Heroine – women loving women (also tag LGBTQ)
Heat Factor: Medium-ish heat, tastefully and sweetly done
Character Chemistry: Just so meant to be.
Plot: Two deeply lonely women find themselves thrown together in a deep and scary wood and end up finding themselves (but together)
Overall: This was like a Matryoshka doll of a story–so many details that just kinda stick in your brain and cling in the best way.
Heat Factor: There’s one fairly explicit scene around the midpoint
Character Chemistry: They really like each other, but…it’s complicated
Plot: Poppy accidentally gets pregnant, decides to keep the baby, falls in love, and finds herself
Overall: Cute
Heat Factor: It’s wholesomely sparky, but in a youthful way
Character Chemistry: Emma and Sophia are combative and then cuddly, and it’s extremely cute
Plot: Omg, guys, it’s Much Ado About Nothing but YA and Bi. Hearts just SHOOTING out of my eyes and also I completely forgot how ridiculous teenagers are?
Overall: This is a really sweet and surprisingly complicated book set to the tune of Much Ado About Nothing, and it was lovely.
Heat Factor: Not quite fade to black, but the sex writing is more focused on the emotions than the mechanics
Character Chemistry: Veering into insta-love territory; maybe it’s fate
Plot: Grace has an identity crisis
Overall: Messy and beautiful
Heat Factor: Not closed door, but nothing too racy
Character Chemistry: Adah and Beth are adorable together, in that grumpy/sunshine kind of way
Plot: Chefs at dueling restaurants start dating
Overall: I am charmed
