Back After This: Love Is in the Air
I love when we get to read romance novels in The Audacious Book Club, and Back After This is such a delight. The premise—overworked podcast producer gets her chance in the spotlight . . . if she agrees to team up with an influencer/dating coach who will send her on 20 dates—is extremely fun. What romance novels have you read recently, and which ones have you really enjoyed? Do you have a favorite set up/premise in a romcom you’ve read? What, to you, makes a really compelling romantic heroine? What are your first thoughts about Cecily, our podcasting protagonist?
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I'm currently reading Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory, her first queer romance, and as expected, it is an absolute delight, set in wine country with lots of flirting!
Because I finally got around to reading RED, WHITE, AND ROYAL BLUE... I do love Casey McQuiston, although I like ONE LAST STOP more -- mostly because I feel like the other queer relationships besides the "main" one are more complex, fully described, and lush in a literary, grimy-real-New-York-streets kinda way. RED, WHITE, AND ROYAL BLUE is, however, some excellent political escapism for our times in terms of a progressive woman winning the presidential election.
I think I'm less into premises than into language, and so THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR is also high on the list. Plot? Kinda unclear. Laws of physics and time? Wildly unclear. How the literal bodies of the main characters function -- if they even have stable bodies? Who cares? Two badass time-traveling sapphic enemies are writing each other love letters across the universe!