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breadedbookpages's review
5.0
I am so in love with this book but I won't tire you out by making you read 20,000 words. Let's do some bullet points:
-the diversity is so good and like felt casual as heck. I love black writers who are so talented into putting in both social commentary and fluff in a book.
-heroine is: fat, black (dark skinned too, yay for melanin), a baker and an ex-professor of literature. There is nothing about Mary that I don't adore. Including how she came to her own power in the process of the book. She is so strong and she has experienced some real loneliness that made her fight for the comfort she got with Santos and Knox.
-Knox, hero #1, is black, bisexual (in page!) and has experienced a shitty childhood by negligent parents which only made him more loving, caring and amazing to his best friend and to Mary. He's the one that'll make you smile, for sure.
-Santos is Mexican-American and is confirmed pansexual by the author here. Santos is practically in love with his best friend Knox and when Mary enters their life, he finds the trio to be the source of comfort. He's quiet and might come off as stern but he's the caretaker of the trio.
This book has such good social commentary on cops and the police, on misogyny by a gay man directed at Mary, on friendship (Mary's girl friends all deserve their own HEA) and on how the three found their own way of working their polyamory relationship.
Some people have asked some questions and it's third person, all three have points of views, and yes Knox and Santos are as into each other as they are into Mary. You could label this as friends-to-lovers, small town romance.
It was short, pure, fluffy, filthy, emotional, healing and amazing. Please read it.
-the diversity is so good and like felt casual as heck. I love black writers who are so talented into putting in both social commentary and fluff in a book.
-heroine is: fat, black (dark skinned too, yay for melanin), a baker and an ex-professor of literature. There is nothing about Mary that I don't adore. Including how she came to her own power in the process of the book. She is so strong and she has experienced some real loneliness that made her fight for the comfort she got with Santos and Knox.
-Knox, hero #1, is black, bisexual (in page!) and has experienced a shitty childhood by negligent parents which only made him more loving, caring and amazing to his best friend and to Mary. He's the one that'll make you smile, for sure.
-Santos is Mexican-American and is confirmed pansexual by the author here. Santos is practically in love with his best friend Knox and when Mary enters their life, he finds the trio to be the source of comfort. He's quiet and might come off as stern but he's the caretaker of the trio.
This book has such good social commentary on cops and the police, on misogyny by a gay man directed at Mary, on friendship (Mary's girl friends all deserve their own HEA) and on how the three found their own way of working their polyamory relationship.
Some people have asked some questions and it's third person, all three have points of views, and yes Knox and Santos are as into each other as they are into Mary. You could label this as friends-to-lovers, small town romance.
It was short, pure, fluffy, filthy, emotional, healing and amazing. Please read it.
j_ess_reads's review
3.0
5 Star: Loved that it was poly, that each person in the relationship had (the start of) a genuine connection to one another, and that the protagonists weren't stereotypes.
1-2 Star: Writing quality left me wanting. Wished it was more involved, more of a slow burn kind of story where we really got to know everyone, but I understand it wasn't meant to be written that way.
1-2 Star: Writing quality left me wanting. Wished it was more involved, more of a slow burn kind of story where we really got to know everyone, but I understand it wasn't meant to be written that way.
pages_of_sav's review
3.0
While this book was a mix of sweet and sexy, I just couldn’t get with the 3rd person POV. (Which is actually a POV I’m used to) it just felt weird to me I’d describe the POV as a “floaty presence” it wasn’t my favorite and kept me from connecting with the story.
But overall this was a steamy, pure, and sugary sweet read
But overall this was a steamy, pure, and sugary sweet read
grapie_deltaco's review
2.0
2.5⭐️
Why a man of color heard the police force in the town he lives in was corrupt when mentioning he was thinking of joining and still joined anyways is beyond me and a weirdly ridiculous throwaway moment for the author to put in.
But anyways…
Mary, at times, is weirdly omnipotent but that got pretty easy to block out over time and just accept. The chemistry and relationship between Knox and Santos was very interesting.
A bit insta-lovey and the big conflict was super bizarre.
It was overall ok.
CW: explicit sexual content, brief reference to corrupt police, brief references to parental abuse + abandonment, homophobia (brief)
Why a man of color heard the police force in the town he lives in was corrupt when mentioning he was thinking of joining and still joined anyways is beyond me and a weirdly ridiculous throwaway moment for the author to put in.
But anyways…
Mary, at times, is weirdly omnipotent but that got pretty easy to block out over time and just accept. The chemistry and relationship between Knox and Santos was very interesting.
A bit insta-lovey and the big conflict was super bizarre.
It was overall ok.
CW: explicit sexual content, brief reference to corrupt police, brief references to parental abuse + abandonment, homophobia (brief)
creativelifeofliz's review
3.0
3.5 stars. This was a really cute small town romance. The typos were a bit distracting though.
alexkmorland's review
4.0
Polyamory and bakery ftw! The characters are super cute and I would have liked a longer story actually :(
sultrytartreviews's review
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This was a cute premise, but ultimately too short for me to be invested fully. I liked the frame work behind all the characters, but I wanted more information. Especially between the two guys who were best friends for years and then just jumped into a relationship with the same woman but also ended up having feelings for each other. Steamy scenes were pretty good.
kaa's review
4.0
I love a good triad romance, especially one that's so comfortably queer. This one in particular is a really lovely and sexy romantic fantasy. It mentions some heavier topics (due other things happening in my life on the day I read it, those things were more significant for me than they might have been otherwise, and I think this made the book even more compelling), but the story itself is incredibly hopeful and optimistic. Right now I am really into books about people recognizing and claiming the happiness they deserve, and this book falls squarely into this category.