Reading Past Dark @readingpastdark - Tumblr Blog

hello readers!

this is a blog I made so I can talk about some of the books I read. I like to make memes about what I'm reading sometimes and I might post them if I feel like it.

main blog: you can visit and follow this blog on wordpress here for full length reviews and posts (please do! you can get notified when I write a new post, and also I think my blog is cute and pretty considering it's a free wordpress site)

about me: I'm a butch lesbian and huge nerd. my free time is spent reading, watching sports, or both at the same time. pronouns are whatever I don't even care anymore.

you can read my reviews on the Lesbrary here, and follow me on the Storygraph here and on Goodreads here

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A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows - Review

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is a book I picked up because a friend offhandedly mentioned enjoying it one night, and I decided to place a hold on it. So when I sat down to actually read it (and ignore my actual TBR because I felt like it and have free will) I was immediately drawn in to the story in a way that a fantasy novel hasn’t done for me in a while. In it, we follow Velasin and…

#fantasy #foz meadows #lgbtq #lgbtq fantasy #review

April 2026 Reading Wrap-Up

April has been a busy month in my life. I went to Ottawa and saw a PWHL game (Go Charge!) and I also learned how to swim 400m in less than 11 minutes in order to keep my job this summer. Shoutout to my swim coach/mom. Playoff hockey has begun and instead of tuning the games out while I read a book I’m actually invested in the results. Despite all of this I still read eight books, but I would have…

#monthly wrap-up

a second lesbian workplace romance disguised as a sports romance has hit the TBR

#anita kelly #basketball #book review #how you get the girl #lgbtq #lgbtq romance #review #romance

back with another review for a gay sports romance! if you watched Challengers and wanted more boys kissing, I suggest reading on....

#arc review #book review #in your court #kit haley #lgbtq #lgbtq romance #review #romance #sports #sports romance #tennis

the people on netgalley love me :)))))

#in your court #kit haley #i have got to finish up my current reads bc i want to read this and a trade of blood soooo bad #arcs

#realllllly hoping i get approved for the eARC of a trade of blood because i know that will be fun <- me earlier today after complaining about bad review copies i tried to read

NEVER KILL YOURSELF

everyone stay tuned for a review in the future and go subscribe to my blog if u wanna see it when I post it :D

#a trade of blood #robert jackson bennett #the tainted cup #shadow of the leviathan #a drop of corruption #fantasy #fantasy books #reading #books #book blog

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: In Your Court by Kit Haley

Today on the site I’m delighted to help reveal the cover of In Your Court by Kit Haley, an m/m sports romance releasing May 21st! Here’s the story: Australian Matteo Russo is the first and only openly gay tennis pro. Once a brilliant junior, he was slated for a bright future – until a freak accident derailed his career. Now, he’s fed up, he’s struggling to qualify for tournaments, and he’s not…

#oh wow I am so predictable when it comes to romance novels #this looks awesome #adding this to the tbr STAT #in your court #kit haley

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My take on Din from The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

#woahhhhh this is awesome #the tainted cup #the tainted cup art #getting back into this in preparation for book 3 which i might be getting an arc of if the person running the del rey netgalley loves me

usually I'm good at picking enjoyable books for myself but my last three ARCs have been complete and utter duds :( you know it's bad when you dnf two of them and literally keep falling asleep during the third :(

#realllllly hoping i get approved for the eARC of a trade of blood because i know that will be fun #and victorious by v.e. schwab #march started off real strong with in memoriam and it's been bad from there

wrote about some books I read whilst traveling by train!

#blog #cat sebastian #cindy pham #fredrik backman #reading #stephen graham jones #travel

wow i wonder why readers of this literary novel about aristotle are also fans of the game changers series.....glad to see fans of canadian authors enjoy variety :)

#the rest of the books are all classics and myth retellings and then you've got.....gay hockey smut #the jacob tierney effect is real #good work everyone #the golden mean

read and reviewed The Golden Mean because I saw Jacob Tierney is going to make a show based on it...my thoughts on the book lie within. saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahjnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn0deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees <- cat stepped on my laptop while i was writing and i'm leaving her addition in

#ancient greece #annabel lyon #book review #historical #literary fiction #review #the golden mean

wow what a ride this was.... my full review on In Memoriam by Alice Winn is live, this is the perfect book for fans of truly sickening levels of gay yearning and devastation! I promise I did have a good time reading this I just like to be sad :)