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The one where they just won’t talk

The Wedding Date by Jasmie Guillory

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I’ve turned a sharp corner on romance ever since I read Red, White & Royal Blue last year. I used to basically shun it on sight, and now I have several romances that are part of my regular recommendation rotation, so it was a pretty big shift. The Wedding Date, unfortunately, is not one I’m going to push my friends to pick up. It’s well written, it’s cute, there are definitely feelings, but it leans hard into one of my least favorite things about the genre – when […]

Solid four and a half stars

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

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This year I’m tracking my reading in so many ways I worry it’s unsustainable (here, Goodreads, Storygraph, and the BookRiot tracker) but one of the things I do like is that in some places I can give half stars. I’m finding that a lot of what I read is 4.5 stars. Truly excellent, but just doesn’t have that special something that tips me into obsession. Obsession is what gets you the full 5. The Office of Historical Corrections is amazing and I definitely recommend it, but […]

Sumptuously grotesque

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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I read this for my bookclub and we had our discussion last night where I found myself going to bat for it in a way I didn’t expect. I was both surprised that the other women weren’t on board with it and surprised at how invested in it I had turned out to be. This review might have been a little different if I’d written it yesterday, but context is everything. I find horror as a genre fascinating but I hate being scared which means […]

There’s a good story in here somewhere

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

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I’m in a long-running chat with a boatload of Maggie Stiefvater fans so after reading the Raven Boys series last year, I finally got around to Scorpio Races this year. I got it as an audiobook and while I appreciated the dual narrators (as I did for Emergency Contact) I just … I dunno. This one didn’t do it for me. This was another audiobook I cranked to 1.5x just to get through it. It’s not that it isn’t a compelling story. I have a soft spot for […]

This one needed a content warning

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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This book was a pretty simple, two-day read, a spin on an “It’s a Wonderful Life”-type story that lost a lot of credit with me because it needs a SERIOUS content warning on the cover. The whole cover spiel is “between life and death there is a library” which, cool, but we get there because our narrator wants to die. The first ten percent of this book is focused on the mindset of a woman who sees death as her only option. We need a […]

Delightfully delightful YA

You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson

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I read this in a single day. 336 pages, done in less than 24 hours. It just sprinted past me, refusing to be put down and I was really, really happy to feel that. You Should See Me In A Crown zips by in the read, but sits with you for a while after. This is another YA book that makes me wish I had a young adult in my life to gift it to. At 18 months, my niece is just a little young. Our […]



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