Review and blog tour courtesy of the author and Twisted Chaos PR!
Thanks so much to the author and Twisted Chaos PR for the gifted advanced galley of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts, as well as participation in the author’s Street Team for release. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } My reviews and content can also be found on Goodreads, StoryGraph, on Instagram @Tackling_TBR, and on TikTok @TacklingTBR.
Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Genre: fantasy, romantasy, new adult, comedic
Tropes: the chosen one, dragons, found family, heir trials, prophecy questline, old wizard mentor, breaking the fourth wall
Page Count: 507 pages
Book Blurb:
Eighteen-year-old Em Smith has spent her life preparing to become the Main Character in a fantasy novel written by one of the Great Authors.
Except, when her big break comes, it’s a disaster of clichés. She’s declared a “Chosen One” by an ancient elf prophecy and sent out on a mediocre questline to overthrow a dark lord in a tower–– with two hot guys, an impish sidekick, and an old wizard mentor in tow, of course. Caught in love-triangles, heir trials, and every trope possible, it feels like her story aligns with every plotline she swore off.
Worse, if she doesn’t complete her designated prophecy, it will kill her. Determined to rewrite her destiny before this book ruins her reputation, Em sets out to hunt down the author dictating her life before losing her last shot at true main-character glory.
OF PLOTS AND TROPES is an New Adult Comedic Fantasy about self-discovery, adventure, and every fantasy trope a reader could hope for.
Review:
At the time of publishing, I am still mid-adventure in the world of Of Plots and Tropes!
My full thoughts will be added here as soon as I have finished reading.
About the Author:
Stephanie Sawyer wasted her teenaged years covered in paint thinking she’d be an animator for an unnamed movie studio with a cool theme park she’s obsessed with, all while handwriting stories about her imaginary friends and dreams. After attaining her BFA in Art Education in the armpit of the United States, she eventually found free time in her busy life as high school teacher to fall in love with writing again. She’s currently studying for her MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design while raising a zoo of cats and freshwater fish tanks. Of Plots and Tropes is her debut.
Thanks so much to the author and Berkley Publishing for the gifted advanced galley of this book via Netgalley in exchange for my honest thoughts. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } My reviews and content can also be found on Goodreads, StoryGraph, on Instagram @Tackling_TBR, and on TikTok @TacklingTBR.
A football star and a diehard fan entangled in a PR stunt—that only one side knows is fake—might be the right play in this new romantic comedy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lynn Painter.
Duffy Distefano loves three things: her dad, the family cat, and Minneapolis Coyotes football. So when she gets booed out of a game and becomes the internet’s villain, she is distraught—and disgruntled. All she did was shove Coyote Carl away when he made a move on her, but everyone else just saw a woman attacking their team’s beloved mascot. Eager to clear the air, Duffy agrees to an interview on a hit morning show. She doesn’t expect a co-guest to join her—especially not the Coyotes’ star tight end.
When MVP Connor Cunningham gets tasked with damage control to help his team out of their PR nightmare, he thought that meant saying a few words on the team’s behalf. Instead, he finds himself in a highly amusing verbal sparring match with a recently wronged fan on live TV. Duffy pelts him with fiery jabs but is also clearly diehard about the Coyotes—color him intrigued…and attracted.
The interview instantly goes viral, and the public is obsessed with them. A strong push from the Coyotes’ PR team to ride the wave results in Connor asking Duffy out. Despite his distaste for PR stunts, he’s surprised to discover being with Duffy is much easier than he thought, and somehow it doesn’t feel fake to him. Harboring this secret can only blow up, but all he knows is that if he messes things up with Duffy, it’ll be the greatest fumble of his life.
Review: 4 stars
TW: illness in elderly parents, loss of parents (off page, prior to events)
Y’all, is there any more delicious combination than Fake Dating and He Falls First? I’m really not sure that there is. I mean, come on, the banter possibilities with that combo are endless – and First and Forever did not disappoint on that front!
This was such a fun, light, and easy read. I finished it in just a couple of days because I truly did not want to put it down – simply because it was making me smile!
Duffy, the FMC, is direct and sarcastic and pretty sure she knows better and more than anyone else in the room. Meanwhile Connor, the MMC, is basically the human equivalent of the heart-eyes emoji. In my humble opinion, it’s a match made in heaven.
I will say, I wish we had gotten a little bit more from Duffy’s best friend, Ellie. She seemed like such a fun character, and aside from a few choice “I’m your best friend and I’m going to knock some sense into you” moments with Duffy, we didn’t get much more from her than her interest in fashion as it related to Duffy’s storyline. I totally get that that isn’t uncommon for the female lead’s best friend in a romcom, so I’m not holding it against the book too harshly – I just feel like she is someone I really could have fallen in love with if there was a little bit more time dedicated to letting me do so. Who knows – maybe I’ll get my wish in a future book!
That being said, I think that overall this book was the perfect length. I didn’t find myself getting to the 3/4 point and constantly looking at my kindle’s progress bar to see where I was at in the book. It was just the right amount – and maybe could have even taken the tiniest bit more time at the end, which I almost never say, so you know I mean it.
All that to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will definitely be running to pick up any other books in this world, should we get them in the future (I’m looking at you, Lynn!).
Don’t go into this expecting to get a brand-new masterpiece of a story that you’ve never seen anything like before. This is a pretty standard, pretty predictable sports romcom. But if you like Hallmark movies and sassy characters with a lot of chemistry, then I think this just might be the book for you!
Thanks so much to BookSparks, the author, and Harper Muse for the gifted advanced copy of this book in in exchange for my honest thoughts and participation in this book tour. Thanks also to Harper Muse for the gifted audio copy via Libro.fm. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } My reviews and content can also be found on Goodreads, StoryGraph, on Instagram @Tackling_TBR, and on TikTok @TacklingTBR.
Themes: motherhood, found family, recovery from substance abuse
Page Count: 352 pages
Audiobook Length: 9 hours and 29 minutes
Audiobook Narrators: Helen Laser, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Rebecca Lowman, Jessica Guerrieri
Book Blurb:
Two sisters reconnect on a long-overdue girls’ trip to Mexico—just as a woman from their small town back home goes missing, setting off a chain of revelations that forces them to confront old traumas, fractured marriages, and the fragile threads holding their lives together.
Told in alternating perspectives, Both Can Be True follows Mare and Frankie—two sisters in their late thirties navigating motherhood, marriage, and identity in a post-pandemic world. Mare is the hyper-responsible older sister, mother of a neurodivergent preschooler, and married to a husband who’s long since checked out. Frankie is a charismatic, sober bookstore owner raising two teenage daughters and struggling to maintain boundaries between her sobriety, motherhood, and the messy realities of womanhood.
Together with three friends, they embark on a girls’ trip to Mexico to celebrate Frankie’s ten-year sobriety milestone. But back home, their husbands go camping and stumble upon what they believe might be the body of Brie Hoover—a woman from their town and Frankie’s AA circle. What follows is a slow unraveling of secrets and shifting loyalties, set against the backdrop of a deeply rooted female friendship.
As the sisters reckon with the emotional weight of caregiving, trauma, and who they’ve become outside their roles as mothers and wives, Both Can Be True Can we be good mothers and still want more? Can we love our partners and still feel trapped? And what happens when the support systems we’ve so carefully constructed start to crack?
Review: 4.25 stars
TW: death, substance abuse (alcohol and drugs), sexual assault
Wow.
It isn’t too often then days that I pick up a general women’s fiction read, since I’m so often distracted by my love of many other genres of fiction. While this book is categorized as a mystery, I would say that it fell (at least for me) much more under the larger umbrella of women’s fiction. Either way, I loved every minute of it and I am so thrilled that I got a chance to read it.
This complex book explores many overarching themes relating to motherhood, womanhood, and sisterhood (both born- and found-family). And when I first read the description of this book I was both very excited to read it and also a little bit nervous.
As a woman in today’s society, and as someone who became a new mom within the last year, I am no stranger to the idea of disappearing in plain sight. Making yourself smaller to fit into society or avoid drawing attention to yourself. Losing the woman that you were completely behind your new role of “mom.” The constant mom guilt. The shame that the world puts on us for being an imperfect person while also being a woman.
It can feel so lonely and isolating. What I loved most about this book was the raw look at these emotions and explored the relationships between a group of women learning to feel them and push through them all together. This book felt like it was both permission to feel those things as well as permission to let go of them entirely, while encouraging you to find your way back to your own personhood and who you are outside of the influence of those other things.
I decided to tackle this book with immersive reading, so I read it while also listening to the audio. The group of women that narrate the audiobook (including the author) do such a phenomenal job with their performances, and it really made the book and characters come alive for me. I would highly recommend this style of reading, or would generally recommend the audiobook if you’re not looking to take on both.
I would absolutely recommend this book. Truly, I finished it on audio while I was in the car yesterday and was worried that other drivers would be concerned about the crazy lady crying in the car next to them.
I am so thrilled to have a copy that I can come back to again in the future – I’m sure when I reach a new phase of life and motherhood I’ll find another new thing in it.
Thanks so much to the author and Hambright PR for the gifted advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } My reviews and content can also be found on Goodreads, StoryGraph, on Instagram @Tackling_TBR, and on TikTok @TacklingTBR.
Publication Date: November 11, 2024
Genre: romance, dark romance
Tropes: dark romance, enemies to lovers, bully romance, childhood best friends, kidnapping, good girl, hockey
Page Count: 224 pages
Book Blurb
Blaise He was once my hero, but that was a long time ago… before I left him. I never expected him to show up in my life again. Especially as my new roommate. The boy I once loved is now a brutal hockey player with a taste for revenge and reckless abandon. I’m indebted to him, and he expects me to pay in the form of blood, tears and humiliation. But once the games begin, I find myself falling into old habits I thought were buried. Out of all the bad ideas I’ve had in my life, Desmond Rickman has always been my favorite. Desmond I had a heart once… until she smashed it, leaving nothing but a hollow spot in my chest. I never expected to see her again. Especially not in my turf, in my apartment, as my new roommate. She may have held my heart once upon a time, but now I hold all the cards. She’s indebted to me, and I’ll make her pay for ruining my life. Old emotions are like scars, slowly fading and never disappearing. And she’s bringing them all to the surface. If there is a God, he designed Blaise Sheffield to bring me to my knees.
When your former, childhood best friend, quite literally from the opposite side of the tracks, disappears from your life only to pop back up years later as your new college roommate – you get a truly dark and twisted bully romance. Right? Sure, why not.
I will go into this saying that bully romances aren’t really my thing – as a queer woman, if I have to watch one more gay/bi character end up in a forever relationship with the person who used to bully them for being gay, I just might throw something. Obviously that’s not the storyline here, but I mention this to say – take this rating and review with the grain of salt that comes with reading a book where the primary trope is one that I’m predisposed to not loving and wasn’t expecting when I picked up the book.
That being said, I did enjoy the rest of the book well enough.
Blaise is a really fun FMC. A girl with a difficult childhood and dark secrets, working to better herself and her situation, and building a future career based around helping others do the same – all with a lot of sass and cute cotton candy pink hair. Love that for her.
The book itself is a pretty quick read, with fairly short chapters and a quick paced plot that jumps in with both feet right from the word go.
I’d say that if bully romances are your thing, definitely pick this one up – I think it’s probably a pretty good one. But if you’re just going in expecting the dark romance without the side of bullying, maybe be wary.
Thanks so much to the author and Hambright PR for the gifted advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } My reviews and content can also be found on Goodreads, StoryGraph, on Instagram @Tackling_TBR, and on TikTok @TacklingTBR.
Publication Date: February 24, 2026
Genre: romance, contemporary romance
Tropes: friends to lovers, single parent, slow burn, he falls first, friend zoned, found family, golden retriever MC
Page Count: 312 pages
Book Blurb
After finding out his friends find his nonstop quest for love to be a little excessive. Derek has decided to put a stop to dating altogether.
Now, he’s stuck in a no-go zone just in time for someone new to enter the friend group.
Elizabeth is a single mom who has been out of the dating pool for a long time, but when she meets Derek, the sweet and caring friend of a friend, she thinks things are about to change.
When things don’t go quite as she expects, she accepts his friendship and begins a journey to help him reinvent his father’s failing hardware store to keep the legacy alive.
Spending hours together working, they begin to see that their feelings are not so easily brushed aside and when push comes to shove, their friendship blossoms into a romance they’ll never forget.
But when things get hard for the hardware store, and real life starts to butt in to their relationship, they have to decide if they can weather the storm, or if things will end for good.
Review: 2.5 stars
TW: discussion of loss of parent (off page, prior to events)
There were a lot of things to really love about this book.
I really liked Elizabeth as our FMC – I mean, a sweet single mom who goes to the mat for her friends and family? What’s not to love?
I thought it was SO SWEET that Derek turned out to have a connection to Elizabeth’s past. Truly is there anything sweeter than a second chance romance or a childhood crush coming back into your life?
I also really loved reading the parts about Elizabeth helping Derek to turn things around for his hardware store. A storyline about two characters bringing their different expertise or passions together for a good cause or small business (think: the handsome local contractor helping rebuild the old inn that she just inherited from a distant relative) will almost always be an automatic win for me.
But all of that being said, there were also some things that made this a somewhat challenging read for me.
Among the tropes that I have a hard time with, or that I can only take in small doses before it starts to get to me a bit, are a miscommunication trope, a third act breakup (when it doesn’t feel like it makes sense within the plot), and an extended friend zone. And this book had all three in spades.
While the concept of a friend zone in real life immediately annoys me (but that’s a soap box for another day), I understand its place as a trope in romance books and media. It’s an easy way to build up the tension of a slow burn and to explain away why a romance might be a bit slow to start without making a reader want to yell.
But everything in moderation. By the time these two characters finally talked to each other (hello, miscommunication trope) enough to take each other out of their mutual friend zoning my kindle told me that I was literally 46% of the way through the book. And this isn’t exactly a short read, sitting at 312 pages. It was just entirely too long for me, and by the time it was resolved with a single, simple conversation, I just sort of found myself rolling my eyes at the whole ordeal.
The other thing that made this a tough one for me has to do with the way Derek, our MMC, seemed to be made to act like an asshole (through some almost toxic masculinity-leaning remarks and actions) in order to manufacture a third act breakup that felt a bit forced for the sake of the trope rather than feeling necessary or natural in the storyline that had been built up until that point. I’m not saying that there’s no way a third act breakup could have worked here if that’s what the author wanted, but I personally felt that the way that it did didn’t really feel like it fit with the vision of Derek that the whole book had given me up to that point.
All of those are very personal things that I could very well be the only one bothered by. And any one of them on their own wouldn’t have caused any real issues for me. But the combination of all three just left large portions of this book feeling long and drawn out for me, and like I was just reading in order to get through until the next, sweeter parts.
Overall I didn’t love or hate this book, it just ended up being okay for me. I wouldn’t have any trouble recommending it to friends or fellow readers if I knew that it fit tropes or a style that they were looking for, but I would probably first make brief mention of the issues that I had with it to make sure they wouldn’t have the same struggles that I did.
Thanks so much to the author and Atria Books for the gifted advanced e-copy of this book via Edelweiss+ in exchange for my honest thoughts. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } My reviews and content can also be found on Goodreads, StoryGraph, on Instagram @Tackling_TBR, and on TikTok @TacklingTBR.
Publication Date: February 17, 2026
Genre: mystery, thriller, fiction, dark humor, contemporary, crime, adult
Page Count: 384 pages
Book Blurb
A whip-smart and darkly funny crime novel—perfect for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and The Maid—that follows a wife and mother with a deadly secret that she must suppress if she wants to maintain her picture-perfect façade.
Meet Lalla Rook. Lalla has a lot on her plate: She needs to guarantee her husband makes partner, secure her dream house in Hampstead, and get her daughter into a prestigious prep school. And on the afternoon she stabs a stranger seven times after he breaks into her living room, she has a four-year-old’s birthday party to host.
With an unambitious partner, two demanding children, and a barely adequate large house in a nice (if not quite fashionable) part of town, Lalla’s life isn’t quite perfect yet. And she can’t pretend she hasn’t missed the adrenaline rush that comes with transgressing. Besides, as a wife and mother, she’s already an expert multi-tasker. So, disposing of a body, framing a friend, and being the world’s best mother can easily be managed alongside the usual domestic minutiae.
It’s just that her husband Stephen seems distracted, her daughter’s drowning of the class hamster is affecting her academic future, and then there is the unexpected intruder. Who is this man and what does he want from her? Because Lalla has a past she’d rather keep hidden—and the sudden appearance of the police means that avoiding them will be yet another task to cross off her to-do list.
Funny, calculating, hypercompetent, and ambitious, Lalla is your next favorite antiheroine. Just don’t mention it to her mother-in-law.
Review: 3 stars
TW: murder/death, violence, dub-con/non-con in marriage, domestic violence, stalking, blackmail
Lalla Rook certainly isn’t a woman that I’d like to get on the bad side of. As far as main characters go she isn’t exactly the most easily relatable, but I think that that’s part of what made her so much fun to read. She is quick, calculating, and cold – not exactly the ride-or-die lady that I need in my life – but for better or for worse she certainly knows how to get shit done. And, despite her many MANY moral shortcomings, I still felt myself rooting for her to get her happy ending.
I will say that overall the book wasn’t a perfect read for me. While I definitely appreciated the short chapters (there’s something so satisfying about being able to tell yourself that you read a few chapters, even if in reality it was only about 20-30 pages), the book still felt a bit too long at times. I loved the moments of dark humor that were sprinkled throughout the book, but I do wish that there had been just a little bit more of that and really leaned into that side of the story and character. I think that it would have helped a bit, at least for me personally, in those handful of times that it felt a bit like it was dragging.
I think that, in the end, this read was squarely middle of the road for me. I did definitely enjoy it, and would recommend it to friends – but it probably won’t be making my top reads of the year. And while I look forward to watching the upcoming adaptation whenever it releases, I don’t know that I’ll be picking the book back up for a reread any time soon.
Thanks so much to the author, Minotaur Books, and Netgalley for the gifted advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } All of my reviews can also be found on Instagram @Tackling_TBR and on Goodreads.
I loved (to hate to love) her from the very beginning, and she truly gets to shine in this book.
Okay, now on to the rest of the review.
I’ve said it before, but I truly believe that (with the exception of the first, because you can’t beat the original) this series only gets better and more fun as it goes along. It really has become my favorite series of books that is currently being released, and I find myself looking forward to getting to the end of one year/beginning of the next when I get to read the next installment.
Sounds dramatic, but here we are. These books are a familiar favorite sweater, in my opinion, and I want to stand outside of Finlay Donovan’s window with a boombox or a “To me, you are perfect” sign. She would probably hate it, and Vero would mercilessly mock it, but I would do it all the same.
I think that if you enjoy a romantic mystery where the characters’ stakes are sky high but it all still feels light and silly, with a ride or die female friendship reminiscent of The First Wives Club (one of my favorite movies, maybe I’m sensing a pattern?), then this is the series for you.
They should definitely be read and enjoyed in series order, however, so if you’re seeing this then go back to Finlay Donovan is Killing It and work your way back – meet me back here when you’re done, I’ll have a bottle of wine at the ready to discuss everything Finlay.
My Reviews for the rest of the Finlay Donovan series:
Thanks so much to the author, Minotaur Books, and Netgalley for the gifted advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest thoughts. All opinions are entirely my own. { partner } All of my reviews can also be found on Instagram @Tackling_TBR and on Goodreads.
Finlay and Vero hit the road – what a fun, carefree adventure I’m sure they’re in for! Well, maybe not. We know what books we’re reading at this point, right? Right.
Let’s be honest, none of us are reading these books for the realistic scenarios – the situations are silly, the stakes are high, and the books are truly just a dang good time. I seriously love the characters so much, and this is a rare series that (aside from the perfection of the first book) I really believe just gets better as it goes on.
If you haven’t seen it mentioned before, I will say that these certainly need to be read and enjoyed in series order. While the murders that need solved (or, well, hidden) are different from book to book, there is enough of a through line with the overarching plot and returning character relationships that you will definitely be missing some of the fun. But with that in mind I will, as always, be recommending this book and series to any of my friends that will listen and haven’t already picked them up.
My Reviews for the rest of the Finlay Donovan series:
Hello, friends – and happy Tuesday! Welcome to another round of new releases that I was lucky enough to get an early copy of, and have either already read or are upcoming on my #TBR.
These books could be gifted from the publisher through sites like NetGalley or Edelweiss+, they could be electronic copies gifted directly to me from the publisher or the author, an early audiobook copy through the publisher or Libro.fm, or even a physical copy that has been sent to me from the author or publisher. I am so thankful for all of the reading opportunities that I am given through these various sources, and I am excited to share these new releases!
In these weekly posts I will include a 20% review if I am currently reading the book, as well as a link to my full review if I have already finished the book. And if I have not yet started the book by the time this is posted, I will leave those spots blank and edit the post to add them in later!
I See Buildings Fall like Lightning
Author: Keiran Goddard
Publication Date: February 20, 2024
Genre: fiction
Page Count: 256 pages
Thanks so much to the author, Europa Editions, and Edelweiss+ for the gifted, advanced e-copy of this book!
Description from Goodreads:
Told through the alternating perspectives of five childhood friends from the same housing estate in England, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning is a story about friendship, place, loss, addiction and the ways in which lives, minds, and bodies can be limited by material conditions; it also speaks powerfully to the ways in which humor, loyalty, and family can bestow meaning and life even in the toughest circumstances.
Only Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city, but his money doesn’t stop him clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away.
Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom.
Things are looking up for Conor, but he is never too far away from chaos.
Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, always the calm in the eye of the storm, but even they are rocked when old secrets begin to open new wounds.
Bold, ambitious, and stylistically striking, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning lays bare the economic, psychological, and spiritual impact of poverty, explores the redeeming and transforming beauty of friendship and examines the true limits of hope and forgiveness.
20% Review:
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Review:
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Due to hatred shared publicly by an employee under St. Martin’s Press, as well as a lack of action on the part of St. Martin’s Press, I am one of many readers and bookish content creators currently taking part in the #SpeakUpSMP boycott.
Therefore, while there are additional books that I am grateful to have received and that are being published this week, I will not be sharing anything about them at this time.
I look forward to sharing more about these books in the future, provided that the needs and demands of the boycott are met, and at that time I will update this post to include them.
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I am so excited to have received another box from one of my favorite bookish subscription services, Once Upon a Book Club! This time I received the Young Adult box for the month of December, with the clue “Round Table Romance!”
Take a look below for information on the book and gifts that I received in this box and more – but keep in mind that there will be spoilers on the gifts!
Thanks so much to the folks over at Once Upon a Book Club for gifting me with this box! Check them out for yourself, and use my code TACKLINGTBR at check out for a discount!
About the Box
This Round Table Romance box was Once Upon a Book Club’s young adult box for the month of December! Each box contained a copy of the book, a bookplate/sticker with the author’s signature, and four wrapped gifts to tie into the book – bringing the book and reading experience to life!
Page 21
“He ducked just as the ink bottle smashed against the door next to his head; ink poured down the wood and pooled on the floor, soaking his boots.”
Black, scented Inkwell Bath Salts, from Camelot Co., in a themed, glass inkwell bottle.
Page 86
“’Good evening,’ he said from the floor. Gwen slammed her book shut and stood up.”
A hardcover copy of Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert.
Page 204
“She cast around for something to stop the bleeding; her half-finished embroidery was on the table by the fire, and she hesitated for a minute before tearing off a long strip of the pearly-white fabric and returning to Arthur so she could wrap his arm.”
A cream-colored linen scarf with embroidered florals in bright pinks, greens, and oranges, measuring 35×71”.
Page 325
“They both watched the cut black stone rotate slowly between them at the end of its chain.”
A cut crystal black tourmaline pendent on a silver necklace chain.
About the Book
Due to hatred shared publicly by an employee under St. Martin’s Press, as well as a lack of action on the part of St. Martin’s Press, I am one of many readers and bookish content creators currently taking part in the #SpeakUpSMP boycott.
Therefore, while I am very grateful to have received this book and box from Once Upon A Book Club, I will not be sharing the title or cover of the book at this time.
However you’ll find the author’s information is all still listed below – As this is only a marketing boycott, rather than a boycott on consumption, please feel free to still show the author all of your love and support!
I look forward to sharing more details about this book in the future, provided that the needs and demands of the boycott are met, and at that time I will update this post to include them.
For more information on the boycott, head to @ReadersForAccountability on TikTok.
About the Author
(Photo and bio taken from the author’s website, at the link below!)
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Lex Croucher grew up in Surrey, reading a lot of books and making friends with strangers on the internet, and now lives in London with an elderly cat.
With a background in social media for NGOs, Lex now writes historical-ish rom coms for adults (REPUTATION, INFAMOUS) and historical fantasy rom coms for teenagers. GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE is their YA debut.
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