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Late Bloomer

Mazey Eddings

3.75 AVERAGE

sophielillybeth's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

burgundyshoes's review against another edition

3.75

took me a little bit to get into it but super sweet and cute!

freshreads's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gonewithflynn's review against another edition

4.0

I only recently discovered Mazey Eddings but she's becoming a must read author for me!

I enjoyed this one, I love a good opposites attract. I definitely connected to both characters for different reasons. Pepper was hard to like at first, but I ended up liking that she came around and often stood up for Opal. Opal is such an innocent spirit - all she wants to do is create and don't I feel that down to my bones. Her need to people please was a bit much at times and I would've loved to see her character grow a little more in the self-love aspect and wish she had stood up for herself earlier on in the story. This book also has a great cast of side characters, I actually hope we get Opal's sisters' side love stories as well!

All in all, I did love the artistic/flower farm aspect to this one. I do wish we had gotten to see them working on the contest piece a bit more/around the flower farm together more. But all in all, still an enjoyable Sapphic romance!

CW: abandonment, emotional abuse, death, grief, toxic friendship, Alcoholism.

I went between the ebook and audiobook at first for this one. The narrator did such a great job though- I thought there were 2! The voices for each character were so distinct. I'm impressed!

A huge thanks to St. Martin's Press, MacMillan Audio and NetGalley for the early copy and ALC. All opinions are my own.

aaron_sarfaty's review against another edition

3.0

lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

lexiel's review against another edition

3.0

a sapphic romance! from the lovely mazey eddings nonetheless

novelswithnora's review against another edition

4.5

This was such a fun read! I loved the writing and found myself laughing out loud several times which is always a good sign! This felt like a super cute Hallmark movie with more depth and it was fantastic! Pepper and Opal are such fun and complex characters so it was really nice to get both of their perspectives. Overall a fun romance that had me giggling and kicking my feet which is exactly what I wanted.