Enum & Valerie reviewed Dragon Bike by Elly Blue
Dragon Bike
5 stars
So many amazing short stories! And they all had different ideas and interpretations of the two themes, and how to combine them. Loved every single one of them!
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Enum & Valerie quoted Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth
Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, …
"You want to have meaningful eye contact with me now?" "Sure." "Shouldn't it be, I dunno, more natural?" "You're OK with a list of dates and a prearranged breakup but we can't schedule meaningful eye contact?"
Enum & Valerie reviewed Friday I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett
Mahalia Harris wants... She wants a big Sweet Sixteen like her best friend, Naomi. She …
beautiful queer rom-com story without plot twists or overrated tropes
5 stars
I don't care if Monday's blue Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too Thursday I don't care about you It's Friday, I'm in love
Enum & Valerie reviewed Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces …
this book is so trans!
4 stars
This book actually consists of many little stories, and all of them are so trans, i feel seen. One of the stories is in the foreground, stretched over the entire book, while the others are told as anecdotes from the characters' past. I liked many things in the book. But it is a slow read, nothing to consume in one weekend.
Revenge is a dish best served on live TV.
Eighteen-year-old Maya's cheating ex Jordy is …
Douchebag gets dumped
5 stars
Very entertaining romcom story where two absolutely gorgeous women get to dump their constantly lying douchebag ex on public television, while head-over-heals falling for each other. The book kept me up all night and didn't let me sleep. Another plus: The author invented a conlang for this (Chalonian). Minus: It's not used very much, and probably it's not designed out that well.
Enum & Valerie reviewed This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
To break an ancient curse she must let her power bloom.
Briseis has a gift. …
Bri is so precious
4 stars
Queer black girl with two moms can do plant magic and poisons, falls in love with a beautiful 300-years old immortal while navigating her own insecurities about friendship and about her ancestors, while solving the riddle of her millenia-old family history tied deeply with Greek mythology and poison botanics? Yeah how to not love this.
One minus point for the scene where Alec can suddenly translate ancient greek from 400 BC on-the-fly but needs an "ancient phoneme table" for it. Honestly, if you have the skill to pull this off, you don't need a phoneme table. And if you need a phoneme table, you definitely don't have the skill to translate texts on-the-fly. (I'm just being pedantic here, it's a great read).