#all about the romance

[dyslexic-book-swallower]

Books I've read in 2024 in order

I actually hit 24 books this year, i'm pretty proud of that.

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Eternally yours edited by Patrice Caldwell

Hosently? Meh for me. I hoped for more queerness.

Blurb: Wampires and merfolk, Angles and demons- the stories in this antology imagine worlds where the only thing more powerful than the supernatural...is love.

Percy Jackson and the chalice of the gods

Listennnnn, i always gotta keep op with my fave trio.

Blur: The original Hero. A brand-new adventure. Percy Jackson has saved the world muiltple times- battling monster, titans, even giants- but these days the moden-day son of poseidon is hoping for a regular final year at school. Too bad the Greek gods have other plans, and three new quests for Percy to complete. First up: The cupbearer for the gods, Ganymede, is missing his golden chalice. Not only is this embarrssing (Why do the gods keep losing their magical items?), it's also potentially disastrous. One sip from the cup will turn any mortal into a powerful god. And the old gods do not take kindly to newbies. Can Percy and his friends Annabeth and Grover find te chalice before it falls into the wrong hands? And even if they do, will they be able to resist it's awesome power...?

the others ones

Okay, i know this is like my 3 or more re-read. But i was in a read-slump sooo.....

Blurb: Sal hates standing out. But he lives in a haunted house- and everyone know it. His oldest friend, Dirk, tries to help...but he wants to stay popular, and Sal isn't helping. Elsie was popular- until rescently. Now she's on the outcast's table too...and she doesn't want to talk about it. Then there's the new boy, Pax, who won't leave Sal alone. His idea of a good time is hanging out in graveyards. And for some reason. Sal just can't stay away. Meet the other ones Can they banish their ghosts together?

The problem with perfect

Like a bullet straight through my heart.

Blurb: When style is everything, will Ethan learn that true beauty is on the inside. When LGBTQ syle icon Chase Myles goes missing before the live Pride broadcast for his hit TV show, Pporducer Ethan Wells' career hangs in the balance. Ethan tracks down Chase's estranged twin brother, Beaeu, to pass him off as Chase for a week - but finds a hairy, rugged mountain man, the complete opposite of his brother... Can Ethan transform Beau into Chase, fool his bosses and save his job? And when Beau turns out to be caring, romantic and everything his twin is not, does he really want Chase back, anyway?

Drengene fra Sankt Petri

I read this for school and it was pretty good. Since it's danish and i don't wanna go online for a blurb, i'll leave it here. Google it if you want.

I kissed Shara Wheeler

Um ma'am, this was bad......like what the hell where'd the quality go?? Good idea but....something just didn't click for me

Blurb: A month before graduating, te princial's perfect daughter, prom queen Shara Wheeler, kisses Chole Green and vanishes. On a furious hunt for answers, Chole finds she's not the only one Shara kissed. There's also Smith, Shara's long-time sweetheart and Rory, Shara's bad-boy neighbour. Thrown into an unlikely alliance, Chole, Smith, and Rory follow a trail of Shara's annoyingly cryptic clues, and Chole starts to suspect that there might be more to Shara thn she thought.

The king is dead

Strange but, kinda okay.

Blurb: A royal family like you've never seen before. Life was always going to be difficlut for the first Black and queer heir to the throne. So when James is crowned king at seventeen, all eyes are on him, and before long the secrets and scandals he's hidden behind smoke and mirrors rear their ugly heads. When myserious green envelopes start appearing ing the palace threatening to expose every last skeleton in the royal closet, James becomes certain of one thing... Trust nobody.

Let's talk about it

Let's face it, lots of us have been failed by public school sex ed. You gotta do something about it.

Blurb: You know all those things no one wants to talk about? How do you find the answers to all the questions you have about yourself, your identity and your body? Let's talk about it provides a comprehenive, thoughful, well-researched guide to everything you need to know. Covering relationships, friendships, gender, sexuality, anatomy, body image, safe sex, sexting, jealousy, rejection, and more, Let's talk about it is the go-to handbook for everyone.

The only light left burning

I waited 2 whole ass years for this and it was worth it!! (This is a sequel)

Blurb: Andrew and Jamie once saved each other. But the furture together is uncertain. After a dangous journey through a ravaged world, Andrew and Jamie finally found a community. More in love than ever, they begin to build a new life. But it soon becomes clear they want different things: Jamie is ready to move on and take to the road just the two of them. Andrew wants to stay put, and make a home among friends. With a storm brewing up te coast, they are forced back into the wildernes, where old enemies roam, and they don't know who to trust. Can they find their way back to safety... and each other.

The other ones

okay okay I'm a little obsessed but in my defence, i'd jus started at a new school and neededddd my favourite boys!

Blurb: Sal hates standing out. But he lives in a haunted house- and everyone know it. His oldest friend, Dirk, tries to help...but he wants to stay popular, and Sal isn't helping. Elsie was popular- until rescently. Now she's on the outcast's table too...and she doesn't want to talk about it. Then there's the new boy, Pax, who won't leave Sal alone. His idea of a good time is hanging out in graveyards. And for some reason. Sal just can't stay away. Meet the other ones Can they banish their ghosts together?

The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester

Sooo, i loved this book, that's it. Love, gushing love. I'd give my soul to read it for the first time again.

Blurb: Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives- of kids who died before they turned nineteen. Sam was almost of those kids. Now, Sam's own nineteenth birthday approaches, their recent near-death experience haumts them. They're certain they don't have much time left... Still, Sam begins to settle into their new hometown with the help of Shep, whom Sam can't seem to stop thinking about. Yet the past keeps roaring back- in memories and in the form of a thirty-year-old suspicous death. Sam can't resist trying find out more about the kid who died in Sam's new home and who now seems to guide their investigion. When Sam starts receiving threatening notes, they know they're on the path to uncovering a murderer. But is Sam also appoaching their own end?

As far as you'll take me

Good, but a little too close to home for me.

Blurb: He flashes a soft smile at me, the kind of smile that's brimming with possibilty. 'Welcome home, Marty' Marty's headed overseas to London. His parents think he's attending a prestious summer music course; he has the talent for it. Scerectly, through, he doesn't have a place at all - and his plane ticket is one-way. Martyis determined to build a life where he's finally free to be himself. But London's so crowded, with so much to see and learn and do. Together with his gnawing anxiety, it threatens to overhelm him. And then there's Pierce. He's gorgeous, charismatic, and Marty's falling for him. But is Pierce the right boy to be falling for?

The borrow a boyfriend club

I liked it, i don't got more to say.

Blurb:

All Naoh wants at his new school is for everyone to him as his true gender. His plan? Join a club with the word 'boy' in it. Duh. Enter the Borrow a boyfriend club- a top secret club that provides fake boyfriends to their fellow students. But to join, Noah must pass three rounds of tests, the trickiest of which is fake-romancing the popular but prickly club president, Asher, to convince him he has what it takes to bcome a member. But as Noah gets closer to Asher, things start to get complicated. Because the club's mumber one rule? Don't fall in love

Improbable Magic for cynical witches.

Fun, relatable, and yet slightly heartbreaking.

Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft—or to think that her life could be transformed by mysterious forces. After losing her best friend and first love, Chloe, Eleanor has spent the past year in a haze, vowing to stay away from anything resembling romance. But when a handwritten guide to tarot arrives in the mail at the witchy souvenir store where Eleanor works, it seems to bring with it the message that magic is about to enter her life. Cynical Eleanor is quick to dismiss this promise, until real-life witch Pix shows up with an unusual invitation. Inspired by the magic and mystery of the tarot, Eleanor decides to open herself up to Pix and her coven of witches, and even to the possibility of a new romance. But Eleanor’s complicated history continues to haunt her. She will have to reckon with the old ghosts that threaten to destroy everything, even her chance at new love.

Jeg er en hær

This was a crazy read i had to do for school. let's just leave it there for my own serenity

Blurb: Jakob er en 27-årig premierløjtnant, der er glad for sit arbejde, for hæren forvirrer ham aldrig. Der giver alt mening. Det er alt det udenfor, der er forvirrende. Jakob møder Lone på et diskotek. De bliver kærester, og Jakob lover at passe på Lone og hendes søn, Ask. Men det er et svært, når arbejdet sender Jakob til Bosnien og Afghanistan og efterlader Lone og Ask ubeskyttet i en verden, der er gået amok med krig, terror og bilister. JEG ER EN HÆR, der nu er klar i en pocket-udgave, er en roman om de menneskelige og psykologiske aspekter ved at gå i krig og en kærlighedsroman om de helt store tab. Men det er også en historie om venskab, håb og ensomhed. Og om Liverpool Football Club, verdens bedste fodboldhold.

They hate each other

I loved this, enemies to lovers is my jam! Beware of the warnings, i did not see them before i began it.

Blurb: Maybe falling for your enemy isn't as impossible as it seems... There are plenty of words Jonah Collins could use to decribe Dylan Ramìrez. "Arrogant" "Spoiled" and "Golden boy" to name a few. Likewise, Dylan thinks he has Jonah accurately labeled as a whiny attention-seeker who never shuts his filthy mouth. Their friends are convinced Jonah and Dylan'sdisdain for each other is just thinly veiled lust - a rumor that surges like wildfire when the two wake up in one bed after homecoming. Mutually horrified, Dylan and Jonah agree to use the faux pas to their advantage by fake dating. If they can stay convincing long enough to end their "relationship" in a massive staged fight, they can prove to their incompatibilty to their friends once and for all. But the more time they spend together, the more their plan begins to fall apart - and the closer they come to seeing each other clearly for the first time.

Percy Jackson and the wrath of triple goddess

As always, wonderful. Will never abandon this series

Blurb: "Percy Jackson, i am offering you the chance for a recommendation letter from me: A major goddess, the torch bearer-" "The star walker, yeah, i get it. It's just that i'll have to move a few things around on my schedule..." Percy Jackson's plan to have just one regular school year isn't going so well. And it's about to get worse, as the gods have a new quest for him. Percy's next challenge? Pet-sitting for the goddess Hecate. Easy, right? Wrong. When the terrifying pets escape, Percy and his friends must hunt them down or face the full fury of Hecate - and her horrifying three heads...

Always the almost

I fucking loved this, are you in need of trans joy? Give this a shot!

Blurb: A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win back his ex, but a new boy complicates things in this heartfelt debut YA rom-dram. Sixteen-year old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year's resolutions: 1. Win back his ex-boyfriend (And star of the football team) Shane Mclntyre 2. Finally beat his slimy arch-nemesis at the mid-west's biggest classic piano competition. But that's not going to be so easy. for one thing, Shane broke up with Miles two weeks after Miles came out as trans, and now Shane's stubbornly ignoring him, even when they literally bump into each other. Plus, Mile's new slightly terrifying piano teacher keeps telling him that he's playing like he "doesn't know how he is" - whatever that means. Then Miles meets the new boy in town, Eric Mendez, a proudly queer cartoonist from Seattle who asks his pronouns, cares about art as much as he does- and makes his stomach flutter. Not what he needs to be focusing on right now. But after Eric and Miles pretend to date so they can score an invite to a couples-only Valentine's Day party, the ruse turns real with a kiss, which is also definitely not in the plan. If only Miles could figure out why Eric likes him so much. After all, it's not like he's cool or confident or comfortable in his own skin. He's not even good enough at piano to get his fellow competitors to respect him... especially now, as Miles. Nothing's ever been as easy for him as for other people- other boys. He's only ever been almost enough . So why, when he's with Eric, does it feel like the only person he's ever really not been enough for... is himself.

Icarus

This should be a mandatory read, it was absolutely exceptional.

Blurb: Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries. For years one man - the wealthy Mr. Black - has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus'a mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings at bay: Don't let anyone close. Don't let anyone touch you. And, above all, don't get caught Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black, but by his mysterious son, helios, now living under house arrest in the black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios barains for something even more dangerous- a friendship, that breaks every single one of Icarus's rules. As reluctance and distrust become closeness and something more, they uncovered the gilded cage that has trapped both their families for years. One Icarus is determined to escape. But his father's thirst for rent shows no sign of fading, and soon it may force Icarus to choose: the escape he dreamed of, oR the boy he's come to love. reaching for both could be his greatest triumph- or it could be his downfall.

All about the romance

Okayyy, trauma much? I was not ready

Blurb: Roman Bright has always loved love stories. But so far, the seatch to find a love interest for their very own sweeping romance has been totally hopeless. Being an openly gay, queer, non-binary teenager in a smaller northern town means their dating pool is limited. Worse, the only guy they're into - the one they made out with before summer break - has pretty much deined their existence. So when postcards and colourful graffiti sighed by someone called 'Big Red' start showing up for them at school, Roman is shocked to discover they might have a sercet admirer. But when it becomes clear Big Red isn't going to reveal themselves, it's up to Roman to decide whether they're brave enough to make the first move...

Six times we almost kissed (And the one time we did)

This had so much more trauma then i expected, but my god was it good.

Blurb:

Six fun facts about Penny and Tate

1. They've known each other their whole lives 2. Their moms are best friends 3. Penny and Tate are defintely not friends 4. They keep almost kissing 5. They don't talk about it 6. Thanks to their mom, they're moving in together But when 'almost' becomes 'I am now wearing your lip gloss' Penny and Tate have no choice but to finally face the music...

A scatter of light

Like felt like a rediscovering of my own queer self.

Blurb: Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer with her best friends - one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, the artist Joan West. Aria expects boredom, but what she finds Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seems lost becomes unforgettable - For Aria her family and the queer community Steph introduces her to. It's the kind of summer that changes a life forever

The ruthless lady's guide to wizardry

Blurb: Delleria Wells - Petty con artist, occasional thief and partly educated fire witch - is behind on her rent. To make ends meet, Delly talks her way into a guard job in the city of Leiscourt, joining a team of unconventional women to protect an aristocrat from unseen assassins. It looks like easy money and a chance to romance her confident companion Winn - but when did anything in Delly's life go to plan? With the help of a necromancer, a shape shifting schoolgirl and a reanimated mouse named buttons, Delly and Winn find themselves facing an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.

[anothersuperstition]

there was a summer i started collecting knives…

[ionomycin]

All the best boy hugs for Karlach

[trashy-greyjoy]

sometimes, it's not so much about the romance as it is about the devotion. the adoration.

[castielsprostate]

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[undead-potatoes]

*sees two emotionally fucked up people who should be in therapy* what if they kissed

[honestlyitsjustsam]

favourite moments of bg3 -> (5/?)

[umblrspectrum]

happy solvermas

[rendevok]

Moon dance 🌕✨

[sixteenthtry]

Not to be a slut or anything but I'd let him push me down an infinite flight of stairs

[jackietaylorsghost]

FLEABAG (2016) Created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

[whoiskt]

Questions about two of your original characters about their relationship. Should work for friends/lovers/coworkers/enemies/etc, maybe not so much for family, but you're welcome to try!

How did they meet?

How long have these two characters known each other?

What were their first impressions of each other? How does that compare to their impressions of each other now?

How would they describe each other if asked? Physically? In personality?

Do they get along? Why or why not?

Do they have any shared interests/hobbies? Do they ever do these hobbies together?

How often do they see each other? Where do they usually meet?

How do they communicate with each other? Are there any recurring phrases or gestures unique to their relationship?

What is one quality they have in common?

What is one major difference between them?

Does one act as a narrative foil to the other? How so?

Do they have any affection for each other? How do they show it?

Do they have any disdain/contempt for each other? How do they show it?

Do they share the same goals in life?

Do they trust each other? Why or why not?

Is one of them keeping secrets from the other? Why? How would they react if the secret was revealed?

Are they keeping a secret together? How do they feel about that?

Do they view their relationship as temporary or permanent?

Are they satisfied with their relationship? Do they wish they were closer/more distant?

What is their best memory together?

What is their worst memory together?

When were they the most vulnerable with each other?

Do they have any mutual friends? Mutual enemies?

How do these two interact with each other in public versus in private?

If a stranger saw them together, how would they describe their relationship?

How would these characters react to being stuck in a small room with each other?

How far would they go for each other? Would they risk their own lives for each other?

[coldzonkprofessorturtle]

The art of the sleeping sapphic

[timethehobo]

Quick scribble cos I couldn’t get blushing Emmy out of my head. He’s thinking about stuff.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This wine tastes like pigs blood!

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