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Starting this, despite being the embodiment of a scaredy cat, because i heard words ‘butch’ and ‘packing’ sooo

God this cover is gorgeous, huge props to the design team behind this one!

Ok I’m loving this so far!

I’m really dragging my feet finishing this one, because I don’t want it to be over.

I can already feel the book hangover that’ll greet me when I run out of Anna Burke books to read.

SAPPHIC 👏🏻 PIRATES 👏🏻

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄✨🩷

Look, did I pick this one up because the cover art of Petra reminded me just enough of Vi from Arcane, with whom I have an utterly unbridled infatuation? Very much yes.
But can you really expect me to read the words “Sapphic Vampires” and not fall over myself to get a copy?
And as if that wasn’t enough to sway me, the blurb likens it to a queer melange of Mercy Thompson and Kate Daniels! Is this heaven?

My first Anna Burke; I’m really excited for this one!

I am finding this one tedious to be honest.

Gonna give this one a whirl! I’ve seen some really polarising reviews for this one, so it’ll be interesting to see where this ranks for me!

Ok, I think that I’m going to have to bite the bullet and call it. DNF @ 61%

Literally only a couple of pages in, and I’m immediately reminded at how good EK books are! There’s some indescribable quality (to me at least) that some writing has that just instantly pulls you in, as if by magic.

I can already sense the book hangover that’ll follow this one, but I’m excited as hell to dive into this!

Eh, this one really just isn’t clicking for me.. Might resume at some point?

Chapter 20

I’m a little confused as to why Tak has to commit to wearing Hope’s sarong in public? I understand that he can’t borrow Lakota’s clothes (for the reasons discussed in the book), but what about the clothes that he leant to Hope? What happened to them? Am I missing something?

Got very bored of this one very early on! Maybe I’ll rerun to it at some point, but the appeal of the first book was a little lot here!

I’m really struggling to stay interested in the Manon sections, I just feel no attachment there!

This book is annoying me. I think I’m just too dissimilar to the characters tbh

I love this book more than I think I can actually express. I don’t know what exactly it is about it that I connect with, but I love these characters, the setting, the pace, themes and plot just the perfect amount.

I have an unrivalled love of Dannika Dark, but the audiobook is hurting me and I’m only 2 minutes in😅

The narrator is nice overall, but the English accent is so bad 😭

“There’s a part of me that has found that if people are going to pick on you for being different, you can either work to blend in so you don’t get picked on any more. Or you can go the other way and be as different as you can be, just to show them you won’t be cowed against a wall forever”

Time for an Extraordinaries reread in celebration of the new release (and to get something in my hands that I know I love!)

I’m really not feeling this one. Theo isn’t very likeable, and I feel no connection to Lex either.

I sort of like the idea of incorporating the links to video performances! Unfortunately so far the result is that the book feels pretty disjointed, and I just end up with the the songs stuck in my head.

The only issue with having read the blog releases is that I’m now experiencing a weird sense of deja vu!

Going to start re-reading a bunch of faves from the past!

This one was pretty controversial in its prime, although not due to the book itself. My high opinion of FoL didn’t falter then, so it’ll be interesting to see if the same can be said 7 years later.

For the most part I am enjoying this one, but this ‘mouth raper’ joke wasn’t remotely funny to begin with, let alone the third time its brought up??

Chapter 13!

Every time I read one of these new chapters, I get so drawn into it and forget that it’s only. One chapter at a time😭

I’ve enjoyed this mostly, but that cliffhanger is annoying!

Damn these books always hit the spot!