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The Uses of Illicit Art by Wendy Palmer
4.0
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Dear random person on Discord who mentioned this book,
THANK YOU. This was a delightful mix of romance, skullduggery, and plot. I flew through it and I so appreciate having something to take my mind off the *everything* and this world and the characters in it were very delightful.
It's also wild to me when historical romance novels need to have their main characters invent modern psychological approaches to cope with their lives - in this case IFS. I don't mind it, exactly, I just appreciate it. Also appreciate, in this one, that healing was treated as a long and extensive process and that the romance is happening...more at the same time than causally. And I really valued that.