enemies to lovers

siren and siren hunter

didnt love it

love how different the partners if the paladins are in each book. i liked the story and i liked how it was lower stakes. yeah they could die, but also it wasn’t some huge conspiracy thing. again funny characters but somehow also able to hit on deeper topics without it ruining the mood of the book

i liked it. little girls arent my favorite main characters but this one was pretty good. liked the wee free men and fun to see more of a species we have seen bow and again earlier. also i think this is the same queen we got in that one witches book so good to see them as well but with a different hero foiling her. i liked the toad a lot as well

meh not my favorite. entertaining enough but just meh

i liked knowing more about lu tze and i always love some time travel nonsense. again susan proves to be a great character and i love to see her

this series has been pretty good but i really did not like the rape jokes in this book and they def got a little racist in this one with the eating dogs and whatnot.

i do get that it is critiquing ancient china but i feel that there could have been more care taken. I do like how they brought up real and not just slapdash examples such as the lotus feet tradition but i feel like we could have had more of that. it also felt a bit white savior-y. and i didnt love how most of the race was represented as meek. You can make up anything about a fictional race of people, but when you are purposely representing a simile of a real group of people you get the risk of perpetuating stereotypes and i think this is a risk of that. dont get me wrong, there def was research done and I do think there was good intent, just not enough thought put in.

I havent encountered all that much of this during my readthrough so far of this series and i was actually pretty impressed considering the first book was 42 years ago so im willing to give more benefit of the doubt. also its relevant to note that this might be a really good critique of something specific that i do not have the context to apply to and I’m taking satire in the wrong way. same could apply to the rape jokes made about cohen’s barbarian friend but i just don’t buy that and it really turned me off the whole storyline. Im glad they didnt really come back to that joke a lot b/c i prob would have dnfed. just some icky feelings leaving from this book

Another one that should sooo be gay. It was a fun time with the characters and figuring out solutions and everything

Just a small short story about the backstory of two of the characters in the main book

Okay wow this was actually hilarious and I loved it all.

great characters. great relationship. love the fun absurdity of it