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The Racism of People Who Love You

The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira K. Mehta

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Book: 5 starsAudiobook narration: 5 stars The Racism of People Who Love You is a very good book, and you should read it. In seven thoughtful, compelling, and sometimes (frequently) devastating essays, author Samira Mehta examines the broad concept of what she refers to as “mixedness” through the lens of her particular lived experience as the daughter of a South Asian immigrant father and a white American mother. The essays are about her and her family and about race, culture, and belonging both within and beyond her family. […]

No one to blame but myself

Booty Hunter by KC Cross (aka JA Huss)

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Booty Hunter’s ridiculous alien physiologies come wrapped in a surprisingly decent plot with some unexpectedly beautiful moments of found family, a space battle that actually kind of works, and a soulmate coupling that would be, by turns, both very hot and very sweet—with shockingly healthy relationship psychology to boot—if it weren’t for the part where the hero’s occupation is kidnapping women to be forced into sex work in the high-end prostitution outfit he and his brothers run. The name of the book is “Booty Hunter.” […]

Miscellaneous Shifter Ridiculousness (TM)

Claimed by Laurann Dohner and Kele Moon

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Warning: Contains one character accidentally “mating” (bonding someone to him for life) another character without their consent. Also contains kidnapping, threat of sexual assault, talk of eating humans in a non-sexytimes way, biting and consumption of blood in a sexytimes way, and Miscellaneous Shifter RidiculousnessTM. Claimed (2016) by Laurann Dohner and Kele Moon Nightwind Pack series 3.5 stars I first listened to Laurann Dohner and Kele Moon’s Claimed in 2021 and have re-listened more than once since then. Given the warnings above, I worry a […]

Grady is “a first-rate asshole.”

Mate Set by Laurann Dohnor

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Listen, I promise they won’t all be this long, but I had FEELINGS about this one. Mate Set by Laurann Dohner Story: 0 stars Narrator: 4.5 stars WARNING 1: CONSENT ISSUES WARNING 2: SPOILERS WARNING 3: I’D HAVE THROWN THIS BOOK IF IT HADN’T BEEN AN AUDIOBOOK I WAS PLAYING ON MY PHONE



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