garbage_mcsmutly 's review for:

Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell

4.5

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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📚 This was a cute book with two flawed but likeable MCs. The conflict was a good one and provided a bit of action. Both MCs come to the table with a lot of baggage but they are able to improve themselves and each other. Technically this book is part of a series (The Duke Undone, The Runaway Duchess, A Shore Thing) but you can read each of them as a standalone. The first two books are semi related but this one can be read without the context of the other books.

🎧 3rd person dual POV. Mary Jane Wells narrates the whole thing, and as always, does a bang up job of it. 

🌶️ 3.5/5 There are only like 2-3 explicit scenes and they are very detailed but also vanilla. 

🏳️‍🌈✊ The FMC learns that two side characters are lesbians near the end of the book. One side character is revealed in the next book to have been a trans man, but we don't know that yet in this book. Not much racial/cultural diversity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Classism

Minor: Body horror, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail