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garbage_mcsmutly's Reviews (1.74k)
This was dual POV with two narrators, and they were both excellent.
3.5/5 There were a handful of explicit scenes.
There's a bit of class diversity in this book but no other diversity to speak of.
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Classism
Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Abortion, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Colonisation
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Biphobia, Drug use, Genocide, Miscarriage, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry
🎧 This story is told in first person POV (Zoe's). No POV switches between the MCs. I thought the narrator did a great job with the material.
🌶️ 3.5/5 There were several explicit encounters and the book definitely doesn't shy away from sex, but I wouldn't classify it as like, spice-forward.
🏳️🌈✊ Everyone in this story is queer lol. The ones that aren't queer are allies. There's also a decent amount of ethnic diversity in the side characters (although both MCs are cis and white).
Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Abandonment
Minor: Vomit, Outing
📚 This book delivered spice and angst, two of my favorite things! The angst is for real and all over the place in this book. But I wish I'd known going in that it's only the first part of a four book series. It just ended abruptly with nothing resolved and I wasn't expecting that.
🎧 The three narrators were all pretty good. The only issue I had with the narration is that Levi's accent varied a bit with each narrator (each of them was doing a slightly different southern drawl).
🌶️ 4/5 There weren't a ton of explicit scenes but the scenes that were on page were hot. And one of the scenes involves all three MCs.
🏳️🌈✊ One of the MMCs is bisexual. I don't think there's much (any?) ethnic or racial diversity in this book.
🎧 I switched from ebook to audiobook about 65% through the book, so I did get some exposure to the narrators, and they were both really good. Mary Jane Wells is always expressive perfection for me. And Will M Watt's voice was a delight.
🌶️ 3.75/5 The spice wasn't super frequent but it was pretty hot in the encounters that were on page. Fairly explicit.
🏳️🌈✊ Two of the most prominent side characters are Black. There's class difference (Belle comes from a well-off family, Ethan has nothing to his name). I don't recall any explicitly queer characters.
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Classism
Moderate: Cursing, Abandonment
Minor: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
🎧 Duet narration, even though the story is single POV (FMC's). And hoo boy, the Lukas voice 🥵
🌶️ 4/5 This was a spice-forward book but not like straight up erotica. The two MCs are kinky and they explore that on page in several scenes, since this is both of their first relationship with another kinkster. It's mainly power exchange (mdom/fsub) during sexytimes with some forcefulness, like advanced beginner level. No props or anything complex really.
✊🏳️🌈 There's casual mention of a queer character or two, and a couple mentions of POC. But mainly everyone seems pretty white and straight. The FMC is recovering from an injury, but she's fully physically recovered. She does deal with anxiety and PTSD from an abusive relationship in her past, and trauma from the time of the injury.
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content
Moderate: Bullying, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Terminal illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
🌶️ 3.25/5 There were a couple explicit scenes that were decently done.
🏳️🌈✊ Basically everyone in this book is queer. But other than that, not much diversity. Everyone is white and grew up in ballet culture which of course is quite privileged.
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment
Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abandonment
I appreciated the personal journeys both MCs had to undertake and the book was funny and thoughtful and a little bit thrilling at points.
🎧 This was dual POV but only one female narrator. But that narrator was Mary Jane Wells, so. Need I say more? 🙌
🌶️ 2.5/5 There's really only a couple spicy scenes, this is a pretty low heat book overall (but it does get explicit in those scenes).
🏳️🌈✊ There's very little diversity in this book. I guess there's the class difference of the FMC's middle class/aristocratic world versus the more humble working class world of the MMC. But no diversity in sexuality, ethnicity, etc. as far as I could tell.
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Classism
Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Colonisation
Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War