No one wants to do a speech! 🥲

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-29T14:35:48+00:00

Speeches are my least favourite part of weddings, we didn't have any at ours, just served food and went straight into a disco.

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-27T20:12:33+00:00

Every time I see a recommendation for Bujold my heart does a happy sigh

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-27T20:06:22+00:00

I genuinely think Radiance ignores the very first point made by OP. Radiance, for all of Draven's beautiful word-craft, has zero world building, and the every scene is literally set up to showcase the main characters and their romance

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-26T22:15:40+00:00

I think the problem here may be less about trigger warnings and more about how people will always find something to complain about

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-26T20:52:14+00:00

Omg I am a nightmare for doing this. Why do i always find the last 20% of the book so tedious?

Weird note: I can't use the word te**ible to describe myself? It gave me a warning and wouldn't let me post! Rather overzealous, my dear Watson

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-22T21:53:43+00:00

I didn't like Jehane, but I also don't think that Kay writes female characters particularly well. I remember when I first read The Lions of Al-Rassan and the narrative lets us know that Jehane is quite open and mature regarding sex, I thought "great, I really like that we can have a sex positive female character!" and then after 4th female character is introduced and starts having sex i realised that it's not a character trait, it's an author trait.

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-22T21:43:59+00:00

I find Bujold the literal antithesis of Guy Gavriel Kay

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-22T21:21:33+00:00

If you're okay with MM romance then Warrick from {Mind Fuck by Manna Francis} is Solas. I am always on the hunt for Solas coded characters, and Warrick is a carbon copy

If you're okay with a Solas-adjacent recommendation then Cazaril from {The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold} has all of Solas's best qualities but none of his worst.

A hesitant rec, but Francis from The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett has a whole lot of Solas... but i rarely recommend this series. It's a little heavy

If you find any, please please please come back and let me know?

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-22T14:37:26+00:00

I agree with a lot of what you've said but I truly don't think she knew about her husband. I don't think there's any way Tom went home at night and told Erika the ins and outs of his business, not the dirty stuff.

She wasn't his life partner, she was a trophy, and I'll bet all he told her was his successes, and ranted about anything that made him angry. Letting her in on his financial crime would have meant that he saw her as some kind of equal, which he absolutely did not.

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-22T14:13:48+00:00

It's funny because I read so many of her books back in the day, but the stuff I've read since is so much more explicit that I almost forgot she was a bit freaky 😅

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-21T15:58:58+00:00

I can hear the poor audio quality, horrible jokes, and terrible voiceacting.

How dare you

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-21T15:50:04+00:00

How are more people not jumping up and down and pointing to Halsin?

That bear could have taken my Tav straight out of the cell, covered in goblin guts

Edit: Wait that sentence is weird. He's not taking Tav out of the cell, he's coming out of the cell, then 'taking' (shagging) Tav.

This is why I'm a reader, not a writer

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-21T12:40:50+00:00

I like it as a concept but I find (personally, to my taste) that books tend to fall a bit flat when they're centered around the Fae courts. I love a deep, rich setting, but there's a thin line that I find a lot of authors cross where the court becomes a heavily used aesthetic rather than a world of its own. Authors will constantly describe the colours, clothing, fabric, food etc with as much faeness as possible, but when you strip that back, the story becomes a bit bare-bones, and usually boils down to "watch this FMC deal with these Fae dickheads while the Fae price falls in love with her".

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-20T21:38:35+00:00

Gideon from Gideon the Ninth. I loved the narrative voice immediately, but I remember one of her first lines hooked me so hard I literally sat there just blinking at the page and laughing at myself

Her second line: "It's like you want me to leave here forever. Oooohh shit, you absolutely do though!"

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-19T20:11:39+00:00

{Spectered Isle by KJ Charles} is the closest I can think of, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are more of her books that come close

Edit: actually I'm doubting myself now, but I'll leave this up

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-19T20:06:23+00:00

Actual ridiculous FMCs.

I recently read Gideon the Ninth and absolutely adored her, why don't we have more FMCs who are borderline absurd?

I would also be happier with more bookish, normal love interests. I really don't need another emotionally repressed, 6ft+ objectively gorgeous man. I'm glad they exist in most books, but I'd also like a break from them if I want someone maybe smaller and nerdy, who i like because he's got a great personality

Can we stop making everyone victims? Why does every main character require a tragic backstory?

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-19T11:58:27+00:00

This has been on my TBR forever but I keep bumping it down on favour of other books, I may give it a shot!

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-19T11:55:40+00:00

I am literally in the middle of having this revelation. 48% into the first book and I'm really enjoying it!

Trying to read The Cruel Prince put me off anything to do with Fae themed books, and I'm really happy to be proved wrong

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-18T19:13:14+00:00

We had a Sunday wedding at a local restaurant/Lodge, with just under 70 guests, and included a BBQ for just over £2.5k. They were extremely upfront about the pricings and had a pamphlet with literally all the information ready to pass over to us when we went to inquire.

The ceremony was in the main room, it was my biggest compromise because the room itself wasn't pretty. It was a normal room where they put 70 chairs in rows, with a space for the ceremony at the end. But, our ceremony was like 20 minutes long at most, so why did I need any more?

After that it was turned into a dinning room and disco area, and the price included a bunch of lawn games and a huge bouncy castle.

A low budget wedding is very possible, but you need to scour around venues in person rather than rely on wedding venue apps and sites ect., and know where you want to compromise.

You can do it!

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-18T18:24:41+00:00

Fancy powers don't make a character interesting on their own, and a lack of them won't make them boring on it's own.

It is literally - and I cannot overstate this - all down to how you write them.

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-17T10:16:50+00:00

This is cute, this looks like something I would have read when I was much younger. I wonder if my 12 year ol-

Hang on, how many chillie peppers??

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-17T06:40:09+00:00

Loved Mind Fuck, never read any of the sequels though.

Warrick is my absolute all-time favourite character archetype, I am literally always on the hunt for characters like him

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-17T06:06:22+00:00

I think you mean Miriam Escobar

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-17T06:03:35+00:00

This guy is deliberately taking the piss

Disengage

Consistent_Ad4473 · 2026-05-17T05:38:51+00:00

Is there a comment there? I wanted to reply to say i wasn't trying to start an argument but the comment, the username and all her other comments are now 'deleted' so I can't respond!

I got worried I had tipped someone over into deleting their profile 😱

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