I like urban fantasy and other fantasy and sci-fi, but finding ones with bi and/or trans characters and aimed at adults is a bit difficult! I'm slowly trying to get back into manga as well.
he/him | thirties | Germany | reads in EN, GER and maybe one day in FR or JP
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Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once …
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery …
Took me a bit to get into, but now I immediately got the second book when I finished this one. 👀
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants. While Mokoya developed …
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the 2014 debut science fiction novel by Becky Chambers, set in …
Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with another boy--his dreamy high school classmate Hirose. …
Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with another boy--his dreamy high school classmate Hirose. …
A studious girl and a quiet, straight-A boy start a controversial podcast together that challenges their courage and forces them …
Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with another boy--his …
Absolutely adorable.
32-year old Tar feels like a Non-Player Character in their own life. They’ve been utterly …
Content warning minor spoilers maybe
I really enjoyed reading it!
The main character Tar and their anxieties were quite relatable for me. And it was very refreshing for me to see such a character as a main character and hero.
In the story Tar and their TT-RPG group get teleported into the world of their game. They take over some traits and skills of the characters they invented for the game. I really love how, while being in a fantasy world and being able to do magic is like a dream come true, they run into multiple problems. Like suddenly they really have to sleep together in a crowded tent. Or like fighting and killing with a sword was fine while playing the game and giving your character a challenging drawback sounded nice, that's not something you want to do or have in real life. They have to solve all the problems in creative and non-violent ways which to me is very interesting.
A very comforting book. 😌
32-year old Tar feels like a Non-Player Character in their own life. They’ve been utterly sidelined by their anxiety and …
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. …
Content warning CW vague mention of NSFW, violence, abuse
I binged this book in a few days now. 👀 It's good! Very suspenseful, it kept me up too long for two nights. I like the main characters and the setting. The "binding" idea is very interesting, too, and wonderfully explored. Though I'm glad I didn't really read the summary because it includes stuff which is a mystery to the main character for quite a while and it was nice to find it out together with him. xD
It contains strong violence and quite a lot of various kinds of abuse, which is written out - or at least vaguely circumscribed. There is an intimate scene of two minor character, which the main character does hear but not see. But the intimate scenes of the main character himself are so abruptly skipped, that it took me a while to understand that they happened. 🙈 I really don't understand why! Only straight sex allowed in a novel with MLM main characters or what??
The book has three parts and I read them like this: 1, 3, 2. Works as well. 😆
I've read the German edition "Die verborgenen Stimmen der Bücher" which translates to 'the hidden voices of the books'. Imo "Die Bindung", meaning binding but also bond/tie or relationship, would have been a nice title as well, so I don't know why they changed it...
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a …
in German, my favorite book when I was a teenager
Björn Diemel wird von seiner Frau gezwungen, ein Achtsamkeits-Seminar zu besuchen, um seine Ehe ins …
Das Konzept von Achtsamkeit kannte ich bisher nicht. Es war aber unendlich unterhaltsam, es in Form des imaginären Buchs "Entschleunigt auf der Überholspur - Achtsamkeit für Führungskräfte" vom Achtsamkeit-Guru des Hauptcharakters in dem Buch beigebracht zu bekommen. Und dann zu sehen, wie der Hauptcharakter es in seiner total abstrusen Situation einsetzt.
Leider war es für mich etwas nervig, dass das Buch nicht ohne sexistische und homophobe Mikroaggressionen auskommt. Paar Beispiele: Frauen werden in der Regel mit dem Aussehen vorgestellt und der Einordnung ob sie schön sind oder nicht - Männer nicht. Der Hauptcharakter bedauert, dass seine Ehefrau nicht mehr so sexy ist wie früher. Schwul wird ausschließlich als Beleidigung für "unmännliche" Männer benutzt.
Es ist ein wenig wie wenn jemand auf ein leckeres Gericht dann zum Schluss noch eine Prise Sand streut: Das Essen ist noch essbar und auch lecker, aber ohne knirschenden Sand alle paar Bisse, könnte man es …
Das Konzept von Achtsamkeit kannte ich bisher nicht. Es war aber unendlich unterhaltsam, es in Form des imaginären Buchs "Entschleunigt auf der Überholspur - Achtsamkeit für Führungskräfte" vom Achtsamkeit-Guru des Hauptcharakters in dem Buch beigebracht zu bekommen. Und dann zu sehen, wie der Hauptcharakter es in seiner total abstrusen Situation einsetzt.
Leider war es für mich etwas nervig, dass das Buch nicht ohne sexistische und homophobe Mikroaggressionen auskommt. Paar Beispiele: Frauen werden in der Regel mit dem Aussehen vorgestellt und der Einordnung ob sie schön sind oder nicht - Männer nicht. Der Hauptcharakter bedauert, dass seine Ehefrau nicht mehr so sexy ist wie früher. Schwul wird ausschließlich als Beleidigung für "unmännliche" Männer benutzt.
Es ist ein wenig wie wenn jemand auf ein leckeres Gericht dann zum Schluss noch eine Prise Sand streut: Das Essen ist noch essbar und auch lecker, aber ohne knirschenden Sand alle paar Bisse, könnte man es viel besser genießen.
