Enum & Valerie quoted The Kill Club by Wendy Heard
»Ich würde zu gern bei dir an der Kasse stehen und so tun, als wäre ich eine Kundin aus der Hölle. Nach Grünkohlchips fragen.«
— The Kill Club by Wendy Heard (Page 176)
Die Hölle!
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Enum & Valerie reviewed Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler
Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home …
Multi-track drifting
4 stars
This is a funny concept: The chapters play in two parallel timelines - one where Natalya stays in New York, and one where she goes to Los Angeles for the summer. The subtitle is "There's more than one path to happily ever after", and that's exactly what the book represents. However, both timelines are a little too straightforward, and seen individually, they wouldn't make an interesting story. It really is this multi-timeline-drifting approach that makes it an entertaining book.
Enum & Valerie quoted Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler
Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home …
I can't believe you have art of Coven here. [...] dark fantasy graphic novels [...]
— Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (Page 189)
Jennifer Dugan reference spotted!! Now that I've found this, and the one to Miel Moreland, I wonder how many more book references I've missed so far :o
Enum & Valerie quoted Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler
Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home …
Then, when everything went on hiatus during Covid [...]
— Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (Page 165)
I think this is the first time I see Covid-19 mentioned in a fiction book! I'm so surprised that I opened a new list. Feel free to add more books to it!
Enum & Valerie quoted Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler
Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home …
She points to a door covered with an autographed poster from the Moonlight Overthrow reunion show [...]
— Going Bicoastal by Dahlia Adler (Page 167)
Confirmed: This plays in the same universe as "It goes like this" by Miel Moreland. Wow!
Enum & Valerie reviewed Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
« Okay. So. I have been incredibly mean to my characters. »
3 stars
This is a sentence from the Acknowledgements, and I'm glad she acknowledges it. Because, twin hells, you have been incredibly mean to your characters. And that made the book really hard to enjoy, unlike its predecessor, even if it's written in the same spirit. In Eris's words: « Absolutely rot ».
Enum & Valerie quoted Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Nova untangles from her, green eyes looking back, hair a blond tangle on the rug fibers, and says, the first thing she has spoken in weeks: “I want one.” [a tattoo] June turns to bury her smile in Arsen's shoulder. Theo buries his in Arsen's other one. Eris smiles, too, a tender thing. “A gear, love?” “No,” Nova says seriously. “I want a smiley face. On my face.” Silence. Nova blinks up at us, waiting. “Metal,” Nyla breathes from the floor.
— Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 271)
:-)
Enum & Valerie quoted Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Content warning sui
"[...] Do you want to die?" "Only the normal amount."
— Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 82)
Captain, the normal amount is zero
Enum & Valerie reviewed Solitaire by Alice Oseman
Alle bekloppt
2 stars
What is wrong with people, none of this makes sense
Enum & Valerie quoted Solitaire by Alice Oseman
"What, do you think I'm depressed or something?"
— Solitaire by Alice Oseman (Page 264)
Giiiirl, this entire book is about your depression and we're on page 264 for fuck's sake
Enum & Valerie quoted Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Well. "Oops", as traiterous wirefuckers tend to say.
— Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 2)
Oops.
Enum & Valerie reviewed Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
Fuckin' great
5 stars
Well, if you haven't guessed yet, this book is themed around piloted mecha suits. This is so not my theme. But it's also a rom-com, so who cares.
I really liked the writing style, hence all the quotes! I can't even imagine how much time and effort the author must have spent on each paragraph, to chose the exactly right words and effects, each page like a poem. I also liked how the gearbreakers seem and act like one big polycule.
And a plus point for all the parallels to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power! (it literally starts with Sona fighting against automatic training bots, on Hord..err..Godolia territory, which she then turns against)
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@flannevelyn@bookrastinating.com it's fucking glorious!!!
Enum & Valerie quoted Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
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)
Enum & Valerie quoted Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
Wanna be an inconvenience with me?
— Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 195)
Is this their sick equivalent of a wedding proposal?