taliaissmart's reviews
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Interesting concepts but clunky writing. Not clicking for me

I thought, oh, I'll be in Venice in October so the stars have aligned for me to read this book! Y'all...the way that this is set in Manchester and soooo boring...

I don't really remember anything about this book's plot, but I know that I really disliked the writing style. Romantasy with a lot of inner monologuing.

Two narratives unfold over the course of this slice-of-life charmer: a mother spends early covid lockdown picking cherries with her adult daughters on their family farm. While they harvest, she regales them with the story of her brief acting career and her love affair with a movie star. Dramatic and romantic, but in a reflective, touching, simple way.

whew girl

This steamy political-marriage romance (between a werewolf & a vampire) brims with warmth and levity.

In a contemporary city, werewolves and vampires mostly stick to their own enclaves away from humans. To ensure peace between their factions, each group offers up a member as collateral to live among the enemy. Misery Lark has spent most of her life living among humans, and as an adult she feels out of place with her Vampyre family. But an arranged marriage to a werewolf alpha puts her even further out of her depth.

I loved this book. It's all the joy of a found-family Cullen/wolfpack teamup, but with so much more humor and consent.

Super repetitive writing from the first page. I don’t need to hear the mc’s inner monologue if it’s just there to info dump exposition and provide line by line commentary on every bit of dialogue

exploitation is obviously never funny. BUT (bear with me) convincing people that they were nazis in a past life, and that the only way to atone for it is to sleep with you, is actually very hilarious.