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I desperately want at least one 5-star read this month so I'm pulling out the big guns, my hopes are SO HIGH (and of course I'm already hopelessly in love with both James and Sydney)! ❤️❤️

"I had expected to meet with a group of young gentlemen tonight - scholars and philosophers, peers - but I find myself in a darkened library with a pack of boys playing at grave self-importance."
"I'm sorry, ma'am," Evind said, then sucked a breath through his teeth, as if he hadn't meant to say it.

DAMN girl, I might actually start to like Marta 😏 go and destroy those egos!

😮‍💨 I'm already sorry in advance to everyone who loved this. I promise to not be too harsh 🙈💔

Nothing like queer urban fantasy to get me out of the obsessive AO3 rabbit hole - AND with a book dedicated to Nora freaking Sakavic? Looks like we have a winner ❤️

Oh my god Gu Fei 😭😭 That boy is tearing my heart to pieces right now 😭

...okay but that 13-pages long sex scene between a trans guy and a merman with two cocks? 👁👄👁
...delicious 😳🤌🤌🔥 (and yes I don't say things like that often)

Well, it's safe to say that the characters certainly mirror their originals - Henry is just as insufferable and manipulative, Dorian just as naive and easy to manipulate, and Basil the most likeable and sensible out of the three of them 🙈

"Did it happen to a girl you know?"
Geno looked up, screaming inside, Why a girl? Why do you assume a girl? Think it can't happen to a guy? Think a guy can't be drugged and raped? Any of you got brothers? Do you worry about them?

And this is why this book is not only gut-wrenching and beautiful, but also a goddamn important read 💔💔

Please hear me, he thought.
I want this feeling I have with him.
I want to husband this feeling.
When I talk to Jav, I feel honest. I feel authentic. I feel myself and I see so clearly who I want to be and the life I want to lead. And the kind of person I want to have with me on the ride. A curator and sailor.
A person who makes me feel like this.

❤️❤️😭

Page 26, and I'm already sick to my stomach with dread and anxiety, bravo 🥲 I now have a new name to add to those that are going to give me rage flashbacks forever (first is Drake from AFTG, that should tell you something...)

The writing is impeccable, the atmosphere gripping, the world-building fascinating - I'm loving everything about it 😳
Everything but the love story part because I genuinely do not like Antoine, the love interest, and I'm still trying to find my way to Sebastian, our MC. Which means barely any emotional involvement on my side 🥺

"My whole depression was fucking embarrassing to me."
"What do you mean, embarrassing?"
"I mean Val was the one in the city that day but I'm the one having a breakdown? It made no sense. I had no war story. I'm safe, my family is safe, thousands of people are far worse off from this tragedy. What the hell is going on that all of a sudden, I can't get out of bed in the mornings?"

☝️☝️☝️

...I knew from the blurb that 9/11 would be involved somehow, but it was still brutal 💔💔💔

Javi has my entire heart already so I'm pretty sure I won't survive this book intact 😭😭😭

Am I ready for more emotional damage? Probably not, but this book has been on my mind since finishing The Great Dane, and nothing else is truly keeping my attention. So...here we go 😳❤️

Am I enjoying myself? Yes.
Am I liking the characters?? Yes.
AM I HERE FOR ALL THE CATS??? Why of course 🐈🐈🐈

I'm sorry to say in advance to everyone who loved this (looking mainly at dear @Drache) but I've been bored for the last twenty percent 😭 poor Morgan needs therapy and support system first, and poor Noah deserves not to fight so hard just to be with someone who barely gives him an inch 🙈

THE INN SCENE holy shit 🫠😩💀😍😳🤌🤌 I'm getting feral, there's no way back from this. Me AND Damen 😏

Liko went to the cemetery, but neither meditated on memories, nor had a heart-to-heart chat with the gravestone. He managed, "Hey, kid," then crouched on his heels and hung his cheekbones over his thumbs, fingers at his hairline. He didn't weep, didn't speak, didn't move. Barely thinking, he balanced, [...] and breathed through the fire in his throat and the break in his heart.
💔💔

First rodeo baby lessgooo 👀👑

It was the Great Dane and the peace of the Danelaw. It barreled into me and I forgot where and who I was. I was knocked down, but I only knew peace. I've known nothing to compare with it in all the pleasure that stirs my life.
And I will go to war for your peace.
It is not lost on Danelaw Strong that the very first love letter of his life is sent by a boy.
❤️🥺

I feel good, he thought, squeezing the steering wheel to help press the emotion into his memory.
You feel good. You're here. Right here, right now. Feeling good. Looking forward to something. Kicking an opportunity around. You can do this. You can have a life and mourn your son.
It's allowed.
❤️💔

...oh this book is special 🥹 Please let it stay that way 🥹

I feel like if PN mystery romance won't cure my reading slump, nothing will, so fingers crossed! 🤞🥺

Oooh another parental figure I can hate on! Nice 🫩😤

I can't focus on anything but the fact that the author is probably confusing a therapist with a psychiatrist, the term is being kinda interchanged. Is it the country difference? Is a psychiatrist the same as a therapist in the USA?

How are these boys so damn mature AND so hilarious in such a juvenile way?? Love the contrast ❤️

Cameron's expression softens like warming chocolate. "Hey, water boy."
"Mm?"
"Who hurt you?"

...ummm, dear Woody, wouldn't it be more efficient to simply crack my ribcage, pull my heart out, and stomp on it? Just asking 🥲🥲

...I swear to all that's unholy if Jude doesn't make it out, I'll fucking lose it 🙈🙈 Someone just take him away 😭😭

Okay guys but WHERE is my grovelling?? Ryan sure as hell deserves one from Lars, come on, don't leave me hanging 😩
Despite the slight dip in my attention around the 50-60 percent, it's been a while since I've been this locked in a book 😳