Fair warning: this is the fourth and final book in this series. Spoilers for the series are a hazard.
This love story does not have a happy ending
They’re like great trees, these violins. Like those from which they’re made. They live through epochs. Min Kym fell in love for the first time as a young child with a violin. Parental expedience demanded that she play either trumpet or violin as those were the only instructors available in the same time slot as Kym’s older sister’s piano lesson. She was immediately taken with the instrument. In the week between settling on the violin and receiving her first, she cut out a paper violin […]
Can we talk about California as the Hellmouth?
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo is the story of a high school girl who learns that it’s not enough that she has to work her butt off to get into an Ivy and please her traditional Chinese mother. Now it turns out she has to prevent some of the worst demons of Chinese mythology from eating the people of the Bay Area. Can a girl get a break? I can’t remember where I stumbled over the synopsis for Genie Lo, but it has been […]
Sing loud, sing proud
Journalist Tim Falconer loves music. He glories in concerts and plays albums on repeat until the neighbors complain. Unfortunately, like most of us, he’s pretty sure he’s a bad singer. Falconer decides to do something about that by signing up for singing lessons, and then learns the truth: he’s not just a bad singer, he’s diagnosed as tone deaf. As Falconer explains in the book, “tone deafness” is not really a thing, but there’s a real diagnosis behind it: “amusia”. Only about 2% of folks […]
Tokens of proof
A girl steals through the woods, desperate to find the boy she’s given up her life as a fairy to be with. A boy steals through the woods, desperate to find a girl he only glimpsed from afar. During the escalating turmoil of World War II, another boy finds a home, briefly, with a Paris confectioner and his wife. This is a story of a banished prince and a wicked king. The story of love that conquers all and a treasure hunt for magical objects. […]
On the Importance of Purse Snacks
When Romance Twitter gets hype over a book, I listen. Which is how I ended up paying full price* for this delightful book despite it sharing a title with a not-very-good-but-serviceable-on-a-Saturday-night movie. Alexa Monroe finds herself trapped in an elevator with Drew Nichols. During a power outage, the two flirt over purse cheese, prompting Drew to ask Alexa to be his date that weekend for the wedding of one of his exes to one of his friends. The sparks from their flirtation erupt into a […]
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