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Title: Hastings
Author: Samantha Kane
Year: 2024
Genres: Historical Romance, Queer
Content Warnings: Minor violence
Pages: 345
Rating: ★★★✩✩
Summary: Can three people who have lived their lives trying to be what other people demand find the happiness that has eluded them when they drop their masks and show each other the real people underneath?
Thoughts: Had some issues with this installment. I feel like any combination of the throuple works on its own, but all of them together feels flat. I've waited years for another book in this series, but this one was really dissapointing, it felt really rushed.
Title: Break and Enter
Author: Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov
Year: 2011
Genres: Short story, Sci-Fi, Romance, Queer
Content Warnings: Minor violence
Pages: 101
Rating: ★★★✩✩
Summary: Ex-Green Beret Victor “Cyke” Kellermann is on the run for a crime he didn’t — well, okay, did commit, but he didn’t realize it at the time. He’s a good guy, a “white hat” hacker for hire. He’s also more teched out than the Bionic Man, though his ailing ’ware creates as many problems as it solves.
Cyke can handle losing blood, even losing consciousness. What he can’t afford is to lose his heart. Distractions like that get people killed — and if he succeeds in unlocking Sentinel Tech’s ugly secrets, he won’t be the only one in the line of fire.
Thoughts: I really liked the story, a little confusing at the beginning but you're able to understand the sci-fi elements better as you read. The lenght is fine considering the plot isn't that complicated and I liked that the story gave room to a little of character grow and a relationship build. I recommend it as a light read if you are into sci-fi stories.
Title: The Crimson Moth
Author: Kristen Ciccarelli
Year: 2024
Genres: Romantasy
Content Warnings: Violence, Characters Death, Blood, Murder, Self-harm
Pages: 416
Rating: ★★★★✩
Summary: On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is.
Thoughts: It was a bit slow in the romance department, but i loved the action, there were plenty of plot twists and the characters were lovable.
Title: La mujer de pie
Author: Chantal Maillard
Year: 2015
Genres: Philosophy, Auto-fiction, Poetry
Content Warnings: N/A
Pages: 320
Rating: ★★★★✩
Summary: La mujer de pie no es un tratado, tampoco es una ficción. Es una invitación a la escucha. Una historia contada en tres registros diferentes. Una historia en busca de argumento. Una reflexión sobre la enfermedad, el fragmento, la discontinuidad de la percepción y la ilusoria creencia en un yo que le diese sentido a la existencia.
Thoughts: This is a philosophical book in Spanish that leaves you on edge. It's full of grief but also hope. It's designed to make you reconsider your place within society in terms of your independence and invites you to think of yourself as a person capable of writing your own life.