Atlas (Mike Bravo Ops #3)

It's. Finally. Here. The third installment of Eden Finley's Mike Bravo Ops series. "Atlas." Also known as when Lemon finally get's his HEA (got to admit, I had to go back to "Thorned Heart" (Cash Me Outside series--part of the Famous series) to remember Lemon, but holy. fuck. Lemon.).

["Atlas
Working undercover at a strip club is not my usual kind of job. If it weren’t a great opportunity to show the Mike Bravo team I can run my own op, I wouldn’t have agreed to it.
When my boss asks me to befriend the biggest gossip in the establishment, the person who knows everything, I’m even more reluctant. Because that happens to be one of the dancers. The only dancer to catch my attention in all the wrong ways.
I need to be professional or I will never prove I’m leadership material.
Only problem is, the guy with the stage name Lemon makes me want to be anything but professional.

Lemon
I’m sick of the new bartender throwing dirty looks my way. He’s as judgmental as he is hot, and let’s just say he’s really judgmental.
I don’t know why he’s working here if he looks down on us dancers so much. He could bartend at a regular club.
But when he saves me from a drunken customer getting too handsy, his attitude suddenly flips, and we find ourselves becoming … friends?
Underneath the judgment, it turns out Atlas is a total sweetheart.
Maybe more caring than anyone I’ve ever met.
I’ve never had a relationship before, but something tells me it could be way too easy to fall for the gentle giant."]

I love these books. What's more than a bunch of immature jocks with access to guns and explosives find their true love and happily ever after while evading some sort of bad guy. There's action and damsels in distress and explosives (if you've met the Mike Bravo guys yet, you know the explosives part needs said twice--at least twice) love confessions and possessive behavior and so. much. steam.

I don't know why I'm so surprised about the twists and double and triple twists. All of the secrets and you-think-you-know-what's-going-on-but-have-another-plot-twist twists. All of the almost kisses and almost deaths. Don't read this book if you're anxiety is acting up (yay) or if you're slightly drunk (apparently that makes my anxiety worse--yay).

I looooove this team. I love their banter and teasing and love and support and antics, and I'm so happy that we got more of them in this book. I just can't wait for the others to fall in love.

No one will beat Iris in my book (Princess Smooshy Face would agree), but Lemon is a very strong competitor. 

Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, organized crime, drugs, drug dealing, sex work, violence in general, and more

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Pride 2023: H

Pride Alphabet Time! H is for...

AUTHORS: Hayden Hall, Hayden Stone, Henry Holt, Honey London, and more

SERIES: Heartstopper, Harmony of Hearts, Hartbridge Christmas, Heathens Ink, Heroes At Home, His Brother's Best Friend, Honeybridge, Hostile Takeover, Housemates, and more

BOOKS: Hacked, Had a Bromance With a Teammate, Hand Picked, Hardwood, Hat Trick, Hate To Be You, Hate to Love You, Heart, Heated Rivalry, Helping Hand, Her Royal Highness, Here Goes Nothing, Here the Whole Time, Here's To Us, Hidden Scars, Hijacked, Him, Himbro, His Saint, Hitched, Holiday Fling, Home Field Advantage, Honestly Ben, Honeymoon Ever After; Hook, Line, & Sinker; Hopeless Bromantic, Hostile Takeover, Hot as Heller, Hot Dog Girl, Hot Head, Hot Ink, Hot Ride, Hotter Than Hot, How Not To Ask A Boy To Prom, How To Be Remy Cameron, How To Train Your Alpha, Hudson's Luck, Husband Hoax, Husband Material, The Half-Baked Plan, The Happy List, The Holiday Hookup, The House In The Cerulean Sea, and more

IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Harvey Milk, and more

TERMS:He/Him, Heterosexuality, HIV, Homoflexible, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Hormone Blockers, Hormone Replacements, Hyperfemininity, Hypermasculinity, and more

Just like with my resources page, please feel free to drop any I missed below in the comments!

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Pride 2023: G

Pride Alphabet Time! G is for...

AUTHORS:

SERIES: Game Changers, Games We Play, Geek Ink, Good Bad Idea, Goode Life, Guys Next Door, and more

BOOKS: Game Changers; Game, Sex, Match; Gay Love and Other Fairytales, Gaycation in Paradise, Geek Tattoo, Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue , Getting Friendly, Ghosts of Crushes Past, Gideon, Giles Ashby Needs A Nanny, Goal Lines and First Times, Going Commando, Gold Rings & Partridges, Golden Boys, Good Omens, Gravity, Grounding Griffin, Gruff Stuff, The Geek Next Door, The Geeky Jock Paradox, The Gift, The Gilded Wolves, The Glow Up, The Gravity of Us, and more

IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Georgina Beyer, Gilbert Baker, Glenn Burke, Greta Garbo, and more

TERMS:Gatekeeping, Gay, Gayby, Gender, Gender affirmation surgery, Gender Assigned At Birth, Gender Binary, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Envy, Gender Euphoria, Gender Expansive, Gender Expression, Gender Identity, Gender Neutral, Gender Non-Conforming, Gender Performance, Gender Roles, Gender Socialization, Gender Spectrum, Gender Variant, Gendered Language, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Gray Asexual, Grayromantic, and more

Since the last post, I went and added more YA and children's authors/book to the lists as well as books/authors from (some of) my TBR pile(s). 

Just like with my resources page, please feel free to drop any I missed below in the comments!

#pride #pridemonth #pride2022 #pridebooks #lgbt #lgbtbooks #rainbow #betruebeyou #wholebunchofgaydisastersyall #queerbooks #books #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Pride 2023: F

 

Pride Alphabet Time! F is for...

AUTHORS: Fae Quinn, F.T. Lukens, and more

SERIES: Foxhole Court, Fake Boyfriend, Famous, Fast Break, Festive Fakes, Finding Home, For Him, Forever Wilde, Four Bears Construction, Franklin U, Frat Wars, and more

BOOKS: Face Off and Cheap Shots, Face The Music, Facing West, Facts, Smacts, Fair Trade, Fairy Cakes in Winter, Fake Friends, Fake it to Make it, Fake Out, Fake The Date, Fakers, Faking A Groom, Falling For the Geek, Falling for the Vet Doctor, Falling For Trouble, Fan Art, Fandom, Fangirl, Felix and the Prince, Fence, Final Play, Firecracker, First Time Seller, Five Fake Dates, Fix Me, Flakes, Flash Me, Flawsome Expectations, Fling, Flirt, Foolish Puckboy, Fools, Football Royalty, Forbidden Friend, Forever Con Amor, Forever Wilde In Aster Valley, Forever with Hardin, Free Me, French Tryst, Friend of Mistlefoe, Friendly Fire, Friends with Benefits, From Ashes, The Fascinators, The Faker Rulebook, The Fall, The Feeling of Falling In Love, The Fever King, The Fire, The Forbidden Equation, The Friend Scheme, The Friendship Equation, and more

IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Francisco Manicongo, Frida Kahlo, Frieda Belinfante, and more

TERMS: Feminine, Femme, Folx, FTM, FTX, and more

Since the last post, I went and added more YA and children's authors/book to the lists as well as books/authors from (some of) my TBR pile(s). 

Just like with my resources page, please feel free to drop any I missed below in the comments!

#pride #pridemonth #pride2022 #pridebooks #lgbt #lgbtbooks #rainbow #betruebeyou #wholebunchofgaydisastersyall #queerbooks #books #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Pride 2023: E

Pride Alphabet Time! E is for...

AUTHORS: Eden Finley, Eliot Schefer, Emery Lee, Everina Maxwell, and more

SERIES: Ever After, Extracurricular Activities, and more

BOOKS: Egotistical Puckboy, Eight Nights in December, Employing Patience , Encore, Epic Love Story, Every Word You Never Said, Ex-Mas Present, Extra Whip, The Easy Way, The Electric Heir, The Extraordinaries, and more

IMPORTANT PEOPLE: Ellen DeGeneres, and more

TERMS:

Since the last post, I went and added more YA and children's authors/book to the lists as well as books/authors from (some of) my TBR pile(s). 

Just like with my resources page, please feel free to drop any I missed below in the comments!

#pride #pridemonth #pride2022 #pridebooks #lgbt #lgbtbooks #rainbow #betruebeyou #wholebunchofgaydisastersyall #queerbooks #books #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Legend (Pride F.C. #1)

My goal this week is to try to catch up on all of the new recent (and not so recent) releases that I keep putting aside for one reason or another. Here's Isla Olsen and Willow Thomas's "Legend." It's the first book in their new Pride F.C. series.

["Tom
Legend of the Game. That’s me, apparently. I suppose it’s meant to be a compliment, but to me it just sounds like one of those labels people slap on you when you’re on your way out.
Legend. Stalwart. Dinosaur. It all sounds the same to me.
I’ve been in the Premier League for over twenty years and I’m not ready to leave. I’m definitely not about to let myself get pushed out by a flashy upstart like Archie Milligan.
The kid is way too shiny, way too bouncy…and way too attractive. And if I have to spend any more time training one-on-one with him, I’m going to go insane.

Archie
Playing for Croydon Pride has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid. The circumstances that led to me switching clubs weren’t ideal, but I’ve always been a bright side kind of guy, so I plan to make the most of it.
There’s just one problem. Tom Whitford—AKA the not-so-secret object of all my youthful fantasies, and my current training partner—is a total arsehole.
He thinks we’re rivals, but all I want is to be mates. Okay, maybe that’s not all I want, but it’s what I’ll take…after all, what are the odds the legendary player I’ve been swooning over for years is not only secretly attracted to men, but to me in particular?"]

As predicted, this book gave me all of the feels. There was pining and friendship and lust and confusion and love and obsession and possession and newness and a dog. It was just overall, just a fucking great book. Minor angst. So. Damn. Good.

I can't fucking wait for the rest of the series (I can already see who they'll be about).

And now I have to add Willow Thomas to my to-binge list.

#legend #pridefc #pridefcseries #pride #prideseries #islaolsen #willowthomas #books #queerbooks #queererotica #bodicerippers #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks

Pride 2023: D

Pride Alphabet Time! D is for...

AUTHORS: D.J. Jamison, Dahlia Alder, Daniel Haack, David Levithan, Dylan James, and more

SERIES: Dirty Slide, Divorced Men's Club, Drake Security, and more

BOOKS: Daddy, Dark and Deepest Red, Date Me; Date Me, Bryson Keller; Deal Maker, Dear Cupid, Dear Mr. Brody, Dearest Malachi Koegh, Dearest Milton James, Deke, Delayed Game, Delivering Dante, Denial , Dirty Slide, Dirty Steal, Dirty Track, Disarmed, Don't Date A DILF, Double Shot, Drilled, The Darkness Outside US, The Date, The Dating Disaster, The Dating Experiment, The Dating Game, The Devil Takes, The Dog and the Sailor, The Dream Thieves, and more

IMPORTANT PEOPLE: 

TERMS: Deadnaming, Demi, Disclosure, Discrimination, Drag, Dyke, and more

Since the last post, I went and added more YA and children's authors/book to the lists as well as books/authors from (some of) my TBR pile(s). 

Just like with my resources page, please feel free to drop any I missed below in the comments!

#pride #pridemonth #pride2022 #pridebooks #lgbt #lgbtbooks #rainbow #betruebeyou #wholebunchofgaydisastersyall #queerbooks #books #bookstagram #bookphotography #ilovebooks