Juniper Fitzgerald wrote a very unique memoir. The formatting was interesting and perfect for the subject matter she was handling. Skipping between diary entries and descriptions of the women she has known from sex work. Fitzgerald does a good job of covering motherhood, sex work, and her complicated relationship with both.

Like all of Talia Hibbert's books, this was a fun, sweet, and very sexy romance. While I did enjoy both Nik and Aria and their relationship to each other, the circumstances seemed odd compared to other ones. I read the author's note at the end it made sense as to why it felt different from others I have read! 

Nik and Aria fall in love very fast so if you are not into that, this wouldn't be the right fit to you. 

Reread of this from years ago. The poems as you go through the stages of grief for the father and the sons. Giving grief a way to be personified was interesting.  

The prose was beautiful, but I was honestly not enjoying the story. Then there is a scene where Althea SA's Oliver. That really upset me, but I first went to the reviews to see if it's handled well in the story. Every low rated review mentioned it was dismissed and ignored. Incredibly harmful way to handle it. 

I was stressed and didn’t like it. 

I wasn’t finding myself wanting to pick it up. 

This book was beautifully written and posed some interesting questions about language loss and how to keep your culture when the place that it is from is gone (maybe?). However there were a few major issues that kept me from enjoying the book. One was the really horrible treatment of the trans woman character, Akash. She was constantly misgendered by the people around her and no acknowledgment of that rudeness. Her trans identity is regarded as a quirky element of her personality more than anything else. The other thing was the constant use the racial slur for Inuit people, even after the text itself mentioned that fact that word is a slur! The Inuit character, Nanook, used it constantly to refer to himself in a way that just felt weird. 

The book also ended in a way that was so sudden, I legit thought for a moment my copy was a misprint and there was another bunch of pages missing. 

A really interesting YA retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Novoa did a good job making changes to the plot, characters, and setting beyond the Oliver Bennet character. Part of me missed the countryside setting in the original, but it did make more sense for a London setting in the story the author was trying to tell. It had a wonderfully joyful ending that made me smile. My only issue

was with making Collins and Wickham friends in this version. Their plan to out/trap Oliver by forcing him to marry Wickham seemed a bit forced as a way to avoid the Lydia subplot. It also led me to have worry for Charlotte. Collins is annoying, but not evil, this version of him felt overly conniving/greedy.

The book was an overall fun read and a great edition to my Austen collection!

Really wonderful use of language. The audiobook was really well narrated (I am a big fan of Kevin R. Free's voice).