Comfybere
I always enjoy enemies to lovers. It was good. Adorable together. Vibe was like an excellent fanfiction.
I adore Henry and Ivo. Loved everything about this. Ivo’s art room is just the best. The push and pull and uncertainty was just right.
I accidentally read book two of their series first. Oops. Time to read book one as a flashback now 🤣
✨the cover is pretty✨
Sci-fi/fantasy with political intrigue in a smallish colony of ex-earth people. It was enjoyable, I'll read the next one.
I like how everyone's personal grief and pain was handled. It wasn't compared. It just belonged to each person. Maybe each year I'll heal a little bit too. Loving people hurts but it's also really good.
Edited after the story sat in my head for a few days.
I don't like how the thing with his brother was handled at the end. His best friend just went through a traumatizing experience and now you come in here and tell him your brother is in jail for murdering a transwomen?? Like that could have been you, that could have been your best friend...the reaction seems not right. Then they are all just smiling and putting up his pictures again. Wtf.
This is the first audio book I've listened to. I should have started listening to books a long time ago. Really enjoyed it. I like Ron Butler's voice a lot.
Listening is so much more intense.
Really enjoyed the story. Want to read more by this author.
Complex history, long term mutual pining, character growth, finally communicating properly
The first half of this book Rafe is me. I've never seen such an accurate depiction of my own sexuality before. The second half, not so much. I'm not into being touched as much as Rafe is after getting into the relationship. Close but not exactly it. Still the closest I've ever seen before. It's so weird to think that of the hundreds and hundreds of books I've read nothing else has come close to what I experience.
I loved the ending. I was crying so hard but it was how it should be. When Beloved threw himself desperately towards Fitz and onto the stone Nighteyes I completely lost it. I love them all so much.
I love how the endings of her books always feel more like beginnings.
Non-binary regency MC's, yes ✨ this one in the series was more introspective with fashion and society than travel and adventure.
I really wish I could read casually instead of devouring books in one day like a starved goblin. This book was Perfection. World building 100%, Characters 100%, weird and interesting stuff 100%
Will I read this again? Hell yea! Buying the hardbacks as we speak. Also some extra book display stands. I need more shelf space.
Damn it... it's an ongoing series and the second book leaves you hanging on the edge of a massive cliff
I was looking for rom-com and got angsty pining and childhood trauma again...but I still read it in less than a day...fuck
Adorable, adorable, adorable! I'm on a three adorable books in a row streak, yay for me! ✨✨✨
Like a Georgette Heyer. There is a specific one that I'm thinking of but I can't remember the name of it. Chasing runaways through the English countryside and accidentally falling in love with your curricle companion, but with more butts. It was funny
The magic system felt very authentic. It effected the whole book world as an established part of their society just like it's supposed to. I've read a lot of magic systems that felt like they are sort of patched into the world but this one is
Highly recommended! I am second guessing my ratings on most of the books I read recently because this one was sooooooo good!! I want to give it more starsssss ✨
I do have a strong SFF bias though. The world building was excellent. It felt established and complex. I also kind of have a thing for bureaucracy. It creates a good structure to work around or work through/against. I want to see more in this universe. Space worlds like this give so many options for more stories. I'm jealous and want to write about other planets too.
I have to say, I am biased. You've Got Mail is my number one favorite movie✨✨. Hell, I was literally watching it in the hospital when I was giving birth to my kid. This book not only has You've Got Mail quotes and homages, bouquet of sharpened pencils anyone, but is almost like a remake in and of itself. I went into it with no idea and was squealing from excitement!
Also, whenever I get surprised by an ace spectrum character figuring stuff out it always leaves me crying. If I had received a better sex education when I was younger would I have understood my self quicker? How different would my life be now without years and years of thinking I was broken.
That epilogue was such a beautiful ending. I just want to read that last paragraph over and over again.
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It must be so hard to live with ptsd. One wrong trigger and you are trapped in the worst memories of your life. I mean I have generalized anxiety and panic attacks but at least I'm not trapped inside a memory, reliving it.