@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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26% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 8 of 30 books.
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
Jubilee has it all together. She's an elite cellist, and when she's not working in …
"I hate when you say shit like that. It makes me want to like wrap you up in bubble wrap and feed you soup"
— Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan (Page 234)
ah yes, totally normal
Jubilee has it all together. She's an elite cellist, and when she's not working in …
"Oh, so werewolves can't be hot? That's speciesist, Ridley. I'm disappointed."
— Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan (Page 74)
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.”
Nineteen-year-old Rhia Greenbrook has lived in the sleepy town of Oakriver in a house with …
- Do you believe in fate?
- I don't know, do you?
- Fuck, no.
- No? Then why practice divination?
- So that I know the future and can laugh in its stupid face when I change its course.
— Love and Other Wicked Things by Philline Harms (Page 186 - 187)
Nineteen-year-old Rhia Greenbrook has lived in the sleepy town of Oakriver in a house with …
"She has a thing for girls who could commit arson."
— Love and Other Wicked Things by Philline Harms (Page 168)
omfg same fkbdnffhnjpdsfecäpfsfzf
Nineteen-year-old Rhia Greenbrook has lived in the sleepy town of Oakriver in a house with …
"We could do... something else." "Like what?" "I, um." Quinn threw a glace in the direction of their bedside table. "It might be a weird idea. We don't have to do it if you don't want to." "Is this a sex thing?" "No, you rake, it's not a sex thing," Quinn sputtered. "And it concerns me that that's the first thing you thought of." "You asked me if I was up for something weird and then looked suggestively at your nightstand! How does that make me--" "Do you want to help me dye my hair?" Quinn said, raising their voice to speak over Valerie.
— Love and Other Wicked Things by Philline Harms (Page 116 - 117)
Ah yes, the thin line between sex and hair dying
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.
Nineteen-year-old Rhia Greenbrook has lived in the sleepy town of Oakriver in a house with …
"Hey, that's awesome!" Holly exclaimed. "That just doubled your dating pool! Now it's not just you and that one girl you kissed in middle school!"
— Love and Other Wicked Things by Philline Harms (Page 35)
In the City of Alante, the descendants of the Greek gods live alongside mortals.
Io …
[..]. as though a blueberry jam factory had exploded.
— Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou (Page 127)
first time i hear THAT figure :D
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.
