RESEÑA: POWERLESS (POWERLESS #1) - LAUREN ROBERTS

 
Powerless | Lauren Roberts | Romance, fantasía, young adult | Febrero 2024 | Alfaguara | 1/3 | 600 páginas |

1 | 1.5 | 2 | 3 

Ella es lo que él ha pasado toda su vida cazando. 

Él es todo lo que ella ha pasado la vida fingiendo ser. 

Solo lo extraordinario pertenece al reino de Ilya: los excepcionales, los poderosos, los élites. 

Aquellos que nacieron vulgares son solo eso: vulgares. Y cuando el rey decreta que todos los vulgares serán eliminados para preservar su sociedad de élite, carecer de poder se vuelve un crimen, convirtiendo a Paedyn Gray en una criminal por destino y en una ladrona por necesidad. Se hace pasar por psíquica en la ciudad real, pasando desapercibida para seguir viva y fuera de peligro. 

Cuando Paedyn inesperadamente salva a uno de los príncipes de Ilya, se ve arrojada a las Pruebas de la Purga. La brutal competición existe para exhibir los poderes de los élites, algo de lo que Paedyn carece. Si la Purga y sus rivales no la matan, lo hará el príncipe cuando descubra lo que ella es en realidad...

RESEÑA: BOOKLOVER (VINO & VERITAS #6) - J. E. BIRK

 
Booklover | J. E. Birk | Romance, new auldt, lgbtiq+ | Marzo 2021 | Heart Eyes Press LLC | 6/19 | 250 páginas |

Two guys meet over a stack of romance novels. Soon they're turning pages late into the night...

Jamie Morin’s college GPA drops every time a cow breaks through a fence, but he’s determined to get his degree and keep his parents’ Vermont dairy farm afloat. He’d rather be reading than milking, but he can’t let his family down…not the way his brother did. So the last thing he needs is distraction in the form of an irresistible bookseller with a mysterious backstory.

Briar Nord has a lifetime of experience proving that happily-ever-afters only happen in his favorite books. But his luck might be changing. He’s got a great job at a bookstore, and he lives in a city that puts maple syrup on everything. But Briar knows not to trust anything or anyone. And that includes a gorgeous farm boy with soulful eyes and too many obligations.

When Jamie joins Briar’s romance novel book club, they both feel an instant connection. Soon they’re turning pages long into the night. But Briar’s past was bound to catch up with him. Sometimes, though, it takes two heroes to write a new ending . . .

RESEÑA: ALONG A BRETON SHORE - ARLEM HAWKS

Along a breton shore | Arlem Hawks | Ficción histórica, romance | Junio 2023 | Shadow Mountain | Autoconclusivo | 368 páginas |

A soldier and a young woman, on opposite sides of the revolution, must run for their lives across a war-torn France in this gripping novel of friendship, love, and survival.

France, 1794

Maxence Étienne, a soldier for the République, believes fiercely in the revolution that is bringing liberty to France. But even though the monarchy has fallen and Maxence is part of a great cause, he is still searching for a place to belong.

Armelle Bernard is a young woman from Breton whose father was sentenced to death for hiding counterrevolutionaries. She decides to confront the priest who betrayed her father, and as the conflict escalates, she herself is ordered to be executed—an order to be carried out by Maxence.

Maxence has seen his share of violence and bloodshed, but he also carries a tragic secret and can’t bring himself to carry out his assignment. In allowing Armelle to escape, he is forced to combat a fellow soldier, who dies in the struggle.

Though Armelle and Maxence are strangers and on opposite sides of the revolution, they find themselves united as fugitives of the new republic. Now they must find a way to trust each other as they search for a path to peace, and to freedom.

RESEÑA: THE BEES AND OTHER WILD THINGS - CHASE CONNOR

The bees and other wild things | Chase Connor | Romance, lgbtiq, young adult | Octubre 2022 | Lion Fish Press | Autoconclusivo | 139 páginas |

A sequel to A SURPLUS OF LIGHT

Places can be haunted, but so can people. It’s not just the woods that are imbued with the memory of two boys and the five summers they spent there.

Two boys stand on a creek bed at the end of one chapter of life and the beginning of another. Two boys with no idea how to begin. An unlikely friendship is forged, boundaries are crossed, absolutes are tested…and life finds a way. Over the course of many seasons of two lives, two boys learn that life, and friendship, are what you make of them.

WRAP UP || ABRIL, MAYO, JUNIO

  

HOLA!! Espero que estén teniendo un bonito día. Hoy vengo con el wrap up de este segundo trimestre del año. Normalmente suelo traer mi resumen de lecturas mensual, pero durante estos últimos meses no he leído mucho, he estado inactiva en el blog y con las cosas de la Universidad he estado un poco liada con tanto, que cuando me puse a revisar goodreads me sorprendí al ver que había leído menos libros de lo que pensé. De todos modos, las pocas lecturas que tuve fueron gratificantes. 

TBR || JUNIO (Gracias a Goodreads)

Hola!! Espero estén teniendo un buen inicio de mes. Después de tanto tiempo vuelvo al blog porque ya necesitaba esta parte de mí y con las cosas que han estado pasando en mi vida tomarme un respiro, recordarme mis hobbies era importante. 

Decidí armar un TBR para junio y me gustó la idea de apoyarme en Goodreads para elegir los 5 libros que voy a leer este mes que salen de una lista que planteé con 12 libros. 

La lista con los 12 libros que llamaron mi atención para leer este mes fue la siguiente y varios de ellos han estado por meses en mi lista de "quiero leer".

RESEÑA: MY [NOT SO] SLUTTY PROFESSOR - D. K. SUTTON

My [not so] slutty professor | D. K. Sutton | Romance, lgbtiq, new adult | Mayo 2021 | Autopublicado | 1/4 | 246 páginas |

Maddie

I’m a sucker for nerds. So a biology professor who wears geeky ties and doesn’t realize how hot he is, puts every part of my body on high alert. It also means I’m failing his class. There’s only one way to get him out of my head so I can focus. Seduce him.

Turns out that boyish innocence isn’t an act, and while Dr. Reid Emerson is a genius, there are many things he’s never learned. His eagerness to catch up takes my breath away. Will he let me be the one to teach him? 

Reid

Maddie Evans reminds me of every popular guy I’ve ever known: charming, persuasive, and used to getting exactly what he wants. But there’s a part of me—a part tired of being the only inexperienced person on campus—that doesn’t care. A flash of skin during our study sessions sparks a fire I can’t put out. I want Maddie. And I want him to teach me…everything.

We strike a deal that has me questioning my sanity, my ethics, and everything I ever believed in. I can’t resist him but being together is risky. Maddie could lose his spot in grad school, and I could lose the thing that keeps me going every day. Teaching.

Is this experiment doomed to fail or together can we pass the ultimate test of love and sacrifice?

WRAP UP || MARZO

   

HOLA!! Espero que estén teniendo un bonito día. Hoy vengo con el wrap up del mes de marzo. He vuelto a la rutina, pero eso no ha impedido que mi ritmo lector se mantenga. Últimamente, estoy leyendo muchos MM romance porque simplemente son de mis favoritos y este mes fue totalmente para ese género.