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I’m just here to read! Queer and weird and hot: myself and my ideal books

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Boy PartsThe King Must Die (Theseus, #1)

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  • Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
    the_goddess_me
    Jan 08, 2026
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5
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    Meh

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  • Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
    the_goddess_me
    Jan 02, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0
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    Something different and I mean that so positively. I thought the chemistry was good and the characters were interesting. A little gory at parts but the author does warn about that at the beginning. Super weird and cute tbh

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  • Neon Gods (Dark Olympus, #1)
    the_goddess_me
    Dec 31, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.5
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    Honestly one of the best adaptations of the Persephone and hades myth. I liked it a lot. Good intrigue and world building and the smut wasn’t half bad either. Not the best book in the whole world but a really fun and solid book I enjoyed greatly.

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  • Promises and Pomegranates (Monsters & Muses, #1)
    the_goddess_me
    Dec 28, 2025
    1.5
    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.0Plot: 1.5
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    I wanted a hades and Persephone retelling but this was not it. Just generally not the best book. The smut was pretty alright but the story wasn’t my fave.

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  • Dracula
    cassia
    Nov 17, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5
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    Dracula is a classic for a reason. At it's best the atmosphere is so highly charged that you can feel it in the environment you're in, the characters are compelling, and the plot feels so believable. The epistolary storytelling really lends itself to the story, and you really feel this sense of dread creeping in as things get worse.

    I really really loved this book up until about the halfway mark - when the Good Van Helsing arrives. I found his POV really shifted the tone of the book away from this glorious atmospheric Gothic horror to... "The Right Religion Will Cure All My Problems", and took sooo much away from the rest of the book. I think I much prefer stories where characters overcome challenges to solve problems, where they figure things out - and Van Helsing... isn't that. He's a polymath who just kind of knows what to do, and I think it detracts from the narrative. I also read it as an audiobook - so it felt a bit like a religious Dutch man giving me a lecture.

    There's so many more gay/feminist undertones in the other POVs than I expected, which I enjoyed - I'm sure many essays have been written about the relationships between gender and power and sexuality in the context of Dracula, and I'm not planning to explore that here, but I enjoyed it.

    Overall, I had a much better time with this than I was expecting to, and I think I'd have enjoyed it more as a physical book rather than a cast audiobook. It's probably not one I'd revisit soon, but one I'm glad to have read.

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  • Dracula
    brandanadei
    Jul 22, 2025
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    I've read this book before, but this time I read it as part of Dracula Daily, where the parts are sent to the reader in chronological order, on the day the entries were made. A really great way to read it, in my opinion. It really adds to the tension when you realise how long Jonathan spends in the castle and the gaps of time when you're not sure if he's alive or dead. 

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  • Dracula
    the_goddess_me
    Dec 20, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 4.0
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    I understand the point and it’s a masterpiece whatever. I think I am simply not meant for books where the entire point is god is good and faith is good and look at how good men are.

    I like the idea of peace through the natural cycle or death and life and maintaining life after death makes you evil because you disrupted natural balance not because of god but alas can’t help when this was written. As an American history major they way the talked about America and Quincy Jones made me giggle. it was interesting

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  • the_goddess_me completed their yearly reading goal of 10 books!

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    the_goddess_me's 2025 Reading Challenge

    12 of 10 read
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    The Shame
    Woman, Eating
    A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.5)
    A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
    Carmilla
    youthjuice
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