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  So normally, the books and manga that I read come courtesy of me finding them through social media or from those tabs on websites that are like “Readers who enjoy X might also enjoy Y”. This one falls under the social media side, and normally, it’s from my book Twitter I find them, but this… this came from drag queen Evah Destruction. Literally, on Christmas Day she tweeted out “BL manga suggestions GO” and then I went through the replies because I was like “Hmm I would like suggestions”. Anyway, that was a long-winded way of me saying this post is about Bad Boys Happy Home that I saw in the replies to the Evah Destruction tweet because someone said it was only three volumes and a complete story. Anyway, when they arrived, they were in a plastic wrap which I have since learned means that there is R-rated content in there and the plastic wrap stops people in stores from just being accidentally exposed to it. I know it’s a basic thing, but considering I never really read manga u...

  Today I’m talking about a book that has been one of those that I couldn’t tell you where I picked it up, but it’s been sat on my bookshelf for maybe a year or so and I finally got around to reading it. And that book is I Think I Love You by Auriane Desombre. The blurb says that Emma is a die-hard romantic. She loves meet-cute movies; her pet, Lady Catulet; and writing the gay rom-com of her dreams for the film festival competition she and her friends are entering. If only they’d listen to her ideas… Sophia is pragmatic. She’s into boycotts, namely (1) relationships, (2) boys and BO (reason #2,347,683 she’s a lesbian), and (3) Emma’s nauseating ideas. Forget starry-eyed romance, Sophia knows what will win: an artistic film with a message. Cue the drama. The movie is doomed before they even start shooting… until a real-life twist unfolds behind the camera when Emma and Sophia begin seeing each other through a different lens. Suddenly their rivalry feels like an actual rom-com. ...

  Today I’m talking about a book that’s release actually caught me by surprise – A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson. I enjoyed Jackon’s last book, I’m So Not Over You , and I did follow him on Twitter and Instagram, but I somehow just missed this book’s release until like a week before it was due to come out. No idea how I managed it, but I did. Still, at least I managed to catch it and get it. If Love Mechanics , that I read before this book, had nothing in the way of a blurb, I’m now so thankful to have anything for a blurb. The one here says that Xavier Reynolds is doing less than stellar. He just got dumped and was passed over for a prestigious fellowship. To top it all off, he’s back home in Harper’s Cove, Maine, population 9,000. The last thing he wants to do is work as a prep chef in the kitchen of the hip new restaurant in town: The Wharf. Especially since the hot, single-father chef who owns it can’t delegate to save his life. Then Logan (the father) doesn’t und...

  This isn’t the first book that’s also a BL series that I’ve read, but Love Mechanics by Faddist is actually the first BL book that I’ve read before watching the series. The other four (I think) BL books that I’ve read and talked about on this blog, I’ve read because I had seen the series, but this one, I know of the series, also called Love Mechanics – a shock, I know – that I’m pretty sure stars Yin and War, I haven’t actually seen. I will be spoiling parts of the book in this post, so be wary of that. So, this book doesn’t really have much of a blurb, but I will share what it has in place of a blurb. “It always ends up this way, where he walks away and I am left with nothing. I should feel happy that he once seemed interested in me, and that I could spend time with him. But in the end, when he disappeared, I have nothing left but suffering.” Very dramatic, but tells me nothing about the book, so I’m using the mydramalist.com listing of the show: When a Junior woos Vee...