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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Lol absolutely, David!! Enemies to lovers….yes.
I think there’s maybe a lesbian one by Sarina Bowen? I know she added a womens hockey team to her men’s hockey universe
t I wasn’t super impressed by legends and lattes but it was soothing and chill, which I appreciated. If I had paid money I might’ve felt it was a little light but I got it from the library.
I wish Sarina Bowen had a character/plot range to match her output volume, but as it stands I can really only take her in very small doses before I feel like I'm reading the same book over and over. (And she needs a new favorite audiobook narrator SO BAD. Teddy Hamilton, you do your one thing very well, but...oy.)
Yeah, the reviewer's main points were that L&L was (a) soothing and chill and (b) not exactly like every other urban fantasy novel out there. Which are both pretty good but not enough for me to go out and get it right this minute especially as I currently feel inundated with Too Much to Read...
I enjoyed Legends and Lattes, enough that I preordered the next book by the author. It scratched an itch (cosy high fantasy) that I didn't know I had. So, since I know know that's a thing, I also read You Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, [link] which was ok, but I didn't like it as much as L&L.
Jess yeah, I wouldn’t recommend bingeing on her books by any means. I never listen to audiobooks though, so had no idea!
I think I got burned by trying a couple of cozy fantasies that had good titles but were not good books (or perhaps it's just the itch they are meant to scratch is not mine, but I did not enjoy them) and now I'm all cautious about anything that looks too whimsical. Which is rough because I generally am infavor of whimsy!
Cozy fantasies can get a bit twee, it's true. Cozy mysteries, too, although the body count (older definition) can work to mitigate that.
I bought Baking Bad: A Cozy Mystery with Dragons because a negative review complained that it wasn't as "clean" as they expected a cozy to be. I Haven't read it yet, but I feel like books whose target audience are that reviewer are the kind I really don't like.
I've also done this, especially with books and movies that get reviews about "Why so much cursing?"(Where clearly The Wire has boosted my tolerance.)
I am listening to Translation State (god I love Ann Leckie) and it is making me weirdly happy that one of the characters follows an entertainment called Pirate Exiles of the Death Moon. I’m imagining it as some kind of hybrid between OFMD and Sanctuary Moon (Probably not really spoilery)