romance

This was a hard DNF. I think I rage-quit within the first five minutes. Like listening to the gleeful recitation of colonial exploitation and stolen treasures by white people in Egypt. So yeah. No thanks.

I surprisingly like this book enough that I’ve listened to it several times. It’s a pretty solid hurt/comfort situation with some GFY (Gay For You) tossed in. One of the MC’s has a shitty past with abuse (with resulting facial scaring and mental illness – speaking of which TW for self-harm in the book). The other MC is a big, strapping cowboy who just wants to love and cuddle him....

The Rebuilding Year is the first book in the same-titled series by Kaje Harper and narrated by Gomez Pugh. It’s a kind of slow burn, GFY book (although, I think both men end up identifying as bisexual). And while there ends up being a whole… mystery? Suspense? angle that aspect is almost more like a sub-plot. The book is somewhat more focused on the relationship between the MCs. And this is, in my opinion, a good thing....

Our Secret Wedding is book on of the Sky High Scaffolders (SHS) series written by H.J. Perry and narrated by Tod Scott. The book follows two Uber Butch Macho guys, Connor and Lee. After Connor sees Lee kissing some guy in the streets, he knows he finally has a guy worth doing gay shit with. Or something. See. The thing is, is that Connor is bi. Except… no one seems to have told Lee who constantly engages in bi-erasure by constantly stating things as a gay/het dichotomy....