 Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary e-ARC. All opinions provided are my own. This blog post includes affiliate links.Rosie is a romance novel lover & Aiden is a romance denouncer & when they’re paired together for a class assignment (bc their acrimony is too much for the class dynamic!), things do not go smoothly at first. I wasn’t initially sure what to make of Katie Holt’s Not in My Book. The leads’ enemies to lovers relationship is intense & hair-trigger, for one thing, & that tumult rises between them at the beginning of the book & at the end, in the 3rd act break-up. But this contemporary ended up really winning me over, & I loved the moments of vulnerability & steam between Rosalinda & Aiden, how they engage with each other’s families, & the friendship that ends up being so important to them both. This isn’t a flawless romance for me but it is a romance with a lot of heart & I was definitely rooting for the leads to stop fighting so HARD already & channel that passion into something more productive for all of us lol. (FYI: If epistolary elements are your jam, you might like the bits of Rosie & Aiden’s “fiction” that are sprinkled in the book. Sometimes I did, & sometimes I didn’t .) 4.25⭐️. Out 12/10.CWs: emotionally manipulative, toxic dad; previous death of mom; reference to dad cheating.
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 Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for the complimentary e-ARC. All opinions provided are my own. Ahhhh I freaking swoon for epistolary books & A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall serves up sweet fantasy epistolary goodness. The book opens with a correspondence between two unrelated people—Sophy & Vyerin—who are connected via tragedy. Their respective siblings E & Henerey disappeared together & now Sophy & Vyerin are reading the letters they left behind, piecing together E & Henerey’s relationship with increasing commitment as they realize there might be more to what happened than they suspected. So this baby is joint epistolary: the correspondence between the surviving siblings *&* the letters between our disappeared leads E & Henerey, who had been falling in love via correspondence! So it’s a love story with a mysterious ending—romance readers, don’t get too worried about how it all turns out! Although mysteries still abound in the closing pages, I have high hopes. I love fantasy authors & what they do so much. This is a wonderful addition to the fantasy world & I’m so excited about this author’s talent. The various voices of the characters, the queer rep, the freaking OCD rep & mental health rep!! It’s so good & so powerful for someone like me & others too, I’m sure. 4.5⭐️. Out 04/23.Please see a trusted reviewer’s list of CWs.
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