@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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83% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 25 of 30 books.
Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and …
“Nobody's straight on a European vacation.” “Sounds like you're speaking from experience,” I observe, picturing Kit picking up tourists at bars in Montmartre. “Historic precedent. They switch everyone to bisexual at passport control.”
— The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (Page 80)
Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and …
My favourite girl in England, so nice for kissing, but we could not be together. Allergic to garlic!
— The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (Page 20)
Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and …
Initiating slut mode.
— The Pairing by Casey McQuiston (Page -3)
Zwölf Jugendliche, drei Wochen allein auf einer einsamen Insel vor Rio de Janeiro - als …
Ich erinnere mich noch genau, wie ich dieses Buch früher im Sommer-Lese-Club der lokalen Bücherei verschlungen habe, und ich habs damals geliebt. Als ich es dann Ende letzten Jahres unter den aussortierten Büchern einer anderen Bücherei gesehen habe, musste ich es einfach mitnehmen, und nochmal lesen ♥
I like the characters, but the story itself is not really that good. A chosen one? The only one in the world? Looking for a magical sword? How creative. "Darker by Four", by the same author, was soo soo much better.
Jenny Lynton never planned to be an influencer. It just sort of...happened. When an unfortunate …
It's basically the most standard romance novel you can imagine, and there's not really any creative plot ideas.
When 'messy witch' Morgan Greenwood drunkenly offers to fake date her dream woman Rory Sandler …
“I'd probably end up convincing Hazel she was a tree or something.”
— This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin (Page 37)
Fluttershy is not a tree, Dashie!
In this action-packed finale to the House of the Dead Duology, Wren and her friends …
"Some girls are more into swords than boys," Mercy said sagely
— Ghostsmith by Nicki Pau Preto (House of the Dead, #2) (Page 418)
okay lesbian :*
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When …
This is a good book, for what it is. However, not much of it is really unique and mindfuckingly excellent. In fact, Casey McQuiston's other books, specifically One Last Stop and I Kissed Shara Wheeler, are full of such amazing ideas and moments, that Red, White & Royal Blue just cannot keep up. They've set the bar too high.
Then again, AFAIK, Red, White & Royal Blue is McQuiston's first book, so one could see this as evidence that they only get better and better.
"Conni und Paul sind verliebt!", tönt es durch die Klasse. Conni ist sauer. Sie ist …
und erinnert mich an ICE-Fahrten meiner Kindheit, damals noch mit den Unterhaltungssystemen. Auf einem der Kanäle lief Conni und der Liebesbrief als Hörbuch in Dauerschleife :D
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When …
Alex, First Son of Masturbatory Historical Readings,
The phrase "see attached bibliography" is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.
— Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Page 241)
See attached bibliography.
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?
When …
Or his senior year, when he got drunk and made out with Liam in his twin bed for an hour, and he didn't have a sexual crisis about it - that had to mean he was straight, right?
— Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Page 111)
a famously totally straight thing to do
... as always with Adiba Jaigirdar's books. I like her writing style and can consume book after book of hers.
However, I just really dislike mono people's obsession with "cheating" and the entire drama and demonization about it. I don't get it, really, not at all. Yup, some guys are absolute jerks, and I love stories where the girls just team up and date each other instead. But is Zak's bigest flaw really that he had some dates with someone else?
Also, since when is app coding the top notch discipline of science? And usually spyware is an instrument of shitty dudes, not against them.
June is the star pitcher of her elite club baseball team—with an ego to match—and …
Though I didn't really like the plot structure. In romance novels, I like extensive, well-engineered falling-in-love-montages, and this one didn't really have any. Instead, it's all about the first conflict, which isn't really that deep, and could've been solved within 10 minutes of just talking to each other. Honestly, why?
