#nordikas

[vaskianvixen]

Devon and Maddox

Part 1/? of queer romance novel aesthetics: Garron Park by Nordika Night

[scatter-the-stars]

From Nothing series by Nordika Night

[nickjgoodsell]

My Review: Garron Park (From Nothing #1): by Nordika Night

Publish Date: April 23rd, 2023Number of Pages: 306 PagesPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre(s): MM Romance, Sports Romance Total Star Rating: 4 Stars 𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑴𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕-𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎.“ – Nordika Night, “Garron Park” What It’s About: The official synopsis: Garron Park, where hope dies and no one ever gets ahead. Until… __ When…

[queeraroace]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Garron Park, From Nothing series Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Xavier Kane/Nathan Sawyer, Xavi/Nate Characters: Xavier Kane, Maddox Kane, Nathan Sawyer, Devon Sawyer Additional Tags: I know a third book in the series is coming out, but im an impatient bastard, Threesomes, Gay Awakening, bi awakenings?, Best Friends to Lovers, Childhood Friends to Lovers Summary:

Xavi and Nate finally talk about their feelings after a particularly hot threesome. Then, they do something about it.

[wendysbooknook]

Quote:

“The rain cooled our burning skin, but Maddox burned us up. The thunder echoed through the trees, but Maddox growled louder. The lightning sizzled in the air, but our chemistry outshone any electrical storm. The wind whipped at our exposed bodies, but Maddox shielded me from all storms but his own.” - Nordika Night, "Lot 62"

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[bitoffanlove]

Garron Park/Lot 62

Have I read them? Yes!

Am I currently rereading them? Yes!

I am so excited for the third book. This story and the characters make me smile, laugh and feel so much!

[i-dont-read]

my June 2023 book ratings

# of books read: 4

Better With You series by Briar Prescott

The Dating Experiment (#2) ★★★★☆

The Inconvenient Love (#4) ★★★★☆

LOT 62 (From Nothing #2) by Nordika Night ★★★★☆

Unfortunate (Unlucky 13 #3) by Nicole Dykes ★★☆☆☆

[necessary-quotation-marks]

It isn’t really healthy, but maybe the thrill of knowing that, and the incapacity to care, is adding to the allure.

Nordika Night (Red Flags & Tuesdays)

[btass99]

My review of ‘Garron Park’ by Nordika Night

3 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[tinapsychocat]

Books like Spatort

I sorted some books by how similar to Spatort they are.

Was wir verschweigen, Arttu Tuominen: A cop has to investigate the murder committed by his childhood bestie. They have a history, 5* Very similar to Spatort

Short reviews:

The binding (Die verborgenen stimmen der Buecher) , Bridget Collins: Bad memories can be bound into books, to free your mind from them, but is this such a good thing? 5* lovely magical realism

Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra: 4 teenagers get into trouble, consequences into adulthood, revenge served cold, 5* great story

Mystic River, Dennis Lehane: Cop investigates the murder of his childhood bff's daughter, other friend is the suspect, 5* very well told

The wishing game (Das Wunschspiel) , Patrick Redmond: boarding school in the 50s, black magic and toxic friendship (or could it be sweet and innocent?), 5* dark academia, couldn't stop reading

Garron Park, Nordika Night: Enemies to lovers with bad fathers and hurt/comfort, 4.5* it has only one bed trope while being enemies *chef's kiss*

Feldpost, Mechtild Borrmann: WW2 Germany, forbidden romance, 5* occasionally reads like ARD describing Spatort

A little life (Ein wenig Leben), Hanya Yanagihara: 4 friends living in New York, we follow Jude who never talks about his childhood, 5* like Spatort hurt/comfort fanfic without the comfort. Beautifully written

These violent delights, Micah Nemerever: 2 college friends from different backgrounds, 3.5* Story is kind of stupid and pointless but I enjoyed the toxic friendship/relationship

Violence begets, PT Denys: Teenagers helping each other survive with their bad fathers, romance ensues, ends badly, 4* there's a sequel but I didn't like how it continued.

[bestillmyslashyheart]

"I just want to hate you, have you, fuck you, and fight with you. That’s it."

- Garron Park by Nordika Night

[ritzcrackee]

may tbr post yayy

rereads are marked by a ☆, new reads are marked by a ♡, and new acquisitions are bolded

physical tbr: 15

more letters from a nut - ted l. nancy ♡

fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury ♡

little (grrl) lost - charles de lint ♡

dracula - bram stoker ♡

dune - frank herbert ♡

dune messiah - frank herbert ♡

frankenstein - mary shelley ♡

juilet takes a breath - gabby rivera ♡

sense and sensibility - jane austen ♡

stories of people and civilization, greek ancient

origins - lindsay powell, j. k. jackson ♡

the silent stars go by - dan abbet ♡

touched by an angel - johnathan morris ♡

the handmaids tale - margaret atwood ✩

the testaments - margaret atwood ♡

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the

universe - benjamin alire sáenz ✩

digital tbr: 4

pandora's jar: women in the greek myths - natalie haynes ♡

providence girls - morgan dante ♡

cemetery boys - aiden thomas ♡

if you could see the sun - ann liang ♡

read: 11

an education in malice - s. t. gibson - 3.5/5

i have,,, conflicted feelings on this book. it was good, the action was interesting, the characters were complex, the vibes were impeccable, but,,,,, idkkk.... i can't even verbalize it but there was something about this that just made it a slog to get through.

i can't help myself from comparing it to a dowry of blood, which i feel had a much cleaner execution of very similar themes. dracula felt charasmatic, he felt gravitational, he felt like a person you would give up humanity for. de lafontaine felt,,,, like a mean professor. carmilla and laura constantly wax on about how brilliant and intoxicating she is, but i never felt that. s.t. gibson can write an obsessive, imbalanced, interesting relationship! they can write it very well! so i don't understand why this fell flat for me.

overall, i think this book was disjointed. it felt like a collection of vibey scenes and quotes to put on your instagram. (which, to be fair, the quotes are banger. and the vibes are so so vibes.) i liked it, but i don't know how long it'll stay on my shelf.

maneater - emily antoinette - 2.5/5

tbh i don't have much to say abt this 👍 it was an ok book 👍

hot button issue - catrina bell - 2.5/5

i liked seeing more of this world! the couple wasn't really my thing but thats more of a me issue (get it? no? ok) i do wish there was a little more roller derbying but overall this was cool.

wild is the witch - rachel griffin - dnf

cool concept but the writing style was too repetitive for my taste 👍

luxuria - colette rhodes - dnf

i didn't like this book whoopsies. i wanted to actually try fantasy romance instead dismissing the entire genre but ummm. yeah no i don't like fantasy romance. not my thing. paranormal besties please take me back ill never stray again 🙏

garron park - nordika night - 1/5

ok so. well. where do i even start with this book. extremely silly to, at 25 years of age, call someone your enemy. are you five? are you five years old? everyone certainly swears like a five year old. tiny baby writing tip: maybe keep the word fuck to, like, once a paragraph.

additionally, you can create tension without violence sometimes! if your main characters have confessed their undying love to each other, probably they can talk to eachother for four seconds! probably they don't need to punch eachother as much! probably, a change in their actions and words would show the audience how much their relationship has grown.

i also wasn't super into how many times the main characters brothers brought up how sexy they were? kind of a weird move. certainly not something i would choose to say about my own brother, nor my best friends brother! maybe thats just me though who knows

it was genuinely just edgy k-pop wattpad poverty-porn yaoi but? i did read 300 pages in one sitting so? points for that? you get 1 point for that.

rebel girls - elizabeth keenan - 2.5/5

second pro-choice book i've read this month so thats cool! guess we have a theme going. tbh i don't have much to say about this. the characters were interesting, if lacking in depth. the plot was fine, if lacking in depth. the messaging was good, if lacking in depth. i guess this book was overall, lacking in depth. i'm sure my local free little library will appreciate it. 👍

undergrounders - j. e. glass - 2.5/5

this is just the month of the perfectly average books huh? everybody's getting 2.5 stars skdisjdj.

anyways, i wanted to see if my issue with luxuria was actually its genre, or if it was the overwhelming hetero of it all. so i read a queer fantasy romance! with all of the tropes i like! and i still didn't enjoy it :(. i am glad that i tried this, but i can say with absolute certainty now that fantasy romance is not for me.

the main couple was sooooo cutes though and the side characters were sooooo cutes and the worldbuilding was v v v cool! if you like sapphic fantasy romance? absolutely reccomend this book!

the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins - 3/5

girl this is why u reread books bcus i used to tell people that this was my favorite book ever. it is not. idk why i thought that.

ANYWAYS this was alright. i liked how easy the themes were to pick up on, the ambiguous ending, and listening to coriolanus justify his weird evil behavior. that was cool. i didn't like um lucy gray. not because she was bad, but because she felt like a non-character yk? i thought she had some pretty cool characterization in the beginning, especially surrounding her being a performer (being a parallel to coriolanus) but then she kind of fell off and just became a stock Trusting Girlfriend. which was meh. i'm excited to watch the movie, snow lands on top or whatever 👍

cultish: the language of fanaticism - amanda montell - 4/5

this was very cool to learn about and easy to digest 👍. not a full 5/5 because it was nonfiction so i wasn't obsessed with it, but definitely more engaging than most other nonfiction books I've read.

fox court - nora sakavic - 1/5

started reading this because i heard that it was like,,, bad but addictive? like full wattpad nonesense but u look up and you've finished the whole series in one sitting yk? it was,,, not that way for me. i thought it was boring, confusing, and the characters were sooo unlikable. ik this has a pretty big fandom on here please don't come for me sowwyy um. yeah

last months goal: finish a reread

WOO HOO i did it this time! gold star for me, best reader in the whole world. this was really easy, because i genuinely couldn't remember a single thing about a ballad of songbirds and snakes, so it felt like i was reading a brand new book. i also said that i wanted to carve away a more sizable chunk of my tbr this month, which i kind of did? i only read 3 physical books, but i got rid of almost an entire shelfs worth because my family was having a yard sale! so yk. vibes.

this months goal: ... finish dune

LOOK LOOOK STOP THROWING TOMATOES AT ME LOOK ok. last time this was a lofty goal filled with folly and big dreams and it was stupid. THIS TIME i literally only have 257 pages left. which is actually so reasonable. if i read 50 pages a night before bed that's only 5 days of reading. i can straight up do this one this time I PROMISE.

[scatter-the-stars]

Dying over these special editions!

[dovingly]

Nordika 🌫️

[rosyandraw]

I would love to know what other books you like 💛

Omg this is so wholesome of you, how long do you have? lmao

Here is a collection of the books I have read recently and loved:

Garron Park by Nordika Night (MM enemies to lovers)

Fake Out by Eden Finley (MM fake relationship)

Far From Neverland by Rylee Hale (Grown-up Peter Pan/Captain Hook)

Once Upon a Broken Heart and Ballard of Never After by Stephanie Garber (The Jacks from Caraval trilogy)

Life After Death by Damien Echols (Autobiography from the west memphis three accused)

Illegitimate Authority by Noam Chomsky (non-fiction political look at the decline of democracy in the US)

Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton (non-fiction and speaks for itself haha)

And here are some of my longer-term-love-affairs:

The Vampire Chronicles

The Hobbit

Pride and Prejudice

Red, White, and Royal Blue

A Song of Ice and Fire

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom

Good Omens

Harry Potter (I know, I know, but I still love it so much despite JK)

The Outsiders

Slaughter House Five

Frankenstein

Private Peaceful

The Help

I read a lot of different genres but this is all the stuff that came to mind immediately haha

I could also do a list of books I absolutely loathe and I think that would be a lot longer hahaha! What about you? What's your favourite book?

[wendysbooknook]

Quote:

"“If we can go from hating each other to loving each other, we can do anything, Devon.” There. Sweetness without insult. I was practically Shakespeare. - Nordika Night, "Lot 62"

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜