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cover of Two Friends in Marriage featuring 2 platinum wedding rings on a purple background with flowers

Queer Marriage of Convenience Lau-Style

Two Friends in Marriage by Jackie Lau

February 14, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Two Friends in Marriage is the third book in Jackie Lau’s Weddings with the Moks series. I read the first two last year, enjoying Four Weddings to Fall in Love well enough and found the second book Three Reasons to Run to fall into the best of Lau’s writing. Unfortunately for me the third book had some issues that kept me from loving it in execution as much as I loved it in theory.   Lau is interested in telling stories about characters with diverse sexual […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: ace spectrum rep, ARC, bisexual mc, demisexual representation, Jackie Lau, queer representation, read harder challenge, Two Friends in Marriage, Weddings with the Moks

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ace spectrum rep, ARC, bisexual mc, demisexual representation, Jackie Lau, queer representation, read harder challenge, Two Friends in Marriage, Weddings with the Moks ·
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“We work together. I give you a soft, stable place to recharge. You energize and embolden me.”

Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks

October 25, 2024 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

This book was not my original pick for the Pride square for Bingo, but I’m currently trying to sort out what is going on with my library purchase request for Hers for the Weekend by Helena Greer (it won’t get here in time for me to get it read for Bingo). Also, I hadn’t picked out any seasonal romances for myself this spooky season, and then I saw all the reviews people were doing on Goodreads and felt a bit left out. So here we are […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbr16bingo, demisexual representation, It was okay but not great, Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours, Pride

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:44 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr16bingo, demisexual representation, It was okay but not great, Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours, Pride ·
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Angst, Drama, and Love

For Never & Always by Helena Greer

January 11, 2024 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I’m feeling a little rusty in my reviewing skills and kicking myself for not getting this specific review written when I finished the book because I had thoughts and now, I have fewer. I should probably start by saying that I really, truly enjoyed For Never & Always by Helena Greer in much the same way I did reading her previous book Season of Love. For Never & Always is also a queer romance which unpacks big emotions, specifically grief and trauma responses and like […]

Filed Under: Featured, Romance Tagged With: Angst meter high, Carrigan's, demisexual representation, fat representation, For Never & Always, For Never and Always, Helena Greer, Jewish characters, LGBTQ romance, queer romance, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Romance · Tags: Angst meter high, Carrigan's, demisexual representation, fat representation, For Never & Always, For Never and Always, Helena Greer, Jewish characters, LGBTQ romance, queer romance, we need diverse books ·
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