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It's yaoi time with Seven Days Monday - Sunday

Sometimes you just need yaoi, and that’s how I came to reading this, Seven Days Monday to Sunday by Venio Tachibana. This wasn’t actually the first Seven Days book that I saw online. I don’t remember which the first was, but with the other one that I found, it gave me the impression that it wasn’t finished, even though it may well have been. The blurb says that on a whim, high school third-year Yuzuru Shino asks out first-year Toji Seryo, who is notorious for being a weeklong lover – he’ll date the first girl to ask him out Monday morning and promptly dump her by the following Monday! The boys start dating, and by Tuesday, the first inklings of attraction hit. Can these two put words to their feelings before Monday comes, or are old habits too hard to break? First of all, absolutely loved the concept of this because I knew exactly what was going to happen. Like, the divas were going to say, “Nope, we’ve only got one week, and we’ll break up at the end of it.” But obviously, they were...
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Most Valuable Player: a sports romance

  I just have the feeling that with Heated Rivalry popping its pussy so hard in recent times that that’ll mean other sports romances will pop off too. That’s just a vague thought I’ve had since I’m talking about Most Valuable Player by Amanda Woody. I know that I read They Hate Each Other before, and then I got this as a Christmas gift from a friend. Blurbiana Grande says that Cameron Morelli is hot. Worse, he knows it. With a godlike physique and a position as his varsity football team’s star quarterback there’s nobody he can’t charm. So one might imagine his mortification when he’s rejected by Mason Gray – the team’s snarky water boy. To make matters worse, this disgrace is followed by Cam’s coach benching him until he can get his grades up. Luckily, a reliable tutor steps forward to help Cam reclaim his dignity: the boy who just humiliated him. For Mason, tutoring an airhead jock is nothing but a distraction from a past he can’t escape. What he doesn’t expect is to find some...
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ThamePo: Heart That Skips a Beat

This is the final in a trilogy of GMMTV BL novels. I say GMMTV specifically because they’re the ones who have released the English versions of them. First there was Last Twilight , then The Heart Killers , and finally we have ThamePo . The blurb says that Po has just broken up with his boyfriend, Earn, who dumped him because Po isn’t equally successful. For this reason, Po promises himself not to find someone like Earn again. Working as a director on a documentary introduces him to Thame, the leader of the country’s top idol group, Mars, who is about to leave his members for a solo career in South Korea, causing them to disband. Po sees the selfishness of Earn in Thame. But the more he gets to know Thame as a human being, not an idol, the more he realises that Thame is nothing like he first thought he was. Now, Po wants to help Thame smooth things out with his friends, Jun, Dylan, Nano, and Pepper, while also piecing Mars back together. Po falls for Thame, knowing idols aren’t allowed ...
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Learning to open up in Winging it with You

So I think Winging it with You by Chip Pons was one of those books that just randomly came up recommended to me since I read a lot of romance books and this is very much another one. The blurb says that Asher Bennett thought his relationship was just fine. Until he’s unceremoniously dumped at the Boston airport ahead of the word-wide travel competition reality show, The Epic Trek . Armed with only a ticket and righteous indignation, Asher finds the closest solace he can: a mimosa and mozzarella sticks combo at an airport TGI Fridays. Still, Asher is determined to find a new partner and luckily, right in front of him is a smooth-talking airline pilot ready for takeoff. Theo Fernandez has been grounded. He’s the only pilot that has never taken a vacation and the edict has been passed down: Prove you’re prioritising a work-life balance or say goodbye to your wings. As he struggles to bask in his new downtime, he stumbles upon the perfect opportunity. The handsome guy who ‘stole’ his mozz...
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The mild spook of She is a Haunting

  Hello. I’m talking about She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran. I picked this up from Gay’s the Word simply because I wanted to read something that wasn’t set in the west, and the blurb told me it was set in Vietnam. The blurb says that this house eats and is eaten. This summer, Jade Nguyen has one goal: to survive living a lie with her sister and their estranged dad while he fixes up a decaying colonial house in Vietnam. If she can be straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, then college and freedom will be hers. But the house has other plans. Dead bus line its windowsills and its gardens grow monstrous blooms. Then the ghost of a beautiful bride gives Jade a cryptic warning: DON’T EAT. With the help of rebellious local girl Florence, Jade is determined to prove the house in haunted, and that it won’t rest until it consumes her family completely. On the immediate outset, I appreciated this blurb for not giving too much away. I like making notes on the opening section...
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So I read The Pairing... oof

Casey McQuiston has been one of those authors where I read one of their books, Red, White and Royal Blue, and then just completely dropped off. I, like loads of other people, really enjoyed RWRB, the movie too, and then just never bought another one of their books. Although, I’m sure I owned One Last Stop at some point but never read it. The blurb says that Theo and Kit have been childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and, after a brutal break-up for years ago, estranged exes. It’s not until they’re trapped aboard a tour bus that Theo and Kit realise they’ve accidentally booked the same European food and wine tour. And now they’re stuck with each other for three weeks of the most romantic sights and sensuous flavours of France, Spain and Italy. But it’ll be fine. They’re absolutely over each other. So, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is game. In fact, why stop there? Why not a full-on European hook-up competition?...
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Moving on in You've Found Oliver

  So I’m talking about You’ve Found Oliver by Dustin Thao. Big fan. When Haru Was Here is one of my favourite books, so it’s only natural I was going to get around to this one. I do remember Oliver vaguely from You’ve Reached Sam , and I did think that Oliver was going to end up with a boyfriend at the end of that – disappointed that he didn’t – however, since he didn’t, I guess it set him up for this book of his own. The blurb says that Oliver has been texting his best friend Sam’s number ever since he passed away a year ago, even though he knows he won’t get a response. Then one day Oliver accidentally hits the call button – and someone picks up. Ben, an astronomy student, has been reassigned Sam’s number, and before long he and Oliver are developing an undeniable connection. But then Oliver discovers something that should be impossible, and it could keep them apart forever… The prologue flits through several of Oliver’s memories with Sam. About them sitting in a field together...
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