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 Sweet Summer Serpentine is the second in an interconnected series, which can be read as standalones. After accidentally creating a potion that can cure cancer, Iris feels like an imposter. She is thrust into a role she doesn’t feel capable of doing. Joining a research project she finds herself working alongside botanist Adeib. With the lower body of a snake, Adeib is known for his frosty personality across the University.

Iris’s struggles with her undiagnosed ADHD forms a large part of her personality, and as an Own Voices book, this was written so incredibly well on Rose’s part.

Rose also knows her characters inside out, giving Adeib a subplot involving his home planet and this missing sister. Unfortunately, as a novella, we couldn’t dive too much into the subplot, which intrigued me. Overall though, the worldbuilding was handled very well in such few pages, and I really felt like I knew enough to not question anything! I am picking up Hook-Up to Holidate immediately. 

Want to revisit in a audio format