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Stolen Touches by Neva Altaj

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

- Forced Proximity ( marriage)
- he’s don of NYC
- She’s a trainee Doctor
- MMC with disability 
- touch her and die vibes 
- spicy 🌶️ 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Bingsu for Two by Sujin Witherspoon

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medium-paced

4.0

All Too Well by Corinne Michaels

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4.0

Hexed by Emily McIntire

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4.5

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Pace is - slow-medium
Things I love 💕
💕Dragons taking centre stage and having their own ideology
💕 Violet and Xaden love story continues and faces challenges
💕 Depiction of family secrets & imperfect parents
💕 Great depiction of power corruption
💕Dragons agency
💕Quest for her to rescue him

Things I wish 🧞‍♂️:
🧞‍♂️More chronic illness moments & that Violet is more impacted & needs to use alternative thinking to get out of it.

Not my cuppa tea ☕️
☕️ slower pace in the first half of the book ( lots of setting the scene)
☕️ professor x student dynamics ( doesn’t really look at the imbalance of power & essentially addressed it as no big deal
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

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4.0

Tightrope by Selina Tusitala Marsh

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5.0

First Love by Rio Shimamoto, Rio Shimamoto

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challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Untethered by Angela Jackson-Brown

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Themes:
Motherhood, Abandonment, love, found family, transformation 
BIO:
In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for African American Boys, she pours her heart into nurturing the young lives under her care, harboring a longing for children of her own. Set in a society where due to race and gender she has less power & options.

Love this 💕:
💕 Perspective of a Group home carer
💕 Medical Representation 
💕Discussions around womanhood & motherhood 
💕disability rep in love interests
💕 Ending
I loved Has a happily ever after- Romance ending

Not my cuppa tea ☕️:
☕️ only negative perspective on birth parents 

Ideal Reader:
✨Fans of stories with complex mother & child relationships 
✨Fans of books that deal with complex themes
✨Fans of historical fiction from BIPOC perspectives

Thanks to NetGalley , Harper Collins  & author Angela Jackson-Brown for an ARC Copy of this Books in exchange for a fair and honest review 
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Ringing in the Lunar New Year by Isla Chiu

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hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Rating 3.75⭐️  Spice: 🌶️
Tropes: FMC & MC both Virgins, Friends to Lovers, promise rings

What I loved 💕:
💕 Peppa Pig moment 
💕 Enemies to lovers 
💕 Spice scenes were great

Not my cuppa☕️:
☕️ Virgin / or double virgin trope
Ideal Reader ✨:
✨ Fans of romance novels around first times