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this was such a beautiful collection of art and reflections on change, grouped in themes that felt so relevant to SO many seasons of life — i liked the art the most (so many venn diagrams and cool palettes and illustrations that perfectly depicted different transitions or emotions or circumstances) and think this would be a great grad gift! 💝 it didn’t blow me away but i think if i had read it in college, it would have been really meaningful to me and felt like one of those books that JUST GOT ME.

a second chance romance with a grumpy NFL star and a sunshiney rising star agent who meet again when nora (who is known in the industry as "mac," a nickname of her last name) gets him as her new client. they are (not surprisingly) not on the same page about why they broke up and how they feel about it now, so they make some RULES to keep themselves in line... guess how long that works for!!! 

a drunk night in vegas leads to a wedding that they decide to play out for the sake of their images... but is that REALLY why they're staying married???

this is a cute one, it's fun, it wasn't my favorite from sarah adams, but i liked it! there's a little more steam than i expected from her, but it's still not overly spicy. this will be a great summer read!

fanning myself from how STEAMY this book was!!! 🥵

✨hockey romance
✨reverse harem
✨why choose
✨f/m/m/m
✨m/m
✨FMC is a doctor (and her name is rachel 😏)
✨a golden retriever hockey player (who calls her baby!94 seattle), a moody tatted pierced equipment manager daddy (who calls her hurricane), a brooding finnish goalie giant (who calls her rakas)

this one pushed the boundaries of what i’ve read before for SURE 😳 i haven’t read “why choose” romances before, and polyamory isn’t my jam personally, but it doesn’t need to be for me to read about it and enjoy the story (and the 🔥🥵 scenes lolol). the beauty of exploring new things through reading!!! i was crying by the end because of how these characters showed up for each other and loved each other so fiercely and fully and truly became a family, even in such an unorthodox way. so tender and beautiful. yes, sex was a big part of this book, but it was truly just the avenue for how these characters broke down their walls and got vulnerable and discovered more about themselves. we love to see the growth!

(i do wish i was like 200 pages shorter, it did NOT need to be 700+ pages, but still a good time)

my thoughts while reading this ranged from 🤔 to 😳 to 🫣 and mostly hovered a lot around 🥴 but it was so interesting to consider human-robot relationships and to see them play out in such… normal? ways. i was glad the MMC was a white dude named doug because it made it so easy to utterly despise him, and i never expected i’d feel so much empathy and compassion and even solidarity with an AI bot?! this book gives you so much to think about when it comes to intimacy and autonomy and what it actually means to be human. it was wild and yet also probably likely to happen in our lifetimes…???

i think i’m going ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for the originality and for the way it had me so hooked, evoking in me real uncomfortable feels and questioning all the things! 🧐

woman sees man sitting on the beach in the rain all day, decides to take him a coat, discovers he has no memory of who he is or anything else, decides to let him into her home (with her children?!?) and WAY too into her life. meanwhile, another woman’s husband goes missing (that she knew for all of three weeks), nobody wants to help her, and it turns out the dude had a fake passport. eventually the dual POVs and interspersed flashbacks all braid together but i found myself so bothered by how everybody in this book did everything that i didn’t enjoy the journey.

if you liked bridgerton but want a queer version, this is for you! 💕 it’s a sapphic, friends to lovers, forbidden love story (because damn societal norms) with major parent trap vibes, and i wanted to love it but sadly didn’t. it went from zero to I LOVE YOU to we cannot do this so fast? and the plot just felt flimsy but it had potential! and still was cute and had tender moments i liked a lot! so maybe still give it a shot!

imagine a divorced mom taking her daughter to a one direction concert, going to a meet and greet with the band, flirting with one of the guys who is many years younger than her, and then eventually having a full blown relationship with him while not telling her kid. it’s wild, it’s weird, it’s silly, it’s scandalous (kind of? if you think age gaps are? but they both consented so not really?), and it was not well written!!! i felt zero chemistry between them! i didn’t enjoy it! but i think it will make a fun movie maybe! 

WHAT A GEM. 💖🥹🍼 truly such a SWEET and delightful story— it won me over from the very jump, was incredible on audio, and did the unexpected pregnancy trope PERFECTLY. i laughed out loud so much, squealed and kicked my feet incessantly, and teared up more times than i can count. i’m in love with shep?! what a MAN. best of the best. 

this book is an absolute treasure!!! 

listened to this gem on @librofm and had to buy a copy, i loved it so much! it’s bite-sized and beautiful and one of those books that found me at the right time and brought light when i needed it. ✨ i flew through it but think i’d enjoy it even more if i savored the stories and pondered them more deeply — they’re like the parables of jesus where they can seem so simple but upon reflection can have so much more meaning, and i want to keep unpacking them! 😍 if you loved the alchemist, i think you’ll enjoy this one.