Reviews and Comments

Entertaining thriller, where girls kiss girls, build bombs, and stab misogynist shitpieces.

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.

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.

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.

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.

... 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.

It's really messed up, how in the US people can't study without a scholarship or a lifelong credit. For fuck's sake, build a better education system. Anyway, Liz really needs that Prom Queen scholarship. And heck, does she conquer that crown, despite being black and bi on a very white, very heteronormative school. Of course she also conquers a girl's heart in the process.

A lot of trauma processing happens here, and it's affecting P. & T. a lot. Some are coping in more healthy ways, others in less. But what I find fascinating is that everybody in this book has the most wonderful people in their back who're regularly dropping everything to be there for them. Well and after all it's a wlw romance and they both get the girl.

CN for the book: parental death, parental abuse, PTSD

von einem Kater und einem Raben, die es mit vereinten Kräften schaffen, einem bösen Laborzauberer und einer Geldhexe das Handwerk zu legen und dabei Frieden, Gesundheit und Wohlfahrt für die ganze Welt zu schaffen. Alle vier Hauptcharaktere wachsen einem dabei ans Herz, auch die beiden Bösen, sodass ihr Schicksal fast schon traurig ist. Der Humor ist 1a und wholesome, gerne wieder.

Kindheitserinnerungen \o/ Damals lief das immer als Fernsehserie auf Kika, und die Titelmelodie war so catchy, ich warte noch darauf dass das wer fürn Popsong klaut :D

It's been a while since I read this book, but every time I see it on the shelf, I still think about it. And I think this is a sign of quality. Of course, it features a wlw romance plot, and yes, the girls do get each other.

It's still not a light-hearted fun story. Main char gets evicted from her home. People are killed. People commit actions they really damn regret. “She's a girl on the edge”, heck yes she is.

Content warnings before you start reading: homicide, stalking, parental abuse

... be prepared to make a checklist, because The Falling in Love Montage is full of references to all of them! Some explicit, some not, but certainly all on purpose. And I love the humour, and specifically Saoirse's "mortal enemies" - Oliver the Sex God who always misses his own parties; Beth the Evil Queen who steals Saoirse's father's heart (and mine); and Super Barbara, with her emergency sewing toolbelt, and her heroic entrance with smoke and background music.

Well, on the other hand, it's not entirely light-hearted: the other big topic in the book is early-onset dementia - both in family members, but also in the main chars own future. A topic to be confronted.

Somehow the coolest people in this book are the ones the main character hates 🧐 Girl, get a grip and choose the right friends!