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Graphic: Chronic illness
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse
- I love absolutely everything about SECOND CHANCES IN NEW PORT STEPHEN. Queer exploration and discovery! Second chances! Funny and serious! Older main characters!
- I loved that Eli and Nick are almost 40 - they have lived whole lives before finding their way back to each other. I loved that they both discovered the queer parts of themselves "later" in life, and that it's treated as perfectly fine and normal.
- This book is so funny and tender, but it also doesn't brush away the reality of being a queer person in a state like Florida.
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Transphobia, Alcohol
Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, Car accident, Death of parent
- THE DUKE GETS DESPERATE was my first Diana Quincy and it won’t be my last! I loved this enemies to lovers, competence is hot, are we fated mates story.
- I am not usually a big enemies to lovers fan, but this book does it right. It’s not “oh we had a misunderstanding and therefore hate each other forever,” it’s they legitimately have reasons to be pitted against each other and also legitimately keep pissing each other off but also they love how smart and stubborn and capable the other is and simply can’t keep away from each other.
- I also love that Raya is a Palestinian American heroine who is proud of her heritage. She belongs in this time period and in this book, an era and genre that often ignore women like her.
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Murder, Classism
Moderate: Racism, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Sexual violence, Car accident
- I sit here trying to write a review of AFTER WORLD and find myself just making sad, overwhelmed noises. This is one of the most devastating, inventive, and beautiful books I've ever read.
- This book is an exploration into the best and worst of humanity, and a harsh vision of a potential future. (The content warnings are extremely real here, friends.) Amid that, it's also a loving look at our planet and its many possibilities.
- To be honest, I'm not sure this book fully stuck the landing at the end, but I'll be turning the rest of it over in my mind for months to come.
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Rape
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Alcohol
Moderate: Racism
Minor: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, Murder
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual violence
- GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE is everything I hoped it would be. Queerness and silliness and strong personalities and deep emotions, what else could you want?
- I loved that both Arthur and Gwen got to have unlikable characteristics but were still granted full humanity by the others.
- For all the shenanigans in this book, there is still a layer of darkness as well. The crown weighs heavy on all of them in different ways, and each character needs to figure out how they will approach the life they've been dealt.
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia
- This book absolutely powers through the intial scene setting and background information, cramming a book or two’s worth of action in the first hundred or so pages. Then, when we reach the point where Talasyn and Alaric are thrown together, we downshift to a delicious slow burn.
- I really liked the world Guanzon has built here. It feels entirely new, even when she’s playing with well-worn tropes.
- Just as a warning, I absolutely thought this was a standalone novel and it! is! not! I need book two now!
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail