Enum & Valerie reviewed Revenge Game by Jordyn Taylor
Alyson is a romantic, and sometimes it gets her into trouble. Like last summer, she …
Dickwads get wracked
5 stars
Dickwads get wracked, and there's kissing girls! CW: sexual assault
User Profile
@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.
This link opens in a pop-up window
Enum & Valerie's books
2025 Reading Goal
12% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 5 of 40 books.
User Activity
RSS feed Back
Enum & Valerie quoted Revenge Game by Jordyn Taylor
Alyson is a romantic, and sometimes it gets her into trouble. Like last summer, she …
He nods to the death trap. "Ever done it? It's super fun.
— Revenge Game by Jordyn Taylor (Page 162)
Enum & Valerie quoted Revenge Game by Jordyn Taylor
Alyson is a romantic, and sometimes it gets her into trouble. Like last summer, she …
She just had AP Macroeconomics in the building next door, and before that, Accounting. Her goal, she says, is to learn everything there is to know about capitalism so she can dismantle it someday. "The mansplaining," Jess replies, "is going to be the death of me."
[..]. "Gross domestic product", she answers. "Much like Mr Mansplainer himself"
— Revenge Game by Jordyn Taylor (Page 9)
Enum & Valerie reviewed Youngblood by Sasha Laurens
Two queer teen bloodsuckers attending an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all …
Vampire Politics for revolutionaries
5 stars
Great story in a well-engineered universe with so many little aspects. If you like gay communist vampire revolutionaries schemeing their ways to overthrow the conservative vampires elites, this book is for you.
Enum & Valerie commented on Youngblood by Sasha Laurens
Two queer teen bloodsuckers attending an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all …
One thing I love about this book is Taylor's and Evangeline's enemies-with-benefits relationship. Like hatefucking your bully and nemesis every week is a totally normal thing that people just do. And no, it's not an enemies-to-lovers plot.
Enum & Valerie quoted Youngblood by Sasha Laurens
Two queer teen bloodsuckers attending an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all …
This had knocked my socks off; I had no more socks left to knock.
— Youngblood by Sasha Laurens (Page 274)
Enum & Valerie quoted Youngblood by Sasha Laurens
Two queer teen bloodsuckers attending an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all …
Both our heads turned in time to see the swish of long hair as a girl ran across the residential quad and tackled someone to the ground with a hug. Giggles! Smiles! Girls being girls! "Imagine living with that," I said.
— Youngblood by Sasha Laurens (Page 26 - 27)
Sure, hugs and girls are sooooo bad
Enum & Valerie reviewed Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
Will Tavares is the dream summer fling—he’s fun, affectionate, kind—but just when Ollie thinks he’s …
Not bad
4 stars
... but it didn't really stand out either, you know? Or maybe I'm just too old for coming-of-age stories.
Will Tavares is the dream summer fling—he’s fun, affectionate, kind—but just when Ollie thinks he’s …
Content warning drugs
Me, gay, what? Nah, that's just a side effect of alcohol. Blurry vision, inability to walk straight, sudden insatiable desire to undress other girls. Wait, that doesn't happen to everyone? Weird.
— Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (Page 109)
At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but …
Wonderful slasher fiction
4 stars
A horror-movie recreation camp that turns out too real? Check. A weirdo cult that murders people as a sacrifice? Check. Alphabet mafia? Check.
Will Tavares is the dream summer fling—he’s fun, affectionate, kind—but just when Ollie thinks he’s …
Note to self: carry bass around everywhere and break into impromptu solo whenever anyone tries to force you into conversation. Foolproof.
— Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (Page 48)
Enum & Valerie reviewed Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake (Bright Falls, #3)
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. And she's happy for all of them, truly. …
What offense, sweet Beatrice?
5 stars
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?
Enum & Valerie quoted Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake (Bright Falls, #3)
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. And she's happy for all of them, truly. …
"Yeah, but now you've got an amazing start to your novel," Simon said, then spread his hands out like he was displaying a title. "Tegan McKee Doesn't Vomit."
— Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake (Bright Falls, #3) (Page 67)
I really hope this idea breaks the 4th wall and will actually be written. If AHB doesn't do it, will somebody at least write a fanfiction?
Enum & Valerie quoted Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake (Bright Falls, #3)
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. And she's happy for all of them, truly. …
"I'm Stevie. Shit. I mean, I'm Stefania." "Hi, Stevie-Shit-Stefania,", Iris said. "I'm Iris."
— Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake (Bright Falls, #3) (Page 52)
Enum & Valerie commented on Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake
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