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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
easy to read and a lighthearted gay historical romance that was a nice distraction from finals but in no way a good piece of literature.
also why did the make kit like dr. house. he's rugged and needs a cane to walk due to an debilitating injury in his right leg? and he's like bisexual and in love with a younger man. house
rob entered the book and literally a page later i correctly guessed he was the rightful heir. it was just simple and i'm probably not going to read the sequel.
kill the rich and have gay sex.
also why did the make kit like dr. house. he's rugged and needs a cane to walk due to an debilitating injury in his right leg? and he's like bisexual and in love with a younger man. house
kill the rich and have gay sex.
I really enjoyed this one. I can’t wait to do book two.
eat the goddamn rich nom nom nom
in the wake of grief and an injury from a job gone from, kit webb has left his life of thievery behind for dreary days in a coffee shop. but when percy, better know as lord holland, recruits him for a heist against percy’s own father, who is kit to deny him?
it’s cat sebastian’s world; i’m signing a lease and getting ready to live in it.
for the longest time, cat sebastian’s novels have existed on my tbr. a new book gets added to that never ending list every couple months. but for some reason, i never got round to them.
until i did. i think we could be so good fundamentally changed the way i look at love. i'm still trying to find the words for it. but what i know is this: i could read her words all day and get drunk on them—they go down smooth like top shelf whiskey.
this novel is a lot of things: grumpy x sunshine, enemies-to-lovers adjacent, a knife to the throat, hand over the heart. there’s unabashed flirting meets awkward pining and something about that contrast is so fucking funny.
it’s be gay do crimes, perfect for the spite-fuelled gremlin in me. so for cat sebastian to say with her whole chest, “eat the rich! no gods no masters!”? that’s so incredibly sexy. good for her!
but also, this book hits right at the intersection of queerness meets grief meets disability while still being incredibly tender—every single thing i care about.
kit uses a walking stick and you witness his journey from feeling like a shell of a person to someone whole, the way he’s always been. he’s still kit, just with a bad leg. again, a reclamation. and for percy to quietly observe and learn what he needs, thoughtfulness in unobtrusive ways and never making a big deal out of it.
in a time where heavier books fall onto my lap (it’s fine i’m Fine), it feels so warm and cleansing to reach for this. the wit, the banter. buckets of fun, sunshine through the clouds. i had a smile permanently on my face while which, well, what more could i ask for?
i am also an aspec kit webb truther & no one can convince me otherwise thank u
“i used to think that revenge was about defending one’s honor, but it turns out that honor is just spite dressed up for sunday.”
in the wake of grief and an injury from a job gone from, kit webb has left his life of thievery behind for dreary days in a coffee shop. but when percy, better know as lord holland, recruits him for a heist against percy’s own father, who is kit to deny him?
it’s cat sebastian’s world; i’m signing a lease and getting ready to live in it.
for the longest time, cat sebastian’s novels have existed on my tbr. a new book gets added to that never ending list every couple months. but for some reason, i never got round to them.
until i did. i think we could be so good fundamentally changed the way i look at love. i'm still trying to find the words for it. but what i know is this: i could read her words all day and get drunk on them—they go down smooth like top shelf whiskey.
this novel is a lot of things: grumpy x sunshine, enemies-to-lovers adjacent, a knife to the throat, hand over the heart. there’s unabashed flirting meets awkward pining and something about that contrast is so fucking funny.
it’s be gay do crimes, perfect for the spite-fuelled gremlin in me. so for cat sebastian to say with her whole chest, “eat the rich! no gods no masters!”? that’s so incredibly sexy. good for her!
but also, this book hits right at the intersection of queerness meets grief meets disability while still being incredibly tender—every single thing i care about.
kit uses a walking stick and you witness his journey from feeling like a shell of a person to someone whole, the way he’s always been. he’s still kit, just with a bad leg. again, a reclamation. and for percy to quietly observe and learn what he needs, thoughtfulness in unobtrusive ways and never making a big deal out of it.
in a time where heavier books fall onto my lap (it’s fine i’m Fine), it feels so warm and cleansing to reach for this. the wit, the banter. buckets of fun, sunshine through the clouds. i had a smile permanently on my face while which, well, what more could i ask for?
i am also an aspec kit webb truther & no one can convince me otherwise thank u
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
wholesome love story about a royal and a criminal
It pains me to rate a Cat Sebastian book this low, but I had high hopes that were very let down.
1) I am completely out of patience with m/m romances that conveniently fridge the wife of one of the heroes - look, instant tragically motivating backstory plus he's now available to fall for the other hero! (At least Sebastian doesn't use the dead wife to prove either the character's bisexuality or gayness, which makes it only slightly less terrible.)
2) I wanted more of a heist book! The pacing of this book is all over the place and there is very little actual heist-ing, which I found highly disappointing. (This lack is probably related to #3...)
3) This doesn't actually feel like Kit and Percy's story? From very early on I was much more interested in what was going on with Marion, and as the book goes on it became very apparent that the most compelling parts of the story don't have much to do with Kit and Percy. This feels like it could have been a shortened prequel to a more interesting book, or even just a side thread in that other novel. (I'll probably be reading the next book in the series just to find out if it's going to be more like the book I was hoping this would be.)
1) I am completely out of patience with m/m romances that conveniently fridge the wife of one of the heroes - look, instant tragically motivating backstory plus he's now available to fall for the other hero! (At least Sebastian doesn't use the dead wife to prove either the character's bisexuality or gayness, which makes it only slightly less terrible.)
2) I wanted more of a heist book! The pacing of this book is all over the place and there is very little actual heist-ing, which I found highly disappointing. (This lack is probably related to #3...)
3) This doesn't actually feel like Kit and Percy's story? From very early on I was much more interested in what was going on with Marion, and as the book goes on it became very apparent that the most compelling parts of the story don't have much to do with Kit and Percy. This feels like it could have been a shortened prequel to a more interesting book, or even just a side thread in that other novel. (I'll probably be reading the next book in the series just to find out if it's going to be more like the book I was hoping this would be.)
I’ve got to say, I really, really liked this book. it was really well-written, the story appealing and the characters incredibly loveable. I was hooked from start to finish, and I’m left wanting more ❤️
This was really cute! I like both Kit and Percy a lot, I feel like I got a really good sense of them and who they are from this, I'm excited to see if a little bit of their happy lives factor into the sequel that just came out that I have absolutely already purchased. Their banter was perfection at times, a little offputting at others, but all in all they were great fun. There were so many little ways they expressed choosing each other throughout the book, and every one of them hit my heart just a little. The anti-landlord anti-aristocracy messaging was unexpected but fit so well into the story, I hadn't thought to get Kit's entire life's history but it made him so compelling. I liked the side characters, though I feel like I would've hated Marian if I hadn't known she was getting her own sequel lmao she was so guarded and we left it not knowing a damn thing about her. Same with Rob. But the other side characters, namely Collins and Betty, they ate, I love them. They can be the subjects of the third book just because I want to see what that would look like glkjhfglsd but yeah! A really good gentle read, I might need to find more of her back catalog down the line.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated