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Ship Happens by Mason Deaver

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Thanks so much to Avon Books and Netgalley for providing me with an eARC. All thoughts are my own.

This was such a great romance book! Sort of a combination of second chance and right person, wrong time.

I loved the way these two came together. They both held a lot of hurt and regret over the way things ended and it made it really hard for them to be around each other again. But I really loved how they slowly started having the hard conversations, started opening up to each other, started being more honest than they ever had before.

And I loved the way it played out. I loved that they agreed to be something in between for a while. To keep each other in their lives. To wait for each other. But to take it day by day.

“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still you find reasons to keep living.”

Anna Karenina (2012) dir. by Joe Wright

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Hollow Magic by Mars Lauderbaugh

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Thank you to Feiwel & Friends and Netgalley for the eARC. All thoughts are my own.

This was such a fun graphic novel. I really loved the characters and the magical journey they were on and the breaking the curse plot was intriguing.

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The Breaking by Irma Gold

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This was a really informative, interesting read and really opened my eyes to the true horrors elephants face for tourism.

I really loved Hannah as a main character. She’s imperfect and ignorant but so willing to learn and change and she has such a big heart and an open mind. I loved the connections she made through this book and the kindness she treated people and animals alike with.

Deven was a lot more complicated. I think it would have been interesting to have her POV too, just to see how her mind works, really understand where she was coming from with some of her more rash decisions. She was a bit hard for me to love even though I generally thought her heart was in the right place.

Their relationship was interesting, too. I was living for the sapphic yearning, for Hannah’s bi awakening, for how sweet these two could be together. But I thought Deven often treated Hannah poorly and I felt they weren’t very good for each other sometimes.

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Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins

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This was a really sweet YA romcom full of forced proximity and mutual pining.

I really loved the way the romance played out and I especially loved Felipe finding a group of people who love and care about him and finding his confidence along the way. He obviously still has a long way to go but I did really love his journey in this book.

Do not speak to me of dragon fire. I have known it's wrath and ruin.