His Consort | 
so-soThus far, July has been a month of guilty pleasure for me. I‘m reading through Mary Calmes‘ back catalogue, and these books—while not great—are fast, relaxing, and sufficiently entertaining.
His Consort is a story about an ex-soldier meeting a vampire prince. Insta-lust, some gunfights, New Orleans, pretty neat side characters. Blood drinking & potentiall darkness. Nothing truly remarkable about this romance, but I had fun reading it.
3.25
panIf someone wrote a book that's sole purpose was to illustrate what red flags in a relationship look like in practice it would be this book. Since that wasn't this book's purpose I can only say that this book is trash. On top of having all the red flags it was also really conservative, which separately, gross. Avoid at all cost.
"I'm just afraid of hurting you if you try to leave me again."... This book jumps from toxic shit to toxic shit
...and now there's a long diatribe about how you shouldn't get any help from anyone and being rich is good and if you want to be rich all you have yo do is just work harder.... This is the most politically conservative gay vampire book ever
Deep breath. Right so one there are more groups pf people than black and white but more importantly YOU CANNOT BE RACIST TOWARDS WHITE PEOPLE THAT'S NOT A THING
Nothing gets in my crawl more than an author putting their dumbass misogynistics beliefs in a woman's mouth... There's just too much to unpack in this passage...
pickNot a bad vampyr/human m|m romance with a little intrigue on the side. Humans have to consent and it‘s not good for the vampyr if they don‘t - love the consent aspect. It‘s a stand alone but Calmes left room for it to be a series. Some parts seemed a bit rushed and I think Calmes does non-fantasy better - the Marshalls series is quite good. I‘d still say read this if sexy times with a blood sucking prince are your thing. It was pretty hot.
It is not my fault that Dreamspinner‘s is having a 35% off all books sale AND they‘re announcing additional coupons on their social media and that means I accidentally acquired more books. I did manage not to pre-order the new R. Cooper book but only because I don‘t own the others and that means I‘d have to buy all of them and I need a new pair of shoes so...
