Cannonball Read 18

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“Straight-forward feelings hit you like a truck, don’t they? Isn’t it nice?”

Director Akasaka's Princely Training Course by Wacoco Waco

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This was shrinkwrapped when I bought it, so I didn’t have the chance to look inside and just bought based off the cover and the fact that I like what Kuma publishes 80%+ of the time. I do in this case wish I’d been able to preview it because it was fine but not something I’m going to keep. Akasaka is a director at a successful company but hasn’t been able to find a satisfactory relationship. During a night out in Ni-Chome, the gay neighborhood […]

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

The Matchmaker by Aisha Saeed

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Nura is a third-generation matchmaker for high society, and business is thriving, even if she’s working herself ragged for it. But when a series of bizarre incidents starts plaguing her clients, Nura begins to realize that someone may have it out for her. Though arranged marriage is becoming less common among desi immigrants in the United States, there is definitely a thriving market for it. Nura’s methods are far more intensive than the folders with photos and personal and professional details that my dad sometimes […]

“It’s inadvisable for anyone to fall for a host like me.”

Call Me Master by KedamaShiba

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Call Me Master deals with the world of Japanese host clubs, which is a very specific area of employment that it would be probably helpful to know about before reading this book. Ichinose is the number one host at Club de Rois and he’s very proud of that. In addition to his duties of providing companionship in the club to the clients, he also has to help out behind the scenes and he’s worn out. He wants an assistant, and when the new host Tsukasa […]

Plant Puns and Getting Spicy

Violet Thistelwaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz

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There’s a blurb on the back of Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore that says that this is a “cozy fantasy with plant magic, love, and second chances”. That’s generally accurate, except that this feels more on the romance side of romantasy, and things get spicier than I was expecting from something with “cozy” in the description. That’s not necessarily a complaint, but it might be a little bit about expectations. Basically, Violet was known as the Thornwitch, the powerful right hand of an […]

He’s like a star, his gravity pulling Jordan out of his own orbit into Jamie’s.

Last First Kiss by Julian Winters

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Julian Winters’s Last First Kiss has some really excellent yearning. Jordan is trying to prove himself in his new role at the family event planning business and humor his mother by going on a blind date that might be the start to his forever love story. But his cousin’s best friend, Jamie, is making both of those things difficult. Jamie, in the guise of practicing, gave Jordan his first kiss. Jordan has never forgotten it, and maybe neither has Jamie. Jordan is trying to plan […]

“On this island where gemstones bloom like flowers…there lived a powerful demon king.”

Dear Demon King by Emu Soutome

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There’s so much here that I like and it just didn’t click for me as a whole — magic, BL, interesting world building, solid art — none of it enough to make this something I really enjoyed. Dear Demon King has a complicated setup about a world where the demon king Kougyoku rules over a floating island full of magical beasts, and also the island has all of these gemstones full of magical power on them that humans want, and fifty years ago the humans attacked […]



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