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Winter’s Orbit
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Start date
January 1, 2022
Finish date
January 31, 2022
Discussion
Book of the Month Club
Why we're reading this
This will be our January BOM read for 2022.

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Jordan Lombard
Jan 25, 2022 rated it really liked it
Title/Author: Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Genre/Sub-Genre: Science-Fiction/Space Opera/Romantic Suspense
Book Format: Print
Length: 432 pages
HFN/HEA: Yes
LGBTQ+ Orientation: The main couple are gay men of color, but there are several nonbinary side characters as well.
Content Warnings: Past spousal abuse is relived and remembered toward the end, but is also a dark shadow over one of the main characters throughout the book.
Ratio of Sex/Plot: No sex
Well-Written/E
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Bror (Abrar)
Jun 05, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2021-favorites
political marriage in space, with sweet slow burning romance, Kiem and Jainan were betrothed and are supposed to get married in a week but they themselves didn't know until the until the last minute, it's a story of how these two try to make a marriage work while solving the mystery of Jainan first husband's death.

Kiem is a free spirited guy that gets into a lot of trouble because of his reckless actions, he is very outgoing and people like him so he was very social. Every time I thought of Kiem
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Mtsnow13
Aug 12, 2023 rated it really liked it
A little slow to catch my interest, but after getting pulled into the story by the 3rd chapter, determined this is an enjoyable space opera full of conspiracies, intrigue, and mystery. I'm immediately going to the follow-on that is in the same universe.

It uses alternating character POVs of the 2 main characters and was a bit frustrating at time with the disillusioned each character had about themselves and what they thought the motivation was for the other MCs responses, but things resolved dec
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Michael Joseph
Aug 29, 2023 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: gay-sci-fi
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k reads
Dec 13, 2024 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: queer, read-2024
Enjoyable hurt/comfort
Brin
Nov 29, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: arc
Brin
Jan 31, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: bought-2021
ΛNNΞ
Jan 31, 2021 marked it as to-read
Marge
Jan 31, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jill
May 07, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Tara
Feb 18, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
K.
Feb 28, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: tbr-knockout
Doris
Mar 12, 2021 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: cloud-library
Silverin
May 11, 2021 marked it as to-read-maybe  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: m-m-yaoi, space, 2021
Brian
Jul 10, 2021 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Eija
Aug 30, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Brin
Oct 09, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: bought-2021
Venecia
Dec 04, 2021 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: science-fiction, lgbt
Sagajo
Dec 29, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Apolishedreader
Jan 22, 2022 marked it as to-read
Aamramal
May 21, 2022 marked it as to-read
Ari
Jan 02, 2023 rated it liked it
Shelves: scifi, fantasy, lgbt
Kristie
May 16, 2023 rated it it was amazing
Sylvia
Jan 17, 2025 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Sage Jackson
Apr 20, 2025 marked it as to-read
Shelves: m-m, sci-fi