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I'm not sure now that I've finished it that it was worth it.

Things I liked: lots of queerness, Mallory's fibro, the closeness of the main characters, the platonic love between Mallory and Theodore. Forensic science on magic.

Things I didn't like: it felt kinda of... young? The concerns of the trio of girls were very teenage. The real clues started to become so obvious. Obnoxious monologuing to explain a load of tortured clues.

I am determined to finish this tonight, but I have to pause to scream and clear my mind about how obviously they have the wrong culprit.

I thought I'd probably be DNFing this, but I guess I'm curious enough to stay the course. At least at this point, when my tracker app says I can finish it in 1h30m. I probably wouldn't be up for investing another two hours into it, though.

Started this because I love the tagline ("be gay, solve crime, take naps") and it all sounded fun (and of course it's on my #BookSpinBingo card), but I'm not entirely sure if it's for me. Not sure what's bothering me, just... vibes. I'm cognisant that it's longer than 400 pages, so I might just be getting daunted due to most of my reading being significantly shorter than that. Silly, but it's a thing that does happen to me these days.

Thanks to these Litsy folks for today‘s prompt:

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TODAY‘S PROMPT: LOVE/HATE PAIRING

The feud between the Lippmanns and the Cohens because of their bakery, Best Babka Bakery in Brooklyn, still continued after all of these years.

KISSING KOSHER was a delightful, entertaining read with some nice surprises. You will love all the characters.

FULL REVIEW: https://tinyurl.com/anb6u4jh

Frankie‘s the head of Ren‘s hockey team‘s social media. So, asking her out is out of the question. That‘s until she considers leaving for another job. Will he be able to tell her out he feels?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This one was so cute. There were some funny parts. I also liked the disability diversity. There could‘ve been a little more spice.

#romancebooks

It felt like a weight I didn‘t know I was carrying was lifted to read a fantasy about someone with a chronic illness. Real seeming chronically ill characters, where it‘s every day, don‘t show up much in genre fiction. Then I started to wonder why the character wasn‘t stressing about paying for their medication. I thought they must be fabulously wealthy. Then I remembered, the author is Irish not American. Now I‘m just kinda sad.

This magical murder mystery had some cozy vibes and great rep (MC with fibromyalgia, lesbian/gay MCS, nonbinary side char), & I'd rec it for folks into paranormal fantasy who don't mind flashes of brutal violence, fairly immature MCs (I think I'd categorize it as YA?), and overt mustache twirling. There were a lot of side themes! I'm curious if the next book settles down a little and decides if it's doing a cozy or a hard-boiled detective mystery.

First two days of this week already done… I haven‘t read anything since Sunday, I can‘t concentrate. Election anxiety is sky high, especially since I‘m not American and can‘t really do anything. To all American 🇺🇸 Littens, please make your voices heard today 💙🗳️.

I loved this nearly as much as I did the (tagged) previous book. The Bergman family is fantastic! Ren js a pro hockey player who is secretly in love with Frankie, the team‘s social media manager. She is on the autism spectrum and doesn‘t pick up on the clues that he is into her. Ren is gentlemanly, respectful, and obsessed with Shakespeare. I adore him! A little steamy for my taste (usually) but I love this family so much that I didn‘t even care.