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Behooved
by M. Stevenson
One of my most anticipated books of the year!
I really liked the reverse relationship dynamics of having a fighter woman and more bookish man. “Artifacts and indices” is my new favorite saying hah. Plenty of (refreshing) LQBTQ+ rep and chronic illness rep. However, the chronic illness rep was not how I tend to enjoy seeing it. As a chronically ill person myself, I personally prefer diagnosis named so that 1. The empathy for those ailments hits harder in understanding for readers who aren’t familiar and 2. When you find a character going through the same chronic pain, it feels more connected.
This is also insta love. The whole book takes place over two weeks and half way through that, the two MCs are professing that they can’t live without one another? Noooo no no. NOT for me. I genuinely thought my audio skipped chapters in the book bc it went from 10% interest to 100% out of no where.
It read extremely YA (maybe even middle grade if the sexual content was removed), even though it is adult, in both prose and themes. So much so that the sex scenes made me cringe, I had to skip them entirely. Very loose world building - this could literally be any kingdom. The plot and mysteries are both incredible juvenile and obvious. Overall, a massive miss for me.
I really liked the reverse relationship dynamics of having a fighter woman and more bookish man. “Artifacts and indices” is my new favorite saying hah. Plenty of (refreshing) LQBTQ+ rep and chronic illness rep. However, the chronic illness rep was not how I tend to enjoy seeing it. As a chronically ill person myself, I personally prefer diagnosis named so that 1. The empathy for those ailments hits harder in understanding for readers who aren’t familiar and 2. When you find a character going through the same chronic pain, it feels more connected.
This is also insta love. The whole book takes place over two weeks and half way through that, the two MCs are professing that they can’t live without one another? Noooo no no. NOT for me. I genuinely thought my audio skipped chapters in the book bc it went from 10% interest to 100% out of no where.
It read extremely YA (maybe even middle grade if the sexual content was removed), even though it is adult, in both prose and themes. So much so that the sex scenes made me cringe, I had to skip them entirely. Very loose world building - this could literally be any kingdom. The plot and mysteries are both incredible juvenile and obvious. Overall, a massive miss for me.