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2024 books
Apr. 1st, 2024 10:17 amJANUARY
—Triple Sec by TJ Alexander
—Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin
—How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
FEBRUARY
—Mammoth by Eva Baltasar
MARCH
—How You Get The Girl by Anita Kelly
—The Lovers by Rebekkah Faubion
—Worry by Alexandra Tanner
It has been a horrible reading year for me and I don't really know why. School was busy in February which explains that low rate, but every other month wasn't too bad. I think I need to stop reading so much fic tbh. I didn't even finish How It Works Out because I got so specifically freaked out by the body horror (?) in it. Mammoth was the book I was most looking forward to this year and it isn't out until the summer but I found an ARC and...she is a great writer but it didn't really work for me. The overall plot was interesting and the ending was so trippy and smart and I keep thinking about it. But I didn't care and it felt so detached from her other books and less....about lesbians? Which is a deeply unfair comment. But not every book can be Boulder...
Every single romance I read was horrible and I should stop reading them but I genuinely like romance novels when they're done right and in the Emily Henry/Rebecca Serle category of decent writing (the first time around and then never, ever again) and I do not think that exists in lesbian romance. Sorry! The Lovers was particularly bad and I want to be really mean about it but I won't. She mentioned men's pecs so often but spelled it wrong a lot and I know it wasn't a finished copy but it drove me nuts. I think writing is my biggest issue but there's also a lot of structural issues I have. I do think a lot of these books are fantasies (no shit!) but that bisexual women try to live out because they're married with husbands (happily or not). I didn't agree with a lot of what Sunny the Youtuber said about this but I don't think they're 100% wrong either. But they liked Delilah Green is whatever so that is a gigantic red flag to me. Interesting facts about Space was mid to me but it is just...I don't know. Auston Matthews reference was hilarious. I didn't find the romance that intriguing and the plot was good and freaky but it felt so...flat. It didn't really hold my attention the way Worry did, even though the more I think about Worry the more pissed off I am. I read it in one night straight because I couldn't sleep so that is affecting my opinions but I don't know. The narration was fun and books about sisters bickering are usually a good time but I was also so offput by a lot. I don't know how to tie this into an analysis of anything because I really am a Vibes Only person right now with not a lot of brain capacity to explain why I feel or think certain ways but whatever. I'm almost done No Judgment by Lauren Oyler which is....why is she like this.
—Triple Sec by TJ Alexander
—Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin
—How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
FEBRUARY
—Mammoth by Eva Baltasar
MARCH
—How You Get The Girl by Anita Kelly
—The Lovers by Rebekkah Faubion
—Worry by Alexandra Tanner
It has been a horrible reading year for me and I don't really know why. School was busy in February which explains that low rate, but every other month wasn't too bad. I think I need to stop reading so much fic tbh. I didn't even finish How It Works Out because I got so specifically freaked out by the body horror (?) in it. Mammoth was the book I was most looking forward to this year and it isn't out until the summer but I found an ARC and...she is a great writer but it didn't really work for me. The overall plot was interesting and the ending was so trippy and smart and I keep thinking about it. But I didn't care and it felt so detached from her other books and less....about lesbians? Which is a deeply unfair comment. But not every book can be Boulder...
Every single romance I read was horrible and I should stop reading them but I genuinely like romance novels when they're done right and in the Emily Henry/Rebecca Serle category of decent writing (the first time around and then never, ever again) and I do not think that exists in lesbian romance. Sorry! The Lovers was particularly bad and I want to be really mean about it but I won't. She mentioned men's pecs so often but spelled it wrong a lot and I know it wasn't a finished copy but it drove me nuts. I think writing is my biggest issue but there's also a lot of structural issues I have. I do think a lot of these books are fantasies (no shit!) but that bisexual women try to live out because they're married with husbands (happily or not). I didn't agree with a lot of what Sunny the Youtuber said about this but I don't think they're 100% wrong either. But they liked Delilah Green is whatever so that is a gigantic red flag to me. Interesting facts about Space was mid to me but it is just...I don't know. Auston Matthews reference was hilarious. I didn't find the romance that intriguing and the plot was good and freaky but it felt so...flat. It didn't really hold my attention the way Worry did, even though the more I think about Worry the more pissed off I am. I read it in one night straight because I couldn't sleep so that is affecting my opinions but I don't know. The narration was fun and books about sisters bickering are usually a good time but I was also so offput by a lot. I don't know how to tie this into an analysis of anything because I really am a Vibes Only person right now with not a lot of brain capacity to explain why I feel or think certain ways but whatever. I'm almost done No Judgment by Lauren Oyler which is....why is she like this.
