🎉 August Queer Romance Club book pick - Dionysus in Wisconsin by EH Lupton 🎉
By a Mastodon author, @pretensesoup, it’s been shortlisted for the 2024 Lamba Literary Award in Gay Romance and the 2024 Midwest Book Award for fantasy.
Available on #Hoopla, #KoboPlus, all ebookstores and perhaps your library, or EH has kindly offered copies if access is difficult for you (DM her if so).
QRC is open to all, read at your own pace over the month and post about it under #QueerRomanceClub and @queerromanceclub — CW for spoilers if going into details but general observations can be open.
No rules: let’s hear reactions, theories, reviews, favourite quotes etc.
Please also feel free to tag EH in to your QRC post this month, and she’s open to Author Q&A so throw your questions her way.
Finished it, and still not entirely sure what I think. (I liked the characters. That's not as weird as it sounds, I frequently dislike characters in stories.) But the story itself left me unsatisfied. There are too many things that don't really make a lot of sense, and not enough explanation of why things are the way they are. Like why exactly are all these supernatural beings even interested in taking over?
That’s fair. It’s probably one of the downsides/difficulties of series (this is book 1 of, I believe, 5 books), the pacing of introducing answers to questions like the deeper motivations etc…but the first book does have to also stand alone, which can leave it lacking in some regards.
I tend to be pretty easygoing on storyline: as long as I like the main characters and their dynamics, dialogue, interactions with side characters etc, they can pretty much do what they like — as long as they do DO things, can’t stand a plotless book 😊 and I do like the characters and their family/friends in this one and am prepared to accept events on face value.
I also like the setting in this case, it being both a period of history and a place I don’t see a lot of in fiction. It seems well-researched and has a good sense of place.
Time to nominate the Queer Romance Club read for August. Give me your suggestions for the poll, which I will post this weekend.
New releases, old favourites, classic must-reads, series starters, award winners, feel-good fluff, mixed genres, anything’s good as long as it’s both queer and romantic 💕
I’ll be reading Olivia Waite’s The Hellion’s Waltz in March if any #QueerRomanceClub followers would like to join me. Post commentary as you go along or a review at the end 😊