_fireandfables's reviews
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THIS BOOK WAS SO INCREDIBLY CUTE.  

So much pining, so many bad (but really good) choices. I loved seeing how this books progressed over several months, so even though it wasn't really a low burn it almost felt that way.  The chemistry between the main characters was swoonworthy! And i especially loved the whole section for the finale reveal and descriptions of the video montage.

 Super cute book that made me make bad choices and stay up all night reading.

This book started as a grumpy x grumpy and turned into a shy nerd x stressed mom. I liked how even though there was a little character development, mostly in the developing trust department, it really was a book where it wasn't the characters who changed, it was the perspective. First impressions are not always the most important, or right impressions.

Jess and River's love story really bring into question whether you are more likely to fall in love with someone if you are told you are meant to be or would that put too much pressure and ruin it before it even started. I also love to read a book about a good single mom, doing everything she can to make life work and be good for her daughter, but learning that she can live for herself as well. 

 After a fantasy reading slump this book was exactly what I needed. Everything Julie Soto writes hits so perfectly.

I didn't love  the third act breakup, but I also understood it .

A book about a woman who plays violin and a man who plays cello and how they're both prodigies in their own way and fall in love.

I enjoyed how much classical music terminology was used metaphorically in the entire book and how they both literally and figuratively made music together.

This book is also about found family, but how sometimes that means putting your pride aside to understand and reconcile with your real family.

About to go find another romance book to uplift my spirits and give me all the good feels. 

 Enjoyable fast paced read about Faelyn, a weaver witch who is lonely in the world, the moon spirit who has been abused for a millenia, and a wolf with a complicated past. 

 Imagine if how to lose a guy in 10 days was a fantasy where he is a witch hunter and she is a witch vigilante. High stakes and full of forbidden love, this book was a fast paced read with an interesting world.

Set on an island ruled by witches, a revolution happened 2 years prior and all witches and witch sympathizers were arrested and killed. Witches is this world could only cast using blood and the fresher it was the more powerful spells could be done. The most powerful being those spells done with blood not freely given and that usually ended in death and the corruption of the soul.

The dual POV really made this book worth reading because you have two completely different world views and learn what happened to shape those opinions and make them very understandable.

Still kind of upset with the ending, and cannot wait for it to be wrapped up in book 2. 

The Gods Time Forgot is a novel set in the late 19th century New York where old money and new money collide. Emma is a girl of marriagable age with a crazy mother and no memory of her life before crawling out of a hellmouth in the countryside. Unfortunately, part of that memory loss is the fact that she isn't Emma, she is Rua, who looks almost exactly like Emma but is a different person stuck living Emmas's life. Enter Finn, a young Lord trying to build up his business so that he can help the less fortunate. Finn is supposed to be courting the perfectly respectable Annette, but can't help but be drawn to Rua.

Include some mysterious worshipping of the Morrigan and hints at old Irish Lore and we are left trying to figure out just who and what Finn and Rua are to themselves and to each other.

full of mutual pining and longing, definitely a good read