Happy Saturday! We’re wrapping up September with our second Whatcha Reading of the  month. Here’s how we’re capping off our own TBR piles this week:

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Shana: I just finished the perfect low-stress read, Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue by Cat Sebastian. ( A | BN | K | AB ) It had all the cozy queer midcentury vibes!

I’m also reading Maya’s Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja ( A | BN | K ) where the main couple meet on a ill-fated flight to the heroine’s wedding. I loved the road trip through Switzerland and Pakistan especially because it involved quite a few Crash Landing on You references. But now I’ve hit one of my least favorite tropes, the dreaded love triangle.

Elyse: I’m reading An Academy for Liars. ( A | BN | K | AB ) It’s a dark academia fantasy about a secret school for people with magical abilities and it reminds me a lot of Olivie Blake’s Atlas Six.

I’ve been super into dark academia lately I think in part because it’s spooky season, but also I loved college and the academic setting in general.

Lara: I absolutely devoured the Ilona Andrews Hidden Legacy trilogy that Sarah recommended to me in the last WhatchaReading post. Urban fantasy is just so damn good.

Or at least, this one is.

Tara: I’m reading The Duke’s Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday and I’ve been really enjoying it. I mean, yes, Dukes are problematic (where did they get that money???), but it has a lot of good things going for it so far including a strong consideration of gender politics and even class politics in the UK’s upper echelons.

Susan: I’m reading This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne, which is basically a lesbian lovers to enemies (to lovers?) response to the Bioshock franchise and I am very excited. I’m really hoping that it leans into the survival horror of its premise — it can’t tease me with ex-girlfriends trapped underwater with potential killers and NOT go survival horror, right?

I’m not kidding about the Bioshock thing by the way. It’s got the glitz and style and stark class differences already, before we even get to The Horrors, and also this is the dedication:

For anyone who fought for your life in Rapture.

Glad to know I’m not the only one scarred by that game.

Sneezy: I forget if I mentioned this webtoon before, but Want To See My Cat? Is quickly shaping up to be one of my favourite webtoons.

It has such great humour, I really enjoy its take on regression, it neatly side steps so many misogynistic tropes that’s been rampant in webtoons, the main characters are so caring towards each other, and the animals are ADORABLE.

Dear, Not Cunning Witch is a new arrival and I SUUUUUPER excited about where the story is going. It has some violent scenes, which aren’t explicit, but you know what’s happening.

Whatcha reading? Let us know in the comments!