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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF 22% (pg 90)
This book isn't working for me. I don't really like Jasper. I hated that her first response with anything Lindin did was to assume he was being sexist. I liked Lindin so far but it wasn't enough for me to continue reading.
Trigger Warnings: death of an aunt, grief, sexism
This book isn't working for me. I don't really like Jasper. I hated that her first response with anything Lindin did was to assume he was being sexist. I liked Lindin so far but it wasn't enough for me to continue reading.
Trigger Warnings: death of an aunt, grief, sexism
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Stern brunch daddy vibes — Linden has them in spades. This didn't really work for me, but not because of the characters sexuality (it's a m/f relationship but they both identify as pansexual). Since some reviewers are deducting a star for the mention of pansexuality and the very brief "I like the person, not the label" discussion, I went ahead and added a star to my rating.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol
Minor: Misogyny, Blood
challenging
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I just don’t care for Jas, wasn’t a big fan of her personality. She drove me nuts way to many times in the book. I liked Lin, but thought he could do way better.
I don’t review every book I read. I hadn’t really planned to review this book because I didn’t particularly have anything well formulated to say. But, for some reason, I was looking at the reviews on Goodreads and saw that someone got big mad because Linden and Jasper-Ann are both pansexual. That reviewer only wants straightness in their romance – that’s what they actually said and a whole lot of people liked their review. And now I’m mad that they were mad and I’m writing a review. There are all kinds of queerness, and some of that queerness might look like a man and a woman in a seemingly heteronormative relationship. Woooo! Spite reviewing!
Linden is a tree doctor and prefers to spend his time in forests with trees and not with other people. Jasper-Ann was just publicly fired as a political strategist after having a hot-mic incident complaining about her boss. She and her husband are separated and divorcing. Her whole life has come down around her ears and she doesn’t have a plan for the future beyond hiding in her late aunt’s cabin. On top of the life falling apart, she now has to face her guilt for not spending more time with her aunt and for ignoring the cabin she inherited for a couple of years. Now the cabin is uninhabitable, but Jasper is determined to fix it without help.
Linden has his life plan set – live alone near a lot of trees, interact with humans as little as possible, find a willing partner of any or no gender on the occasions he wants to have sex, hang out with trees. For all that Linden is a loner, he is every bit as managing as Jasper. Jasper is trying to do everything herself and Linden keeps trying to help, but not in a kind helpful way. He’s not wrong, but he’s not nice. Jasper-Ann tries to repay him with badly baked goods. Eventually, he offers that she can use his shower, laundry and kitchen while he is out during the day (as long as she promises to stop baking, she does not promise). When things get particularly bad, he makes her walk with him in the forest. Jasper introduces him to fancy toast. There’s groping, flirting, and figuring out life, because they both need to do that.
“Because years are not wasted. You were alive. You lived those years. You experienced more than a job in that time.”
“But—”
“No,” he interrupted with a firm squeeze to my ass. We were doing that now. Ass squeezing. “Come on. Over here. Look at this old oak tree.”
Jasper-Ann and Linden are surprised by the attraction and relationship that happens almost unwillingly between them. Jasper has a harder time letting go of her plans for the future, and watching them both come to grips with falling in love with each other was delightful.
For all that the reviewer was mad about the queerness, I had forgotten until I read their review that Linden and Jasper-Ann were not straight. There was a past pansexual orgy mentioned, but only briefly and with a disappointing lack of detail.
Content warnings – past death of parent by suicide, past death of unrequited love interest, divorce, public embarrassment, toxic work environment, grief, house fire.
Linden is a tree doctor and prefers to spend his time in forests with trees and not with other people. Jasper-Ann was just publicly fired as a political strategist after having a hot-mic incident complaining about her boss. She and her husband are separated and divorcing. Her whole life has come down around her ears and she doesn’t have a plan for the future beyond hiding in her late aunt’s cabin. On top of the life falling apart, she now has to face her guilt for not spending more time with her aunt and for ignoring the cabin she inherited for a couple of years. Now the cabin is uninhabitable, but Jasper is determined to fix it without help.
Linden has his life plan set – live alone near a lot of trees, interact with humans as little as possible, find a willing partner of any or no gender on the occasions he wants to have sex, hang out with trees. For all that Linden is a loner, he is every bit as managing as Jasper. Jasper is trying to do everything herself and Linden keeps trying to help, but not in a kind helpful way. He’s not wrong, but he’s not nice. Jasper-Ann tries to repay him with badly baked goods. Eventually, he offers that she can use his shower, laundry and kitchen while he is out during the day (as long as she promises to stop baking, she does not promise). When things get particularly bad, he makes her walk with him in the forest. Jasper introduces him to fancy toast. There’s groping, flirting, and figuring out life, because they both need to do that.
“Because years are not wasted. You were alive. You lived those years. You experienced more than a job in that time.”
“But—”
“No,” he interrupted with a firm squeeze to my ass. We were doing that now. Ass squeezing. “Come on. Over here. Look at this old oak tree.”
Jasper-Ann and Linden are surprised by the attraction and relationship that happens almost unwillingly between them. Jasper has a harder time letting go of her plans for the future, and watching them both come to grips with falling in love with each other was delightful.
For all that the reviewer was mad about the queerness, I had forgotten until I read their review that Linden and Jasper-Ann were not straight. There was a past pansexual orgy mentioned, but only briefly and with a disappointing lack of detail.
Content warnings – past death of parent by suicide, past death of unrequited love interest, divorce, public embarrassment, toxic work environment, grief, house fire.
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Loved. Obsessed. Only regret is that I didn’t realize this was the third book in the series and I wish I had read them in order because I’m weird like that.
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated