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Our MMC is biiiiii!!! 🩷💜💙

(Once again, my Libby app coming through 💃🏻 I’d literally perish without my library cards 😭🫶🏼)

There’s something strange with the way Sage writes. I know there’s a whole ass book that I just read—and yet—it feels like very little happens. Everything is surface-level.

Sometimes the similarities between this world and Elsie Silver's Chestnut Springs are so close I can't remember if I'm mixing them up.

For example, why are both patriarchs widowed? It's a little weird lol

Giddy up!

🤠🐴

Jess is literally the worst 😒

I can definitely see why this would work better as a companion novel than a standalone

It’s been reasonably entertaining nevertheless

Author, other reviewers: You’re supposed to read the whole main series first.

Me: I do what I want! [petulant]

the only reason I haven’t DNF’d is because I loved the first book so much 😭

LMAO the best friend just said “it’s time to run the numbers”

A little later… “you don’t need to, that should be my responsibility”

🤡🤡🤡 ya think?

It’s weird that there’s been no discussion, no internal monologue as to why she wants to keep the baby. There’s zero forward thinking and it has me hella perplexed.

Do people really get pregnant and not think about finances, look into what parental leave their work offers? Do soon-to-be single parents not stress about childcare?

What on earth is going on? 😭 I’m so confused

So far, everything is going well 👀

Because a few of my mutuals (who also adored book 1) were grossly let down, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop 😅

I still don’t have a clue where we’re going but I have faith

Initial thoughts: funny banter, and after coming across loads of single mum or single dad romances, this one feels fresh because it’s *both*

(Her’s is her little sister, who came into her care when their parents died in a car crash)

They’re also both in their 30’s 👏🏼

Once you notice the double adverb/adjective combo, you can't unsee it lol

Is it a big deal? No, not really. It’s a tiny part of the series and probably won’t actually impact my overall rating.

I simply wish it wasn’t in there and it’s too bad those lines can’t be altered.

Because I assure you, keeping up the shitty rep that migraines are just bad headaches means our pain & necessary accommodations won’t be taken seriously

times they’ve already called into work sick, weighing up if it’s “worth” using a sick day, forever concerned our employers will cut us loose, illegal or not. (For the record, no migraine has ever been improved by staring at a screen + not getting rest.) And when as many as 85% of migraine sufferers are women, and women’s pain is STILL overlooked in medicine? Dudes in books making flippant remarks is 🥴

Headaches don’t tend to make people walk face-first into glass doors bc of narrowed vision and zero depth-perception. I can drive through a headache. If I feel I migraine come on while on the road, I need to pull off, take meds, and if that doesn’t break it, I’m stranded. A person who doesn’t get migraines might think it’s a great get-out-of-work free card. A person who does is stressed about how many…

Look, I’m much more likely to get worked up over bad representation for groups which I’m not a part of (it’s my Tony Soprano protective streak) than I am for those which I am a part of.

But I just heard the same shitty reference for the third time, and suddenly I’m feeling kind of precious about it.

Migraines are NOT bad headaches.

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That last book ended on a massive cliffhanger. I am weak lmao.

Why must everything be stated as “male”

male scent. male smirk. on and on and on.

also, they’re so much bigger than her. we get it 😭

Why am I still reading this 🥲

It’s surprising how quickly she says yes 😂

Anyway, great narrators, love that it’s in duet. It makes it muuuuuch easier when the cast is so large

Attempt #2 at a quality why-choose

🤞🏼

As usual, I’m hoping for the best

This book is PACEY goddamn [impressed]

I don’t see any solution other than to DNF

It’s been a while since I picked up a fantasy romance that begins with such a bang

🪓🛡️🗡️

I read the first ten chapters in physical form and have since had the shittiest sleep schedule.

Switched over the the audiobook now that it’s out and ahhhhh yes, that’s more like it.

How I love a mysterious bit of magical realism in my historical novels

Gah I love this novel

The audiobook is great because the anecdotes are spoken by the tellers themselves 👍🏼