Discussion
Topic: Books
No judgement zone: Which popular queer book (do you feel) is overrated? Explain why.
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catherine!! boyfriend material. i barely remember anything about it other than that it was underwhelmingly JUST okay
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Quinno Wuinno I hate it whenever it’s overly hyped and ends up mediocre in the end
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Courtney I remember reading “A Lady for a Duke” by Alexis Hall and loving it so naturally I went to see what else she wrote. I couldn’t even finish Boyfriend Material, it was such a let down.
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catherine!! yeah i enjoyed a lady for a duke and i'd heard good things about 10 things that never happened so i tried to give alexis hall another shot and i had to dnf 80 pages in. just not for me.
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catherine!! OH and the house in the cerulean sea. white author writes a story inspired by residential schools where the allegorical indigenous people are seen as monsters and the final takeaway is that some residential schools are good actually!!
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Quinno Wuinno Yikesssss😬
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Elizabeth starr One last stop was so boring tbh
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DV I couldn't get into Red White Royal Blue. The Harry typo that made it clear it was thinly disguised RPF turned me off. Love One Last Stop though.
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KyKy I also couldn’t get in Red White and Royal blue! Wish I could have tho.
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Ryn Dilkwen it/it’s Simon Vs. The **** Saipan Agenda, FCKING BLOOM, Simon snow trilogy, Call me by your name, and it goes on. Let’s start with the obvious Simon vs the **** saipan agenda is…not good in my opinion written by a women who clearly doesn’t know how queer men act I don’t care if she’s bi, I seen books with the same ish plot and done it better. Overrated. Bloom is a graphic novel everyone loves or the reason people hate it is just missing my entire point of hating this book. I HATE IT. Everyone blames Ari for everything and it’s like guys back OFF the relationship is toxic as hell and it’s not even paced well. Simon snow is written by yet again a woman and I know it’s based off the fangirl book story but it wasn’t good at all and I wanted to enjoy it as much as everyone else but…meh. Call me by your name is an entire red flag and if you tell me you like this book go away because what the absolute hell man??? Like my biggest issue is when straight or cis or a guy writting a WLW romance or a woman writting a BL romance like sometimes someone can do it good but other times it just falls off for me because they don’t know what’s it like to be a gay male or woman who falls a woman. What i am saying is there’s way better queer author or trans author stories that get pushed away to the side and these come in and everyone fawns over them. There not good at all. I have more but I’ll just say these and run.
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