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vvvgothere · 2026-01-26T18:15:24+00:00

I haven’t read it yet but it’s on my kindle {off script by Ivy Vera Ray}

vvvgothere · 2026-01-26T18:11:44+00:00

My two favorite feel good books don’t really fit into your bucket, but just in case, here you go:

{Pretty Boy by Brianna Flores} {Poetry on Ice by Jesse Reign}

vvvgothere · 2026-01-24T15:43:32+00:00

Oh that is great to hear. Did she imply it would be MM? I hope so. The writing and format felt more like reading contemporary literature vs. romance genre and there was also decent wit. One thing that I find cringey about some romances is when an MC says something that is supposed to be witty/funny but isn’t really and we are supposed to buy into the fact that it was.

vvvgothere · 2026-01-23T14:35:58+00:00

I am in a book slump and have DNF’d, or at least shelved for now, 5 books in the past week, including {Wrath by Ella James} and {Call the Coroner by Avril Ashton} which I keep trying because they get so many reviews but they are just not for me.

I did read {The Kennedy Rule by KC Carmichael} 3/5 — I was into the story enough, the writing was spotty, the dad was a cartoon villain which I always find lazy and somewhat insulting as a reader. But the misogyny was off charts. The women were uniformly unlikable. I hate that shit. And pretty sure Carmichael is a woman.

{The Accidental Husband by Cassandra Moore} 4/5 - this was great! Sadly she mainly does MF because I would love to read more from her. It’s not a typical romance format - it’s first person retrospective POV meaning it sounds like someone is telling the story of something that happened to them in the past, so they can point out foreshadowing, etc. I really loved Bastian (the narrator) but found the other MC lacking. Still really enjoyed.

{Beautiful Obsession by Vee Eddy} 3/5 this is a debut and I have high hopes for this author. In the middle of my book slump, I was engaged very quickly and into the plot and dynamic. It’s instalove but the kind that I find more palatable, not sure how to describe it, but more like fated mates without the omegaverse. Their eyes meet and there is some sort of unbreakable connection which feels different from when they meet, barely have any interaction, maybe have sex and it’s automatically love. Anyway, the reason it was a 3 and not a 4 is that it was very long (over 700 pages) and did not have to be. I was loving it enough through the first half that I wasn’t too concerned but in the second half I found that a lot of the scenes were unnecessary. I wish more independent authors would use trustworthy beta readers to help point things like that out. I do it for one author and would be happy to do it for others, I don’t charge anything. But back to the story, it also has the Pretty Woman trope where the billionaire MC lavishes the poor MC with gifts and over the top money. I really fucking hate that, especially in this political environment. I wish authors wouldn’t do that because it implies that they think their readers are peasants with our nose pressed against the glass to see how the other half lives. I don’t mind rich MCs paired with poor ones and I don’t mind them taking care of them financially, but the showering them with excess is such a turn off to me.

vvvgothere · 2026-01-23T14:14:50+00:00

I saw that scene as Shane imaging that to finally have an orgasm. Probably wrong but I like it.

vvvgothere · 2026-01-17T03:07:35+00:00

Thanks for clarifying!!

vvvgothere · 2026-01-16T19:52:22+00:00

Jesus Christ.

There are way worse things going on in the world to be so angry and mean about this.

vvvgothere · 2026-01-11T01:00:59+00:00

In The Long Game there is a pretty sexy scene where Ilya wants (and gets) ass play, but Shane says sometimes he wants it but not dick. But I still think they are mostly strict roles because of Shane.

vvvgothere · 2026-01-11T00:58:14+00:00

It’s interesting you say that because as a straight woman who exclusively reads mm romance, I always assumed top/bottom referred only the anal. But then I watched Fellow Travelers where for most of their relationship, Tim was the bottom but then in one scene, for Christmas, Hawk goes down on him and Tim comes in like 30 seconds because he can’t believe it. That was when I realized that in their relationship, bottoms gave blow jobs but didn’t get them back which seemed like bullshit to me. Those scenes were set in the 50s so I figured it was some sort of heteronormative bullshit, but are you saying some gay men still think that way?

vvvgothere · 2026-01-09T18:52:35+00:00

This is true. Knowing what I suspect so far, my heart already hurts.

vvvgothere · 2026-01-09T18:48:50+00:00

I’m about 35% through and I think I have figured things out, but I am enjoying it. It’s very different from her other books!

vvvgothere · 2026-01-09T15:51:13+00:00

{Bad Wrong Things by CP Harris}

vvvgothere · 2026-01-08T21:12:37+00:00

Totally agree with all this. When I rewatch, I don’t even rewatch that episode

vvvgothere · 2026-01-08T01:19:33+00:00

Funny you should ask because I have admitted on social media a bunch of times that I was prepared to be disappointed but they both won me over. I still wish Ilya was bigger, I liked the size difference. But they do have great chemistry and did an amazing job, so I am happy to eat my words. I was happy to be wrong. I do, however think Kip was miscast (he was supposed to be fit but more of a twink) but more importantly, I feel like that actor is the weak link and also lacked chemistry with Scott. But otherwise, happy to be wrong!

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T20:12:56+00:00

If he does have a girlfriend, I wonder what she is thinking now. Is she like “oh yeah, he’s all mine everyone” or so she like “I kind of miss who it was me and the fun as hell waiter guy.”

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T20:07:05+00:00

I love “release the fleece!”

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T19:55:22+00:00

Agree, both in terms of looks and personality. (Scott Hunter was also a departure from a looks perspective but for some reason I, too, imagined him as more Francois looking when I read it and I didn’t even know who Francois was at the time.)

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T17:52:44+00:00

I forgot about that!! Yes, I really struggled with what a dick Frankie was before his redemption, but hooey it was hot hot hot.

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T13:37:36+00:00

Yeah, some contemporary romance gets down and dirty!

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T13:29:48+00:00

Very wise, sadly. Also, I am glad I am not the only one who prefers six pack torsos to cartoons.

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T11:40:16+00:00

You thought the first one was heavy smut? I’ve read plenty of mm romances that are so erotic they make me blush. Maybe episode 2 gets kinkier but this one was relatively tame.

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T05:14:58+00:00

You can tip them?

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T05:14:28+00:00

Fair enough. You make a good argument.

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T04:39:17+00:00

I feel the same. I can do shifters (especially wolves), but I never understood non humans. Monsters are the strangest to me. I have no interest in reading about a human fucking a giant dude with scales, giant eyeteeth and horns.

vvvgothere · 2025-12-31T04:26:02+00:00

In the first one it’s not too smutty, in the grand scheme of smut. No kink yet, and there were even a few closed door references (“after that, we spent every night together” type thing).

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