CR: High Heat by Annabeth Albert, All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Am I in a reading slump? For someone else, maybe it wouldn’t seem like it, but for me it definitely has felt like it for the past three days. I started my two week vacation last week and I immediately got into a reading mode where I had finished five books by Friday. I was also in the middle of reading three other books of which I’ve only finished one this week..and okay it’s only Tuesday, but I’m just really not feeling it at the moment. Last week’s euphoria has turned into feelings of ”meh”.
I guess one remedy would be to just switch things up a bit. I have both ebooks and physical books, but I have yet to try audiobooks. Also this month has once again been filled with queer books (1 out of 14 hasn’t been one) and mostly romance with some fantasy books thrown in the mix. I have a bunch of fantasy books (queer and otherwise) waiting for me in my living room and most of them are adult fiction so my hope is that they won’t center so much on romance if they even have it there at all. As someone on the aspec (and I guess for anyone for that matter) I can get a bit bored when I read a lot of romance books in a row. Not that I don’t enjoy them - because I definitely do - but my reading experience gets better the more variation is in the mix.
So yeah, after I finish these books, I’ll try some fantasy, scifi, books by black authors that I got this summer, nonfiction and maybe an audiobook (really want to try Becoming by Michelle Obama). Hopefully this will keep me more engaged and interested. Besides I really need to get started on the books about racism that are on my tbr. I should continue reading Stamped (the YA version) and I just heard Starlah (StarlahReads) say great things about So You Want to Talk About Race in her reading vlog. I’m especially interested in how the book talks about more than just the black perspective and tackles issues concerning other races as well.
Anyways, will go now so I can finish these three books at some point.
Thoughts so far about High Heat (at 62%), some spoilers ahead:
- Definitely nice to have dual pov
- Loved how this wasn’t a drawn out slow burn romance like most that I tend to read are (I guess this just confirms that I need more variation in my reading). Both characters express mutual interest quite early on and also come out to each other within the first couple of chapters
- I absolutely love how sensible these MCs are. I mean they actually communicate with each other and talk about their feelings in a no-nonsense way..although the other MC might sometimes need some coaxing from the other MC
- The whole book is very sex-positive. They definitely have their kinks, but there’s no shaming or embarrassment. They tell each other what they like and what feels good and there’s no need for trying to be a mind reader
- Truthfully I’m kinda missing the firefighting stuff that was present in the first book, but my disppointment is very much lessend by the fact that I am reading about rational adults with rational behavior
- So far so good
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