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Waiting for the Flood by Alexis Hall
Introductory note: So many thanks to Alexis Hall for asking for my family’s pierogi recipe to be included at the end of the novella Chasing the Light, Part II of Waiting for the Flood! WFTF is one of my fave AJH books ever, I was honoured to contribute to it in this small way, and…
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Dissecting a Dragon: Laura Kinsale’s For My Lady’s Heart
This book pulled off the near-impossible: making me fall in love with a couple who are not forthcoming with their emotions. Ruck and Melanthe struggle to communicate with each other for the entirety of the novel. They are not tender-hearted, and their relationship is characterized by lust and uncertainty. Right until the end, it seems…
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Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This…wasn’t it for me? And I’ll get into why shortly. Be warned that this contains a LOT of rambling about tennis. If you’re not into that, this review is unlikely to be for you, and that’s totally fine. I focus on why it didn’t totally work for me, but I didn’t hate it. This is…
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Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert
I really enjoyed Wicked Beauty. How much one loves either this book or Electric Idol might come down to your personal mileage for Katee Robert stuff that isn’t characters flirting, banging, or working through their feelings. What I mean by this is that in books 2 and 3 in this series, there’s a lot of…
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Learn my Lesson by Katee Robert
I picked up this book because I needed a really fluffy read for my tired eyes, and because the fanfic-ish premise, based on my favourite Disney movie, sounded so fun. This novel astonished me by being so genuinely good and emotionally complicated. First I have to lay out what its premise is -an AU multiverse…
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Planetfall by Emma Newman
Planetfall seems to be polarizing when it comes to sci-fi reader expectations. But I was completely hooked, and then completely obsessed with thinking about its rich themes and painfully real character study. This is, so far, one of my favourite reads of 2021, and I hope other readers like me – who love sci-fi but…
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The Roommate by Rosie Danan
While I was greatly entertained by the over-the-top tropiness of this book, something wasn’t quite working for me here. My hunch is that this novel has been constructed around scene ideas rather than characters. It builds its chemistry by forcing two complete opposite types into proximity. The characterizations are, from page one, pushed to comic…
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How to Belong with A Billionaire by Alexis Hall
Controversial opinion here, but I think Ardy 3 is actually my fave of the bunch. This is said with a small proviso. The ending scene, where Ardy intercepts the…semipublic humiliation of Caspian to bear his lashes with the cane kind of works only at a metaphorical level – since I don’t really buy it that…
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