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Meet Cute
by Meredith Russo, Dhonielle Clayton, Julie Murphy, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Kass Morgan, Katharine McGee, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord, Sara Shepard
Siege Ettiquette by Katie Cotugno - loved the locked in bathroom old school friends reunion. Could feel the charge and liked that in the dialogue you could feel the tension.
Print Shop by Nina Lacour - good to see a gay MC and loved the setting of an old print shop. The story writing did feel cheesy and didn't really like this short story’s version of love at first sight… idk, felt a bit staged?? I don’t believe that you can scroll someone’s social media pages and fall in love (not figuratively, literally).
Hourglass by Ibi Zoboi - yes for the plus sized girly representation! And 6 foot 5", yaaas tall dark goddess moment. Okay I was really loving this and then the ending… what ending?! WTH, all this hype for the prom and we don't even get to see the moment? Felt like our MC was done dirty a bit.
Oomph by Emery Lord - Okay this is my favorite one so far. Love the female female romance, set in an airport, and the idea of the oomph feeling. It didn't start from cute to cheesy and felt way more realistic than the others.
Books at the End - Okay, to be fair it's quite UNFAIR of me to lump the last four-ish books together BUT I liked them all. It's kind of annoying really that I made my way through a bunch of more mediocre reads before getting to a small handful of ones that I like.
Overall, I don't mind this reading experience. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, unless you're okay with super cheesy quick burn stories, but I don't mind having another anthology under my belt. It feels like anthologies are often going to have some you like and some you don't.
Print Shop by Nina Lacour - good to see a gay MC and loved the setting of an old print shop. The story writing did feel cheesy and didn't really like this short story’s version of love at first sight… idk, felt a bit staged?? I don’t believe that you can scroll someone’s social media pages and fall in love (not figuratively, literally).
Hourglass by Ibi Zoboi - yes for the plus sized girly representation! And 6 foot 5", yaaas tall dark goddess moment. Okay I was really loving this and then the ending… what ending?! WTH, all this hype for the prom and we don't even get to see the moment? Felt like our MC was done dirty a bit.
Oomph by Emery Lord - Okay this is my favorite one so far. Love the female female romance, set in an airport, and the idea of the oomph feeling. It didn't start from cute to cheesy and felt way more realistic than the others.
Books at the End - Okay, to be fair it's quite UNFAIR of me to lump the last four-ish books together BUT I liked them all. It's kind of annoying really that I made my way through a bunch of more mediocre reads before getting to a small handful of ones that I like.
Overall, I don't mind this reading experience. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, unless you're okay with super cheesy quick burn stories, but I don't mind having another anthology under my belt. It feels like anthologies are often going to have some you like and some you don't.