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challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Yes if
You are looking for a very spicy m/m romance book with a slice of life story or self-discovery.
No if
Explicit descriptors of sex or age/maturity/knowledge gaps are not your thing.
I don't know that anything could have prepared me for <i>The Mourning Dove and his Snow Sparrow</i> by Eve Healy. It was a sweet and fast paced story of love and self-discovery.
That does not mean it wasn't full of it's own trials and tribulations or lacking in depth and sadness however.
***Content Warnings for this book:
Explicit Sexual Conduct, Death of a Parent, Grief, Injury/Injury Detail, Blood, Sickness, Death***
The story follows Callum and Aurear as they explore romantic and sexual love for the first time.
Callum
Is a young man who is recovering from loss and loneliness. A man who doesn't know how or where he will fit into the world.
When he stumbles upon Aurear his world shakes and he starts to be able to explore who he is without many risks of consequences from the society that he is a part of.
Aurear
Is a young man whom we meet when he is saved by Callum and becomes a man in his home.
He provides us with an innocent and well-meaning view of the world. As a character who does not have experience in the human world, we see things through his interactions with a childlike wonder. A wonder that, at times, can feel out of place with the adult aspects of the story.
Aurear is both finding who he is while helping Callum to discover who he is as well.
Despite having been a bird he knows a shocking amount of the best practices of m/m intimacy.
If you aren't up for extremely explicit sex scenes, think AO3/fic level of description, this book probably isn't for you (unless you are willing to skim past those parts). But those parts of the book in no means take away from the main storyline. While this isn't an action/adventure story, there is far more plot than I was expecting.
Overall, this was a quick book to read with a sweet overarching story that provided me with a fun way to spend the afternoon reading. While I am unsure I would reach for it again, I did enjoy this book.
***I was provided a copy of this book via NetGalley. This review is my honest opinion and thoughts about what I read.***
You are looking for a very spicy m/m romance book with a slice of life story or self-discovery.
No if
Explicit descriptors of sex or age/maturity/knowledge gaps are not your thing.
I don't know that anything could have prepared me for <i>The Mourning Dove and his Snow Sparrow</i> by Eve Healy. It was a sweet and fast paced story of love and self-discovery.
That does not mean it wasn't full of it's own trials and tribulations or lacking in depth and sadness however.
***Content Warnings for this book:
Explicit Sexual Conduct, Death of a Parent, Grief, Injury/Injury Detail, Blood, Sickness, Death***
The story follows Callum and Aurear as they explore romantic and sexual love for the first time.
Callum
Is a young man who is recovering from loss and loneliness. A man who doesn't know how or where he will fit into the world.
When he stumbles upon Aurear his world shakes and he starts to be able to explore who he is without many risks of consequences from the society that he is a part of.
Aurear
Is a young man whom we meet when he is saved by Callum and becomes a man in his home.
He provides us with an innocent and well-meaning view of the world. As a character who does not have experience in the human world, we see things through his interactions with a childlike wonder. A wonder that, at times, can feel out of place with the adult aspects of the story.
Aurear is both finding who he is while helping Callum to discover who he is as well.
Despite having been a bird he knows a shocking amount of the best practices of m/m intimacy.
If you aren't up for extremely explicit sex scenes, think AO3/fic level of description, this book probably isn't for you (unless you are willing to skim past those parts). But those parts of the book in no means take away from the main storyline. While this isn't an action/adventure story, there is far more plot than I was expecting.
Overall, this was a quick book to read with a sweet overarching story that provided me with a fun way to spend the afternoon reading. While I am unsure I would reach for it again, I did enjoy this book.
***I was provided a copy of this book via NetGalley. This review is my honest opinion and thoughts about what I read.***
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content
Moderate: Grief and Blood
Minor: Gun violence and Death
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