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Loved this MM YA romcom. Angsty but cute, with a stellar audio by Kirt Graves.

Quick read, slice of life story. About the general manager of a red lobster working the last shift before their restaurant gets shut down. There is a blizzard and business is slow and he time to reflect on his life choices and pick out a Christmas present for his girlfriend. If you like the movie Waiting or Waitress you will like this book. #wintergames #teamevergreen @Clwojick

1520 pts

When the recipe tells you, use 2 cloves of garlic, but this translates to you as 2 BULBS of garlic 🤣😍🧄

Another quick read to boot my totals for the year. Looking into the lives of others is fascinating.

Setting up for #audiopainting while listening to the tagged book. I love weekends 😊
(I love this mug too! I use it non-stop the week leading up to Thanksgiving then scarcely at all the rest of the year. 🥧)

O‘Nan is quickly becoming a favorite author - I love how authentic his characters are and his attention to detail is not overly written but so precise in the setting, mood and time.This is a short novella about a small crew of characters working the final shift ,just days before Xmas, in a mall located Red Lobster Diner. It‘s so pitch perfect in its simplicity, I just wish it would have been a longer story.

I picked this up last minute at a 2NC solely based on the fact that @BarbaraBB liked it. I had it in my head that it was about lobster fisherman. No. It‘s not. It‘s about the last night of a closing forever Red Lobster restaurant. Despite the surprise, I enjoyed these characters. Manny the manager questioning how it all went wrong. Roz the lifer. Ty the chef hoping to have a good last service with a small crew. And Manny‘s ex whom he still loves.

Also, this cutesy thing happened at least twice. Emojis don‘t belong here! It was very distracting.

Oh boy. All right, first, I saw almost all the twists coming, so that was frustrating. The story was middling. Here‘s the BIG problem, though: A.L. Herbert is a pseudonym for a writer who is neither Black nor female, yet presents as such. I don‘t believe that every writer writing from a different perspective is guilty of cultural appropriation (it depends on how they do so and how they present themselves in the attempt) BUT 👇🏻

I ended up liking this book. I struggled HARD in the middle with Tommy‘s choices and general selfishness. But once he became more self-aware it was nice to see how everything fell out. I really liked the character of Brad and wish we‘d seen more of him. I‘d say this was less comedy and less romance than drama, but still enjoyable. Thanks to Edelweiss and HarperCollins for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳