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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
“Something Fabulous” is so funny and light-hearted, it doesn’t even matter that the story kind of drags along in fits and starts. It is better read as a series of scenes, hilarious and stupid and with the reader knowing from page 1 everything will work out in the end. I don’t generally like romance novels, but this one was really “something fabulous” ;)
Set in the regency era, main character Valentine - a duke - feels as though he must marry his childhood friend to honor his father. But she doesn’t want to marry him, and also, Valentine begins to fall for her twin brother, Bonny. This story includes carriage chases, aging lesbians, bees, and so much love and joy. Definitely recommend for anyone looking for gay romance set in a different time period!
Set in the regency era, main character Valentine - a duke - feels as though he must marry his childhood friend to honor his father. But she doesn’t want to marry him, and also, Valentine begins to fall for her twin brother, Bonny. This story includes carriage chases, aging lesbians, bees, and so much love and joy. Definitely recommend for anyone looking for gay romance set in a different time period!
Another gay romance hit. Very funny. Alexis Hall knows how to write a fun, m/m romance. And it’s nice to read some queer romance that is actually written by a queer man. Feels a tad less fetish-y. Overall, juicy a.f
Thank you, sir, for this ridiculously delightful adventure. I think it was just the escape I needed
Brilliant
This book was absolutely perfect! So many laugh out loud moment. Bonnie is the absolute best! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
This book was absolutely perfect! So many laugh out loud moment. Bonnie is the absolute best! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Empezamos bien pero después Arabella se vuelve un complete pain the ass. Queda en 3.5
DNF at about halfway in. There’s a subgenre within enemies-into-lovers romance that just isn’t my thing, but it’s hard to pin down exactly what it is that I don’t like. This looked fun on the surface but the more I read, the less I enjoyed it.
Three stars might actually be too generous considering I spent over half of this book only reading it out of pure spite and hope that something redeeming would happen. I got so mad at certain things I nearly cried. The only good parts of this book were past the 60% mark and after that only whenever Arabella wasn’t around. Before the 60% mark she made an already painful story horrid. She was awful. I hope she’s not in the next book and if she is she’s…completely changed and is a brand new person.
Peggy though can stay because she has sense. And isn’t absolutely ridiculously unbearable.
What did earn this three stars? Once Bonny…got his head half out of la la land and truly paid attention to Valentine and realized how he needed to approach their friendship and relationship things got marginally tolerable and sickeningly adorable. The switch was kind of very sudden but I was very willing to look past it because at least I wasn’t hating my life anymore.
In the end if basically every character besides Valentine hadn’t had horrible personalities and the whole book hadn’t felt like a “how many times can we beat down this poor Duke” I would’ve liked it but unfortunately that seemed to just be the basis of the story. Maybe the concept they were reaching from was “quirky ridiculous queer historical romcom romp through the countryside” but it leaned was too into ridiculous and didn’t seem to realize it was drowning in it.
So yeah…three stars is probably too generous but it had a cute ending and that’s making me feel friendly.
Peggy though can stay because she has sense. And isn’t absolutely ridiculously unbearable.
What did earn this three stars? Once Bonny…got his head half out of la la land and truly paid attention to Valentine and realized how he needed to approach their friendship and relationship things got marginally tolerable and sickeningly adorable. The switch was kind of very sudden but I was very willing to look past it because at least I wasn’t hating my life anymore.
In the end if basically every character besides Valentine hadn’t had horrible personalities and the whole book hadn’t felt like a “how many times can we beat down this poor Duke” I would’ve liked it but unfortunately that seemed to just be the basis of the story. Maybe the concept they were reaching from was “quirky ridiculous queer historical romcom romp through the countryside” but it leaned was too into ridiculous and didn’t seem to realize it was drowning in it.
So yeah…three stars is probably too generous but it had a cute ending and that’s making me feel friendly.