queerbooksupremacy's Reviews (402)

i have a soft sport for queer sports romances anyways but this book took all my favourite elements (found family, sharing dorms, a trans mc, adhd and anxiety rep, a DOG, smut & gentle humour and angst and joy and everything else) and made them BETTER

i wasn’t sure at the start of this book if it would get the 5 star, but after finishing it, giving it anything less just feels wrong

gene & luis deserve the world, this book was so sweet, go read it rn 🔫 (when it comes out)

this was very very sweet but also very linear! i really enjoyed but it definitely would’ve benefitted from being more dimensional

everything i love in ya fantasy!!!

idk when the sequel comes out but i need it sooner

i feel no particularly way about this book, i do not feel strongly about it at all

which makes NO SENSE because i loved legends & lattes so much and this is everything i should love in a book!! idk what happened

this was so prettily written

i knew i’d love this the moment i found out it was a polyam retelling of orpheus and eurydice in verse AND comped to hadestown (a favourite musical) and lakelore

to no one’s surprise, i consumed this as soon as i received the e-arc, and i imagine i’ll be back for this story again

i will be thinking about this book for the rest of my life

i’ve realised i’m not a fan of fantasy school settings, it just made this book feel so slow paced when it shouldn’t have been otherwise

i was also expecting/hoping for a lot more action than there was but loved the dragons! wish we spent more time with them! and anequs was a wonderful protagonist! still excited to see what the next book brings :)

also indigenous rep and polyamory!!! winning!!!

made me cry, hit the trauma right where it hurts

some of the mc’s internal monologue did come off a little cringey and difficult to read though but this story and his journey did hit me, and i did overall enjoy it

a slow start but i was so so invested by the end

i desperately hope we see more of moira, david and rhys in future novels in this series because the romance was So Good and really only just beginning

GREAT angst too!!! i’m a sucker for hurt/comfort and loved the scenes we got with that <3

this was so sweet, so quick and so fun. there was so much fantastic queer rep with an AuDHD trans non-binary mc and a best friend who uses neopronouns, a trans femme friend, two foster moms!!! one of whom is trans and has ADHD as well!! 

overall this book was utterly delightful, gooseberry was so sweet.

i did have some reserves with it though! such as, B and all the other children are written as younger than what they said they are and there wasn’t much of a focus on the dog training which i was expecting and kind of hoped for - i was excited to see the process of B working with this anxious dog and slowly gaining confidence and teaching new tricks but we really only got a few scenes which isn’t a bad thing, i just wished for more - especially with how short it was! the pacing was also REALLY fast, we didn’t stay in any one scene for very long

but i definitely definitely recommend this, again: it was so sweet