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embug 's review for:
An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason
by Virginia Boecker
*5 stars*
I bought this book for one reason: Mackenzi Lee's words on the back.
In case you're new here, hi, I'm Emily and I'll buy anything if you slap Mackenzi Lee's name on it - front or back. It's a problem. I've been burned before.
But this book came to me in the mail and I thought 'oh no' and put it right on my TBR shelf. Here's why.
1) This book has a small font. And I know it doesn't, but as someone who is a complete chicken with small writing (part bad eyesight, part laziness), this is enough to be banned to my TBR shelf for a while.
2) I usually listen to audiobooks. Slowly but surely a trend has shifted in my reading life where I only finish about 1/5 books I start and mostly listen to audiobooks (I walk a lot: I have a dog and I walk to work). But this book (at least when I read it and on audible, which is what I use) has none.
So when I sorted out this book to take on vacation, I thought I'd find an excuse not to read it. But I did. And I loved it.
I sadly took no notes on my phone about the details of my romance with this book, but here's what I remember.
-wow the effort all that research must have taken, but thank you, it's so worth it
-wow Shakespeare
-which one was Twelfth Night again?
-bisexual rep yay!
...that was less than I thought.
So even though I can't put my finger on why exactly I love this book, rest assured that I do.
Also, this book made me remember that I love historical fiction. And then this book punched my (already wheezing) bank account in the stomach because I then proceeded to buy every historical fiction I could find.
Thank you book, though. Sincerely.
But that's all one, our play is done.
I bought this book for one reason: Mackenzi Lee's words on the back.
In case you're new here, hi, I'm Emily and I'll buy anything if you slap Mackenzi Lee's name on it - front or back. It's a problem. I've been burned before.
But this book came to me in the mail and I thought 'oh no' and put it right on my TBR shelf. Here's why.
1) This book has a small font. And I know it doesn't, but as someone who is a complete chicken with small writing (part bad eyesight, part laziness), this is enough to be banned to my TBR shelf for a while.
2) I usually listen to audiobooks. Slowly but surely a trend has shifted in my reading life where I only finish about 1/5 books I start and mostly listen to audiobooks (I walk a lot: I have a dog and I walk to work). But this book (at least when I read it and on audible, which is what I use) has none.
So when I sorted out this book to take on vacation, I thought I'd find an excuse not to read it. But I did. And I loved it.
I sadly took no notes on my phone about the details of my romance with this book, but here's what I remember.
-wow the effort all that research must have taken, but thank you, it's so worth it
-wow Shakespeare
-which one was Twelfth Night again?
-bisexual rep yay!
...that was less than I thought.
So even though I can't put my finger on why exactly I love this book, rest assured that I do.
Also, this book made me remember that I love historical fiction. And then this book punched my (already wheezing) bank account in the stomach because I then proceeded to buy every historical fiction I could find.
Thank you book, though. Sincerely.
But that's all one, our play is done.