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A review by qi_
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
relaxing
fast-paced
3.0
petition to stop authors from referring to genitalia as the person's "sex" eg. "i felt his sex" - please that's revolting.
before any review, a personal anecdote,
i had a.. traumatising experience reading this book. i borrowed it from the library and who would have thought it but after 2 days of having it a spilled water on it 🤙 now the last last of the pages are crinkled and light tinted brown SO LETS SEE IF THEY NOTICE WHEN I RETURN IT HMM STAY TUNED!!
anyway now to the literature at hand, this was ... fine. i haven't read any of the other books in the trilogy but i found this to be a very average romance book.
the couple were very likable and their stories will probably relate with a lot of people. they provide good representation for asian family dynamics, neurodivergent experiences and idk ARTISTIC BURNOUT.
but there wasn't anything TOO special about it. the romance was cute and their sex scenes were fine (except for the last one that was quite .. repulsive just because she used the word "his sex" far too many times)
i actually really enjoyed the parts with anna at home with her family. seeing their dynamics and anna's personal dilemmas was really interesting but i felt it interrupted the flow of the story.
before any review, a personal anecdote,
i had a.. traumatising experience reading this book. i borrowed it from the library and who would have thought it but after 2 days of having it a spilled water on it 🤙 now the last last of the pages are crinkled and light tinted brown SO LETS SEE IF THEY NOTICE WHEN I RETURN IT HMM STAY TUNED!!
anyway now to the literature at hand, this was ... fine. i haven't read any of the other books in the trilogy but i found this to be a very average romance book.
the couple were very likable and their stories will probably relate with a lot of people. they provide good representation for asian family dynamics, neurodivergent experiences and idk ARTISTIC BURNOUT.
but there wasn't anything TOO special about it. the romance was cute and their sex scenes were fine (except for the last one that was quite .. repulsive just because she used the word "his sex" far too many times)
i actually really enjoyed the parts with anna at home with her family. seeing their dynamics and anna's personal dilemmas was really interesting but i felt it interrupted the flow of the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content and Sexual content