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I am not having fun, i will have the head of everyone who said it was so good

I love the narration, that's what I mean when I say I want a strong voice in romance

It's a boring read but it will get bonus points for exploiting the sapphic content of Les Liaisons Dangereuses as I've been waiting for someone to do

Years of beta readers raving about this book would have you believe that it is well-written. Unfortunately...

I did not see that coming and now I'm crying

"His slanted handwriting pressed hard into the paper, blocky and masculine. The right margins of most pages had blue ink in a feminine script."

oh no. oh no. let's not do that.

Making the bratty love interest a hard-core swiftie is a weird move because I think it's meant to be endearing but instead I'll add it to all the negative parts of her personality

Holy plot twist

This book is very good dykey communist material but also the prose is taking me forever to read

CROUS REFERENCE?!? Okay I believe it's set in France

open door for the m/f couple and close door for the f/nbi couple this is transphobia

iktanara flashback truly giving what the people want

an entire paragraph on why baru cormorant is so great that's so me-coded

me? reading two sapphic books with a she/they lead in the same month? It's more likely than you think

We are speedrunning essentialism please tell me it's a satire

before anyone says anything this is both a sociological study of cishet romances and also we lack queer pregnancy romances

this is so good, the voice is so strong

Not a l'Origine du monde cameo after the lesbian sex scene 😭😭

sorry for being cliché, the oyster scene was hot

On page nonbinary lesbian love interest !?

Was that one-off joke about lesbians not liking dick necessary

I can't tell if it's aggressively not for me, cringe or if the characters are really annoying

Reading dark butchfemme romance in the lab 🫢

8th? 9th? reread. 2nd audiobook read. let's go lesbians let's go

At such moments—breathless, ransacked by tenderness—I could hardly look at him: I was afraid of showing him too much of my love, which wasn’t only love but also something like a rotten peach eaten alive by its own sweetness. What had begun as infatuation had grown too ripe, so that even though its surface was pinkly soft already the flesh had moldered. I had an inner life so luxurious and no sense of moderation;

I am sorry but I called that twist very early into the book

Kellen Graves proving to everyone that you can write a main character with multiple pronouns (he/they) without pointing it out to the reader and it's not confusing

I assume it's a worldbuilding oversight, but dividing nonbinary people by birth assignments and not having the transmasc and transfem monasteries have more contact (shown) is a bit weird. I don't know, trans people have a lot to learn from each others so I would have loved to see that

How long do I have to wait for something to happen