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A review by suzyreadsbooks
Season of Love by Helena Greer
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
3.5
ARC was gifted to me by Forever Books!
I enjoyed this & read it really quickly. a Hallmark-style sapphic romance about a Jewish Christmas tree farm. Very cute vibes, I want to go to Carrigan’s!! It does have explorations of grief, abuse, alcoholism, etc. so may not be as light as it initially appears. I plan to continue in this series.
some cons for me:
-weird pacing (like we would spend all this time building up to an event and then the event itself would be brushed past)
-cartoonish villains
-decided on like 1-2 issues for each character and really zeroed in on them for the entire book, which makes things repetitive and also feels untrue to life. the explorations of Miriam’s hiding away after parental abuse and her having to push to play an active role in her own life were good, but Noelle’s past was dealt with in more vague ways.
-ok this is silly but I don’t think the author did a good job describing Miriam’s art to make it seem compelling??? And the explorations of her social media fame didn’t really make sense, I don’t think that idea was fully formed
-closed door (boo)
I enjoyed this & read it really quickly. a Hallmark-style sapphic romance about a Jewish Christmas tree farm. Very cute vibes, I want to go to Carrigan’s!! It does have explorations of grief, abuse, alcoholism, etc. so may not be as light as it initially appears. I plan to continue in this series.
some cons for me:
-weird pacing (like we would spend all this time building up to an event and then the event itself would be brushed past)
-cartoonish villains
-decided on like 1-2 issues for each character and really zeroed in on them for the entire book, which makes things repetitive and also feels untrue to life. the explorations of Miriam’s hiding away after parental abuse and her having to push to play an active role in her own life were good, but Noelle’s past was dealt with in more vague ways.
-ok this is silly but I don’t think the author did a good job describing Miriam’s art to make it seem compelling??? And the explorations of her social media fame didn’t really make sense, I don’t think that idea was fully formed
-closed door (boo)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent