Mary Fitz | On The Other App

Where are all the queer #booktwt readers at? 🥹 I know you're out there, so I'm trying this again. • she/her, 29 • Fav genres - romance, mystery, fantasy, thriller, historical fiction • LGBTQ+ for bonus points • Favs: The Song of Achilles, Yours Truly, Voyage of the Damned • Also love gaming ♡ and follow for fb, ↻ appreciated to help me out 😅

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I've made a 🦋 account because I can't take Elon's shit anymore. Probably will not use this account anymore. Can't let my engagement fuel a transphobic bigot's ego. Link will be in a reply if anyone cares to join me over there. Highly recommend. It's simple and twt-like.

Thank you so much to Alexis Hall and Sourcebooks Casablanca for the ARC of the Pansies re-release! Alfie and Fen meet for the first time at a bar in their hometown - except Fen remembers Alfie from school, back before the former bully had known he was gay and instead messed with Fen for being flamboyant. Now that he's learned more about himself, Alfie is determined to repair Fen's view of him in order to win his heart... but love is complicated, and Fen has more to work through than what another boy from his town put him through. Pansies is my introduction to Alexis Hall's writing style, and considering I (intentionally) didn't look too closely at the plot summary, this was the most delightful surprise of a book I could have asked for. Alfie is raw and real and full of internalized homophobia in a way that doesn't really get voiced in most novels. I'm so grateful to get to watch a character like him learn, grow, and come out the other side a better person. On the flip side we have Fen, who is dealing with a deeply complex form of grief that not many people can relate to. I loved watching how his guard would pop up and fall away so openly, demonstrating how authentic and unfiltered he is. Together, their dynamic is electric and so beautiful. In other notes, this is definitely a pretty spice heavy book, though there was a lot of purpose behind most of the scenes. I'll also mention that the bonus content in this book contains annotations from across the novel. LOVED reading through these and seeing the amount of depth Alexis has coating the backgrounds of every character that wasn't lost in the context of the story. Overall loved it! I can't wait to read the rest of the Spires series and I'm sure I'll dive into the rest of Alexis Hall's work soon. Thank you again for the ARC! The Pansies re-release is out on November 5th, next Tuesday. :)

*still* reading ACOMAF, the ARCs must be prioritized, but soon!

I'm back, I'm alive, finally getting some reading done... took long enough

@BlueNeptuune Happy birthday Sam! ❤️❤️❤️

birthday ‘bloons and the stars out last night 🥰

Ahhh I won a giveaway on Goodreads! 🥳 V exciting

@goodreads Voyage of the Damned by Frances White should be made into an Avatar: The Last Airbender style limited series. 👀

Which book do you most want to be made into a movie/TV show?

@jessiereadsgay 🤨

@MaryFitzReads READ SIX OF CROWS RN

4 books I want to read before the year ends

@jessiereadsgay TSOA 😀😀😀

4 books i want to read before the year ends

Ok I guess it's a rerelease, not totally new, but still sick!

I got an ARC for the new Alexis Hall book let's gooooooo 😁😁😁 My lineup is soooo good.

@Larrysmomfics Jesus christ 😭😭😭😭😭

@Larrysmomfics Is this...? The same one?

Theo is blunt, but I feel like the book made it pretty clear that that suited their dynamic as a couple. Probably the only times I saw Theo do things one might consider rude or mean was 1. Because Kit was giving REALLY mixed or even bad signals, or 2. Because Kit did something that hurt Theo - I actually actively looked for Theo being unlikeable and I don't really get it

@MaryFitzReads Oh! I thought it was really slow to get into, and Theo was unlikeable 😬 but Kit is my precious bb. Personally, the food, wine, and art history are extremely on brand for me, so I very much enjoyed that.

Finally finished, gawddayum. I'd say the ending definitely made up for a good chunk of my "meh" ness about this one, and though the food and wine and art and history really was not my thing, I did still leave with a pretty distinct, colorful impression of the world, which doesn't always happen with books. Can't bring myself to hate the overabundance of queer joy, even if it was a bit nonsensical in its universal appearance. As with *all* second chance romances I read, struggled with the believability of the aftermath of their breakup, but whatever. Like I said, that's all exes to lovers for me, so I don't really take off points for it. Would love to hear y'all's thoughts.

@DaniFinnwrites Haha if it helps I have a bunch of sapphic ARCs coming up and in my lobby queue!!!

@DaniFinnwrites Sapphic October, and Sapphic November, and Sapphic December... I can get behind this. 😂 Somehow I am not reading anything sapphic ATM?! A lot of MLM and then a romantasy and a thriller/mystery. I'll have to prioritize something sapphic next!

@keepdriving28 Sheeeeshh. Well what a fucking accomplishment. There aren't even a lot of people who read this many books in a year!