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Enum & Valerie

enumeration@kirja.casa

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@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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Enum & Valerie's books

To Read (View all 21)

Tarquin Hall: Vish Puri ja nauruun kuolleen miehen tapaus (Hardcover, Finnish language, Gummerus)
Rachael Lippincott: Pride and Prejudice and the City (Paperback, 2023, Simon & Schuster, Limited)
Cedar McCloud: The Thread That Binds (EBook, 2021, Numinous Spirit Press)

Currently Reading (View all 6)

Taru Luojola: Ei kaikki pinnat kireällä (Finnish language, 2018)
Katharina Scholz: In Hinterräumen (german language, Querverlag)
Michael Dante DiMartino: Le Légende de Korra: 2. Les Ruines de l'Empire (GraphicNovel, Hachette)

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Natasha Ngan: Girls of storm and shadow (2019, JIMMY Patterson Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.)
Effie Calvin: The Queen of Rhodia (2019, NineStar Press)
Effie Calvin: The Empress of Xytae (Paperback, 2019, NineStar Press)

2025 Reading Goal

5% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 2 of 40 books.

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reviewed What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

Isabel Ibañez: What the River Knows (2023, St. Martin's Press) 3 stars

Bolivian-Argentiniantinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and …

What the River Knows

3 stars

I'm not really sure what to think of this. It's all so inconsequent. For context, this book plays in colonized Egypt, in the year 1884. And the two character alignments are: good archeologists who want to preserve everything and thus have to keep it secret so future Egyptians can learn about it - and the bad people who sell everything they get their hands on. So this is superficially anti-colonialist, yet all the relevant people are Englishmen, Frenchmen or Argentinians. Only two Egyptians in the book have names, and they're entirely replaceable, with no plot relevance and no agency.

And the "evil" side who's illegally trading artifacts is so flat, not even the motivations make sense (if it's money then why did Lourdes risk losing her giant fortune to Ricardo???)

quoted What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez

Isabel Ibañez: What the River Knows (2023, St. Martin's Press) 3 stars

Bolivian-Argentiniantinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and …

"I just can't believe you sailed all the way out here on your own [from Buenos Aires to Cairo] -" "Really, it was quite easy when I pretended to be you. I kept asking myself, what would Inez do in this situation?" Her lips pulled into a sly smile. "Turns out, quite a lot."

— What the River Knows by  (Page 335)

WWID (What Would Inez Do)

quoted Revenge Game by Jordyn Taylor

Jordyn Taylor: Revenge Game (Paperback, 2023, Random House Publishing Group) 5 stars

Alyson is a romantic, and sometimes it gets her into trouble. Like last summer, she …

She just had AP Macroeconomics in the building next door, and before that, Accounting. Her goal, she says, is to learn everything there is to know about capitalism so she can dismantle it someday. "The mansplaining," Jess replies, "is going to be the death of me."

[..]. "Gross domestic product", she answers. "Much like Mr Mansplainer himself"

— Revenge Game by  (Page 9)

reviewed Youngblood by Sasha Laurens

Sasha Laurens: Youngblood (2022, Penguin Young Readers Group) 5 stars

Two queer teen bloodsuckers attending an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all …

Vampire Politics for revolutionaries

5 stars

Great story in a well-engineered universe with so many little aspects. If you like gay communist vampire revolutionaries schemeing their ways to overthrow the conservative vampires elites, this book is for you.

commented on Youngblood by Sasha Laurens

Sasha Laurens: Youngblood (2022, Penguin Young Readers Group) 5 stars

Two queer teen bloodsuckers attending an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all …

One thing I love about this book is Taylor's and Evangeline's enemies-with-benefits relationship. Like hatefucking your bully and nemesis every week is a totally normal thing that people just do. And no, it's not an enemies-to-lovers plot.