@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.
This book is so full of cute absurdities, it's amazing. Hell's selection mechanism is AI driven? Homoerotic flirting between a human and a zombie? HELL YES! And even if the main romance arc is wlm, the entire book is so fucking gay.
This book is so full of cute absurdities, it's amazing. Hell's selection mechanism is AI driven? Homoerotic flirting between a human and a zombie? HELL YES!
And even if the main romance arc is wlm, the entire book is so fucking gay.
Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her …
cute but not outstanding
3 stars
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.
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.
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."
In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …
This is fucked up
4 stars
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 …
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
