@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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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
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!
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!
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 ».
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)
:-)
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
What is wrong with people, none of this makes sense
"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
Well. "Oops", as traiterous wirefuckers tend to say.
— Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 2)
Oops.
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
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)
@flannevelyn@bookrastinating.com it's fucking glorious!!!
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)
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?
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
Content warning death
Luckily, I've built up enough of a reputation that all of them know there's no point in dying anyway, since, if they did so without my permission, I'd march down to the twin hells and drag them back through the gates myself.
— Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 40)
And that's how you become immortal.
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
Dust in their hair, fire in their cheeks, draped over our common room's worn, moth-eaten furniture like they were kicked into place, at too-fucking-early o'clock, every single kid of my crew is a sight for sore eyes. And - unfortunately - I wouldn't be doing my job right if I weren't constantly sore. Nova, our driver, is settled on the splintering table, her tiny form balanced on her toes, legs tucked in her usual precarious perch. She's having popcorn for breakfast again, chucking the burnt pieces into the mousy fluff of Theo's hair. Neck lolled over the side of the fraying love seat, legs kicked over its puckering back, our marksman grumbles obscenities as he hunts for the wayward kernels. On the couch, Arsen lies either dead or asleep, limp and facedown in Juniper's lap. June's face is turned, cheek to the back cushion, a faraway look in her brown eyes as she twists the demolitionist's curls around scarred, hazel fingertips. Behind them, Xander hovers near the single window that allows entrance to only a sorry amount of light, face pressed far too close to the filthy glass, breath spreading clouds that match the ones outside.
— Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Page 27 - 28)
Average fedi polycule
