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[spotify id=”spotify%3Atrack%3A0IM6uk1mcPhAZyz2LP6SNT&view=coverart” width=”540″ height=”620″ /]Soundtrack to Coming Home by Jay Northcote
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Tonaride Hanasaku Oto ga Shita -Miyoshi Ayato
Love. It comes all of a sudden even to delinquents. A pint-sized punk is fascinated by the earnestness of the black-haired, pessimistic committee chairman; two punks start going out only as a defiance to everyday monotony; and two boys cut classes at their usual spot, the rooftop, where they end up having an adult relationship. Also after that, extras on these three couples. Triple features, satisfaction guaranteed. A compilation of oneshots packed with the follies of youth. Sensei, an impure same-sex friendship, what’s that?
Love these punk homos!
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All Roads Lead to You – Harper Fox
Successful British model Sam was making a big name for himself on the catwalks of Rome when he met and fell head over heels in love with Lauro, a waiter in a pizza restaurant. Lauro, charming and naïve, returned all Sam’s affection, and they enjoyed one passionate summer in the vibrant city and the wild campagna countryside beyond. But Sam had big dreams. He accepted a modelling assignment in New York and left his pizza boy behind.
Now Sam is back, older and wiser. But Lauro is older and wiser too. Can the city of eternal romance work its magic on these two star-crossed lovers?
Cat Sebastian mentioned Harper Fox in an interview as one of the good ones out there. I have been meaning to read her Tyack & Frayne series for some time now. All Roads Lead to You is a mediocre fare and probably not the best representative of the author’s works. It is likable but predictable. Main points of interest for me is the “low-key Don Corleone” part and the glorious Italian food.
Rating:
2.5 Stars – far from hate but not quite a likeSoundtrack: Beautiful People
Artist: Modern English
Album: Pillow Lips(source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15513854-all-roads-lead-to-you)
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The music is weightless and when I sing so am I
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[spotify id=”spotify%3Atrack%3A0nVkOcfkgagjFbshEOUqhb&view=coverart” width=”540″ height=”620″ /]Soundtrack to All Roads Lead to You by Harper Fox
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Senaka made no Kiyori – Kuneida Saika
Ishikawa feels that his relationship with Yamaguchi has entered a stale period. Why is Yamaguchi ignoring him, and how can he get the spark back?
Blah
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San Andreas Shifters: Sumage Solution – G.L. Carriger
Can a gentle werewolf heal the heart of a smart-mouthed mage?
NYT bestseller Gail Carriger, writing as G. L. Carriger, presents an offbeat gay romance in which a sexy werewolf with a white knight complex meets a bad boy mage with an attitude problem. Sparks (and other things) fly.
Max fails everything – magic, relationships, life. So he works for DURPS (the DMV for supernatural creatures) as a sumage, cleaning up other mages’ messes. The job sucks and he’s in no mood to cope with redneck biker werewolves. Unfortunately, there’s something oddly appealing about the huge, muscled Beta visiting his office for processing.
Bryan AKA Biff (yeah, he knows) is gay but he’s not out. There’s a good chance Max might be reason enough to leave the closet, if he can only get the man to go on a date. Everyone knows werewolves hate mages, but Bryan is determined to prove everyone wrong, even the mage in question.
I tuned out most of the time. Always a bad sign.This could have been really good. This could have been epic. This needs better world building, less sex talk and insta-lust, and more focus on shifter issues. There is the supposedly humorous banter but it was mostly just sexual innuendos. I was hoping for shifter vs mage/shifter vs shifter battles, human/mage/shifter politics, more magic stuff but it was mostly smut. There was nothing going on. It really didn’t help that the voices in the audiobook sounds similar. It’s a waste of the shifter and sumage concept. If Max was was an ordinary DMV employee and Biff was a typical biker, it wouldn’t have made any difference to the story. This book is a DNF.
Rating:
1 Star – I feel really sorry for the trees they killed for this book
Soundtrack: Howl
Artist: Florence + the Machine
Album: Lungs(source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35112713-the-sumage-solution)
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You can play it safe, and I wouldn’t blame you for it. You can continue as you’ve been doing, and you’ll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?
J.M. Darhower
