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Be Gay, Solve Crime, Take Naps

The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth

March 13, 2025 by finnyfinfinn Leave a Comment

I would never regret dying in a cat costume. I am now actively plotting how I can do so. Should I dress like a cat all the time just in case?  Because I am totally willing to do that. The Undetectables came together when they were fourteen at the site of their first murder, that of Theodore Wyatt of the infamous cat costume. Six years later his murder is still unsolved and the girls have scattered. Mallory has been struggling with fibromyalgia, Diana is busy […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, Courtney Smyth, fibromyalgia, ghosts, LGBQT+, mystery, Scooby Gang, witches

finnyfinfinn's CBR17 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, Courtney Smyth, fibromyalgia, ghosts, LGBQT+, mystery, Scooby Gang, witches ·
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“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 […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: chronic pain, faintingviolet, fibromyalgia, Get a Life Chloe Brown, read harder challenge, read women, Talia Hibbert, toxic relationships, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Romance · Tags: chronic pain, faintingviolet, fibromyalgia, Get a Life Chloe Brown, read harder challenge, read women, Talia Hibbert, toxic relationships, we need diverse books ·
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