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faves of 2025: no romance

(i generally mention in my reviews the exact amount of 'no romance', but these all have near to nothing, only past relationships etc.)

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Kill The Beast

Project Hail Mary

The Javelin Program/The Antarctica Conspiracy

Saltcrop

Ymir

Demon Engine

Audition For The Fox

The Reformatory

Cradle and Grave

Something Extraordinary

The Underwood Tapes

Katie is thrilled to score tickets for the USA men’s hockey finals, but after a strange turn of events, she’s even more excited to find herself up close and personal with the team’s T-Rex star player, Flonto Breem.

The two set off on a first date, and things are going well, until questions about Flonto’s political affiliation start bubbling to the surface. It’s not long before Katie realizes that all the goodwill she’d felt for this dinosaur hockey player was misinformed, and that Flonto is a full on MAGA dork.

Looks like there won’t be any pounding tonight! Unless, of course, the USA women’s team and their star triceratops are somewhere nearby!

This tale is 4,100 words of sexless disappointment that the T-Rex you thought was cool is actually an authoritarian bootlicker.

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