Book Review: The Bride Test
September 22, 2024
With a driven plot, diverse characters and realistic perspectives, what more do you need? I loved this book.
With a driven plot, diverse characters and realistic perspectives, what more do you need? I loved this book.
Told in a series of vignettes, touches of magical realism give a sense of wonder and meaning to the smallest things.
The character development, acceptance and understanding in this book kept me eagerly turning every page. I can’t wait for more.
Intimate & sophisticated at times and just straight up weird in others, it gives the vibe of being written in blood and glitter gel pen.
Powerfully disturbing and unpredictable – this book will stay with me. A fabulous, unromanticised window into being young in New York now.
While it does have a fair share of combat, most conflict is solved without violence, leading to creative and interesting solutions.
Elena Armas crafts such a sense of comfort in her books, stories you can lose yourself in over a quiet weekend.
With moments of necessary darkness, this is a mostly gentle, melancholic story about love in all its forms.
As a casual manga reader, I found the series was free of some of the intense tropes that have at times alienated me when reading other series.
Beautifully written, Buehlman delivers a heart wrenching account of war, loss and pain without it ever feeling too heavy or melodramatic.
A debut to be proud of! This small-town brother’s best friend cowboy romance was such a wonderful introduction to country love stories!
Hazelwood masterfully combines romance and intrigue, making this novel a must-read for paranormal romance fans or those new to the genre.
Gay expertly walks the tightrope of light and shade, dispensing wit at appropriate times while not shying away from the sombre and harrowing.
Even those who have never played will feel inspired to rattle some dice, dream up a character and enlist their friends to try something new.
Where lesser novels try to disguise a lack of substance, Pokwatka chooses to explore the inner worlds that multiple realities can mine.
Reading this at the tail-end of winter only served to sharpen the vitality and poignancy of this generous and moving novel.
Georgie follows her dream & stands up to her family to earn the respect she deserves, with the help of her brother’s best friend.
If you seek out novels for their deep dives into character and emotion, you’ll find a lot to love about this gorgeous, heavy, rhythmic book.
Fragmented, poetic and experimental – the kind of book you’ll want to pore over multiple times to sink back into.
Moving seamlessly across time, it sews together two experiences of queerness; one embraced and one repressed, both equally as devastating.
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