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The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

March 31, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I’ve been wanting to read Alexandria Bellefleur for a couple of years, so I was delighted to get an arc of The Fiancée Farce. It is an engagement of convenience story with shades of a Cinderella retelling. I really enjoyed it. Tansy’s only remaining family is her step-mother and step-sisters. She manages the bookstore her parents owned, which her step-mother now owns because her father died suddenly when Tansy was still a minor. The bok opens at the wedding reception of one of Tansy’s step-sisters […]

What if We Fell in Love, as a Bit?

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

July 31, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

After a spectacularly bad first date, Elle and Darcy assume they will never see each other again. Then both of them have run ins with family where they are once more quizzed about the failures of their love lives. So Darcy hatches a scheme. What if they agreed to fake a relationship for a few months to prove to their respective families that they were in fact capable of doing more than just failing at their personal lives? Surely that would solve all their problems, […]

They Were, In Fact, Roommates

Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

July 25, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

I would simply communicate with my partner what my desires and feelings were and not assume that they didn’t like me as much as I liked them, leading to us both feeling awful and hoping that the casual status quo is better than ruining things by telling her how I felt. – Me, reading this book, lying to myself probably You know the stereotype about queer women that we are incapable of telling if a girl is into us, even to ridiculous levels? Count Your […]

Lesbians in Seattle, an entire genre I think

Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

May 27, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

There are a couple of tropes that I just…cannot with, and this one unfortunately falls squarely within one of them: the very very short “relationship” / “hooking up” from ages ago that neither character has ever forgotten. It seems lazy, in my mind, because most of the time it feels like the author wants the emotional fallout of a long relationship without the work that goes into figuring out why two people who had a legitimate breakup might end up together again. Usually in life […]

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