k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/04/2026#Detour - 27% I’m calling it. This whole thing is going to be a simulation before actually going into space. …if I’m right, marketing really needs to work on that front cover summary. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/04/2026spot on the voyage. Too many obligations etc etc. The thing that got me was the financial incentive. He offered him 15 million to go, then raised it to 20 when he said no. This dude is a billionaire. I would have laughed in his face. 001
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Starting #Detour by Rob Hart. It was a random grab and all about traveling to Titan which I thought would be good with all the Artemis II woohaa. In this, an off duty officer saved the life of an Elon Muskesque figure. In return for his bravery, Muskesque (not his real name) offers the officer his 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I finished #Direbound and have absolutely gotten the sequel in my queue. Mostly because I was right, and you can’t trust anyone who calls you kitten. It’s gross. On to #TheFourthConsort about a man trapped on an alien planet with a centipede who wants to eat, kill, marry, fuck. Not in that order. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 14/03/2026#Direbound 65% It’s getting better but the guy who dicks you down the best will be the biggest traitor. Also he calls her kitten. Could you be more gross. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/03/2026#Direbound - 25% She has to stay in this academy for four months. Her sister was kidnapped and she has to “prove herself” to a system she doesn’t care about and didn’t you have a goal to save her..? It’s the weirdest hurry up and wait I’ve seen yet. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/03/2026#Direbound - 23% I am going to finish this but what do you mean your little sister was kidnapped and you’re going to join the army so you can travel to find her but instead you get wrapped up in a mountain climbing trial where you bond with a direwolf and now you have to go to school… like bro.. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Read Mccurdy’s #HalfHisAge in two days. Laid in bed explaining the period-on-his-d-***-slapping-her-face-with-it scene to my boyfriend. Made sure to end with “…I don’t wanna do that, but isn’t that wild to read!? There was blood everywhere!”😂 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 10/01/202632/221 #Frostlines by Neil Shea. Just went over the observations of arctic wolves having no male alpha. Packs tend to follow the stronger, experienced female and upon her death, the core of the pack becomes discombobulated. NO MALE ALPHA. This will ruin the modern smuts, thus we don’t discuss it. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 10/01/2026So I finished #twilight. All I can say is I’m glad I read this in my 20s because it hits so different as a lady in her upper 30s. Not bad but.. I absolutely feel like Charlie. Like, is my daughter insane and why is she so secretive? This is how your kids become vampires. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 09/01/2026After a brief hiatus I have returned! Re-reading #Twilight which I haven’t touched since the late 2000’s. Thought I’d have more feelings than “if the Cullen’s house is over 100 years old.. I bet they never bothered to install modern toilets. Where will Bella put her piss when she’s over!?” 010
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Vermont so she can write this book that a lawyer/investigator of the victims wants. Thought I was here for the murder but stayed for the picturesque scenery vibes of Vermont. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I’m going to try and be better on here. I started #CoramHouse by Bailey Seybold and went totally off of vibes. A Vermont orphanage run by sadistic nuns waaay back in the day and they were apparently murdering kids. So a ghostwriter who just lost her husband is packing up her life and moving to 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/06/2025This should be your bible. Your handbook of what to look out for. And when you tell someone to leave your home - they better fucking GO. (He likes to sit there and pretend he can’t hear you.) 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/06/2025He isn’t grounded in any kind of logical reality beyond hoping back and forth between vulnerable women’s apartments. He strategizes exactly to the degree he needs to be an asshole for them to want him. He is the worst character ever but I can’t stop reading this book. All women who are lonely - 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I am so far behind. Yesterday I started #TheStalker by Paula Bomer (stop autocorrecting to Boner..) and I hope this is not based on her experiences. The MMC Doughty is a professional fuckboy, con-man, narcissistic, asshole… it’s just amazing the lack of self awareness (or he is overly aware). 120
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 26/05/2025tricked when they read work generated by AI. As books are revealed to have AI assists, they are not as accepting as this book claims and I don’t think would ever support an “author” who clearly had AI change words around but kept essentially the same story. I need to suspend more disbelief. Maybe? 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 26/05/2025107/303 - #RomanticFriction So this is about a popular author that gets her work hijacked by a fan who uses AI to basically strip and repackage it as her own. I am enjoying the commentary/criticisms on the publishing industry. What’s lacking is a realistic response from readers who feel 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 26/05/2025DNF - #MarkTwain Honestly I should know better. It’s not like it’s not interesting but looking at this book feels like homework. After about 200 pages.. I’m not really learning anything substantial. Eh. 010
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 19/05/2025129/1175 - #MarkTwain I am reading this one real slow. Like three chapters a day slow. On today’s adventures of MT~ •he’s very racist although he tries not to be, until he gets to Europe and realizes it’s not all populated by white people and made dwarf jokes about an entire country. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 12/05/2025because they can be so good but you have to balance world building, character building, sexual tension.. and this book starts out there. But it reveals just how flat the male characters are and I am moving on. Needs an editor. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 12/05/2025talking about the next thing they need to do. She’s basically going through a whole ass trial for him and then also competing for the hand of the human prince with THOSE trials. It’s exhausting. Neither one is redeeming or worthy enough for her to be doing all this. I hate this thing with smuts 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 12/05/2025She had to have sex with his father, then him, and do it for hours in front of everyone. It’s supposed to be the end all, be all. Except once she passes (he bangs her so hard her pelvis breaks but don’t worry they have instant heal powers they can bestow upon you) he’s all distant and weird again 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 12/05/202561% - #KissOfTheBasilisk DNF. If this book was half the length, it would’ve been better. It’s 500 pages and getting more incoherent as time goes on. My gripe is that they just went through a super strenuous mating ritual so Tem would be accepted by the basilisks. 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 10/05/2025slowing down my reading to really enjoy them. As I’m walking, they are going at it and he tells her to lean her head back. He moves his face over hers and what I can only describe as “oil sludge” comes out of his mouth and goes in to hers. It’s nasty. I trip over my feet. Still 10/10. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 10/05/202540% - #KissOfTheBasilisk Story time. I’m walking on my treadmill and I have a mount for my kindle (so I can walk hands free and read. Firming up minds and asses.) Tem is having sex with her basilisk teacher Caspian like.. madly. And the scenes are so well executed and written, that I’ve been 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/05/2025penis goes. Unsuccessful. But they take a human form (convenient) in order to teach young village girls how to seduce so the best seductress can secure the prince and have his heirs. That’s seriously the prize for putting in SO much effort.. financial security. Not love. You just get to be a 110
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/05/20253% - #KissOfTheBasilisk Or known as “a spit or swallow novel” was pointed out by a friend and then started trending on TikTok everyone. Someone online said “I just read 500 pages of snake smut and I want more??” My first thought was to google a basilisk because I’m trying to figure out where the 110
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Finished #CellarRat and it does a great job of explaining why the restaurant business is not for the faint of heart. Not I’m on to #KissOfTheBasilisk Aka snake smuts. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/2025*almost stopped reading. I won’t, because I want her to find her lady balls. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/202544%- #CellarRat So she got fired for trying to cover for a manager that was stealing alcohol.. and then that same manager told everyone they mutually knew to not give her a job? I also stopped reading this book because my petty would NEVER. If I’m going down, you can get fucked. 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/2025a burger like that since. But also the service was so fucking shitty you’d be waiting for over an hour. They’re closed now. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I am roughly 25% into #CellarRat and she talk about her time working with Bobby Flay. Dude had some banging ass burgers and a restaurant roughly 20 minutes from where I used to live. It was EXPONSIVE so the burger was a tiny little treat. Occasionally I think about them because I haven’t had 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I’m like six books past Nocturne (which I didn’t even finish.) Onto #CellarRat, about working in the NYC restaurant scene. If serving weren’t so chaotic and shitty, I would do it as a part time job. My job already requires me to listen to people talk.. why not do it for the tipssss. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 20/04/2025This one is 1940s Noir vampires. I’m rolling on a theme I guess. Nothing to note except the men are extra manly and the women appear beautiful and helpless. Just how we like em. 😂 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Finished #BloodOnHerTongue and I wanted it a little more fleshed out in the end. Of course they kill everyone in the way and escape, but I just wanted… more. More explanation of the parasite. It’s such a fascinating angle to vampires, mental illness, etc. Now starting #Nocturne by Karina Halle. 110
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 20/04/2025she can only survive off blood and fresh meat. In 2025 I’m ready for sentient parasites. 000
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 20/04/202573% - #BloodOnHerTongue So it’s a parasite that infects a person and eats part of their brain.. like a bacteria vampire. Her sister is “dead” but the parasite can use her memories to think, act, and speak like a person. Now she’s asking Lucy (her sister) to help her live by murdering someone cause 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 17/04/2025exchanged… we are going to learn about the dangers of bacteria. Or it’s a vampire. Or the husband poisoning her so he can be with a younger lover. Or the other guy trying to poison her to draw Lucy in. Let’s see which theory sticks. 100
k.reads @kjo09.bsky.social · 17/04/202510% - #BloodOnHerTongue Lucy has a sister named Sarah. Sarah is acting odd. Seeing people who aren’t there. Saying it feels like her brain is being scooped out with a hot spoon. I’m going to say the moment her family pulled out a big bodice and her knuckles got cut on it and some fluid was 100
