, friends, and her …
It's nice and gay, but also a bit linear. There were no surprises at all. There was always the challenge of Nina's past relationship trauma, but this has been transparent from page 1, effects predictable. Though Nina's chosen family is really really great and I'm fucking jealous about it.
Bonus point for inventing an invisible cat.
Point deduction for this consistently weird attitude about alcohol. No, a meal doesn't make you sober, the body does need a few hours for that. And driving under the influence is not cool. And mixed consumption increases the effect.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Beautiful novella! A lot of it is very abstract, on purpose. Like, how unlikely is it that two agents from rivaling parties both name themselves after colours, Blue and Red? It doesn't matter. Neither do the specific missions. The war events. The time strands.
What does matter, are the letters they send each other. The Seeker following them everywhere, snorting teapots like cocaine. And how they lose and win the time war.
Bonus points for the writing method (the two authors wrote the letters to each other, one after another, and built the universe that way). Bonus points for wlw romance. Bonus points for singing Steven Universe songs while writing the book. Bonus points for posing with swords on the backcover photo.
Sloan and Cherry. Cherry and Sloan. They met only a few days before masked men …
What a fucking thriller! An ecofascist cult, a mass murder ritual, a loss of memory, and a damn unhealthy relationship. And never knowing what's true, what's speculation, and what is a gaslighting result. Really going to keep you up at night.
Saoirse Sorkova survives on secrets. As the last siren in her kingdom, she can sing …
A beautiful woman killing any creep who gropes her, and recharging her energy that way? Hell fucking yes, I'm so here for that. I also like a lot of the magic system in this world even though it doesn't seem balanced at all, and how the hell did the fae manage to seize all power in the first place??
Anyway. the problem is, this conspiracy plot doesn't make sense at all. It's needlessly complicated and could have been sooo much easier, faster, more effective and efficient, and more failsafe. It really didn't have to involve Saoirse at all. In German we say "hintenrum durch die Brust ins Auge" and I think that's really fitting here.
Moreover, the evil side's ethics, motivation, behaviour and plans are not consistent at all. Really, it's all just stitched together to enable this siren-and-prince-falling-in-love plot.
For fuck's sake though: Never fall in love with royals, …
A beautiful woman killing any creep who gropes her, and recharging her energy that way? Hell fucking yes, I'm so here for that. I also like a lot of the magic system in this world even though it doesn't seem balanced at all, and how the hell did the fae manage to seize all power in the first place??
Anyway. the problem is, this conspiracy plot doesn't make sense at all. It's needlessly complicated and could have been sooo much easier, faster, more effective and efficient, and more failsafe. It really didn't have to involve Saoirse at all. In German we say "hintenrum durch die Brust ins Auge" and I think that's really fitting here.
Moreover, the evil side's ethics, motivation, behaviour and plans are not consistent at all. Really, it's all just stitched together to enable this siren-and-prince-falling-in-love plot.
For fuck's sake though: Never fall in love with royals, they're all shitheads, no exceptions, none.
Content warnings for the book: genocide, lots of murder, torture, blackmail, slavery
Leah Burke girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier s best friend takes center …
Back when I read this I didn't realize it's a direct sequel to "Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda" rather than just existing in the same universe, and I guess mixing up the order really did spoiler me a lot. So, yup, don't do that - read Simon first, then this.
And yup, the tension between Leah and Abby goes way back and really needed to be addressed with its own backstory and future, they deserve it. However, once again, why the wizard school references everywhere??? Really ruins it.
Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. …
... not that hype-worthy? And why is it full of Harry Potter glorifications? I really do not want to see those in a queer book.
Oh there are so many things I loved in this one. First of all, this huge fucking scavenger hunt - Shara organized her disappearance so well, she must truly be a genius. All to distract her nemesis, Chloe, who's certainly not obsessed with Shara, but still can't stop trying to find her.
On and on they try to win the upper hand on who wins valedictorian and who makes whom obsessed with them, it's kind of kinky, but also just mean. They're assholes and they're angels. They're bitches and they're hell fucking amazing. They deserve each other.
But this is not just about Chloe and Shara. On this journey, you discover so many side characters, where you first think "probably a douchebag", but then this football quarterback turns out gay and non-binary, another one just loves kissing absolutely everybody but never thought about having a queer identity. Heck, they're all …
Oh there are so many things I loved in this one. First of all, this huge fucking scavenger hunt - Shara organized her disappearance so well, she must truly be a genius. All to distract her nemesis, Chloe, who's certainly not obsessed with Shara, but still can't stop trying to find her.
On and on they try to win the upper hand on who wins valedictorian and who makes whom obsessed with them, it's kind of kinky, but also just mean. They're assholes and they're angels. They're bitches and they're hell fucking amazing. They deserve each other.
But this is not just about Chloe and Shara. On this journey, you discover so many side characters, where you first think "probably a douchebag", but then this football quarterback turns out gay and non-binary, another one just loves kissing absolutely everybody but never thought about having a queer identity. Heck, they're all THE coolest.
Most of the things in this book, you really don't expect. But when they happen, you laugh "of fucking course!", because it's both funny and also exactly what the story needed. Literally half the book is quote-worthy. Definitely all of it is read-worthy. Top five Chloe moment.