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Meat Cute by Gail Carriger
3.0
funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Fun short story in which the two protagonists of The Parasol Protectorate series briefly meet, in what is a cleverly engineered introduction facilitated by a hedgehog. There's clear interest from both sides, but it's more a pre-romance titbit than an actual romance at this point, I think. It comes across as an Easter Egg type of story (appropriately, I've read it on Easter Sunday), one which basically exists as a reward for existing fans of the series, which I am. There's not enough of it to be hugely affecting, but it succeeds at being an entertaining few minutes, and reminds me that I want to go back and reread the series itself.