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Intense Feelings by Nomi Palmer
The author describes this as a soap opera and after reading it I really do think that’s the most accurate interpretation of what it’s like to read this book. If you’ve ever watched a soap opera, you know how every single person is somehow involved or related to every other single person? There’s never anybody […]
Promises to Keep by Genevieve Graham
I have a Little Free Library on my front lawn, and every once in a while somebody will drop off something interesting so I’ll grab it to read for myself. Recently somebody left a half-dozen historical romance books so I thought I would check them out. Promises to Keep was one of them. I hadn’t […]
Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
The library hold list for anything Sarah J Mass is crazypants. Finally this book arrived – looking absolutely tortured. It’s very obviously a popular series. I guess I was just lucky that I actually got the first one in the series. I have all the sequels on hold, so hold your breath to find out […]
Haunting Adeline by H D Carlton
Oh boy, this book. Where do I even start. OK, so two things. The first thing, rape fantasy is NOT uncommon. At all. It serves a function, especially for people who are raised in a culture where sexuality is not always treated in a healthy manner. (In other words, all of us.) Fantasizing about rape […]
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
I really enjoyed this series. Enemies-to-lovers is one of my favourite tropes and I so rarely see it done well. I think Black did an excellent job of portraying two people who resent, fear, and mistrust each other who are still irrevocably pulled into each others’ orbit. Their relationship is so fraught they are both […]
The Wicked King by Holly Black
I DID NOT SEE THAT ENDING COMING HOLY SHIT!!! That’s it. That’s the post. OK, starting right with that curve-ball, I have trouble believing that Cardan isn’t banishing Jude in part because it will keep her safe. He saw what shape she was in when she returned from Queen Orlagh’s court. Jude is going to […]