浪漫
Death's Country 谷歌图书
作者: R. M. Romero Holiday House 2024 - 05
Lakelore meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve their girlfriend’s soul.

Andres Santos of São Paulo was all swinging fists and firecracker fury, a foot soldier in the war between his parents, until he drowned in the Tietê River… and made a bargain with Death for a new life. A year later, his parents have relocated the family to Miami, but their promises of a fresh start quickly dissolve in the summer heat.

Instead of fists, Andres now uses music to escape his parents’ battles. While wandering Miami Beach, he meets two girls: photographer Renee, a blaze of fire, and dancer Liora, a ray of sunshine. The three become a polyamorous triad, happy, despite how no one understands their relationship. But when a car accident leaves Liora in a coma, Andres and Renee are shattered.

Then Renee proposes a radical solution: She and Andres must go into the underworld to retrieve their girlfriend’s spirit and reunite it with her body—before it’s too late. Their search takes them to the City of the dead, where painters bleed color, songs grow flowers, and regretful souls will do anything to forget their lives on earth. But finding Liora’s spirit is only the first step in returning to the living world. Because when Andres drowned, he left a part of himself in the underworld—a part he’s in no hurry to meet again. But it is eager to be reunited with him...

In verse as vibrant as the Miami skyline, critically acclaimed author R.M. Romero has crafted a masterpiece of magical realism and an openhearted ode to the nature of healing.
2024年6月25日 已读
看起来只是普普通通的YA fantasy,其实意外好看,首先作者的文笔已经超过了90%的YA作者,诗化的语言很优美灵动,充满力量,其次我就喜欢拉丁裔LGBT这种zzzq叠buff的操作,更不要说主角还是polyamorous。难得的是这本不仅表现了一个polyamorous relationship,还表现了身处其中的人如何被monogamy的人误解、质疑甚至压迫,知道三个人的关系后Liora母亲的反应和Andres父母的反应就是典型例证,最后Liora出车祸昏迷然后Renee和Andres去冥府救她的故事虽然是基于希腊神话Orpheus和Eurydice的故事,但又非常反套路,Andres去冥府的一路都在自责,认为是自己和Death的交易导致Liora的灵魂不得不进入冥府,还一直不敢告诉Renee,然而让他真的告诉Renee,Renee一句“她的生命是她自己的,不由其他任何人掌管”,轻描淡写地扭转了古典神话的这一惯用套路。之后Liora的全部行动也正证实了这一点——自己决定交出记忆,自己决定留在冥府,甚至“出事故”这件事本身很可能也是她自己决定的,而最终也是被爱人说服,自己决定离开冥府,而非普遍意义上的“被拯救”,真是十分罕见的、强悍又富有能动性的Eurydice。当然大多数情节本身有点predictable,非常符合YA特点,但这本书的表现已经足够拉好感了。
LGBT YA 奇幻 浪漫
你眼中的世界 (2014) IMDb 豆瓣 TMDB
In Your Eyes
6.9 (212 个评分) 导演: 布林·希尔 演员: 迈克尔·斯塔尔·大卫 / 佐伊·卡赞
其它标题: In Your Eyes / 烈眼焚情
让人有些意外的欧美小清新爱情电影,影片讲述了两个美国大陆东西两端完全没有交集的陌生人之间的故事,两人不知为何被不可思议的力量联系在一起共享视觉听觉嗅觉等,当然最后相爱在一起了的爱情故事。
2021年7月29日 看过
创意真的很有意思,不过前后衔接得不好,戏剧冲突很强行……女主小姐姐长得好可爱但是演技略拉垮,情绪爆发的地方很难入戏
文艺 浪漫 美国
This Is How You Lose the Time War 豆瓣 Goodreads Sukkertoppen
This Is How You Lose the Time War
7.3 (24 个评分) 作者: Amal El-Mohtar / Max Gladstone Gallery / Saga Press 2019 - 7
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That’s how war works. Right?

Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
2022年7月29日 已读
有点意思,相比于科幻其实当作两个女孩子的romance读更舒服,语言是真的美,又奔放肆意又有点小清新,送信和读信的方式也可以说是很浪漫了,总体很短,读来消遣蛮享受的
浪漫 科幻
The Last Rose of Shanghai 豆瓣
作者: Weina Dai Randel Lake Union Publishing 2021
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz―but their differences seem insurmountable, and Aiyi is engaged to another man.
As the war escalates, Aiyi and Ernest find themselves torn apart, and their choices between love and survival grow more desperate. In the face of overwhelming odds, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever.
From the electrifying jazz clubs to the impoverished streets of a city under siege, The Last Rose of Shanghai is a timeless, sweeping story of love and redemption.
2022年12月8日 已读
讲真这个背景设定,抗战时期的上海大小姐和犹太难民,我真的很喜欢,然后这个故事的展开和人物的塑造,so disappointing……每一个人物都好刻板……男主的妹妹前半程讨人厌后半程工具人,女主的丈夫从控制狂偏执狂突然变成舔狗,最后还来个认亲可真是肥皂剧感拉满,最不能接受的其实是那个日本兵的设定,就,把日本兵的暴行简化成和一个日本人的私人恩怨,是不是有点太曲解战争了,还是全上海只有这一个日本兵,文笔也基本就是流水账的水平,浪费了一个看起来还挺promising的题材
历史 浪漫
The Course of Love 豆瓣
作者: [英] 阿兰·德波顿 Penguin 2016 - 4
In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married. They have children. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning.
From the author of Essays in Love comes the long-awaited and beguiling sequel, which charts the complex and intricate course of a long-term relationship.
We all know the headiness and excitement of love’s early days, but what can be expected over a shared lifetime? We follow our couple – Rabih and Kristen – from the first flush of infatuation through to inevitable disenchantments and then onto the freedom and insights of maturity. The Course of Love is a novel that explores not so much the start of love, as its maintenance over time; the way our ideals bend and reform under the pressures of an average existence, and the magnificent, sometimes frightening, developments we can make as we slowly realise that love is in essence a skill we need to learn rather than an enthusiasm we simply experience.
Playful, wise, and profoundly moving, The Course of Love is an unparalleled meditation on modern relationships —and a delightful return to the novel for Alain, more than 20 years after Essays in Love.
2023年9月1日 已读
三星半,相比于《爱上浪漫》,这本self help味好浓hhhhhh从恋爱结婚到生儿育女、家庭教育和孩子的心理、夫妻间的冷战、嫉妒、出轨,甚至还有couple therapy,两个人在结婚16年后终于真正准备好接受婚姻,不管是美好或是终究不完美的一面,让人很感慨,听德波顿唠唠叨叨地讲故事讲道理还是觉得很soothing
浪漫 英国