by Kai Ashante Wilson
Beautifully sweet and bittersweet and oh! that ending! Completely unexpected and absolutely perfect. Kai Ashante Wilson deserves a whole second set of five stars just for throwing that impressive plot curveball.
4.5 stars.Recommended.While the book was stunning, even without true romance, I can't give it five stars.The last chapter ruined it for me. Not because how it ended but the way it ended. While I cheered for the MCs, I could not connect with that reality.Don't want to say anything else for the fear o...
A Taste of Honey is the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus finalist novella that N. K. Jemisin calls "a love story as painful as it is beautiful and complex". One of BookRiot's "Best Books We Read in November." Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the e...
First of all, this book is kind of a mess. So if you don’t like thinking too much when reading —just want something entertaining to distract you— I would not advise you to grab this one. But if you do like thinking or you don’t really mind, please read it. It is a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess.It ...
This book did so many things so well. It perfectly evoked that life consuming intensity and abandon of a first young romance, as well as the tension and pain of love amidst cultural and familial adversity. As a result this was a story that warmed my heart and broke it in equal measure. The story a...
Well written, but a bit too far on the romance scale for my tastes. YMMV.