Amy Gevas

So Raw

Reviewed: 07-17-24

This beautiful, true, and honest book resonates so deeply with me. I wish I could have read it in the late 90s when I was the young queer kid kicked out of her parent's house of high-control religion. I couldn't read it then, but now some young queer teen will find this book, will take comfort in it, may take hope from it, and choose to really live. Thank you so much for writing it.

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Sweet without Saccharine

Reviewed: 12-11-23

While the first book in this series, Legends and Lattes, is a cozy and kind little story, the author shows great leaps and bounds of growth in this second installment. This story is solid, the characters are lovable and well fleshed out, and the author still manages to maintain a cozy, kind feel even while writing about necromancers and animated skeletons. I'm very much looking forward to whatever he brings out next!

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So disappointing!

Reviewed: 01-06-22

For the last Amelia Peabody novel that Elizabeth Peters ever contributed to this storyline is so disappointing. It is more than fantastical into the positively comical (and not in her usual witty way). I don't know if it is the contribution of a second author or if it is just that it was the end of her career when she wrote it but it doesn't ring the same as the rest of the novels.

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Can pornographic sci-fi also be a comfort read?

Reviewed: 05-05-21

Apparently yes! This sweet, original story manages both. While the storyline merges a cozy murder mystery with a science fiction setting, the emotions and relationships established behind the characters and the incredible detail in the world building bring it to the top. I have listened to this book over and over and I never get tired of the endearing natures and the honest emotions between the characters. It is like visiting friends and I am waiting with great anticipation for the next release in the series!

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Sweet Without Stupid

Reviewed: 11-04-20

Both the hero and heroine are smart and act reasonably (especially for a romance)! The hero's family is an enjoyable character in it's own right. Predictable but that's something I can handle in a romance.

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Fine. 🤷

Reviewed: 11-02-20

Ok enough if you've nothing else- hope you like the word "nonplussed" and a speedy reader.

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Battered and Beaten Storylines

Reviewed: 08-21-20

Stories ripped to pieces, this listens like a audio version of someone's notes on a book read aloud. It kills all the good color of a Heyer novel. The voice acting is sometimes fine but often poor casting choices (such as a 16 year old Hero Wantage played by a 3 pack a day smokey voice). If you have not read these novels, you probably won't follow the stories, or at least, you won't see why you should. If you have read them, you will be appalled.

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No.

Reviewed: 05-18-18

Perhaps English is not the reader's native language in which case I take back what I am about to say, but- oh my. SO many mispronounced words that it is eventually comical. Every character sounds the same (which one doesn't expect with an audio book) and the reader ignores punctuation and inflection half the time. When paired with the thin plot and unlikely-for-the-time-period characters (rather expected, but still) it comes to a 2 star for me. Still, it was under $4 so I think I got my money's worth.

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Best plot in a Gail Carriger novel so far!

Reviewed: 03-30-17

I have either listened to or read all of Gail Carriger's novels. I have fallen in love with the universe she has created but generally find her plots to be very thin. This one is not so thin. While the plotline is much more simple than the other ones she strives to weave, this one rings more true to life.

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