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Whimsey in the Face of the Mundane

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

December 16, 2022 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

This was a gift from last year’s book exchange, and while I finished it a while back, I think I put off reviewing it because I prioritised all the Hugo works for Bingo instead; I had a harder time fitting this into my scorecard calculus! What this did mean though is that I had some extra time to read through a second time around. And would you believe it was even more wonderful the second time? At the start of The House in the Cerulean […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little found family as a treat, cozy, fantasty, my heart, TJ Klune

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little found family as a treat, cozy, fantasty, my heart, TJ Klune ·
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I Swear the Fact That This Book Uses Photograph by Nickleback as an Emotional Beat is Good, Actually

The Devil Wears Tartan by Katia Rose

September 23, 2022 by Abi 3 Comments

So funny thing about me is that I’m Scottish, kinda. I’m like, the right amount of kinda Scottish to vibe with the way in which this book is kinda Scottish. It’s set in Ottawa. I live in London. Moira Murray (a name so Scottish my parents are wishing I’d changed mine to something similar instead of making it so that my Scottishness is no longer the first thing that anyone immediately knows about me) and Kenzie Andrianakis (closer to my current level of Scot) are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Sports Tagged With: a little found family as a treat, a little generational trauma as whatever the opposite of a treat is, highland dancing, Katia Rose, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, nickleback as an emotional bond (not joking), rivals to lovers, scotland (eh), sex scenes so good I had to stop reading in public

Abi's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Sports · Tags: a little found family as a treat, a little generational trauma as whatever the opposite of a treat is, highland dancing, Katia Rose, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, LGBTQ romance, nickleback as an emotional bond (not joking), rivals to lovers, scotland (eh), sex scenes so good I had to stop reading in public ·
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