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Everything for You by Chloe Liese

April 30, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

Oliver Bergman is the 6th out of 7 kids in the Bergman family and the youngest brother. He plays professional soccer in Los Angeles and is bi. Gavin Hayes is at the tail end of his career, playing for the same team in LA because he can no longer make his body perform at the level demanded in the European league. Oliver is keeping himself upbeat and believes in killing them with kindness, especially Gavin, his team mate and next door neighbor. Gavin looks at […]

“Don’t dismiss your emotions and your self-protection as just a fucked-up decision. Don’t reduce something so complex and real and important to nothing.”

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

May 4, 2021 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

I loved Get a Life, Chloe Brown. I swooned, I laughed, I commiserated. Hibbert delivered on all fronts. This is my first Talia Hibbert book (I’ve followed her on Twitter for quiet awhile and enjoy her greatly there), and it lives up to the hype. In broad strokes, it’s a relatively slow burn romance that slips right past enemies to lovers tropes and instead lands in the “you annoy me but once I actually get to know you I’m enamored of you” zone which isn’t […]

I believe the woman behind the case study, but she’s not unimpeachable

Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey

February 12, 2019 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

What an interesting book this is, and what a challenge to review, given how I came away from it. Anna Lyndsey’s story is that after decades of normal living, she slowly becomes so sensitive to light — both natural and artificial — that she ends up confined to a completely blacked-out room in the home she shares with her husband. Girl in the Dark focuses mostly on her declining health and the time that she spent at her lowest, while she lived in complete darkness […]

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