Adorable. Ginseng deserves the world. Minette's fashion is on point. Erik and Hesekial need to live for another 100 years. Greta is so cute.
Loved theAdorable. Ginseng deserves the world. Minette's fashion is on point. Erik and Hesekial need to live for another 100 years. Greta is so cute.
Loved the idea of loving people through grief and allowing them to heal without trying to fix them. A heavy topic done so exceptionally well while also having gorgeous artwork and an adoration for nature....more
So. Freaking. Cute. It had been a minute since I'd read the first one and so I kind of went in blind but it doesn't matter too much because this is a So. Freaking. Cute. It had been a minute since I'd read the first one and so I kind of went in blind but it doesn't matter too much because this is a companion novel not necessarily a sequel. If anything it's a prequel. Still just as cozy and magical and delightful as the first. It also has a non-binary POC main character along with a deaf secondary character and then there's also the use of ASL on page which was awesome to see in a graphic novel....more
This was so good. I wish that the author's note that's at the end would have been at the beginning because I think it gives crucial context to the stoThis was so good. I wish that the author's note that's at the end would have been at the beginning because I think it gives crucial context to the story that would have been helpful in really getting me invested in the first 3rd. I kind of had to push through that first couple hours of the book but once you hit like 50% it's so so good. It's a very important topic and one that definitely needs to be talked about more especially in the current state of the world.
Long story short this is about a girl who goes searching for her missing sister while trying to unravel her family's curse. Her sister is presumed dead but has been leaving notes for her and so she's out there searching and fighting off the curse and trying to search for the truth. Her search brings up a lot of serious topics and sheds light on a few family secrets as well.
This book is super queer and really interesting if not a bit heavy....more
This was really good! Gonna get super niche here but if you know you know, imagine post season 7 supernatural but make it sapphic and set in the 1940sThis was really good! Gonna get super niche here but if you know you know, imagine post season 7 supernatural but make it sapphic and set in the 1940s. (Or 30s or 50s. I don't remember the exact decade ...more
Well I cried not one, not twice, but three damn times.
After looking at some other reviews, I'm convinced this book has fallen into the wrong hands anWell I cried not one, not twice, but three damn times.
After looking at some other reviews, I'm convinced this book has fallen into the wrong hands and I need it to get to queer bookstagram to really be appreciated for the nuanced and complicated reality that it is.
Georgia is a teenage girl, a sophomore in high school, the daughter of a mortician, lives in a funeral home, has a twin brother who is part of the popular crowd, and yeah, she talks to dead people.
When her grandma died, Georgia figured out she could talk to the dead. With one touch, their ghosts would appear and Georgia would enact any last wishes for them. This entire thing falls apart when a classmate dies in an accident and he ends up at the funeral home. Georgia is tormented by her fear of death and having someone so young die has really catapulted her anxiety and fear. When Milo wants to stick around, it also makes her confront if what she's doing for the dead is actually helpful or just selfish.
Georgia is a teenager; therefore, she is flawed. She is selfish and often forgets about her friend while getting lost in her own world. She shuts out her family because they don't understand her and allows past hurts to rule her everyday. But y'all, SHE'S A TEENAGER. People in these reviews are acting like she should have this very adult mature view of death and grief are forgetting that she's fucking 16 years old. Like you're really gonna tell me you weren't a little bit of a selfish asshole at 16?
Anyway, I loved this. It felt very raw and emotional for me. It doesn't have a ton of plot and it takes place over a week, but I loved how visceral I felt all of Georgia's emotions. While I wish we had a bit of resolution with her brother and family regarding both her sexuality and "I can talk to dead people" thing, I still am throwing this on my favorites list. Any book that can make me cry three times needs to go on.
Regarding sexuality, I actually found this book through aromantic awareness week but Georgia doesn't talk about being aro at all. That being said, I totally get the aro vibe and think that she will/could identify as aro in the future. She does talk multiple times about being ace and also how she doesn't foresee a future with a partner (where the aro vibes come in) I actually kinda enjoy this open ended idea about identity here. Like she's a teenager and doesn't need to have it all figured out. I can imagine a conversation in a few years with her best friend where they dissect the differences between ace and aro and if Georgia fits both or parts of both etc.
Georgia's best friend is also nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns....more
Um what. Excuse me. You're telling me that we all have to WAIT for more?!? I am unwell. Also Sel is my fav but Bree is a goddamn badass and I love herUm what. Excuse me. You're telling me that we all have to WAIT for more?!? I am unwell. Also Sel is my fav but Bree is a goddamn badass and I love her dearly too....more
This was super fun! So in this book we follow Daisy as she bakes in the American version of Great British bake off. As we get more of these style of bThis was super fun! So in this book we follow Daisy as she bakes in the American version of Great British bake off. As we get more of these style of books people either hate how baking / food focus they are or they love it. I am in the camp of loving it. Maybe that's because I'm a baker myself but I love hearing about the weekly bakes and how things go wrong and the different flavors. I think that's a super fun element and is enjoyable for me. If for some reason, you don't like GBBO, maybe don't read this. I mean I don't trust people who don't like Great British bake off but you do you I guess.
So Daisy's at this baking competition and she's supposed to be delivering a murder pie on her way home but then she finds out that one of the judges is the man that her murder pie is supposed to go to. And then he ends up dead. Without her pie. So now she's got this mystery to solve and they all kind of band together as little baker mystery solvers. It honestly gave some clue vibes because they're all stuck in this hotel of sorts and they can't leave and they don't have any communication and so that's up to them to figure out what happened.
This book again is intensely queer. I love Daisy, but there is another character on the baking show who calls herself the ace of cakes and bakes the ace flag into all sorts of things and that is the type of representation that I want in GBBO. I didn't know that the author was ace before I started this and it makes so much sense. I love it. As a fellow asexual baker It's brought me immense joy. Also yeah there are not very many things that are gray and tasty.
So if you are looking for a culinary mystery set on a TV baking competition with magical baking, this is the book for you. I thought about whether or not I'm going to throw this one on my favorites list because I definitely am for the first one and you know what, fuck it, I'm putting this one on there too. This duology made me laugh and is so memorable. Yeah. It's going on there....more
Oh. My. God. This was fantastic. This book was made for me. It is about a baker who uses magic in her pies. She bakes good happy things into the pies Oh. My. God. This was fantastic. This book was made for me. It is about a baker who uses magic in her pies. She bakes good happy things into the pies that she sells to people and donates etc but then she bakes murder into pies for shitty men.
She's got this sort of like underground network where women come to her when they have a man in their life who is abusive and/or terrible and the only way they feel they can get out of situation is for him to not exist. So Daisy bakes the magic into her pies and she gives it to the men and that's that.
Now if you go through and read the reviews people are not on board with this. I on the other hand, am completely on board. We need less terrible men in the world and why not use baking to do it. I have absolutely no sympathy for privileged cishet men who think that they can take what they want without any regard for anyone else. Yeah murder is murder but some people you know...
This book is super queer in a casual way and I lived for it. I didn't know this was queer going into it but the main character is very clearly queer but it isn't the main focus of this book. There's not even any labels on page. I really read her as aspec as well as bi or pan. She talks about not prioritizing romance or sex and it just not being important to her. If you're looking for a specific label I would guesstimate maybe grayromantic and/or graysexual but I am happy leaving it queer. There is also a hot feminist activist girl who Daisy goes on a date with and a golden retriever farm boy who she also goes on a date with. I love them both.
So anyway the whole premise of this book is that someone is blackmailing Daisy in to trying to kill women because they know her secret and if she doesn't do this then they're going to turn her in. This is a cozy mystery but it's also quite serious. There are a lot of discussions about domestic abuse and assault and it's definitely something to consider if you're looking for content warnings.
I really enjoyed this book. It's really funny despite having serious undertones. I loved Daisy and everything about her. I love that she lives in this makeshift camper bakery and she has a pitbull and she wears these '50s style dresses. I love that her underground murder bakery is called pies before guys. I genuinely loved this book. I'm so happy that I found this on a whim and highly recommend it....more
This is such a great duology. I may or may not have been trying to read this book for 8 months or so. Basically, I'm an audiobook person and when I fiThis is such a great duology. I may or may not have been trying to read this book for 8 months or so. Basically, I'm an audiobook person and when I finished The Grimrose Girls, The Wicked Remain wasn't yet out, so I tried to read my arc of it instead as an ebook. I didn't do very well. I made it about 30% before I just kind of fizzled off. This is nothing to do with the story itself just my lack of ability to remain focused on non-contemporary ebooks. So it's however many months later when I finally grabbed the audiobook and I did have to go back a couple times just to jog my memory, but I think this book does a good job at continuously telling a story. I love the fairy tale element and the curse etc. I love the variety of representation as well. I know that I have them listed in my grimrose girls review but off the top of my head there's disability rep, anxiety rep, neurodivergent, POC, fat, bisexual, pansexual, aroace, lesbian, and trans rep + more.
I definitely recommend checking out this duology if you're into dark academia type stories. It's also going to be a favorite for you if you love books that incorporate fairy tales into modern settings. I really enjoyed them and definitely think that a reread will be in order in the future. My only small critique is just how everything wrapped up at the end. I felt it was a little bit confusing and we don't quite get all of the explanations that I wanted, but overall, I really enjoyed them....more
"Baking is where we put our hearts when there's so much in them and we have to let it out. We put a piece of ourselves on "Love comes in every flavor"
"Baking is where we put our hearts when there's so much in them and we have to let it out. We put a piece of ourselves on a plate and hand it over to someone else."
Let's talk magical baking. In my humble baker opinion, all baking is magical but this book has ✨magical✨ baking. Baking that changes the emotions of those who enjoy the baked good and can alter their lives. When Syd (no pronouns) learns that brownies made in an emotional rage bake, have caused break ups around the city, Syd is determined to bake everything right. (See what I did there, puns are freaking great ...more
I really really liked this book. It follows this girl as she goes to live on this secluded farm as a teacher and there's like a bunch of kids. This faI really really liked this book. It follows this girl as she goes to live on this secluded farm as a teacher and there's like a bunch of kids. This family adopts children in need and they have this self-sufficient farm where they grow their own food and homeschool and all that stuff. What our MC doesn't know necessarily when she signs up to work there is that the farm is haunted and there are ghosts everywhere. She wasn't prepared to face down her own demons in the form of ghosts and instead of being scary this book is just haunting. But haunting in a poignant lonely way instead of a jump scare horror way. It's sad and sweeping and is going to make you feel all your feels and it is what Nina LaCour is great at....more
Such an amazing book. I was drawn in from the first pages and it kept my attention the entire time. I loved the intricacies of Ellie's history and culSuch an amazing book. I was drawn in from the first pages and it kept my attention the entire time. I loved the intricacies of Ellie's history and culture and the magical elements. Kirby, her ghost dog, was obviously a favorite, but I really think all the characters were well developed and intriguing, especially Ellie, Six-Great, and Jay. There's on-page asexual rep and you should read it. The audio is phenomenal, too.
Give me more graphic novels like this please! Queer rep, disability rep, magic, and some badass witches? Heck to the yeah! I loved the witchy elementsGive me more graphic novels like this please! Queer rep, disability rep, magic, and some badass witches? Heck to the yeah! I loved the witchy elements and storyline and even though it had it's cute moments, it was saccharine.
Reread March 2023: this is still such a great graphic novel!...more
This was honestly such a unique type of weird that I really liked it. I'd even go so far to say that it skirts the line of horror. Basically we have tThis was honestly such a unique type of weird that I really liked it. I'd even go so far to say that it skirts the line of horror. Basically we have this main character who has been ostracized because of bullying and something that happened at a party and so she creates this fantasy world inside her notebook that comes to life and she can have anything she wants inside that world, even revenge for all of the things she deems as slights. This was darker than I expected it to be but I once again did not read the summary before I started So that's probably on me. I liked it. It's this kind of revenge fantasy vibes and when do Justice and revenge crossover and can they ever cross over. Super weird definitely recommend. Content warning for sexual assault.
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