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Nimona by ND Stevenson

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QOTD: What are you currently reading?

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This was an absolute delight to read. I loved the art style and the characters were so easy to love. I got so many warm fuzzy feelings reading this.

I really liked how the “villain” was really actually more of the good guy taking down the evil corporation disguised as the good guys. I liked how gentle and kind and caring Ballister was, how much he didn’t want to hurt people, and how badly he wanted to save Nimona. His relationship with Ambrosious was really lovely too - I enjoyed its complexity and the obvious depth of emotion between them.

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QOTD: Who is one of your fave authors?

Ruby Landers is one of mine!

Every June I highlight a different fave queer author and this year it’s Ruby Landers!

Her books are incredible and emotional and wonderful. If you’re a romance reader looking to feel all the feels, I can’t recommend her books enough. And she’s Aussie 😉

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Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings

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I love a second chance romance and this one didn’t disappoint.

I love a man who puts in the work and Rylie had really worked on himself between their meetings. He wasn’t perfect by any means and he misstepped quite a few times, but he’d come a lot way and I loved seeing him open up about everything he’d been dealing with. A sweet disaster bi, for sure.

Pan rep is so underrated and I love that Eva is not only pan, but the label is used on page! I really loved her journey over the course of this book. Her hurt has really turned her prickly and closed off and I loved watching her slowly let Rylie in. She frustrated me at times but I could always understand where she’s coming from.

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Aces & Aros Vol 1 by Kat Calamia, Jeremy Whitley & Phil Falco

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This was a great little graphic anthology of ace and aro stories. There’s so much variety between these pages, so many different ways to identify across two broad spectrums, with such a fun range of genre’s.

I was a little worried that 21 stories jammed into 100 pages would be too chaotic and the stories would fall flat, and while I would have loved for some of them to have been longer, most of them actually perfectly fit into the few pages they had and quite a few gave me warm, fuzzy feelings.

tagged by @hammerbacks and @homerjacksons thank you this looked so fun!

options were discussed and agreed with @remembertheskittles beforehand to make sure there wasn't too much overlap 😂

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QOTD: What’s a book you love with a colourful spine?

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Rules: make a poll with 10 of your favourite shows, they can be just 10 shows you loved watching or your top 10 TV shows of all time, and have your followers choose their favourite, then tag 10 people.

I was tagged by: @hypnotisedfireflies and @justwantedaccess! Thank you both. <3

I went on quite a journey with this one - at first I forgot every single programme I've ever watched, and then I had a list of over 20 great ones. With difficulty, I managed to narrow them down to ten.

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Father Material by Alexis Hall

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This book 😭 this series 😭

I am so emotional. I absolutely loved the direction this book went. I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone but it was just perfect to me. I loved all the complications that arose, the unexpected role reversal, the things both Luc and Oliver had to face about themselves all these years later.

I loved Jaz a lot. She was such a wonderful addition to this universe. As was Spud.

I loved that every single side character got growth and page time and were a part of things while acknowledging that growing up and building separate lives means you’re not there for everything anymore.

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We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

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This was such a beautiful, powerful, emotional coming of age story. I really loved the way it handled generational trauma, the way none of these characters were perfect, the incredibly difficult, complicated, painful, wonderful dynamics at play.

This book is heavy. There’s a lot of social commentary around the harsh reality of living in certain places as Black and/or queer people.

But there’s light here too. Renny’s, the Perfect Spot, Kisabee Island.