• Bookish,  WLW Wednesday

    WLW Wednesday — 7 Oct 2020

    7th October 2020

    WLW Wednesday is a bookish meme among bloggers who read sapphic books. Hosted by Sasha and Amber @ Sasha and Amber Read, we are encouraged share our recent wlw/sapphic reads every week or two.

    Time for my bi-weekly sapphic update! This time, I read a bit more than the previous two weeks, and I am pretty proud of myself for that. Life is still messy, but my reading schedule is slowly getting back on track.

    Over the past two weeks, I’ve read three sapphic novels (one YA fantasy, one adult romance, one romance/erotica) and one sapphic novella (adult romance). For more info on Goodreads, click on the covers.

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  • ARCs,  Book Reviews,  Fiction

    Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust | ARC Review

    27th September 2020
    Cover of Girl, Serpent, Thorn (Melissa Bashardoust)

    Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust, read by Nikki Massoud

    AUDIOBOOK REVIEW

    Content warnings: kidnap, torture, murder

    This is a breathtaking and artful retelling of Persian mythology and fairy tales. From the beginning of story, I fell in love with Bashardoust’s writing and Massoud’s narration.

    Yeki bood, yeki nabood. There was, and there was not a cursed, poisonous girl named Soraya (18, bi+). She was the young shah’s twin sister, but kept away from everyone because of her venomous veins, deadly upon touch. When the shah captured a div—parik Parvaneh, Soraya knew she owed herself to seek answers of her own curse from the prizoner. And then there was Azad, a young man who understood her, giving Soraya the unconditional acceptance and love she craved the most, despite her poison. As she learned that the only way to undo her curse was to put her family’s lives at risk, would Soraya exchange their safety—a family who were ashamed of her monstrous quality—for her own human self, or keep herself tucked away for the rest of eternity?

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  • WLW Wednesday

    WLW Wednesday — 23 Sep 2020 (+ A Bit of Life Update)

    23rd September 2020

    WLW Wednesday is a bookish meme among bloggers who read sapphic books. Hosted by Sasha and Amber @ Sasha and Amber Read, we are encouraged share our recent wlw/sapphic reads every week or two.

    As promised, I am posting biweekly no matter how bad my reading progress is as long as I had read at least one sapphic book. Since I am somewhat struggling to settle down after moving halfway across the globe and also a ton of brand-new schoolwork, I spent probably a total four hours reading one school-assigned book and one hour on leisure read over the past ten days. Not a great time for me, but I’m hoping to read at least one book per week from now on. I know! Compared to me reading four books per week a few weeks ago, it pains me to say that school does not grant me the luxury of reading that much anymore. But I am going to allocate “reading” time on my planner everyday, and hopefully work on time management to read and review more!

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  • ARCs,  Book Reviews,  Fiction

    The Holiday Detour by Jane Kolven | ARC Review

    16th September 2020
    Cover of The Holiday Detour (Jane Kolven)

    The Holiday Detour by Jane Kolven

    Content warnings: misgendering from main character and minor character, car accident, recalling parental loss

    As someone who is both genderqueer and sapphic, The Holiday Detour is very difficult for me to review. I wanted to love it so badly but I didn’t. I appreciate Kolven writing a sapphic story featuring an f/gq relationship however, so I rounded up my rating. There are too many issues that kept me from fully enjoying the story, but it was nonetheless chaotically entertaining.

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