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A review by thepiqht
The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh
4.0
Before going into this you NEED to know that the things occurring in this book are wrong. And illegal. And gross. This isn't a beautiful romance, it's an illegal tryst between an underage boy and his girlfriend's mother. Bleurgh. Once you realise that, and only once you realise that, is it acceptable to enjoy the book.
To the author's credit, she didn't make it seem as though it were something desirable. Writing about terrible things but not acknowledging that they're terrible things ([b:Anna and the French Kiss|6936382|Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)|Stephanie Perkins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1358271931l/6936382._SY75_.jpg|7168450]) is an awful habit that authors have that seem to excuse the things that their characters are doing. This is not one of these books. Thank god.
To the author's credit, she didn't make it seem as though it were something desirable. Writing about terrible things but not acknowledging that they're terrible things ([b:Anna and the French Kiss|6936382|Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)|Stephanie Perkins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1358271931l/6936382._SY75_.jpg|7168450]) is an awful habit that authors have that seem to excuse the things that their characters are doing. This is not one of these books. Thank god.