simonlorden's reviews
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Everyone in this book annoyed me, but I forgive them because they're teenagers.

I love Connor, he's great. Sort of didn't love how the mystery of the money was dragged out for the whole book, it was annoying me by the end, and he really should have asked for help sooner. Still a cute fake date story though, and it was great to see him grown up.

Absolutely perfect. The set-up for the fake dating is just so so wild and exaggerated, which is the best kind for a romcom. Also Connor is a little shit, but also a traumatized little shit, and I love him. It's gonna be so weird to see him as an adult in the next book.

The only thing I didn't like was Logan equating having a small penis with being a bad person, which didn't really get addressed later after his character development either.

fake dating, friends to lovers, only one bed, mutual pining, bisexual awakening

Entertaining, cute, and Christmas-y. The second half of the book actually takes place in Australia over Christmas, which means Christmas songs on the sunny beach, which is definitely a fresh experience to me as someone on the Northern hemisphere.

Angela is that straight ally who is a bit confused but she's got the spirit. It explained so much when we learned her backstory, and ouch. She might be a bit cringe, but her heart is in the right place, and she's doing great.

I regret reading this tbh

Roma néphitből származó alakok, szörnyek, lények tára. Így egyben olvasva elég tömény, de nagyon érdekes dolgok voltak benne. A végén lévő színes képek főleg gyönyörűek. A képaláírásokat néha nem értettem, jobb lett volna több magyarázat vagy kontextus. Pl van egy fotó egy idős cigány nőről, és odaírják, hogy a Napkirály felesége... ki mondja ezt? Miért pont ez a kép? Stb.

I had really high hopes for this series, but it's not delivering. Sebastian and Ves should maybe leave investigating to someone who's good at it. In this book, they accuse and physically harm two innocent people wrongly, without properly apologizing or anything. Meanwhile the killer is right in front of them but Sebastian dismisses the suspicion.

Also at the end when they

find the third book and immediately put it in with the others... like, Claude literally told them that's a bad idea. This is gonna bit them in the ass.

A beautiful cover, which made me expect a nice Hades/Persephone retelling, but that's not really what I got.

First of all, Hades/Persephone is really secondary to Hecate/Hermes, which is a very random pairing, and it didn't really convince me tbh. Also, all the gods and goddesses felt more like random humans than actual divine beings, and I was mostly bored throughout the 70 pages.

I'm also not sure why Hecate is celebrating Samhain, or calling herself Persephone's "goddessmother", which is just kinda forced? Especially since Persephone is called goddaughter later.