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Nevada by Imogen Binnie
4.0
i have really mixed feelings about this book-the characters are pretty unbearable, not much happens and why are we so casually talking about heroin???? but i also really loved it, for most of the same reasons (except the heroin thing). this book simultaneously puts transness at the center of the story and de-centers it by not making it a coming of age finding yourself transition story. binnie touches on this in the afterword, which i found particularly insightful and appreciated the context it added to the story!
An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
4.0
"But then I got what I wanted, and now I don't know what to want. I've always known what I wanted, Laura, I'm positively made of wanting. It's strange, to be sure of so little."
A sapphic dark academic's wet dream, a story dripping with gothic prose, pretentious poetry, and gay vampire s*x. This was my first foray in to S.T. Gibson's work, and I was hesitant at first. That feeling was quickly dashed away as the characters pulled me in to their dark, pretentious world. The language is almost too heavy with metaphor and flourish but it lends itself to sinking you right in to the setting.
Also!!!! one of the main characters is FAT!!!!!! and is still an object of affection and literally no one talks about her weight except herself and even then the mentions aren't full on self-loathing. like i was already really sold on the gay vampire sex but that detail pushed it over the edge for me. all in all this is a dark, dirty little romp of a book that pulls you in, deep. thank you to orbit books for the ARC of this seductive, sanguine story!
A sapphic dark academic's wet dream, a story dripping with gothic prose, pretentious poetry, and gay vampire s*x. This was my first foray in to S.T. Gibson's work, and I was hesitant at first. That feeling was quickly dashed away as the characters pulled me in to their dark, pretentious world. The language is almost too heavy with metaphor and flourish but it lends itself to sinking you right in to the setting.
Also!!!! one of the main characters is FAT!!!!!! and is still an object of affection and literally no one talks about her weight except herself and even then the mentions aren't full on self-loathing. like i was already really sold on the gay vampire sex but that detail pushed it over the edge for me. all in all this is a dark, dirty little romp of a book that pulls you in, deep. thank you to orbit books for the ARC of this seductive, sanguine story!