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Umm... just no. I mean, no.
I really wanted to be invested in this book, to cheer for the main characters to end up together and whatnot. But I didn't really care. They felt flat.
Don't get me wrong, bisexual female POC as the protagonist? Awesome. Good job in matters of representation. But it was suppossed to be a romance novel,

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the love interests having a deeper bond because they both experienced grief is not enough for me. Feyi, is an artist who's dealing with grief because she lost her husband a few years ago in a tragic car accident. She goes out one night ready to put herself out there, sees guy #1 at a party and has sex with him in a bathroom. Next time she goes out with guy#1, she gets involved in a flirtatious moment with guy #2, friend of guy #1. Nasir (guy #2) falls for her and invites her to a dream vacation, all expenses paid and since he likes her work, he's also setting her up to meet an art curator (or was it collector?). She finds out they will be staying at Nasir's father house, and she also finds out Nasir's father is famous, hot, irresistible chef Alim Blake.

And it's pretty predictable from there.

Alim also knows grief and is also bisexual.

So there's a bunch of family drama because oh no how could you date my father? when at the same time, they (Nasir and Feyi) were never in a relationship nor romantically or sexually exclusive (they actually never had sex).

Yes, I understand how that can be controversial, but enough to center the latter half of the novel on that? Not for me.
Would love to give this author another chance because their understanding of

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such a big emotion as grief

while also navigating being a queer person is something we hardly ever see represented in fiction, not to mention through the lens of a POC queer author themselves.

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95 reviews