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brittneyberendt · 11 months

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So if you know, you know. This author has some of my absolute favorite series. New Species, Cuborg Seduction, VLG, Zorn Warriors, Mating Heat, and more.

The overarching plot is never rushed. The heroines are well written (yeah I’m looking at you Bella Swan) and multidimensional. The romance is steamy and tasteful, and home girl has a pretty regular release schedule. I mean she’s no Ruby Dixon or Jessamyn Kingley with monthly releases but we’re getting at least one new book a year.

This is however a rant, and today I would like to discuss the inability to finish a MFin series. Outside of Mating heat and Zorn warriors, not a single previously mentioned book series has come to any sort of conclusion.

My absolute favorite New Species is hands down one of my favorite series in the entire universe. There’s intrigue there’s trauma, there are over protective alphas who are absolutely over the moon for their mates. What more can you really need in a steamy escape from reality? This series however I understand there were some publishing issues and she started writing more than two decades ago. So though I’m hurt, I can understand just not being able to finish or get back into the right head space.

Cyborg Seduction is another absolute beauty of a series. Touching on some social issues without being heavy, giving us sexy chromed out warriors in all different shades of metal, pitting us against an absolute evil hive mind. Each book is such a ride and I was absolutely buying each book as it was released because her writing style always leaves you wanting more.

But instead she just jumps into 3 more series after this. At some point I had to make the conscious choice to simply stop reading her work. Not because I don’t love it, not because the writing or editing or plot lines. Simply because to fall in love over and over with these rich diverse worlds only to have them disappear halfway through the story telling is heartbreaking.

Why Mrs. Dohner? I would never tell anyone not to read the books. They absolute masterpieces of the paranormal romance genre, from a time before the over saturation that Kindle Unlimited has caused. That however is another topic entirely. Please read them, love them and maybe through our shared love for the characters she creates we can create our own endings.

J

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my-ff-drafts · 1 year

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Something I've been rereading

I've recently finished Icarus, Burning and since then, have read all of the author's work. I loved her writing style and the descent, yet also not quite falling in love.

Personally, I have a very love-hate relationship with romance in books. I need a plot and/or porn to prop it up in fics. Otherwise, unless I really ship it or like the fandom, I just can't read plotless things.

Icarus, Burning initially overwhelmed me. It was my first foray into sci-fi in a while. My father loves sci-fi aka star war, star trek, etc. and i felt that i must dislike it. Beyond that, sci-fi has always felt unrealistic since whenever i read a sci-fi story, there were always so many unexplained loose ends that served to push the plot. But back to Icarus, Burning.

I couldn't finish it on my first read-through and only made to Maa-Ilia. I couldn't finish it on my second and met Lachesis. I finally finished it on my third. It was a complicated story to read, but that's what made it so enjoyable.

The complex, yet seeming simple plot wove itself into webs that made me keep reading. This fic accomplished what most sci-fi stories never do for me, it made me not give a fuck about the semantics of the universe.

Also, I loved the worldbuilding from the Interior Circle to the Drakkians and from the Creets to Laupa if ya know what I mean.

Lastly, I'll end this with an annoying habit of mine. Everytime I read "Samiel", I always pronounce as "Samael".

Thanks @ladyinbooks for writing such amazing fics and to all, a good night.

#fic rec #fic review #author review #loved the prose #and the balance of dialogue #; )

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penstricken · 7 months

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My Book Ratings Explained

Curious what my book review star ratings really mean? Check out my latest blog post. #bookreviews #books #reading #amwriting

I’ve recently noticed a lot of (digital) ink being spilled on social media over the subject of book reviews. Well, I’m certainly not here to tell anyone how they should feel about a review their book has received, nor am I interested in telling other book reviewers how many stars constitutes an insult but given how often I review books on this blog I felt I should at least clarify exactly what I…

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vianwrites · 2 months

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It's so weird writing fanfiction now.

Comments are like unicorns. So rare.

It's a bit disheartening since you can't even get feedback and I don't know if I did okay or not. And I know I got clicks, too since I do get kudos at the very least. But comments hit different, because they can uplift an author the same way a fic lets a reader's imagination soar.

#ao3 community #fanfiction #fanficwriting #fanfic writing #ao3 #ao3 author #ao3 writer #ao3 comments #ao3 reader #ao3 reviews #reviews matter #reviews and comments feed the author #fanfic

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nicollekidman · 5 days

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quite possibly my favorite pitchfork review ever…. the whole thing is good go read

#me and this reviewer on 100% the same wavelength including the but daddy i love him love #the only genuine all timer on the album #ttpd #taylor swift #the author is clearly a swiftie too like i feel you girl

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readwriteloves-blog · 1 month

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“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

#book review #books and reading #coquette #dark academia #pinterest #reading #book quotes #book tumblr #booklr #bookshelf #mary shelley #frankestein #gothic #gothic literature #literature #quotes #science fiction #authors

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0thello · 2 years

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Saint Veronica (painting), 1652 - 1653.

by Mattia Preti.

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the-magpie-archives · 1 year

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I wish real life academia was more like The Magnus Archives because I'd much rather face otherworldly evils than have my research blocked by INFINITE PAYWALLS. Jonathan Sims might've suffered immensely and nearly ended the world but at least he didn't have to cite inaccessible sources.

#Can you tell I'm exhausted #I would gladly fight Elias Bouchard to the death if it meant I didn't have to pay to access peer reviewed texts #(I know I could email the author and ask them for it but that would mean communicating)#I would very gladly submit to the eye for knowledge because not being able to get information makes me want to throw my laptop out a window #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #tma memes #Oh also if you relate to this I apologise #It's hell

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lakecountylibrary · 3 months

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If you liked Camp Damascus, try Hell Followed With Us

and vice versa!

There's a lot to love in both Camp Damascus by @drchucktingle and Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. As horror novels about queer youth with, shall we say, complicated relationships with religion, they have a lot in common - if you liked one you very well may like the other. Let's take a closer look.

Characters:

Both books feature queer, autistic youth fighting back. The characters are trying to survive in a world created for them by abusive adults and religious institutions that hold power over them.

In Camp Damascus we follow Rose (autistic, lesbian). In Hell Followed With Us we follow Benji (neurodivergent, trans) and Nick (autistic, gay).

Genre:

Both books are horror, but with two distinct flavors. Camp Damascus has more of a creepy factor, while Hell Followed With Us leans more toward gore. In Camp there is some mystery to the evil, but in Hell the evil has a name, a face, an address - and a to-do list.

Both books deal with Christian cults and the horrors of indoctrination. They deal with the characters' complicated relationships to Christianity as an institution and God as a concept. They also both quote Christian scripture heavily.

Vibes:

While both books are horror, they do feel very different, largely because the primary emotion that drives each story is different. In Camp Damascus, it's love. In Hell Followed With Us, it's rage. You'll certainly find both emotions in certain quantities in either novel, but what they primarily put forward distinctly changes the vibe of both books.

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So there you have it! Two fantastic reads in close thematic conversation with each other - but still quite distinct. If either sounds good to you, do yourself a favor and check out both today!

See more of Robin's recs

#camp damascus #hell followed with us #andrew joseph white #chuck tingle #lgbtq books #lgbtq reads #lgbtq authors #lgbtq characters #horror #horror novel #queer horror #book review #book recommendations #books and reading #booklr #book recs #LCPL recs #robin's recs

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apolline-lucy · 3 months

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POV: you’re on a date in a coffee shop in seoul with your favourite fictional queer character. she’s a liar, but one thing that’s true is that she’s obsessed with you.

THE ANATOMY OF DYING

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melinoelabs · 2 months

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It isn't that everything strange tastes like chicken.

Chicken does not possess a flavor as we understand it. Rather, chicken is akin to a TV test pattern or a white-balance card. It is a calibration point that determines the entire culinary balance of the individual palette.

This is what the Wal-Mart of the extreme sciences would call a 'cognitohazard.' Your basic run of the mill stared-into-the-mouth-of-the-infinite-and-went-mad-with-forbidden-knowledge type thing. But we've all eaten chicken, we all know what chicken tastes like, right?

No.

We all know what our minds have filled in to protect us from the cosmic truths hidden within the deliciousness of tyrannosaurus' most edible heir. A false memory we re-experience with each taste of forbidden knowledge.

And whenever your senses are baffled, your primed nervous system retreats to the defense mechanism it knows.

As a consequence, no two people taste the same chicken. For that to happen, a second person would have to experience the taste and carry its memory with them without succumbing to madness. Thus far, it has only happened to one person.

That person?

Guy Fieri.

#we have it on good authority #unreality #night thoughts #the peer review is iffy on this one we admit

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sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog · 1 year

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I'm a genuinely-confused adult with poor understanding of social media. Are you John Green, the author who wrote those books, or are you John Green, the unpaid intern that happens to have the same name as the John Green author person?

#theyre the same me #i am both an unpaid intern for a coffee company that donates its profit to charity #and an author of books like the fault in our stars and the anthropocene reviewed #coffee company

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jasper-the-menace · 5 months

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If I had a dollar for every horror book I read this year (that was also published this year) in which a conservative cult used powers beyond mortal ken to enforce their conservative agenda onto a bunch of queer and neurodivergent children who then turned that power around to decimate the cult at some point in their lives, I would have two dollars, which isn't a lot but it's great that it happened twice.

Anyway, read Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Mister Magic by Kiersten White.

#jasper post #review #books #authors #chuck tingle #tingleverse #camp damascus #kiersten white #mister magic #mister magic was also fun because it read as a sort of love letter to the candle cove creepypasta

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chroniclesofnadia111 · 1 year

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🙏🏾Publishing my first book at this time in life has been a deeply sentimental and spiritual experience. Thank you to all who have supported. I truly believe these poems and musings will deeply resonate in the hands of whoever it comes in contact with. Words are Life and Art is eternal. 🌹

If anyone wants a real insight into my mind, you can find that in Hopeful Nets. It’s me at my most transparent and vulnerable.

Available now on Amazon at the link below.💫✨👇🏾 📖 Blessings.

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communistkenobi · 2 months

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I watched the hazbin hotel pilot when it first came out years ago out of curiosity and like I am extremely primed to be on board with the concept of a radio demon but i don’t think I’ve ever seen a character more viscerally unpleasant to look at in my entire life

#Also I learned from that huge review write up going around recently about the show #where the author says they didn’t REFILM A PILOT FOR THE AMAZON DEAL LMAO? Like all new voice casting and everything but no new pilot #also the pilot is not on Amazon you have to watch it separately to understand the premise of the show lmfao

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spiffy-sea-dragon · 7 months

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When did fanfiction reviews get so critical? I remember 2014 when you could write 1,000 words in text speak and people would go, “omg ur soooo talented!!!!” But now you put your fully developed shit out and peeps go, “um excuse me, but your concept hasn’t been explored deeply enough.”

I’M SORRY WHAT

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanfiction writer #fanfiction.net #ao3 #ao3fic #ao3 stuff #fanfic.net #ao3 author #fanfiction reviews #fanfiction memes

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