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zaza_bdp's review
3.0
* 3.5/5 *
Classique mais efficace, cette histoire de rencontre dans un aéroport fait bien le job. Les personnages sont charmants, mais j'aurais aimé savoir comment Charlie perçoit les choses, puisque la nouvelle, bien qu'écrite à la 3ème personne, est entièrement focalisée sur le POV de Faris. Une histoire sympa, avec un contexte original (le Liban comme racines communes, d'ailleurs, en parlant de racines, l'emblème du Liban est un cèdre ^^) qui me laisse toutefois sur ma faim, parce que j'aimerais bien savoir ce qu'il va advenir de ce "couple"là ...
Classique mais efficace, cette histoire de rencontre dans un aéroport fait bien le job. Les personnages sont charmants, mais j'aurais aimé savoir comment Charlie perçoit les choses, puisque la nouvelle, bien qu'écrite à la 3ème personne, est entièrement focalisée sur le POV de Faris. Une histoire sympa, avec un contexte original (le Liban comme racines communes, d'ailleurs, en parlant de racines, l'emblème du Liban est un cèdre ^^) qui me laisse toutefois sur ma faim, parce que j'aimerais bien savoir ce qu'il va advenir de ce "couple"là ...
lacyduckie's review
5.0
Faris and Charlie are strangers who meet in an airport because 😱 gasp 😱 each of their respective flights to go home for the holidays have been canceled.
Guess what happens next... 😱 gasp 😱 ALL of the hotel rooms are booked except one. And 😱 OH! NO! 😱 there's only 😱 ONE BED. 😱 Whatever shall they do? I guess you'll have to read to find out how it all ends. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seriously, though. Please give me a longer story. I want all the cliche holiday fluff. How did the holidays go? Do they travel back to where they first met in the future? Do they take yearly trips to Aley? I need to know these things, dude.
Checked Baggage is too short. 😫😔💕📚
*Thank you Netgalley, for giving me an arc.*
Guess what happens next... 😱 gasp 😱 ALL of the hotel rooms are booked except one. And 😱 OH! NO! 😱 there's only 😱 ONE BED. 😱 Whatever shall they do? I guess you'll have to read to find out how it all ends. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seriously, though. Please give me a longer story. I want all the cliche holiday fluff. How did the holidays go? Do they travel back to where they first met in the future? Do they take yearly trips to Aley? I need to know these things, dude.
Checked Baggage is too short. 😫😔💕📚
*Thank you Netgalley, for giving me an arc.*
lillian_francis's review
5.0
A really adorable short story. It's set at Thanksgiving but can be read at any time.
Cancelled planes, one hotel room, one bed. The story is a trope in itself but the delivery of it is lovely with characters who aren't perfect but are perfectly endearing.
Fade to black as suits the story length, with a HFN ending. I'd have happily read a novel (or at least a novella) length story about these two.
Cancelled planes, one hotel room, one bed. The story is a trope in itself but the delivery of it is lovely with characters who aren't perfect but are perfectly endearing.
Fade to black as suits the story length, with a HFN ending. I'd have happily read a novel (or at least a novella) length story about these two.
singlecrow's review
4.0
Sweet, contemporary m/m romance novella with a surprising depth of things to say about family and family history. I particularly liked the author's choice to write a Thanksgiving-based novella about a Lebanese Arab diaspora family, and the complexities of immigrant life. And it's very well-written, too.
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