carinasoares 's review for:

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

3.0

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It was ok? I was expecting a little bit more, to be honest. I’m obsessed with cooking shows, so as you can probably tell, I was expecting to be head over heels with this book. I was not. I have to say I’m happy to have read a book where one of the main characters are non-binary, so that was a great point. Besides that, I love books where the characters connect through their feelings about food and eating as a positive experience. But this one felt… pretty bland? The sex scenes were great, the characters had great chemistry between them; but the whole thing felt pretty empty when it came to knowing each other, it felt rushed, they all felt so many intense emotions and moods over so little. I remember thinking I had read like half of the book and so much had happened over nothing? Like all the feelings and actions just came out of nowhere, no actual build up of almost anything. But I would be lying if I said I didn’t have a good time reading it, because I did. It just felt… not enough? Either way, I might read another one from the same author, just to check if I can connect with it a little bit more.

“Dahlia Woodson was a firefly in the darkness, a hummingbird at your window. Maybe you got to see her brightness for a fleeting moment, but you couldn’t chase her. She didn’t deserve to be caught.”