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Nerdy lesbian romance

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow

October 30, 2022 by LB Leave a Comment

How to Excavate a Heart is a book that hit so many good and familiar notes for me. Shani has just finished her first semester at college where she also got her first girlfriend, who broke up with her just before the start of winter break. Luckily Shani got accepted to an internship that the Smithsonian museum of natural history where she’ll work under her idol on coelacanth fossils, giving her distance from home and something to put her focus towards that isn’t her broken […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: coelacanth, friendship, how to excavate a heart, Jake Maia arlow, lesbian, nerds in love, New Adult, queer, sapphic, Weather

LB's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: coelacanth, friendship, how to excavate a heart, Jake Maia arlow, lesbian, nerds in love, New Adult, queer, sapphic, Weather ·
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