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Probably the best book I’ll have read this year. Electric.

Late contender for best book I’ve read in 2025

That Laurent guy kinda sucks

“I will be very proud to be your husband.” 🙂🥲😭

Reid has brought back "ding-dong" as an insult. People should use the word "ding-dong" more.

I don't need Wyatt Hayes to be secretly bisexual, but I do need a book about him.

At some point I think these boys are going to have to talk about their feelings.

I hope Joel and Aaron make it and can keep banging the barn door...

I think I’m about to get to the barn door banging

Aaron's cousin Paul brings a "send a letter about your Henry the VII costume to your wife immediately after cheating on her" vibe to the party that graphologists don't really like.

So does everyone see that this is Obi-Wan/Anakin slash or is it just me?

This world needs a better class of criminal

This is (unintentionally) one of the funniest lines I’ve read all year: ”He really is treating me so gently for someone who has no qualms about hurting me. But I guess I hurt him, too, with the drugs and tasering and knifing.”

”My whole body buzzes. Like spurs stirring over my skin—“ Hey! That’s (almost) the name of the book!

The only person who could get me to read a cowboy romance is M.A. Wardell. So far, he’s cooked up some might tasty cake…

Drags a bit in the middle, maybe we didn't need *all* the monsters, but barreling to the conclusion in a fun/exciting way

Thoroughly charming so far

How this book has <100 reviews is BEYOND me. This is such a classic romcom setup done SO well. I’m just enchanted by these two guys so far.

So close. I’m so close to being done with this nausea-laden, black ink-spilled, over-possessive, passive- and active-agressive, repetitive, repetitious, over promised and under delivered, over long and underwhelmed, brick of lacklustery. God of hurry up and get it over with.

Last fifth of the book and the plot has totally escaped narrative, I couldn’t tell you what is supposed to be happening now.

The prompt in this box is “how is the book?” Not great, Jeffrey!

Halfway done and I’m likely it less and less. The notes and thoughts have spiraled to the point where I think I have to do a YT video about this. Why did I do this again?

At the rate I’m going, I will have between 300-400 notes on this book. I don’t know how I will possibly cram everything I have to say into a TikTok. If we’re all keeping score, “thicken” is a close runner up to “nausea” on the overused word scoreboard.