Finished this one today! Really enjoyed it; great to see queer POC in leading roles. And no spoilers, but the twists were appropriately twisty and I appreciate that it wasn’t unguessable but challenging!
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Queer linguistics PhD student at Stanford. Reading interests include horror, gothic, thriller, mystery (cozy and otherwise), and Jane Austen. Pro-Oxford comma. They/them (he/him iff you ∈ Family)
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Bran[don] Papineau finished reading Verifiers by Jane Pek
Bran[don] Papineau set a goal to read 12 books in 2023
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Bran[don] Papineau finished reading Heat Wave by TJ Klune (The Extraordinaries, #3)
Bran[don] Papineau reviewed Heat Wave by TJ Klune (The Extraordinaries, #3)
A queer romp with some touching moments
5 stars
Content warning Trilogy spoilers
This was a fun close to a trilogy I really enjoyed! I will say that I found the first 100 pages or so kind of disorienting, maybe because it had been a year since I read Flash Fire, but also maybe that was the intention with the whole doppelganger thing happening!
I really appreciate TJ's commitment to leftist social movements, and this book did a nice job of handling issues like police brutality, consent, queer and non-monogamous relationships, etc., though at times the allegories (especially between Trump and Burke) felt a little too translucent and heavy-handed, but that's probably also just me!!
Anyways, will always love Nick, Jazz, Gibby, Seth and the rest of the crew <3
ETA: The epilogue ALMOST MADE ME CRY ON A PLANE
Bran[don] Papineau rated Reckless Girls: 4 stars
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Bran[don] Papineau rated The Hacienda: 4 stars
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, …