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🏳️‍🌈 BOOK REVIEW 🏳️‍🌈

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

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This was such a beautiful, powerful, emotional coming of age story. I really loved the way it handled generational trauma, the way none of these characters were perfect, the incredibly difficult, complicated, painful, wonderful dynamics at play.

This book is heavy. There’s a lot of social commentary around the harsh reality of living in certain places as Black and/or queer people.

But there’s light here too. Renny’s, the Perfect Spot, Kisabee Island.

🏳️‍🌈 RAINBOW STACK 🏳️‍🌈

QOTD: What’s your fave colour and a book in that colour?

You didn’t think I’d do pride month without a rainbow stack, did you? This is the first of a few 😂 Happy pride, everyone 💕💕

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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. 

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One Knight Stand by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

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.

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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.