avatarPagebound Royalty Badge

alexz

she/her • 33 • good soul • foul mouth • bad attitude clear eyes • full heart • can’t lose

27538 points

0% overlap
Supporting* Women's Wrongs
Sapphic Across Genres
Queer Detectives on the Case!
LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
From Bookshelf to TV
Made for the Movies
My Taste
The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Reading...
Will It Hurt?
0%
Renewing Their Vows (Duology, #2)
0%
Beaches and Bites
68%
The Odyssey
62%
The Lady and the Orc (Orc Sworn, #1)
40%
Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians, #1)
0%
200 Monas: A Novel
64%
Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care
0%
Stepdad’s Fertile Temptation: A Spicy Age Gap Stepfather And Daughter Romance With Lactation, Milking, Fertility, and Pregnancy (Possessive Stepdad Book 6)
0%
Handy: DNF Bookstore: A Shared World
0%

alexz made progress on...

4h
Beaches and Bites

Beaches and Bites

Ava Thorne

68%
5
0
Reply

alexz commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

16h
  • Recommendations for Women in Translation month

    Hello everyone!

    I’m trying to join women in translation month this August and I’m looking for recommendations!

    I’ve read Crazy Genie by Ines Cagnati a few weeks ago (translated from French) and highly recommend it! I would also recommend The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje. Originally Dutch and a fascinating look at World War I trauma.

    Also just picked up The Girl at the Door by Veronica Raimo but I’d love to get more recommendations or follow other people joining this month!

    32
    comments 28
    Reply
  • alexz made progress on...

    1d
    Beaches and Bites

    Beaches and Bites

    Ava Thorne

    65%
    6
    0
    Reply

    alexz commented on electrikate's review of For Love and Blood and Fury: a sapphic paranormal romance (Lilith's Legacy)

    1d
  • For Love and Blood and Fury: a sapphic paranormal romance (Lilith's Legacy)
    electrikate
    Aug 01, 2026
    For Love and Blood and Fury: a sapphic paranormal romance (Lilith's Legacy)
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 3.5Audiobook: 2.0

    If I had known that ER nurses get quite literally picked up and eaten out by hot lesbian vampire patients, I wouldn’t have rejected the emergency department’s offer.

    (Jk, the ER scares me, it’s too chaotic. I’d be a trampled little flower)

    This book was lovely. It had me staring into space, mouth ajar, more than I’m willing to admit. I liked the setting, the culture, the melding of different magic, the man-hating, & the relationship dynamics. I felt like I knew each of the main characters, and none of them felt left behind at any point in the novel.

    But maybe I should apply to transfer to the ER?

    9
    comments 5
    Reply
  • alexz commented on a post

    1d
  • For Love and Blood and Fury: a sapphic paranormal romance (Lilith's Legacy)
    📱| Thoughts from 80% (page 286)

    i think the author’s a man hater . that warrants five stars idk

    14
    comments 3
    Reply
  • alexz commented on a post

    1d
  • The Route of Ice and Salt
    Thoughts from 47%

    We really need to bring back the word "mayhap".

    16
    comments 21
    Reply
  • alexz wrote a review...

    2d
  • Rough Marshal Daddy: A Grumpy Mountain Man Romance (Steel Mountain Daddies Book 1)
    alexz
    Jul 31, 2026
    Rough Marshal Daddy: A Grumpy Mountain Man Romance (Steel Mountain Daddies Book 1)
    1.0
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:
    🍪
    🏔️
    🪓

    the concept of this novella sounded appealing. a young woman witnesses a mob hit and is whisked off into the mountains with a rugged ex-military man as her protector in an isolated cabin. i wonder what will happen? jk, it’s obvious they’re going to fall in love. the execution was, however, lacking. the characters were very flat, the language was repetitive. the book features lots of descriptions of what everything smells like, which are not strange when viewed individually, it’s the sheer abundance of them that made it weird. and with respect to the spicy scenes, again they were fine, not terribly exciting or interesting, when examined individually. the problem lies with the fact that of the 3.5 spicy scenes in the book, three of them were, beat for beat, nearly identical. nothing about this was offensive, but it was decidedly lacking in creativity. there are much better options available and i can’t in good conscience recommend this to anyone. this is an honest ARC review. eARC courtesy of the author via BookSprout.

    5
    comments 0
    Reply
  • alexz made progress on...

    3d
    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    Homer

    62%
    6
    0
    Reply

    alexz commented on kittygoons's review of Home Field Advantage

    3d
  • Home Field Advantage
    kittygoons
    Jul 30, 2026
    Home Field Advantage
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5Audiobook: 5.0
    🏈
    🪩
    📣

    I'm really enjoying lately reading books that high school me would have loved. I grew up in a small town that was mildly obsessed with high school sports and barely had any out queer kids, and it's just so fun to have a book like this exist. There's definitely still conflict in this story, which makes the plot feel more realistic. It's not ignoring that sexist and homophobic people exist in the world, and shows how two young women grow up and navigate that reality, while finding love, and themselves, along the way. My only real gripe is that I really dislike football (don't get me started on CTE, romanticizing taking hard hits, ignoring concussion protocol, taking advantage of underprivileged youths desperate for a chance at a college scholarship or pro career, etc etc etc), but other than that, this book is sweet, and charming, and I really enjoyed it!

    15
    comments 2
    Reply
  • alexz commented on a post

    4d
  • Shattered Gods (Dark Olympus, #10)
    Thoughts from 44%
    spoilers

    View spoiler

    4
    comments 5
    Reply
  • alexz commented on alexz's review of Pinned: A Sentient Bowling Romance

    4d
  • Pinned: A Sentient Bowling Romance
    alexz
    Feb 05, 2026
    Pinned: A Sentient Bowling Romance
    2.0
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:
    🎳
    🍒
    🙀

    View spoiler

    38
    comments 49
    Reply
  • alexz commented on kittygoons's update

    kittygoons made progress on...

    5d
    Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

    Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

    Catherynne M. Valente

    73%
    11
    2
    Reply

    alexz is interested in reading...

    5d
    The Last Days of Vic & Coco

    The Last Days of Vic & Coco

    Taylor Jenkins Reid

    6
    0
    Reply

    alexz made progress on...

    6d
    Beaches and Bites

    Beaches and Bites

    Ava Thorne

    17%
    9
    0
    Reply