maomi
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maomi wrote a review...
3.75, rounded down for pb
this was probably the most formulaic feeling book i’ve read in this series so far. a lot of it felt very predictable, but it also had its own unique twists.
watching the relationship between daisy and ronan develop was fun, they have a pretty typical feeling dom/sub relationship, but there’s some added depth as well that i wasn’t opposed to.
i was a little confused by daisy’s hypoglycemia situation, it felt like an afterthought more often than not, but that’s what daisy felt it was too? so in a way it does what it’s supposed to do, but it still felt intrusive. like something that was added just to be there. but it all kind of works out in the end.
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Highest Bidder (Salacious Players Club, #5)
Sara Cate
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luckily, it’s quiet here tonight,
BRO YOU JUST CURSED THAT ER TO HELL WHAT ARE YOU DOING
(iykyk)
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Fairy Court Dragon Sex Magic: A Whimsical Romantasy Satire
Evan Pickering
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maomi commented on a post
“this is just a stimulant. it’s going to feel cold.”
my first thought was cocaine???
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“this is just a stimulant. it’s going to feel cold.”
my first thought was cocaine???
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maomi commented on alexz's review of Taken by the Horny MRI Machine
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26maomi commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Hi all, Looking for some advice. I started learning french by myself about a year and a half ago. I did learn mostly on duolingo to gain vocabulary and a basic sense of how sentences are strung together. Also learned a bit in a workbook. Then I started reading l’étranger by Albert Camus which honestly is fine to read but just a little long for a beginner so it makes me lose focus in between.
Currently I am finishing up ”Short Stories in French for Beginners” by Olly Richards which I absolutely love in terms of how it is made and the difficulty level. After finishing it I would like to add more books like that but maybe also some easy reads.
Do you guys have any suggestions for me? It would be very appreciated 🫶🏻
I would love for the french level to be somewhere around A2 -> B1
34maomi commented on Bacchus's review of Just for the Cameras
I just... Nothing was enjoyable
38maomi commented on smellthemosses's review of The Priory of the Orange Tree
Another popular fantasy with good ideas and horrible execution.
The religion stuff was cool. If only there had been any actual thematic depth to "what if the world's religions represented different branches of interpretations and traditions rooted in a common history?" Or "Western dragons are scary fire monsters and Eastern dragons are wise water gods, interesting."
But she does not go any futher than what I just said, in all of this tome's 800? 900? pages. That's almost an achievement on its own.
My biggest complaint by far is the lazy, sloppy orientalism in the world building. Oh, the water dragon people of THE EAST have a closed-door foreign policy and address one another as "honourable so-and-so" and have names that vaguely sound Japanese? Nice. Great job. There is even a bigger empire (pseudo-China) and a little peninsula (oh is that us? pseudo-Korea!). The desert people of the SOUTH ride tiger-like animals and burn incense at mystical mosque places and sell spices at markets? Jesus f-cking Christ. What was her research, Aladdin? This is just a couple of notches above naming a Chinese girl "Cho Chang." And I need all the white people raving about this book to see that.
The author has a cowardly little disclaimer about how all the cultures and places in this book aren't real so please don't come for her little white British self! I bet she thought she was so woke because she challenges the authority of the obviously British/European religion through the obviously SWANA/Middle Eastern religion. The main white characters best friends were BOTH BLACK, OKAY?? SHE'S WOKE!! I bet she was fully patting herself on the back for including all the cultures, like a college brochure with dragons. But guess which culture gets all the political intrigue and nuances at least somewhat fleshed out? It's not the polite dragon worship people or the mysterious and dangerous spice people! It's the white feminist fever dream matrilineal Britain--I mean Inysh!
60maomi commented on a post
I need advice from Grishaverse and Bardugo fans. I honestly had NO idea Six of Crows was a duology that follows a trilogy lol. 🤦♀️ Do I pause my reading and start from the beginning? I don’t want spoilers for the first trilogy and feel like I’m going to really enjoy the series. Thank you for any and all perspectives!! ✨💓
10maomi commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Maaaan, I genuinely don’t know what to read. 😭 I’ve started like 4 books over the past couple weeks and nothing is holding my attention.
I need some absolute bangers. Bonus points for a really good audiobook because apparently the Edge of Darkness trilogy put me in a permanent slump. 😂
I’m looking for dark romance with heavy topics, a good plot, trauma and spice. I like the romance itself to be dark, obsessive, morally questionable, etc., but I’m not really into the MMC just pointlessly torturing/abusing the FMC for the sake of making it “dark.”
Basically, give me something dark and fucked up with an actual story and characters I’ll get attached to. Please help me. 😭
18maomi commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Guys can anyone suggest me some dark romance books? Like ACTUAL dark romance, not like where the mmc is just raping the fmc until she gets Stockholm Syndrome (haunting adeline and God of malice types)
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JUSTICE FOR BODY HAIR
chest hair, the happy trail, armpit hair, and the ever elusive bush 🥴 this list is a compilation of smutty books with descriptions or mentions of body hair. because there is nothingggg NOTHING!!!! more primal and sexy than hairy people going at it 😌 if you have suggestions or if you've seen the mythical bush, pLEASE LET ME KNOW I'M ON MY KNEES!! i want to normalize body hair so bad 🥺 will only list first in series to keep things in check! body hair types listed in the comments
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maomi commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Let’s talk about overused words…
The Oxford English Dictionary has over half a million words and yet the council of fantasy authors seem to have dedicated their lives to using approximately 37 of them... and it feels like that number drops to about 21 when we get to romantasy specifically. 😂😭
So, readers, what words need to go to Vocabulary Jail 🔒 for a little cooldown period? 😅
I know I mentioned fantasy authors (because I read a lot of fantasy), but I’m sure other genres are guilty of overusing perfectly good words until we can no longer hear them without rolling our eyes. 😆
Let's hear 'em! 📢
I’ll start: WHORL
Once upon a time, whorl felt whimsical. Magical. Atmospheric. Now, everything has whorls: light, paintings, floor tiles, evening gowns, back tattoos, mysterious artefacts... It's enough now. 😂
It's not an inherently bad word, but I yearn for some more creativity.
EDIT: Y'all are getting the most millennial response out of me for this post. 😆
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