@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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12% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 5 of 40 books.
The gym is Lizzie’s life—it’s her passion, her job, and the only place that’s ever …
Cara boops me on the nose
— Love at First Set by Jennifer Dugan (Page 221)
Suddenly the nose boops are everywhere!?
A vengeful girl. A hollow boy. A missing god.
Rui has one goal in mind-honing …
‘Oh no,’ she thought, listening to the beat of his heart, ‘this is nice.’
— Darker by Four by June CL Tan (Page 245)
Oh no, this is nice.
A vengeful girl. A hollow boy. A missing god.
Rui has one goal in mind-honing …
He grinned crookedly, tapping her nose lightly with his finger. “Boop!”
— Darker by Four by June CL Tan (Page 189)
Wait, an actual fucking NOSE BOOP?? I can't remember having seen that in a book, ever.
The gym is Lizzie’s life—it’s her passion, her job, and the only place that’s ever …
“And [the newly dumped groom] is like so chill. He was teaching me all about Bitcoin last night!”
— Love at First Set by Jennifer Dugan (Page 64)
Run girl, run!
Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her …
What's frustrating to me, is that all of the time, different poems are mentioned, are their meanings referenced, but they're not printed. Also, the main character says some shitty racist stuff at some point (and gets punished for it), but doesn't really make up for it later.
2 sapphic lovers-to-enemies accompany their dying old teacher on his death trip and stumble upon loads of nudes of him. Also, they fall in love again.
"How do I look, girls?" "Like a man with a fully functioning cock," Logan answers.
— Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (Page 211)
"You girls want some Tuesdays with Morrie advice?", Joe says when they're all back in the car. "Here it is. Take more nudes while you're young."
— Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (Page 178)
Enum & Valerie
boosted
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
The paperbook book Eris was reading sits abandoned, overturned on its pages, spine comfortably cracked. A line of tape borders the edge of the cover flap. I look at her. "Did you paste over a different cover?" Juniper flits by, arms in the air. "Eris likes us to pretend I'm the only one who reads the romance novels." "You can laugh," Eris says, blushing. "But I'm holding the future of your skin hostage." [with a tattoo needle and ink] I crane my neck to peek at the book again. "Romantic." "Dangerous." "Dramatic."
— Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 246 - 247)
Fur babies welcome, but all humans must be on a leash.
— Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (Page 139)
In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …
To be clear: This book is quite often called a "retelling of Alice in Wonderland", but I don't really agree with that description. The book is full of references - for instance, you'll find an Alice (Icca's middle name), a Rabbit (Caro's last name), a Red Queen who asks for chopped-off heads, a Hattie (the Red Queen's first name), a Cheshire (the apothecary's last name), jabberwockies, and, of course, a Wonderland. And regular nonsense. But apart from that, Off With Their Heads has nothing to do with Lewis Carroll's classic.
It is quite fucked-up though, and confusing (probably on purpose). Fucked-up girls in a fucked-up world, lovers-to-mortal-enemies, siding with the Queen or against her. Slaying saints.
Oh right, that is a consistent Mikuta feature: Every one of her books is about killing religious entities. In Gearbreakers and sequel, the girls slay gods. In Off With Their Heads, they decapitate saints. …
To be clear: This book is quite often called a "retelling of Alice in Wonderland", but I don't really agree with that description. The book is full of references - for instance, you'll find an Alice (Icca's middle name), a Rabbit (Caro's last name), a Red Queen who asks for chopped-off heads, a Hattie (the Red Queen's first name), a Cheshire (the apothecary's last name), jabberwockies, and, of course, a Wonderland. And regular nonsense. But apart from that, Off With Their Heads has nothing to do with Lewis Carroll's classic.
It is quite fucked-up though, and confusing (probably on purpose). Fucked-up girls in a fucked-up world, lovers-to-mortal-enemies, siding with the Queen or against her. Slaying saints.
Oh right, that is a consistent Mikuta feature: Every one of her books is about killing religious entities. In Gearbreakers and sequel, the girls slay gods. In Off With Their Heads, they decapitate saints. I love that, can't wait for her next book. Whatever it is about, I'm sure some divinities are going to eat shit.
And is this a fucking throuple at the beginning?? A gay throuple as main characters?
Contra: Lots of violence against birds. Probably to demonstrate that the protagonists are horrible people, but I'm sure that message already comes across without torturing crows all the time.
In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …
Chapter starts Icca was Oh. A grave mistake has been made, dearest readers. Humor me, again, again, allow an embarrassed and grinning narrator to start this chapter over. Chapter starts anew
— Off with Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 977)
Embarrassed and grinning, huh?
The kiss felt like math, like variables and equations spilling out in front of her, and if she kept kissing Logan, eventually she would understand what they all added up to.
— Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun (Page 95)
... is this positive or negative????
In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …
Icca didn't say anything. [...] That was fine, Carousel waited. She considered speaking to Hattie's furniture, but she didn't want to startle the tea table or the candle holders with her queries, since she was almost sure Hattie never spoke to them at all.
— Off with Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 328)
Das kannste auch dem Ochsen auf der Fleischbrücke erzählen. (aber vielleicht überseh ich hier auch die kinky Lesart, in der es sich um Human Furniture handelt??)
In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …
But truly, dear readers, if by this point in the story you are still seeking comfort, enough so that you are picturing our darling, gruesome champions engaged in habits so domestic and casual as the pursuit of higher education, even toting around a god such as Carnage, then a concerned narrator must ask after you - are you very much all right?
— Off with Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 255)
certainly not, thanks for asking though
