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Nart is an avid romance reader who dabbles in other stuff when she has the spoons. When she’s not reading she’s a bureaucrat both professionally and as an activist because she’s a masochist. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Nart's Quick Questions interview.)

Nart's Reviews:

A warm bath of a book

Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

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This is like a warm bath. Not too hot, not too cold, and entirely unchallenging. It is, what I think we usually look for when we go to movie theatres to watch a rom com, only to remember that a team of (male) writers usually can’t seem to consistently produce a love story like a single woman (with editors, god bless them) can. Julia Quinn is something of a juggernaut in romance, and I’ll be honest, it took me a while to get the appeal. […]

“Life goes on whether we want it to or not. And laughter is a constant.”

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre

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Grimspace is a space opera a la Firefly, Farscape, and Star Wars. So if you like really intense, uneven storytelling that involves STAKES but also YA level angst, you’re going to eat this book up. The story is told by Sirantha Jax, our protagonist. She is a jumper, a rare breed of person with the genetic compatibility to do space jump things. I really appreciate the author’s attempt to create science fiction tech that isn’t just robots and impulse engines and worm holes. Not that […]

So the Eat Pray Love genre is still a thing, eh?

Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center

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If you like the line of books featuring women having a post-divorce/career crisis/death in the family life crisis by venturing out into exotic locations entirely unprepared and rocking it against literally all odds, you may like this book, though it is apparently darker than others. If you are more cynical about this sort of plot device, you will likely want to strangle everyone in this book. I didn’t hate everything about this book. Helen is 32 while our hero Jake is 22. When this sort of […]

A hero on the asexual spectrum is an interesting and cool choice for a romance

That Kind of Guy by Talia Hibbert

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Hibbert is one of my favourite authors. If you haven’t read anything by her, stop reading this and pick up literally any of her books. She writes characters and stories that celebrate (not aknowledge or tolerate) variety of race, gender, sexuality, ability and neuro-diversity. She doesn’t trap her characters in the cage of their diversity badges but she also doesn’t underplay their importance. It’s a very fine line and she walks it elegantly. They get to be actual, fully formed human beings. Her books are funny, witty, smart, […]

They shot the penis off a statue and somehow it wasn’t enough

Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

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Julie Anne Long is a terrific author. She has a gift for creating fully realized characters out of even the most periphery characters that have virtually no space on the page. She treats her characters with intense, borderline radical compassion in a world that loves to categorize people into Good or Bad as quickly and irrevocably as possible.   This talent is probably why I am so deeply disappointed in this book.   Like No Other Lover is the second book in Pennyroyal Green series, which […]



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