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A review by illstoptheworldandreadwithyou
Bananapants by Penny Reid
5.0
If Penny Reid writes it, I’m going to read it. Make that book a second generation romance between the offspring of some beloved Knitting in the City characters, and I knew it was going to be a hit for me.
Childhood friends, Ava and Desmond, haven’t seen each other in ten years. Once inseparable, they haven’t really been in contact since he left Chicago at age 15, but now a chance meeting has brought them together again.
And Ava really doesn’t want him to slip right back out of her life.
Read it for
- The dual POV, so you get both perspectives
- The action (Desmond has a real Robin Hood, rob-from-the-rich thing going on.)
- The humor and Ava’s quirkiness (Honestly, when she randomly pops out with “'Soylent Green is people,’” I was like, “Wow, I can see my mind scrambling for purchase and popping out a random, out-of-context, film quote like that. Heck, my mind would probably even settle on that particular quote on its own.)
- Visits with Knitting in the City favorites and a grin-inducing cameo from Viola Winston
- Film and book references
- The long-term pining
- The 🔥 chemistry and the tenderness between Ava and Desmond
- The honest and real depictions of relations (of the bedroom variety)
- The found family
- Desmond’s earnestness in his love for Ava
- The sense of breaking out of a comfort zone to experience life again
- The mental health rep (Desmond has bipolar 1 and ADHD, and the depiction is raw and vulnerable and handled with care.)
- The belief that everyone deserves a love story
- Penny’s notes in the Content Warnings section at the beginning and her author’s note at the end
I loved it. 💛
Note: This one can be read as a standalone, but the reading experience will be enhanced by having knowledge of the Knitting in the City series.
Thank you to the author for an advance copy of the book! All review opinions are my own.
Childhood friends, Ava and Desmond, haven’t seen each other in ten years. Once inseparable, they haven’t really been in contact since he left Chicago at age 15, but now a chance meeting has brought them together again.
And Ava really doesn’t want him to slip right back out of her life.
Read it for
- The dual POV, so you get both perspectives
- The action (Desmond has a real Robin Hood, rob-from-the-rich thing going on.)
- The humor and Ava’s quirkiness (Honestly, when she randomly pops out with “'Soylent Green is people,’” I was like, “Wow, I can see my mind scrambling for purchase and popping out a random, out-of-context, film quote like that. Heck, my mind would probably even settle on that particular quote on its own.)
- Visits with Knitting in the City favorites and a grin-inducing cameo from Viola Winston
- Film and book references
- The long-term pining
- The 🔥 chemistry and the tenderness between Ava and Desmond
- The honest and real depictions of relations (of the bedroom variety)
- The found family
- Desmond’s earnestness in his love for Ava
- The sense of breaking out of a comfort zone to experience life again
- The mental health rep (Desmond has bipolar 1 and ADHD, and the depiction is raw and vulnerable and handled with care.)
- The belief that everyone deserves a love story
- Penny’s notes in the Content Warnings section at the beginning and her author’s note at the end
I loved it. 💛
Note: This one can be read as a standalone, but the reading experience will be enhanced by having knowledge of the Knitting in the City series.
Thank you to the author for an advance copy of the book! All review opinions are my own.