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Enum & Valerie

enumeration@kirja.casa

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

@enum@chaos.social on the mammooth site. Reading mostly wlw rom-coms, with the occasional exceptions. I try to rotate languages, but it isn't really easy to find queer romance books in other languages than English. Reviews and comments usually in the same language as the book.

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2024 Reading Goal

40% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 20 of 50 books.

Zoe Hana Mikuta: Off with Their Heads (2024, Disney Press) No rating

In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …

Content warning spiders, blood

Dahlia Adler: Under the Lights (Paperback, 2015, Spencer Hill Press) 4 stars

Josh Chester loves being a Hollywood bad boy, coasting on his good looks, his parties, …

A sequel thet doesn't feel like a sequel

4 stars

Both Josh and Van really are good characters from Behind the Scenes that desperately needed their own stories. Whenever a romance story is told from two alternating points of view, you automatically assume they're the couple. You're in for a surprise then...

Dahlia Adler: Behind the Scenes (2014) 3 stars

High school senior Ally Duncan's best friend may be the Vanessa Park - star of …

Not overwhelming, but enjoyable

3 stars

I am a bit disappointed how it all boiled down to "oops we didn't communicate" again. Same applies to "Cool for the summer" btw. None of Dahlia's books have a really elaborate creative plot, but they're still fun to read and hard to put to the side.

Hafsah Faizal: Tempest of Tea (2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 4 stars

From Hafsah Faizal, New York Times–bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame, comes the first …

Read if you like coconuts

4 stars

The largest part of the book is about an elaborate heist, so if you like heists, knock yourself out. However, it's embedded into a larger major story, which doesn't really need that heist - it would work just as fine without it. Then again, the Spindrift Tearoom & Bloodhouse concept is pretty cool. And: coconuts!

Salman Rushdie: Victory City (2023, Random House Publishing Group) 3 stars

A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …

[commenting on the battle] ‘And my husband?’ Tirumalamba Devi cried. ‘What about the king?’ Pampa Kampana fell silent and put her hands up her face. ‘The king?’ Tirumalamba Devi shouted. ‘Pampa Kampana, what news?’ ‘Alas, the king is old,' Pampa Kampana wailed. ‘He is old and the battle is long. He has been up on that elephant a long time.’ ‘What has happened?’ Tirumalamba Devi cried. ‘Tell me at once!’ ‘Alas for us all, my queen,’ Pampa Kampana wept through sightless eyes. ‘The king... the king... needed to piss.’ ‘To piss? Pampa Kampana, you speak of piss?’

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Pee pee poo poo on the battlefield.

Salman Rushdie: Victory City (2023, Random House Publishing Group) 3 stars

A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …

‘It is said that any man who enters here will be transformed into a woman at once.’ [...] Then Grandmaster Li said, [...] ‘I will go with you into the forest of Aranyani, come what may.' [...] Haleya Kote thought for a moment. ‘Okay,’ he said at last. ‘Fuck it. I'll stay.’ [with you and enter]

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insert trans flag

Salman Rushdie: Victory City (2023, Random House Publishing Group) 3 stars

A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …

[On the second encounter, Nunes and Kampana see into each others eyes and immediately recognize the mutual love. Kampana tries to get soft words and terms of endearment, while Nunes rambles about fireworks and gunpowder] ‘What's a gun?’ Pampa Kampana asked. ‘It's a weapon that will change the world,’ Domingo Nunes said. ‘And I can build it for you if you want.’ ‘They make love differently in Portugal,’ said Pampa Kampana. ‘I see that now.’

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What kind of kink is that?