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D!ckhead by K.A. Merikan
5.0
5⭐️ himbo x grumpy to the MAX | tropes: grumpy x sunshine, motorcycle club, bi-awakening | high steam | audio
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I enjoyed this book! I don't read many MC club romances, but the title and blurb really hooked me, and I'm so glad I decided to try it! Dex was insane but so hilarious and sincere in his absurdity that it was charming. I also found myself relating to him at times as someone with ADHD. Hammer was the grump of my dreams. He tried to resist Dex but I liked the build to their relations a lot and how deep of a connection they built emotionally. They understood each other in ways no one else did and that bond only grew as they dealt with outside forces.
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I enjoyed this book! I don't read many MC club romances, but the title and blurb really hooked me, and I'm so glad I decided to try it! Dex was insane but so hilarious and sincere in his absurdity that it was charming. I also found myself relating to him at times as someone with ADHD. Hammer was the grump of my dreams. He tried to resist Dex but I liked the build to their relations a lot and how deep of a connection they built emotionally. They understood each other in ways no one else did and that bond only grew as they dealt with outside forces.
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
5.0
Thank you to Tordotcompub / Tor Publishing Group for a chance to read an arc this book! 🖤
5⭐️ the inside is just as beautiful and fascinating as the cover! | tropes: sapphic novella, dragons + knights | digital
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I devoured this book in one day and feel like that's the best way to enjoy it. I loved how the prologue set the themes of the story up. I could see some people viewing it as heavy-handed but I feel like it made the story come full circle. The world-building was interesting. Even though it was a novella, I felt like the world and the side characters felt three-dimensional and fleshed out. I loved Yeva, like deeply. I think my own experiences growing up in predominately white spaces made me empathize with her from the jump. Yeva's blood from her Father being this tool that makes her a guildknight and therefore worthy while her mother's blood being what makes those around her cruel to her even as she tries to assimilate into their language and world. I really empathized with her desire to fit in and finally be accepted as her job as a guildknight becomes her whole identity. I feel like a pillar for nationalism is uniformity and she fell right into that. I loved seeing how her arrival to Quanboa changes her. Lady Sookhee was a different then I expected her to be in the best way. I thought she would be more secretive but she was so kind and allowed Yeva to break down her walls and be free to be a person. The climax and secrets revealed on this story were a little predicable but still made my heart race because I didn't truly know what Yeva was going to do and that's what made the story a real five star for me! I need to read more from Neon Yang! Their other novellas much be as queer and fun as this one!
5⭐️ the inside is just as beautiful and fascinating as the cover! | tropes: sapphic novella, dragons + knights | digital
Overall Thoughts 💭:
I devoured this book in one day and feel like that's the best way to enjoy it. I loved how the prologue set the themes of the story up. I could see some people viewing it as heavy-handed but I feel like it made the story come full circle. The world-building was interesting. Even though it was a novella, I felt like the world and the side characters felt three-dimensional and fleshed out. I loved Yeva, like deeply. I think my own experiences growing up in predominately white spaces made me empathize with her from the jump. Yeva's blood from her Father being this tool that makes her a guildknight and therefore worthy while her mother's blood being what makes those around her cruel to her even as she tries to assimilate into their language and world. I really empathized with her desire to fit in and finally be accepted as her job as a guildknight becomes her whole identity. I feel like a pillar for nationalism is uniformity and she fell right into that. I loved seeing how her arrival to Quanboa changes her. Lady Sookhee was a different then I expected her to be in the best way. I thought she would be more secretive but she was so kind and allowed Yeva to break down her walls and be free to be a person. The climax and secrets revealed on this story were a little predicable but still made my heart race because I didn't truly know what Yeva was going to do and that's what made the story a real five star for me! I need to read more from Neon Yang! Their other novellas much be as queer and fun as this one!
Good Deeds by Kathryn Moon
4.0
4⭐️ Women in stem or stem IN women? | tropes: heats, androids x alien, 5MF | high steam | audio
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This book was so much fun! Set in a sci-fi world on a pleasure planet engineer and pink alien Nötchka goes into heat after completing an assignment and has to strike a deal with a older android in order to escape ending up mated at another pleasure house. This turns into her fixing up the group of rag-tag androids house and their bodies while quickly falling head over heels for each of them. The world building was unique and so fun! I wish this was a series because I yearn for more of this world. I liked the little bit of plot sprinkled throughout the book and how that balanced with the multiple romances happening.