![]() So much delicious pining and unnecessary worrying over rejection! You get the angst without becoming too stressed. I’m trash for childhood friends who have been in love with each other forever (but think it’s unrequited). “You can’t casually date someone you’ve known forever,” she told him quickly, “someone who’s all tied up in your family-” ![]() Reading books by Black authors for Black History Month!Ģ020 Jingle Books Bingo (#JingleBooks□): Peppermint Swirl ChristmasĬontent Notes: anxiety, discussion of past abuse The love interest, for example, spends first scene depicted as anxious and then later as "laid back" and "not giving a f*ck." On top of that, the little bit of characterization we do get is inconsistent. ![]() This skips the getting to know the characters in favor of yearning that is based on so much miscommunication it converted me, someone who is so anti-love that I wish every romance was 99% angst, into a miscommunication trope hater. I need the getting to know the characters. Romance novellas are always tough because I NEED EVERY PART. That feeling is roughly the same as how I feel being disappointed by a Talia Hibbert Christmas romance. This Christmas season, I spent all of December - nay, all of the time since it dipped below 70 degrees - looking forward to the Big Day.Īnd then the very same night I arrived home for the festivites, I tested positive for COVID-19 and thereby had to spend the entirety of the Christmas-to-New-Years lineup in quarantine. ![]()
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