God, I love this series. I love Nick and Charlie. And Tori is such a wonderful badass.

For a short story with such an underwhelming title, I super enjoyed that. Really charming. Light angst with some kink shaming and homophobia, but Nick and Declan are great and most of the book ends up just being light, fluffy and warm acceptance.

Would totally read Oscar’s book.

Just a light, fluffy story about two guys who start dating. Low angst, low drama. Almost too fluffy? It’s strange. On one hand, I appreciate that they’re two normal guys who are just nice, genuine people and they meet in this very banal sort of way and it’s just a very normal love story. On the other hand, it was almost too normal and I just needed a little more fiction in my fiction.

This short story is more “ARE YA READY, KIDS?” than it is an actual story or romance or anything else.*

To which of course, I respond, “AYE AYE, CAPTAIN.”

*Not that the plot and romance are bad necessarily. There are some moments that get some side eye from me, but all in all, as a stand alone short, this is fine. As the prequel short story to a fantasy series? It’s pretty good.

I just picked this up out of curiosity, and I knew I wouldn’t really enjoy it, but I told myself that if I listened to just a few minutes, then I would realize that I didn’t actually want to listen to this. THAT BACKFIRED and as with most m/f romances I read, I enjoyed the first half, and then got bored and just finished it to finish it. It was fine. The MCs are cute together, I guess. Good banter. But idk, I have some questions? Anyways, I’m happy to be able to go back to my regularly scheduled programming.

Idk maybe I’ll write an actual review for this later. Maybe I won’t. What else can I say except that this was AMAZING. I have DIED and been BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE in the course of listening to this audiobook. 10000/10 ALL THE STARS.

This was strange, with its post apocalyptic setting and various random-seeming details, but I kind of liked it. Needs editing, but it was fun in a bizarre sort of way.

In this world, Mike would be tested again and again, his efforts often consigned to futility, his success borne back by the ceaseless tide of cultural and financial inequity. Yet Mike would ultimately overcome, because he learned to engage the world on his own terms.

A better summary than anything I could come up with, which I pulled from the essay that was the equivalent of an author’s note in the back of the book.

I didn’t expect to enjoy this nearly as much as I did. The first 20-ish percent, I was really on the fence about this. But I really grew to care for the MC and his brand of humor. Mike is surrounded by people who are absolutely wacky (and sometimes offensive. There’s a character who is homophobic and racist and just an awful piece of shit, but in the most bizarre of ways. At any rate, there’s a scene relatively early on where Mike shuts Nick down and it was amazing). And I just… really enjoyed this.