Dicks and Teapots

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Review 2 for 2024

Roommate -Bowen: 4/5

Promises - Marie Sexton: 1/5

I’m going to go ahead and do the reviews. I’m going back to the first one I finished this year. This book was readable but otherwise I wasn’t overly enthusiastic about it. I was recommended this book and jumped in without reading a description and only then realized it was a cop romance which I’m not in to. I don’t like DNF-ing a book so I pushed through. The writing was fine but nothing outstanding. The plot was a very standard “not like other girls I’m tough” story but the protagonist was gender swapped. There’s a sub plot of beating homophobia by proving to others you’re not feminine and it’s things like that where I become instantly wary when an MM romance is written by someone who, as far as I can determine, is a cis het woman. The angst fell flat for me and the plot would jump back and forth as far as how homophobic everyone was and how much that even mattered. I just wasn’t invested in this one at all and “I’m the manly cop I can’t be gay why can’t you be my secret” just doesn’t cut it for me. I would only recommend this if you really want to read some decent cop centric sex scenes.

Would you guys be interested if I did little book reviews? I’m currently reading book 13 of the year and I’ve been tossing around the idea of starting to review what I’m reading