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    How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby | ARC Review

    25th May 2021
    How to Become a Planet (Nicole Melleby)

    How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby

    Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.

    It’s a space-themed MG book, so of course I loved it. 🚀🪐☄️

    Pluto Timoney (12) loves astronomy because her mom loves it. But she misses the last month of her seventh grade after being diagnosed with depression and anxiety and Pluto wonders if she’ll ever be the same again. Or would she be like Pluto the planet becoming a non-planet?

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    Finding a Keeper by Nicole Pyland | ARC Review

    30th October 2020
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    Finding a Keeper (Sports #4) by Nicole Pyland

    Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.

    Content warnings: death of parent, mention of conversion therapy, disowning

    This is my eighth Pyland novel, and I have learned by now to never start reading her books on a busy day because they are impossible to put down. Clear your schedule, and get ready for Sloan and Marley’s cute, slow-burn, best-friends-to-lovers romance.

    Sloan Rossi (18, 1/4-Black) has just moved back to the US from the UK to attend college for soccer. As a striker in U18 Premier League (stated as EPL Youth League in the book), she doesn’t want to be a goalie. But when her new friend junior goalie Marley Nichols (20, lesbian) injures her rotator cuff, Sloan becomes the backup goalkeeper. With their strengthening friendship over the course of a year as they both stay by each other’s side through difficulties in life, Sloan and Marley become virtually inseparable. When people start assuming they were dating, Marley could only wish they really were as Sloan reevaluates her own sexuality and what Marley truly means to her.

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    On the Square by Brenda Murphy | ARC Review

    17th August 2020
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    On the Square (University Square #1) by Brenda Murphy

    General contractor Dale Miller’s (42, lesbian) ex-girlfriend took all her savings. Tight on money, Dale knows that she needs this business deal when celebrity chef Mai Li (~39, mixed race, lesbian) contacts her to renovate her old family house. Then Dale learns that Mai has nowhere to stay for the time being, so she offers her own basement as temporary lodging. With the both of them being burned in past relationships, Dale and Mai have to figure out if being together is something they both want.

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    Evie and the Pack-Horse Librarians by Laurel Beckley | ARC Review

    16th August 2020
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    Evie and the Pack-Horse Librarians by Laurel Beckley

    CW: racial slights, mentioning of amputation

    If you want a very cute fantasy novella featuring a joyous cast of LGBTQ+ people, Evie and the Pack-Horse Librarians should be your top choice.

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    One Woman’s Treasure by Jean Copeland | ARC Review

    28th June 2020
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    One Woman’s Treasure by Jean Copeland

    Daphne Carsen is not fully over her ex-wife when she tries to crash her wedding. Then she accidentally steals an antique lamp from Nina Colombo’s driveway. Nina, single, divorced, and newly out after her sexual epiphany with Lacey, is just settling down with her son when she finds her lamp missing. Luckily, Daphne quickly returns it to Nina, and the pair bonds over their love of antiques and need of new friends. Soon, their friendship shifts into something more. But Nina gets back with Lacey, and neither Nina nor Daphne wants to risk their friendship for romance. Or should they?

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