Tag: LGBT+

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Rating: Legends & Lattes

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After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.

The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success — not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won’t be able to go it alone.

But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed. (via Goodreads)

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, LGBT+ (Lesbian representation), Cozy

Ratings:

5 ⭐

1 / 5 🌶️

Star ratings weighed via Goodreads’s system

Steam / Spice ratings weighed via Romance.io‘s system

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Rating: To A Darker Shore

Kitty

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Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her kingdom that she’s too useful to be sacrificed like so many of their country’s poor to appease the infernal monster across the poison sea in hell.

When Alesta’s attempt to prove herself with inventions goes awry, her best friend and heir to the throne, Kyrian, takes the blame expecting leniency—and ends up tithed in her place.

To end the sacrifices forever, Alesta plans to kill the monster that killed her friend. She travels to the depths of hell only to find Kyrian, alive, but monstrously transformed.

There’s no escaping hell or their deeper feelings for one another, and the farther they go, the closer they come to uncovering a truth about the tithings that threatens to invoke the wrath of not only monsters but the gods as well.

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, LGBT+ (Lesbian representation), Disability (Autism Spectrum Disorder representation)

 

Ratings:

3 / 5 ⭐

1 / 5 🌶️

Star ratings weighed via Goodreads’s system

Steam / Spice ratings weighed via Romance.io‘s system

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Review: Our Own Private Universe

Kitty2 Comments
Our Own Private Universe
Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

If this book had a face, I wouldn’t hesitate to punch it.

It has a few pros, like a POC character and not only that, a queer POC character. Another pro is the active seeking out of safe queer sex with the final pro is how sweet Aki’s Dad handled Aki coming out to him as bisexual.

Other than that? There’s a boatload of petty drama such as the characters constantly lying to each other and Aki even dumps her best friend because of her budding romantic relationship with Christa. WHO THE HELL EVEN DOES THAT? Your friendships can very well coexist along side your romantic relationships.

If they’re not lying to each other, they’re off screwing each other, or at least thinking about it. They even go as far to break into their host family’s guest house in order to screw just because the power was terrible there and there wasn’t much of a risk of being caught. There’s quite a few non-explicit sex scenes, but they’re worth mentioning if you’re not looking for sex in your romance reads.

All in all I wanted to throw this book across the room on several occasions and I’m honestly so glad I persevered and as such it is DONE AND OUT OF MY LIFE.

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