30something_reads's Reviews (820)

Fucking wow.

 I JUST NEED SOMEONE TO LOVE HADES BECAUSE HE DOES NOT DESERVE THIS 🥺💙

Also, Ares was the hilarious highlight of this volume:

Persephone: Hades is hotter than you.
Ares: "How can you say that to my face as I stand before you in my gray track pants!?" 

 DADDY MANSON.

I am deceased.

I absolutely lover Laroux's other series so I'm not exactly sure why I waited so long to read this??! A lapse of judgement on my part. This was so hot. The consent?? Immaculate.

I cannot wait to get into Losers now.

 Kinks/Fetishes within: erotic humiliation, fearplay, painplay, knifeplay, consensual non-consent (CNC), orgasm denial, boot worship, spanking, crying, blowjobs, clowns, group sexual activities, spit, bondage, public play, bloodplay. 

 The dead don't move. The dead don't move. The dead don't move... Except, sometimes when they do.

I just love how T. Kingfisher can write such an eerie story while still creating characters and situations that make me laugh out loud.

The Fall of the House of Usher meets The Last Of Us. 

 I didn't think I could love another couple more than Luz Alana and Evan but then this book proved me wrong 😭🩷

Manuela and Cora are everything. EVERYTHING!!

Full RTC 

3.75⭐ rounding up. It wasn't perfect but it was VERY sweet. 

The beginning felt a little clunky and heavy handed with the Grumpy/Sunshine characterizations of Finn and Naomi, but the story found it's stride after the first couple of chapters and the middle of the book is where these characters really shined.  I loved seeing the two of them fumble around with their developing relationship. And I ate this up from the 20%-80% mark but then the ending lagged a bit. But I will give it bonus points for being external drama rather than some kind of miscommunication between these two that drove the final act. 

What I loved most about this were the characters themselves. The representation was wonderful - bi FMC w dyslexia and anxiety. MMC in therapy and working on his mental health after his accident. (And not to mention all of the side characters.) This also felt super body positive and I love seeing a pear-shaped queen and an athlete love interest who isn't built like a Greek god.... refreshing. 

I'll absolutely read the next book and I'm really looking forward to seeing Lincoln and Henrick getting books hopefully???

DNF for now. I don't think I'm in the mood but may come back to it

😭😭😭 Holy shit. 

It's fine. I'm fine.

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Coming back to write this after I finished crying.

I did struggle through the first half of the book. It was a lot of her going into her family history with little breaks walking through her days in the facility. It wasn't until about the 50% mark, when she begins recounting her pregnancy, birth, and events leading up to her hospitalization that the story really came together. 

I realize now that her details regarding her childhood and family really informed her interactions with them during/after her hospitalization - specifically with her father and brother. So in hindsight, the first portion of the book makes sense. 

As someone who dealt with postpartum depression, a lot of the experiences and emotions that the author describes hit home in a really visceral way. It also really makes me angry thinking about the way the American healthcare system has little regard for postpartum care.  

This is a wonderful and heart wrenching read if you have the spoons. 

 This was such an achingly beautiful story and the fact that I have to wait until 2024 to know what happens next is a crime, Rebecca. 

Premise:
A carnivore, an herbivore, and a human walk into a room. Two of them are dino shifters. The room is an exhibitionist sex dungeon masquerading as a science museum. They do it a lot. The end. 

Thoughts:
You know when it’s 2am and you're lying in bed just rolling through the intrusive thoughts? That’s what this whole book is-  One giant intrusive thought. 

It wasn't the worst thing I've read though.