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TWs: bondage, tail fucking, consensual non consensual scenes, public sex, mentions of rape, blood play

This was sick and twisted in so many ways. Eighty pages of pure hardcore monster-human fucking, with some cute cringey scenes thrown in there.

Bitches that rate this 5 stars need theraphy. Obviously, I'm bitches. Thank fuck theres seven books because I need more stuff like this in my life.

Edit: At first I gave this book five stars, but now I changed it to four because I didn't enjoy it as much as the second since the rape "subplot" and the ending sort of ruined it for me.

While I absolutely loved volume 1, this one didn't really warm up to me. The art is gorgeous and I'm  loving the characters but the story was a bit boring.

Elliot is a very relatable character. This comic was very funny and slightly spooky — I enjoyed it alot! I couldn't stop reading so bless the author for having this on Webtoon so I can binge other volumes as well.

I have a feeling this book was supposed to make me feel lots of deep emotions but the only thing I felt was boredom...

The premise is really good but unfortunately I couldn't get myself to care about anything in the book. Especially our main character Ismael. He's one of those gross perverted grandpas and I really did not like him. I know the liking him was not the point of the book, but I find it hard to enjoy the book if I don't like the characters.

So, yeah... sadly a total miss for me.

T.J. Klune is climbing the ladder and becoming one of my favorite autors. This book was super fun and insteresting, I'm always a huge fan of books that deal with what comes after death. Do we become these "ghosts", does our soul roam around until it's ready to leave the earth etc. And I think this was one beautiful, emotional but also lighthearted way of doing it. I really enjoyed it.

At first I wasn't a fan of Wallace, he was such a dick... but I also found him hilarious. Hugo and the Co were adorable and I fell in love with them instantly.

I basically enjoyed everything about this book and it's really hard for me to point out what bothered me because nothing did. Except for this one thing, which was the book being little bit naive. I assume Wallace (and Hugo) to be 30 something. If we look at Wallace's career of him being super successful lawyer with his own firm and an ex-wife, he can't be younger than that. So I found it quite naive how Wallace had this whe rebrainding in only one week. Suddey regretting everything, seeing what he was like etc. in only one week. But I guess love does wonders to a person? Speaking of love, that also felt naive. We never got any scenes of Hugo and Wallace that might indicate them falling in love, sure we knew they had those talks but they were only briefly mentioned and all their interaction was with Nelson and Mae (+other side characters that would come and go). So them suddenly being so deeply in love was like ??? Their relationship lacked some building — it was all bones but no meat. But it was cute. They are super cute and I'm in love with love so I'll let it slide.

But despite that it was an amazing book and I love Klune's writing style and the way he tells a story. I can't wait to read more by him. And one more thing, I do recommend this book but I don't thing you would enjoy it if you don't like insta love and naively written stories where everything magically turns out to be good. I do, because I'm a sucker for an emotional happy ending.

Huge thanks to University of Minnesota Press for sending me the copy in exchange for an honest review.

I have to admit I was super excited to start from the moment I read the synopsis. And I was not disappointed. I don't read alot of nonfiction books, memoirs, autobiographies etc. but this was probably the best nonfiction work I've ever read.

Tom Rademacher is one very honest and a very funny fellow, I wouldn't mind having a teacher like that when I was going to school. The stories he told here very very interesting — to me some more, some less. I love that he touched very important subjects all from racism, LGBTQIA+ rights, to how schools tend to fail their children and also a little talk of parenthood. I'm not a teacher or a parent myself and I was surprised when I found myself really enjoying chapters that talked about these things. The book has quite a big dose of humor, while also discussing all this matter very seriously.

Mr. Rad is also a really really good writer. You can literally feel his pride coming out of the book while he talks about Ollie. Which is honestly no surprise because Ollie seems to be one extraordinary kid. While I'm at Ollie, I thought there was going to be more talk about them being nonbinary, but the book was more focused on teaching and Mr.Rad's work as a teacher. Synopsis gives an impression like Ollie being nonbinary is going to be the main focus of the book, however it's not. It's more on the sides and thrown in here and there through the book. That's probably the only thing I'm "disappointed" about. Nonethless, I really enjoyed the book. Came for the nonbinary content, stayed for literally everything else that the writer gave us.

I want everyone to read this book. Especially teachers, because I think they could learn a thing or two about having POC and LGBT kids in their classroom.

I totally understand why this book is so hyped and praised and recommended everywhere. This is a wonderful book about a wonderful boy (also problematic at times but what teenager isn't) who just wants to be loved. This book is about relationships but not only romantic ones, it's about love between friends, a love between a grandpa and his gay grandson, love between a dad and his trans kid. It's about the problems they face. And it's about accetance. Accepting yourself and loving yourself for who you are. Not backing down, but being proud and standing tall.

I cannot stress enough how good this book is. I have no words to even explain in how many ways this book touched me. It was like reading my own thoughts — the queer thoughts, love thoughts, life thoughts... I felt like I was reading about myself for the first time in my life. I'm not a trans man, but I am queer and I never felt connected with a character as I did with Felix.

Now, why I said Felix is problematic... C'mon, what he did to Declan was really shit. I understan pain and anger, but in my opinion Felix had absolutely no right to lead on Declan like he did. I'm glad he was aware of how shitty it was at least. I also think he treatet Ezra unfairly several times through the book. Ezra, however, wasn't any better. I do ship them though, quite alot! I've been rooting for them from the very first page.

This books is probably one of my favorite reads ever. The ultimate five star. Callender has a really easy to read wiriting style, the book was quite gripping and I couldn't put it down. I'm really happy with how they showed a life of a trans boy from the struggles with their identity, to struggles with his friends and family, school and love life. It felt so real and raw.

I hightly recomment this book to absolutely everyone. To the queers for obvious reason, and to the non queers to learn a thing or two.

One more thing I would like to say. The thing that made me want to lower my rating to 4 but it also seemed unfair. The constant HP references. This book was published in 2020, and all the JKR drama started way before that... I just don't understand why would a book that celebrates trans people have any HP references. It's very funny considering how Felix makes a whole speech how art created by problematic artists is also problematic because it's a piece of their soul. Absolutely hilarious. I am aware there are queer people that still love HP no matter what and that's all great, but alot of queer people find the mention of it triggering. Especially trans people. So why would you put this in a trans book? Anyway, I just wanted to point it out as a little TW/CW for everyone who's not comfortable reading that.

Huge thanks to Katia Rose for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. It has been absolute pleasure reading this one.

I am obssesed! Totally fucking obssesed with this book! I think I fell in love at the very first page. This is probably my favorite queer enemies to lovers book.

I'm a huge fan of Katia's writing ever since I've read her "Catch and Cradle" so I don't have anything new to say about her writing style. I love that it's simple and easy to read. I get lost in the book without even trying, it just sucks me into the story and I don't wanna stop reading.

As for our MCs, I had a hard time warming up to Kenzie, I have to admit. I like Moira from the start, but Kenzie has this bitchy, cold, distant attitude and I had a hard time liking her. But as the story went by, I actually grew to like her more than Moira. Their chemistry felt quite natural to me, despite it being rivals to lovers, there were so many sparks flying around. 😍

I recommend this to literally everyone if they wanna read NA contemporary WLW romance. Pure 5/5, one of the best WLW books I've read so far.

Bored me to death. Should not be surprised considering I'm a big Godfather hater lmao.

DNFed at 24% because the amount of misogyny is both disgusting and disturbing.

As a fellow queer I'm so sad that I had to DNF this because I was so excited to read a book about trans people by a trans author. This seemed like a book about cool modern family, but it was not... the synopsis is extremely misleading. 

The characters are simply awful; the writing is not my cup of tea, and I don't plan on finishing this book ever. I regret believing the hype.

I haven't read enough to rate a book but if I had torate what I've read it would be a 1/5.