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psocopteraRed, White, and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston. Fun m/m new-adult romance I saw heavily recced earlier this year. Definitely enjoyable if "the US president's son falls in love with a British prince" is the kind of thing you would enjoy. I thought it read like fanfic in the best way - if you loved "The Student Prince" or "Drastically Redefining Protocol" or the one where Charles Xavier is the prince and Magneto is a photographer, well, you probably read this months ago, who am I even talking to. But there's also an enjoyable fantasy-American-politics plot that you don't get in those UK-focused stories, so, hey, wish fulfillment in multiple directions. Anyways, the romance is great, really nicely paced, with a great development of the affection and connection between them, so if *that's* the kind of thing you like, definitely recommended. (Content note for a lot of drunkenness, some of which leads to public embarrassment but most of which is presented as awesome and fun, which I wasn't always comfortable with but probably anybody else would be.)
Vessel, Lisa Nichols. I was excited about this but it was bad, and I kept reading it to see if it would get better but it didn't. I'm picky about contemporary NASA-set sf but absolutely nothing about the space part of this story seemed like how anything would actually work. And I know the vast majority of people still believe in monogamy but I'm sorry, if you come back after being presumed dead and your spouse is with someone else, congratulations they're your metamour now and you have to have a fucking conversation! Like, really, *nobody in this contemporary setting* has ever heard of nonmonogamy and it's just obvious to everyone that the only two possible outcomes are the mutually-exclusive monogamous pairings?
Vessel, Lisa Nichols. I was excited about this but it was bad, and I kept reading it to see if it would get better but it didn't. I'm picky about contemporary NASA-set sf but absolutely nothing about the space part of this story seemed like how anything would actually work. And I know the vast majority of people still believe in monogamy but I'm sorry, if you come back after being presumed dead and your spouse is with someone else, congratulations they're your metamour now and you have to have a fucking conversation! Like, really, *nobody in this contemporary setting* has ever heard of nonmonogamy and it's just obvious to everyone that the only two possible outcomes are the mutually-exclusive monogamous pairings?
