#Dungeons and drama

[sglilac]

Still not 100% done but 💖💖💖

[deadbytbr]

I just want a found family like those in books and fiction. Is it too much to ask?

[kathaynesart]

ROTTMNT Fan Season 3 Update

A peek at some concept art for my Dungeons and Drama episode pitch! Will have to wait and see if it gets picked :)

[reedreadsbooks]

YA Books About Playing D&D

Books:

Losing Hit Points by Kristopher Mielke

Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce

The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall

[gildedlibraries]

dungeons and drama by kristy boyce

"he leans forward so his chest presses against my back. 'i like when you mess with me. i like everything you do with me.'"

[ritz-stimzz]

...💗 ❤ 💛 × 💙 💗 ❤ × 💛 💙 💗...

[renreadsstuff]

So. I just finished Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce… can I just say I might’ve found my new favorite book????

Wow 5 stars. 10/10. 100% will be thinking about this book for the rest of the week. I’m not usually one for a romance book but fake dating?! Sign me up! And they play dnd? And work in a game store? And talk about musicals?? It was such a freaking good book. I shall forever be thinking about these two cuties-

[bibliophilecats]

Read recently: Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce

What I was looking for: Pretty much what the cover teases - D&D and musical in a high school romance

What I liked: Riley sounds like a teenager would argue her case while not being overly annoying. And Riley herself is quite fun to follow. I also liked that the D&D group weren't depicted as overly-comic geeks but that they are just high school students with different interests. The best part was the way the relationship with her father developed. 

Conclusion: At first, I thought there would be much more drama between Riley and her ex in the third act regarding the musical (unfair taking away of her work or similar) but I am happy this did not happen. Not that there isn't drama, just not the kind I feared. A fun YA romance which was actually better than I had hoped.

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4.5/5

Book Blurb: When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks!

Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop.

Riley can't waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous.

But Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan's Dungeons & Dragons game…or that role playing would be so fun. Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn't require as much acting as she would've thought...

Review:

When musical theater lover Riley is forced to work for her dad's game shop, the last thing she expects is to enter into a fake dating arrangement with the nerdy guy to help him make his gamer-girl crush jealous, or to even fall for him. Riley may have stolen her mom's car to go see Waitress with her best friend... despite not having a driver's license. When her mom finds out she grounds Riley and makes her spend her time working at her father's game shop. Riley can't think of anything worse, especially since her father and her are distant and he seems to care more about his game shop than actually spending time with her.... yet as she works there she begins to realize that maybe that's not the case at all. While working there she meets Nathan, a nerdy guy who loves D and D and has a crush on a fellow gamer-girl. When Riley runs into her ex, she pretends that Nathan is her boyfriend... and then they both come into a new agreement, Nathan pretends to be Riley's boyfriend to get her ex off her back and she'll help make Nathan's crush jealous so he can finally get with her. Yet the more time Nathan and Riley spend together pretending to fall for one another the more they actually begin to fall. Can they figure out what's real and all part of the game? This was a really cute romance read and I loved the chemistry between Riley and Nathan. It's a fun fake dating read and the theater kid x dnd nerd was a cute trope too. This was a overall really sweet read and a fun time!

*Thanks Netgalley and Random House Children's, Delacorte Press for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

So I've been playing dnd with my campaign fot over a month (wow) and I figured I'll tell you some fun stuff about it :3

(Thank you @waywardwizzard for being the funnest DM ever. And for doing the spicy scens with me)

So the characters are; Skye, the half-elf with a heart of gold and a positive air, yet won't take shit from anybody. She's here to find what happened to her missing mother, and she has daddy issues! Then we got Verwin, whose the quiet, badass type. They're pretty chill and can handle themselves great, despite being a three-foot tall gnome. And finally there's my boy Penkin (mine). He's your classic loser-yet-slutty bard who's off looking for his best friend/homoerotic buddy. Together they are set of on a quest regarding solving the murders of certain members of a small religion.

On the way silly stuff happens!

They meet the bartender, Riv, a gruff man who secretly likes us a lot. He's our dad(dy)

Then Penkin flirts his way into the heart of a shy elfin wizard named Braern, who end up joining their quest because he's THAT into Penkin (awful taste-)

Skye gets sparkly eyeshadow.

Penkin eats a spicy pastry from hell.

Angsty stuff happenes.

They meet a circus.

Aaaand I'll add more stuff as I remember them/they happen.

[flufflepuff-reads]

Dυɳɠҽσɳʂ αɳԃ Dɾαɱα (Spoiler Free Review)

Aυƚԋσɾ: Kristy Boyce Rҽʅҽαʂҽ: 9th January 2024 Gҽɳɾҽ: Young adult romance, (fake dating) Rαƚιɳɠ: 3.5

"𝐇𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐈'𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭"

Pɾҽɱιʂҽ:

Riley Morris is a musical loving teenager, forced to work at her dads gaming store, after getting in trouble for stealing her mothers car. There she has to work with Nathan Wheeler, unlike her he has a lot of passion for board games and adores her fathers shop. Even though they can't stand each other, the two of them agree to fake-date to make both Riley's ex and Nathan's current crush jealous. So Riley joins Nathan's current DnD campaign as the party's bard.

“𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥. 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐩.”

Rҽʋιҽɯ:

Is the premise new and inventive? No. Is the writing good tho? Sadly, also no. Terrible even in some instances... but did I enjoy it? Hell yeah. Listen this book, objectively, is not good, but I just had to buy it because I LOVE musicals, dnd and this absolutely adorable cover. This book had a lot of aspects that really bothered me at the start, for example that the main characters started out extremely unlikeable, thank god it changed. However it did not change through character growth, it just changed, suddenly. Another thing was that the reason Riley had a difficult relationship with her dad just felt so stupid, like I genuinly can't. Still, despite all that, I loved it, the book had me giggling and kicking my feet at the end. Not only is the romance adorable, but I also just loved to see Riley's original feelings towards DnD change and her absolutely loving life as a bard. A second book is going to come out soon, turning this into a series and I definetly plan on reading it! I'm just a little sad it's about a new couple and not Riley and Nathan.

⭐⭐⭐.5

[sglilac]

I may have bitten off more than I can chew but fuck it we ball

[lizanneyoung97]

ARC REVIEW: DUNGEONS AND DRAMA BY KRISTY BOYCE

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TROPES

Enemies to Lovers

Fake Dating

Like any other teen, Riley gets in trouble with her parents. Except this time her punishment is to work at her dad’s game store. The store is a bit of a sore subject since Riley feels her father chose the store over his family in the divorce, but she finds some positive in it as she makes new friends and joins in a game of D&D.

I’m always a sucker for a fake-dating story because I love to see what the reason behind the heist is. This one is pretty standard, getting back at an ex and trying to impress a crush. It’s a fun story as Riley and Nathan, a teen who works the store, fake it until the lines begin to blur for the both of them.

I wish there had been a bit more characterization with Riley. She goes through a ton over the course of the story, all of which are relatable to the audience, but it feels like her characterization happens off-page. Suddenly she’s just ready for different things or has realizations, but we don’t really get to see that process.

Thank you to the publisher and TBR Beyond Tours for a chance to read an eARC.

[petratherrock]

Currently reading this and I love it

It's just up my alley of romcom, light, enemies to lovers (well, not really enemies per se), fake dating, geeks, high school romance

Admittedly, I initially chose this because of the cover (love the art!) and the two elements; musicals and rpg boardgames!lol

*le sigh, cue me wondering why I didn't have my own chapters of enemies to lovers fake dating in high school 😔🌸

[reedreadsbooks]

finished Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce last night and am surprised by how much i loved it. I would never normally pick up a hetero romance but as a ttrpg player and ex-theatre kid it seemed too perfect to not read (also the cover is STUNNING) and it was really really fun! it’s not perfect, there are definitely a few things i could pick apart about it, but i had a great time reading it.

(picture of said stunning cover because i’m obsessed with it)

[cozy-kit-cafe]

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