idk_indigo's Reviews (723)

The fact that Henry and Claire met when she was 6 years old made me pretty uncomfortable throughout most of the novel; I found myself struggling to accept their relationship as, like, not weird and gross for pretty much most of the story. However, towards the end I was still feeling the reservation, however, I still empathized with the relationship. If that makes sense.

I found myself comparing this book to One Day by David Nicholls. Both are a sort of disastrously troubled romance and then both end in an inevitable tragedy. Both are absolutely heartwrenching, but I think the fact that you sort of know what's going to happen the whole book makes this one just so much more heartbreaking. Definitely less of the shock factor than with One Day, but I feel like, just, jeez wow. Especially because there's lowkey a moment where you're like omg maybe it won't happen but then you're like oh never mind it probably will... then okay shit yeah it most definitely will and the fact that it's just a matter of when is so devastating anyways ...

Anyways I am sad once again

I enjoyed the audiobook for sure, I think one thing that lowkey started to piss me off about the narrator was the different accents as it lowkey felt bordering on blaccent at times. She is a very talented narrator, I just... yeah. Not to mention the voodoo-esque Madame Nouvelle Lune as a character was... off... for lack of a better word...

I will also be so honest, I am quite sick of queer romance novels based on astrology. It's just so overdone, and it's one of those things where, like, if there was a decent selection of mainstream sapphic romance novels (SRN's) to pick from it wouldn't piss me off so much. But I feel like, at this point, at least 60% of SRN's have astrology as a central theme and I'm just so extremely over it. 

I also thought the main character was not just stupid but also belligerently ignorant, like it pissed me off so much that she freaking

quit her job for a woman she's been on 1 singular date with and then was shocked that the woman was like "um ma'am please don't do that, especially considering you are screwing me and our project over in the process"

like i was seething with so much rage for Gray at that point that I was so fkn close to DNF'ing... 
Throughout the whole book she just kept pissing me off and I personally would not have been friends with this woman (big insult, btw, as I'm a very cool, positive, friendly, and upbeat person)

As for the actual astrology part, the signs sh*t was just foolish, however, I did enjoy learning the bit about Saturn returns, which I did not already know. I'm very excited for my own!!

There is also just a bit too much homophobia for a romance novel about lesbians... 

While I felt this book was well-written and definitely classics-level good, I personally struggled quite a bit with how intense and violent it was. Definitely lots of content warnings, proceed with caution, etc., but that is sort of to be expected just by reading the front. 

I would give it 4 stars if I were just rating on like how it was, but I think 3 stars based on how much I liked it, if that makes sense? A personal rating. 

I hated parts of this book very much, ultimately I am glad I read it but I will not be putting it on my list for, like "recommend me similar books" kinda thing as it was just quite a bit too much for me

I found this book through a master spreadsheet of sapphic novels by the naughty librarian (on instagram). I really loved the two main characters, they had so much personality and I loved how they brought out the best in each other! And helped each other realize their goals!

I loved the AuDHD rep, and what I loved so much about it was that, for the most part, everyone was very understanding of Pepper's social/sensory needs. There was almost no stink about it, at least not from her friends, and it was really refreshing to see a relative lack of ableism towards an autistic character. 

I also loved to see, from Opal's side, the severe RSD she gets because bitch same. It's such a huge part of having ADHD (not necessarily for everyone, but for me for sure) and I don't see it often represented in romantic type settings. 

One thing that I noticed was there were a lot of, like, internet humor and with that quite a few queer stereotypes that the author most definitely learned from TikTok. On one hand, I get it, but on the other hand I'm kinda super tired of queerness being reduced to cuffed jeans and throwing up peace signs... 

That being said, I do love lesbians and I love stupid lesbians even more so like #slay #ilovepepper #suchagoodseasoning

I was going to give this 3 stars bc I was lowkey bored listening to it. I also hated the incessant "giggling" and I almost DNF'd bc of it. 

Upping to 4 stars bc of the bonus scene at the end

Main characters are super into Harry Potter. 

So it's not that I wasn't expecting to like this book. It's that I was expecting to like this book in, like, a way that I also disliked it. If that makes sense. But holy fuck, I loved this book. It was so perfect and I loved it in every way. I loved the sex scenes. I loved the vampire/werewolf sex. I loved the angst. I loved the edward-smelling-bella cameo. I loved the side characters. I loved the fact that

they are mates and all the steamy sex that came from that

. I loved the

vampire biting her man's neck and drinking his blood and the hot sex that they had

.

It was so much fun and lightly funny, but not too funny where you can't quite take it seriously. I loved it. Sorry not sorry. 

I was seriously considering DNF'ing about 30% through because of the MMC's narrator. Don't get me wrong, I love John Cho and I've seen him in stuff and he's very talented. But I think his voice is just really low-pitched and he narrates really, really slowly and it was lowkey pissing me off a bit. Every time his bits came on, I would get irritated and start to zone out. So I switched the speed up and then I was like oh okay, that's manageable. 

Other than that, this book was really cute and really sweet! I haven't given a lot of 5 star reviews lately, and I'm trying to be a touch more generous with my ratings. While some of the scenes with his mom were a bit stressful, I appreciated that storyline and I also loved that Wes was able to overcome those tendencies when it came to Nadine. How ultimately, that led to his moving in with his sister and their relationship only grew stronger from there. 

I also love an MMC who can cook! And I really loved that Nadine loved his cooking, too, and how he was so happy and excited to be able to cook for someone who enjoyed his food. His excitement over Nadine saying "OMG this is so good" got me smiling giggling blushing something stupid every single time! I love that his acts of service-type stuff was so accepted by Nadine; it shows that he really does love caring for people and doing stuff for them. He just needed an appreciative outlet. It also made me happy that hanging out so much with Nadine helped him realize that it wasn't him, it was his mom. #overcomingtrauma #boyboss 

Nadine stood out a bit less to me, which was interesting to note because usually MMC's are like heavily-discussed background characters. I actually loved this, and I felt like I got enough of Nadine to not make it a problem. I loved her Ice Queen persona, and I super loved how she was able to stand up for her no-good boss, and also that another woman in the office helped her and was on her side #girlboss #girlsgirl #istandwithher 

I did also really like her friend, Leeann (so sorry if I'm spelling that wrong, I can't see it written anywhere on the book page or in CTRL+F'ing the reviews) and their frank conversation about how Leeann doesn't want to censor herself in front of Nadine. That was such a lovely conversation, one that I think is so important in friendships. I really, really appreciated reading that. The cats too stood out to me so much, and though they were not *technically* characters, they also were, ya feel me? 

Overall, I'm super glad I continued reading this! It was really fun, lighthearted, a tiny bit mysterious what with the death of the woman, and it made me smile. 

I want to start off by saying the autism representation, especially because the author herself is autistic as well. Stella was such an endearing character, and I loved her little journey towards accepting herself and allowing herself to be loved.

Michael was cute and whatnot, but I felt like I didn't have a good grasp on his inner workings. I also thought some of the actions he made towards Stella were strange and rooted in his father. It didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, like, he was worried he was going to become a cheater and a cheat like his dad but then at the end he was like eh actually that's okay. No longer a fear of mine.

Her little "freak out" (for lack of a better word) over being different and then cutting all the seams out of her clothes, trying to force herself to be okay with the sensation is such a mood. Like, so something I would've done in like middle or high school to try to show it to my bullies. Yeah, I'm normal just like you stinkers. I have seams in my clothes and I'm not even that severely distressed about it. 

I lowkey liked how rich Stella is. I like when a man spoils his woman but I didn't realize how much fun it would be to have the opposite in a book. I was like omg pop off millionaire queen!! 

One of the worst things about this book though was that they have sex about everything. Like, no conversation about him

literally assaulting her coworker

and no conversation about meeting the parents or about, like, anything. Their relationship felt almost entirely sexual, even when they were literally with his entire family. It was soooo weird I'll be fr. 

This was a really cute little book about embracing your weirdness/queerness, loving frogs and toad and lizards and bugs, making little crafts, and being imperfect. I loved it. Very, very quick read, I finished it in 1 day and had a blast.