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thebooklovebot · 11 months

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REVIEW: Crimson River by Devney Perry

PUBLISHER: Devney Perry PUBLICATION DATE: June 15, 2023 GENRE: Romance / Romantic Thriller Thank you to Valentine PR and Devney Perry for providing me with a review copy in exchange of my honest review! Devney Perry has been one of my favorite authors for long time now and she keeps coming back with better and better books. Crimson River is the fifth book in latest series, The Edens. The…

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#2023 romance books #arc review #Crimson River #Devney Perry #new releases #romance #romance books #Th Edens #Valentine PR

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celepom · 11 months

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It’s Pride 2023! Time to put up some more comic recs!

This time I’ve put together some stories about discovering one’s own queer identity, outlining a family history of queerness, and several stories where being queer isn’t the focus - queer characters are simply allowed to be.

Belle of the Ball By Mari Costa

High-school senior and notorious wallflower Hawkins finally works up the courage to remove her mascot mask and ask out her longtime crush: Regina Moreno, head cheerleader, academic overachiever, and all-around popular girl. There’s only one teensy little problem: Regina is already dating Chloe Kitagawa, athletic all-star…and middling English student. Regina sees a perfectly self-serving opportunity here, and asks the smitten Hawkins to tutor Chloe free of charge, knowing Hawkins will do anything to get closer to her. And while Regina’s plan works at first, she doesn’t realize that Hawkins and Chloe knew each other as kids, when Hawkins went by Belle and wore princess dresses to school every single day. Before long, romance does start to blossom…but not between who you might expect. With Belle of the Ball, cartoonist Mariana Costa has reinvigorated satisfying, reliable tropes into your new favorite teen romantic comedy.

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The Moth Keeper By Kay O’Neill

Anya is finally a Moth Keeper, the protector of the lunar moths that allow the Night-Lily flower to bloom once a year. Her village needs the flower to continue thriving and Anya is excited to prove her worth and show her thanks to her friends with her actions, but what happens when being a Moth Keeper isn't exactly what Anya thought it would be? The nights are cold in the desert and the lunar moths live far from the village. Anya finds herself isolated and lonely. Despite Anya's dedication, she wonders what it would be like to live in the sun. Her thoughts turn into an obsession, and when Anya takes a chance to stay up during the day to feel the sun's warmth, her village and the lunar moths are left to deal with the consequences.

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Hollow By Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White & Berenice Nelle

Isabel "Izzy" Crane and her family have just relocated to Sleepy Hollow, the town made famous by—and obsessed with—Washington Irving's legend of the Headless Horseman. But city slicker-skeptic Izzy has no time for superstition as she navigates life at a new address, a new school, and, with any luck, with new friends. Ghost stories aren't real, after all.... Then Izzy is pulled into the orbit of the town's teen royalty, Vicky Van Tassel (yes, that Van Tassel) and loveable varsity-level prankster Croc Byun. Vicky's weariness with her family connection to the legend turns to terror when the trio begins to be haunted by the Horseman himself, uncovering a curse set on destroying the Van Tassel line. Now, they have only until Halloween night to break it—meaning it's a totally inconvenient time for Izzy to develop a massive crush on the enigmatic Vicky. Can Izzy's practical nature help her face the unknown—or only trip her up? As the calendar runs down to the 31st, Izzy will have to use all of her wits and work with her new friends to save Vicky and uncover the mystery of the legendary Horseman of Sleepy Hollow—before it's too late.

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Until I Meet my Husband By Ryousuke Nanasaki & Yoshi Tsukizuki

The memoir of gay activist Ryousuke Nanasaki and the first religiously recognized same-sex marriage in Japan. From school crushes to awkward dating sites to finding a community, this collection of stories recounts the author’s “firsts” as a young gay man searching for love. Dating is never ever easy, but that goes doubly so for Ryousuke, whose journey is full of unrequited loves and many speed bumps. But perseverance and time heals all wounds, even those of the heart.

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Is Love the Answer? By Uta Isaki

When it comes to love, high schooler Chika wonders if she might be an alien. She’s never fallen for or even had a crush on anyone, and she has no desire for physical intimacy. Her friends tell her that she just "hasn't met the one yet," but Chika has doubts... It's only when Chika enters college and meets peers like herself that she realizes there’s a word for what she feels inside--asexual--and she’s not the only one. After years of wondering if love was the answer, Chika realizes that the answer she long sought may not exist at all--and that that's perfectly normal.

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M Is for Monster By Talia Dutton

When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the name "M," doesn't remember anything about Maura's life and just wants to be her own person. However, Frances expects M to pursue the same path that Maura had been on—applying to college to become a scientist—and continue the plans she and Maura shared. Hoping to trigger Maura's memories, Frances surrounds M with the trappings of Maura's past, but M wants nothing to do with Frances' attempts to change her into something she's not. In order to face the future, both Frances and M need to learn to listen and let go of Maura once and for all. Talia Dutton's debut graphic novel, M Is for Monster, takes a hard look at what it means to live up to other people's expectations—as well as our own.

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Golden Sparkle By Minta Suzumaru

Himaru Uehara’s first year of high school is off to a good start, minus one problem—he keeps having wet dreams. With only his mom and sister at home—and having skipped health class in middle school—he thinks it means there’s something wrong with him. Thankfully, a new friend has just the remedy and teaches Himaru exactly how to deal with those pesky dreams! But his solution only leads to more confusion, and the two find themselves navigating feelings they’ve never felt before.

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Thieves By Lucie Bryon

Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger’s mansion, and she sure as heck doesn’t know why she’s woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie’s nest of objects that aren’t her own. And she can’t stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can’t tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania… But does Maddy have secrets of her own? Can they piece together that night between them and fix the mess of their chaotic personal lives in time to form a normal, teenage relationship? That would be nice.

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic By Alison Bechdel

Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

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She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat By Sakaomi Yuzaki

Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation...?

Kasuga and Nomoto promised to spend their Christmas and New Year’s together. Now, they find themselves learning more about each other’s families through the food sent by Nomoto’s mother. Cute character bento, salmon and rice, stollen, fruit sandwiches, roast beef…Nomoto and Kasuga warm up to each other over a cheerful holiday season.

#Pride 2023 #book rec #comic #graphic novel #autobio #fantasy #science fiction #high school #queer #lesbian #gay #asexual #intersex #bisexual #romance #book recs #pride #LGBTQIA #LGBT comic

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ekbelsher · 5 months

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Well, that year went by ridiculously fast. Here's my art vs artist grid for 2023!

#art vs artist #art vs artist 2023 #book characters #fantasy illustration #monster boyfriend #ya fantasy #beauty and the beast #monster romance #fairytale retelling #retellings #fantasy art #leigh bardugo books #hollyblack books #naomi novik books #ekbelsher

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luciehercndale · 4 months

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2023 books - happy place by emily henry

It doesn't matter how busy life's been, how long the five of us have gone without seeing one another: meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favourite sweatshirt, worn to perfection. Time doesn't move the same way when we're there. Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another. Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.

You belong here.

#happy place #emily henry #bookedit #romanceedit #litedit #harriet kilpatrick #wyn connor #contemporary romance #chick lit #2023 books #my posts 3

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vittacorle · 5 months

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if I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

'the red girl' from 'the bread we eat in dreams' by catherynne m. valente || 'wuthering heights' litjoy special edition Illustrated by felix abel klaer aka superstarfighter || 'i’ve got you under my skin' @ezrul-00 || 'romance or the end' by elaine kahn || 'the haunting of bly manor' (lyrics from 'midnight show': a part of the killers' 'murder trilogy') gif credit @scarychristmas || sandarafreedompark (via wnq-writers) || 'the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes' directed by francis lawrence || 'the hanging tree' from 'mockingjay' by suzanne collins || 'wuthering heights' litjoy special edition cover Illustrated by superstarfighter || 'i swear, next time i’ll see you i’ll be funny' from 'in a dream you saw a way to survive' by clementine von radics || coriolanus snow x lucy gray baird @maeroemer || 'i'm not calling you a liar' by florence + the machine || 'star wars: revenge of the sith' gif credit @dani-clayton || c.c. aurel || 'the musketeers' [S01E010] gif credit @thewildmother || 'hunger' from 'dark. sweet.: new & selected poems' by linda hogan || 'dinner & diatribes' music video by hozier || 'the ballad of songbirds and snakes' by suzanne collins || rachel zegler & tom blyth on the set of 'tbosas' via twitter || 'syringa' by john ashbery.

happy xmas month @janeaustenlover!

#tbosasedit #snowbaird #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #coriolanus x lucy gray #lucy gray x coriolanus #thgedit #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #aliena hello!!!!!!! i hope you like it!!!!!!!! i tried to make it as less of a movie as possible lol #dark romance is alive but we simply can't make it to the screen in the year of our lord 2023 #subtle cinema is six feet under so we're both stuck here with a watered down version of tbosas #.......................................#but the book is forever in our possession #so is an image of lucy gray in coryo's head #a head that had gone mad after two months relationship #heathcliff WHO #may they snakebird together for eternity joined in the afterlife

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therefugeofbooks · 1 year

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coffee date with myself

#booklr #books #book photography #delilah green não está nem aí #delilah green doesn't care #ashley herring blake #wlw #queer books #romance #books and coffee #read in 2023 #the refuge of books

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acotars · 8 months

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Read in 2023:

When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel. I want to take you places and show you things. I want to memorize you—to learn you like a song. And that nightgown, and the way you get so cranky when I leave my stuff all over the place, and the way you tie your hair back in that crazy bun. You make me laugh every single day—and nobody makes me laugh. I feel like I’ve been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I’m just … found.

THE BODYGUARD by Katherine Center ★★★★★

#litedit #nalitedit #romanceedit #romancelitedit #the bodyguard #katherine center #romance novels #bookedit #romance books #gun tw #edits*#2023*#all #userjamie #usercossette #userlizz

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little-miss-romance · 7 months

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“You might be psycho,” I say with a grin as her eyes narrow, “but you’re my psycho, and I’m yours. Got it?”

#book quotes #bookaddict #bookworm #pictures from pinterest #booklover #bookish #2023 reading goals #romancenovel #2023 reads #spicy books #dark romance #butcher and blackbird #brynne weaver

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tungle-squentacles · 5 months

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huevember 22! ngl I don't like this one as much but I wanted to try something design ish. may redo some time in the future

#squent post #squent art #ok lis g en. I had this thing in mind with the cyan monochrome thing right. Citra was gonna be bluish and r was going to be saturated #but like. they're small as hell 😔#hate the stupid fuckiggg romance novel shoulder grabbed thing bt I couldnt think of any more dynamic poses #it looks like a shitty minimalist movie poster #also I KNOW the room isn't that small but I wanted it to be a vertical shape. love me some composition s #could have done something closer + more intimate but then they'd be uh . making out sloppy style 0robably #i also forgot how the scene went and couldn't access the book. that's the main reason really #anyway. at least it saved me time on the colors lmao. wanted to do something big but i was tired today #fanart #aoas #arc of a scythe #second aoas art I've done. both for huevember and overall #scythe Anastasia #citra terranova #rowan damisch #scythe lucifer #huevember #huevember 2023 #huevember day 22 #huevember 22 #art

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andreai04 · 6 months

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“‘Mina.’ She said my name softly, like a prayer. Like an incantation.”

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thebooklovebot · 1 year

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REVIEW: Mile High (Wind City,#1) by Liz Tomforde

NEW REVIEW: Mile High (Wind City,#1) by Liz Tomforde. A steamy novel featuring a flight attendant and a bad-boy hockey player who can’t help but push all her buttons…

PUBLISHER: Liz Tomforde PUBLICATION DATE: June 7, 2022. GENRE: Romance / Contemporary Romance PLEASE CHECK TRIGGER WARNING AT THE END OF THE REVIEW You know that moment when you finally read a book that you’ve been seeing everywhere and everyone is so hyped about it and it’s so good that you mentally kick your own butt for not reading it sooner? Yeah, that’s my situation with this book. I…

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#2022 romance books #2023 romance books #Liz Tomforde #Mile High #new releases #romance #romance books #Wind City series

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apolline-lucy · 9 months

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marketing my book is so hard because I don’t wanna be like ‘hey I wrote this cute but kinda spooky sapphic fantasy with witches and monsters and mystery, please add it to your tbr on Goodreads and buy it next month when it comes out’ but at the same time that’s exactly what I should be doing lol oh to be a writer in this economy

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aroaessidhe · 7 months

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2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

#the deep sky #yume kitasei #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i really loved this!!!!!#very intense but also a lot of interesting character introspection #love the virtual reality AI aspect!!!! though I do feel like. in the end I was expecting it to go way further with it?#(basically like instead of seeing the inside of the ship all the time they can 'be' in forests or aquariums or whatever)#no romance #(there’s side lesbians; and one flashback scene where she briefly wonders about kissing a random person; that's it)#emotional core about her mother and brother and best friend !!#i like that it gets into the flaws of 'humanity's last hope on another planet' bc like. yeah in real life things....don't work like that...#why is there zero acknowledgement that the concept of every one of them being expected to give birth being extremely fucked up?#like obviously everyone on board is there because they agreed with that but there’s not a single flashback of #when they found out that information; or mention of someone questioning it...#(for example a character mentions that they hid their mental health/use of a therapy animal bc they wouldn't have been let in and the -#eugenics around that is iffy to say the least)#but to me. pregnancy is horrifying and nobody questioning that was weird.#also there’s supposedly 80 people on board but we get to know less than 10 of them which felt a bit strange at points #Also! I love the cover. I can’t find the designer (the book info only credits the internal lllustrator..)#also: bird facts!

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the-smut-analyst · 6 months

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Kinktober 2023: Monster Lovers Edition

A kinky Halloween reading list for all my monster lovin' girlies out there (part 1 of 2)

Hope you enjoyed Part 1 of the Kinktober 2023: Monster Lovers Edition list!

For links to the books mentioned above, simply click on the image!

Disclaimer: images include affiliate links which help me to keep creating content :) I appreciate your support xo

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halls04 · 7 months

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I need book recommendations where the main love interest looks and acts just like Hazel Callahan from bottoms!!!

#hazel callahan #bottoms 2023 #queer books #romance books #books #ruby cruz

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poetryofmuses · 10 months

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"July is excitement, it is awaited, July is a longing for something I'm not yet aware of, July is a calling, it is an awakening."

#literature #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #darcy #dorian gray #jane austen #aesthetic poetry #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #art journal #july #august #june #2023 #books #romance #love #tumblr

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