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What it says on the tin, an angsty lesbian slow burn enemies to lovers mech story. The addition of the titular gearbreakers is definitely a really cool twist, and shines at a couple of different points, though it has the side effect of turning some of the mech combat to human-scale combat with nameless "guards" set inside the mech.

Still, it has some excellent action sequences, and it was engaging enough that I stayed up late to keep reading more chapters.

I might recommend it if you're into mech yuri, but keep in mind that it's meant for teen audiences, with all the tropes and caveats that come with that, including so much angst. A side effect of this that I appreciated is that it's a romance story that doesn't use the language of sex to communicate beats in the relationship, which can sometimes be hard to find.

@sashanoraa that sounds cool as fuck. straight to the reading list

This was good!! The kind of punk that's clearly grounded in lived experiences, made just magical enough to be able to discuss themes of power in a very cool way! It's a very short book, but engaging and worth it the whole way through.

Recommended for the other anarchist and punk organizers and activists in my life

Got this physical as a gift! Excited to read it!

Oh it's so good. Just as mind bending as it ever was. Some of the rougher edges have been sanded off, and the earlier chapters are simplified a bit to ease readers unfamiliar with SCP into the world a bit. The second half of the book has seen the most work, and in a direction that I believe improves considerably on its earlier work.

Fans of SCP may still enjoy reading the original, but I'm delighted to have something that won't be incomprehensible to other audiences, and I don't think it lost any of its genius in the process.

STRONGLY recommend to anyone who enjoys weird sci-fi and mind-bending concepts and wants fiction that realigns how you look at the world for the rest of your life.

Read this in its online SCP Tale form, and pre-ordered the print edition! The online version ranked as my favorite book for a long time, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it's been adapted!

Plett's writing style doesn't really jive with me, and unfortunately I struggle to engage with short stories. Overall, I had some difficulty getting through this book, and I didn't enjoy it very much. Several stories just felt a little flat, and I often struggled to connect with the characters.

That said, I enjoyed both "Twenty Hot Tips to Shopping Success", a small fake-tutorial about the experience of buying clothes when newly experimenting with gender, and "Portland, Oregon", a short story about a girl trying to care for a cat as a metaphor for taking care of yourself when the outside world is often uncompromising.

Dark and earthy with notes of spilled blood. The opposite of Christian fiction

This one was originally much further down the list but I spotted it at the library so I had to read it :p