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> Genre: Romance

Be (So) Over Him

I'm So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

While I like fake relationship, and I reallly like “we broke up but have worked on our issues and are not back together because there was never another for us,” there’s something about the way it all came together which fell a bit short of the mark. I did the thing which I know I shouldn’t do and tried to skim some reviews to see if someone managed to nail the issue I had in their review, and of course there’s a brilliant reviewer who […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Kosoko Jackson, LGBTQ

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Kosoko Jackson, LGBTQ ·
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in the same vein, but the opposite of a reality cooking tv show

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I liked this book, and all the things it was and wasn’t. Was: a sapphic, small town, reunited after many years but not in a “we used to date and I have alwayssssssss loooooooooovvvedddddddd youuuuuuuuu I haveeee alwayssss loved you I have etc” type of way. Multiple female friends! Satisfying takedown you know is coming because this is fiction, not real life, and rich people haven’t stacked the deck everywhere. Wasn’t: a barrel of baggage (not a thing I want! ymmv!)–there’s a frisson of it, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Ashley Herring Blake, LGBTQ

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Ashley Herring Blake, LGBTQ ·
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I liked this more as an exercise in boundary pushing for me

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill 1 Comment

Hmm unfortunately I think this novel is better as very enjoyable lesson in non-binary pronoun usage than a non-caveat-ed romance novel. But that is for me, because aside from queer rep (which we always love to see! More of it! Everywhere! All the time!) there’s a lot of tropes here that I don’t particularly enjoy. I also think I’m not very into the trope of cooking shows as backdrop to romance. Or cooking as a backdrop to romance, especially when both players are in the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Anita Kelly, LGBTQ

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:21 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Anita Kelly, LGBTQ ·
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And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…

A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill 2 Comments

I read this, along with what feels like every other Tessa Dare book that people (Malin!) recommended, in a short span of time when I was sitting in India, where I had ended up after a very confusing day when we all thought my grandmother was going to pass away (she wasn’t! she is all fine! it was a hilarious expensive miscommunication!). What better way to spend an unexpected week away slash impromptu family reunion other than with a series of historical romances? The conceit […]

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wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Tessa Dare ·
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My new favorite genre

Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I realize there’s an entire subgenre of queer m/m-focus literature set in Ye Olde Times that has a soupçon of reality (like, there have always been queer people but there’s no Edwardian timeline in which they were openly walking about and getting married), some very specific tropes for characters (usually, seemingly-himbo + someone), and mile a minute sort of pity pitter patter pithy laugh lines. I think seemingly-himbo (the shimbo, we will call him) is probably my favorite foil to the more immediately interesting second […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Alexis Hall, LGBTQ

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Alexis Hall, LGBTQ ·
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Charlotte/Lord Ingram? Yes? Yes?

The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Real talk: after reading this, I’m waiting for the Lady Sherlock spin-off/novella which is nothing but Lord Ingram and Charlotte getting it on. Real-er talk: no, I can’t think of anything BUT getting to see Charlotte explore all of her uninhibited Victorian/Edwardian fantasies. That being said, I was sort of confused to pick this up. Tonally it seems so very different from the works of Thomas that I’ve read, and I’ve actually read quite a few given how many Lady Sherlock books there have been […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Sherry Thomas

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Sherry Thomas ·
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Recent Comments

  • esmemoria on What Else Would You Look With?I wonder if the audio brings out the best in the novel. The last part of the book was pretty great, but I had so...
  • narfna on What Else Would You Look With?Sad you didn't really like this one. I absolutely loved it. Not sure when I will be able to wrap my head around reviewing it....
  • narfna on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…#BlameMalin on this one for me, too, because she literally sent me a copy.
  • narfna on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”That's gotta be the new headcanon.
  • drmllz on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”I like to think the wife packs Hastings off to England to hang out with Poirot and enjoys having a whole ranch to herself...
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