Rambling Writer and Reader

Author: Annabeth Albert Title:  Burn Zone Publisher: Carina Press Published: 2020 Genre: Contemporary m/m romance Links:  Amazon  /  Bookdepository  /  Goodreads Burn Zone will be published April 27th I'm writing this review as someone who loves Annabeth Albert's books. I love the diversity and the different set of characters she's managing to create. This book has no less diversity or lacks all that much in the characters. But it wasn't for me. For someone who loves pining and internal angst, this is perfect. For me, who likes angst in the small dosage and only if it's done well, wasn't the hugest fan. Nothing much happens besides Jacob's struggles to be seen as an adult, his ever-present attraction to Linc and Linc's struggles with survivor's guilt, promises he's made and the steadily growing adoration/infatuation/attraction/love he has for Jacob. And sure, there's some training, steamy sex scenes (those are always up to task ...

Author: Huda Fahmy Title:  That Can be Arranged Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Published: 2020 Genre: Graphic novel Links:  Adlibris  /  Bokus  /  Goodreads Huda Fahmy brings it once again. Having loved her Instagram-feed and previous book [book:Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab|40538900], of course I had to read this one as soon as it arrived at work. Judge me all you want, but I read this instead of working (although I do work as a librarian, so it could count as work), as I did with the other one. And this was good. I loved little Huda and her parents. I also liked how she described her thoughts about marriage, going from longing for it, to being kind of reluctant, to believing getting married was what defined her, to realizing a man and marriage doesn't make her a better or more worthy person. I loved her discovery of Jane Austen-novels and how she could see herself, her family and her situation through thes...

Author: Rachel Reid Title:  Heated Rivalry Publisher: Carina Press Published: 2019 Genre: Contemporary/sports romance Links:  Amazon  /  Storytel  /  Goodreads Would you look at that, yet another book that has been read because I spend too much time on social media. This time @escape_in_a_book is the felon who made this book present in my tbr. She told us that this is one of the best M/M-romances she's ever read and the  best sports romance. I tend to agree. Not being majorly interested in sports, I don't usually go for it in romance, either. But it happens. This time, I'm glad it did. Heated Rivalry starts out with a hockey game from Shane's POV. It leads to defeat and then a sexual encounter with his biggest rival - Ilya Rozanov. Apparently, this is a thing they do and have done for seven years. Then we're taken back to their first encounter and it all goes down(hill) from there. This book was a pure delight. Being kind of sick of dram...

Author: Huda Fahmy Title:  Yes, I'm Hot in This Publisher: Adams Media Published: 2018 Genre: Collection of comics Links:  Adlibris  /  Bokus  /  Goodreads I am white. Like, ridiculously so. My parents are white. My grand-parents are white. Their parents were white. My husband's white. My kids are so pale and blond, it hurts my eyes to look at them directly when the sun's out. I don't have many friends, but those I have are also white and have a whole line of white people in their families. I am born into a Christian church, but I'm not religious by any stretch of the imagination if you don't count celebrating Christmas. I'm also embarrassingly straight and of a moderate size - not thin, not fat. It's safe to say I'm not one who should talk about discrimination and have very little experience with it. I have very rarely even experienced discrimination towards myself as a woman. That's why I find it so important, for myself, to read book...

Author: TJ Klune Title:  The House in the Cerulean Sea Publisher: Tor Books Published: 2020 Genre: I don't even know. Magical? Romantic? Marvellous? Links:  Bokus  /  Book Depository  /  Goodreads I am an avid Klune fan. His books are the chocolate to my biscuits, the hot bath to my aching limbs, the red wine to my end-of-the-week-tired-ass-mom-nights. I've read and loved (and not reviewed?!) his How to be a Normal Person and How to be a Movie Star, the two first books in the Green Creek-series (it kills you slowly and you're thanking him every step of the way) and his wonderful Tales from Verania, which makes you laugh and cringe and love. The House in the Cerulean Sea was therefor quickly on my radar, even though I was a tiny bit skeptic. A cinnamon roll caseworker investigating orphanages for magical youths didn't sound that much like my cup of tea (I'm here for the romance, after all). But it's Klune , so I clicked the wish for an ARC on Netgall...

Author: Martine Carlsson Title: Rising From Dust Series: Light From Aphelion #1 Publisher: Self published Published: 2016 Genre: Fantasy Links:  Bokus  /  Adlibris  /  Goodreads I was given a complimentary copy of Rising From Dust by the author in exchange for an honest review. To start of, this book is self-published. It's pretty and easy to read and the story moves you forward in rapid succession. It gets you interested from the very start, wondering where this is heading, since the characters can't remember anything from their pasts and we get glimpses of the world. It's also quite the classic high fantasy, with the world building, the story, the characters. But for the fact of Selen and Louis's blossoming relationship. Lissandro isn't as closely described and we don't get to know him quite as well as the other two mains. I'm hoping he gets a bit more screen time, so to speak, in the coming books. Anyway, I liked the relationship, though, it wa...

Författare: Lizette Edfeldt Titel: Brännmärkt Serie: Imperiet Förlag:  Modernista Genre: Dystopi Länkar:  Bokus  /  Adlibris  /  Goodreads På Instagram pågår just nu ett ReadAThon i form av @fantastikathon , som har för avsikt att få en att läsa mer svensk fantastik. Vilket ju är toppen, för jag vill läsa mer av svenska författare. Och här är jag nu, med min tredje utlästa bok (eller ja, andra utlästa, då den tredje var en novell, men detaljer) och jag är så positivt överraskad. Brännmärkt fångade mitt intresse redan när den kom ut, men då var jag trött på dystopier och läste väldigt lite svensk litteratur. På beskrivningen lät den som en intrigfylld YA-dystopi, helt enkelt. Och det är vad den är. Jag tycker att boken kan mäta sig med de amerikanska YA-dystopierna som kräktes ut för några år sedan. Vi har en helt ny dystopisk värld, en överklass som styr med järnhand och flera underklasser som svälter. Hemligheter, familjen framför allt, dödlig vä...