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There is more food in this one than in the last one, if that’s even possible. Have your local Filipino restaurant on standby whilst reading.

Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen, #2) by Mia P. Manansala

February 15, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I told myself I would continue with this series if the writing got better in this book, and it did! There were a couple rather tragic instances of dialogue (see below*), but for the most part both the dialogue and inner narration/characterization for Lila got much better. I feel like I have a better handle on who she is as a person, where in the first one she was sort of a blank slate. There is still a lot of room for improvement, but I […]

“Evil isn’t a person,” he said. “It’s not a political group either. Or a religion like some people think. Evil is a force. Like gravity. It acts on all of us. We’re all vulnerable to it.”

What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

February 15, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a perfectly good book, but it could have been better for me. I broke my no lit-fic rule and put this on my TBR even before the second IRL book club I’m in chose this for later this year. The combination of the book being set in the mystery-adjacent aftermath of a tragedy (a murder-suicide between two teenaged boys), a sixteen year old girl who shows up pregnant afterwards, and the two remaining parents of the dead boys being neighbors just sounded way […]

I have only just now noticed the snake on the cover of this book. Which is extremely foreboding if you’ve read the book!

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

February 14, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one is going to be tough for me to review because I did like the book, and it was very well-written, and the audio narration was well-performed (by the author herself!), but I didn’t feel that sense of resolution I normally feel after finishing a good book. On a conscious level, I wanted things from this book that it didn’t seem interested in providing, so there was always going to be a clash there (more on this below), but also, there’s just something I […]

My hypothesis was that I would love this and now my conclusion is that I really fucking did.

The Love Hypothesis (The Love Hypothesis, #1) by Ali Hazelwood

February 14, 2022 by narfna 5 Comments

I was wondering where all my five star reads were in January, and it turns out they were hiding in the first week of February. PhD graduate student Olive spontaneously plants a smooch on notoriously mean and horrible Professor Adam Carlsen in order to convince her best friend that it’s okay for her to date Olive’s ex (don’t worry, he doesn’t supervise her in any way!) and fake dating ensues. That’s really all you need to know, to be honest. Objectively, this is not a […]

“I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going to put this back on your finger, and take you to bed, and do things to you that are outlawed in the civilized world.”

Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3) by Lisa Kleypas

February 12, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

I can see why this is a lovable book. I think Kleypas basically caught lightning in a bottle with her two main characters, Evie and Sebastian, but I don’t have faith that she can recreate the magic in other books, so I probably won’t be reading any of her other stuff. I’m glad I finally read this one, though, even if I didn’t think it was A M A Z I N G or anything. The plot here is that Evangeline Jenner needs to marry […]

“‘You are a scoundrel,’ she whispered furiously. ‘Yes,’ he agreed. ‘I’m thinking of starting a Society of Gentlemen Scoundrels.’ ‘You’re millennia too late. It already exists and is called the patriarchy.'”

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1) by India Holton

February 9, 2022 by narfna 9 Comments

I actually requested the sequel to this book on Netgalley and was approved before I realized it was the second book in a series, and while it didn’t seem like it would be necessary to read this one first since romance books can usually be read on their own, I thought I’d give it a shot anyway. And it was a pretty good time! So this book is about lady pirates who fly their houses around England. They take no offense at thievery and assassination, […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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