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Slow Burn by Autumn Jones Lake

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This began as a review of Slow Burn (Lost Kings MC #1) by Autumn Jones Lake, but quickly evolved into something else entirely as I struggled to adequately express my feelings about the novel. Please be patient with me this time around. I find myself having a surprisingly strong reaction to a book which I was “eh” about. I came across Slow Burn when it was recommended to me by Kindle. Strike that. I came across SB when Kindle recommended the NINETEENTH book in the Lost Kings series […]

Upending the Regency Romance with Queerness and Bees

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite

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Last year I loved Olivia Waite’s The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics. When the sequel, The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows became available on NetGalley I was so excited. I enjoyed it tremendously. I received this as an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

He was so unknown, he was still all possibility, unopened cupboards and drawers

The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

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I had a discussion with Classic a few weeks ago in the comments section of her review for The Paying Guests, which she said started off very slowly. At the time, I happened to be about 100 pages into Alan Hollinghurst’s The Folding Star, and I’d been worrying about how slowly it was moving until I thought back to the same time last year when I read his most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, which didn’t really click for me until the last 50 pages. […]

“From the stars, came the ground. From the ground, we stood. To the ground, we return.”

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These books are so good. This one was the slowest to get started, but it finished up just as poignant as the other two. For those of you who haven’t read the first two books, first of all you probably should, but know that they aren’t sci-fi adventure books in the classic sense. They are slow burn character studies, for the most part. Interesting things do happen, but unlike a lot of sf, they aren’t driven by their plot. The first book does have the […]

I am a ball of conflicting emotions.

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So I actually finished this book almost a week ago but I’ve been sitting on the rating and review because I’m torn. Conflicting thoughts, hate those. Plot: Vanessa Mazur has just quit her job after two years of being a personal assistant to famous professional football player Aiden Graves. He didn’t treat her very well, and she wants to start her own graphic design business, so she’s out. But he shows up at her door after she quits, begging her to come back. I won’t […]



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