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maiakobabe 's review for:
Bloom
by Kevin Panetta
This follows two boys, Ari and Hector, and their sweet, light, summer romance after meeting in a bakery in a seaside tourist town. Ari's family runs Kyrkos Bakery, but Ari doesn't want to work in the family business: he wants to move to Baltimore with friends and pursue music. He hires Hector on as a possible replacement for himself. But Ari soon finds that he enjoys baking a lot more when working a long side Hector. The art is gorgeous and this type of story would usually be right up my alley but the book has several small flaws that kept adding up, until by the end I was more irritated than charmed. Most the things that bugged me where little plot inconsistencies, things like, a character already knowing another character's name the very first time we see them meet on the page, implying some kind of either prior meeting or maybe prior gossip that the reader never sees. Or a character bringing up something that would usually be foreshadowing for later plot which is then never mentioned again. I'd still recommend the book if you just want to read a fluffy sweet gay romance, but it doesn't have the emotional weight of Kiss Number 8, Check Please!, or Always Raining Here.