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Love & Other Disasters
by Anita Kelly
I really anticipated loving this book, but it just did not work for me.
Something about the writing style was off-putting, and there were many, many occasions when the dialogue made me cringe. I am basically the same age Dahlia was intended to be, but it felt to me that she was written by someone who wasn't fully in tune with the way people currently in their mid- to late twenties speak, think, act, etc. I was also disappointed by how much of an afterthought the actual cooking competition show seemed to be. Almost all of it happened off the page, and while I didn't need to watch every second of it play out, it would've been nice to have delved into it a bit more. It felt like there were some missed opportunities in that regard. I also struggled with some of the sexy stuff in this book being very...not sexy to me. (Feet? Food?) YMMV on that topic; to each their own!
I didn't hate this book, and I'd be open to giving this author another shot in the future because supporting queer creatives is important to me. Two stars for nonbinary representation in a romance novel. That aspect felt very authentic, and I appreciate having read about a nonbinary character through the lens of an author with that shared experience.
Something about the writing style was off-putting, and there were many, many occasions when the dialogue made me cringe. I am basically the same age Dahlia was intended to be, but it felt to me that she was written by someone who wasn't fully in tune with the way people currently in their mid- to late twenties speak, think, act, etc. I was also disappointed by how much of an afterthought the actual cooking competition show seemed to be. Almost all of it happened off the page, and while I didn't need to watch every second of it play out, it would've been nice to have delved into it a bit more. It felt like there were some missed opportunities in that regard. I also struggled with some of the sexy stuff in this book being very...not sexy to me. (Feet? Food?) YMMV on that topic; to each their own!
I didn't hate this book, and I'd be open to giving this author another shot in the future because supporting queer creatives is important to me. Two stars for nonbinary representation in a romance novel. That aspect felt very authentic, and I appreciate having read about a nonbinary character through the lens of an author with that shared experience.