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🏳️‍🌈 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY 🏳️‍🌈

The Open Era by Edward Schmit

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QOTD: What was your last 5 star read?

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Thank you so much to Penguin Australia for sending me a copy of this one. All thoughts are my own.

Tennis romance is absolutely having a moment this year and this book was no exception. It was brilliant!

I loved the complexities of Austin as a character. He was flawed and imperfect and all those moments when I wanted to shake some sense into him just made me love him all the more. The mental health representation in particular and Austin’s stubbornness about certain things that might help him felt incredibly real and relatable no matter how frustrating he could be. All the characters in this book are complex and layered and it was really brilliantly done.

The journey of a lifetime — and then some. Thank you, Sensates. 

🏳️‍🌈 BOOK REVIEW 🏳️‍🌈

One Knight Stand by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

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QOTD: What’s the last sequel you read?

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Thank you to Allen & Unwin for sending me a copy. All thoughts are my own.

This tale was just as fun and adventurous as the last, and I loved being back with these characters, seeing them on another journey full of twists, turns, and absurd humour.

✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Blue Summer Haze by Dondon

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QOTD: What are you reading this weekend?

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Thank you to Kodansha Comics and Netgalley for the eARC. All thoughts are my own.

This was a fun start to a romance series with some great, easy-to-love characters, but overall I found it moved a little bit too fast for me. I know it’s a sports romance and it’s only volume one, but I felt like the baseball stuff often overshadowed the romance stuff and I would have enjoyed it more if it had felt a little more balanced. Maybe this is one I’ll enjoy more when it’s finished and I can binge it.

✨ AUDIOBOOK REVIEW ✨

This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes

QOTD: Who’s a celebrity you’d like to know more about?

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This was just as hilarious and unflinchingly honest as I expected it to be. Miriam Margolyes is an expert storyteller and this book was a joy to listen to.

I loved learning about her early life and her time at Cambridge, hearing stories about all the unique, talented, wonderful people she’s bumped shoulders with throughout her life.

🏳️‍🌈 LESBIAN LOVE 🏳️‍🌈

QOTD: What’s your fave book with a lesbian main character? (and by that I mean POV character)

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