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A review by ladyazulina
Lub Dub Love by Blanche Maze
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
⚠️ Warning: On this review appears eighteen times the word 'love'. Proceed with loviness. ⚠️
Note: For the first time since I started reviewing, I decided to not edit or revise my words to avoid repetition because I'm sure that word is the only one enough to help me express the emotion I want to release. Please, take that into consideration while reading.
I have to start by saying that I have loved the brief time in which I have been part of Blanche Maze's ARC reader team. Since before starting to read her lovely, sapphic, wholesome, romantic story, I knew I would love to be in contact with her and that increased the probability of me loving her stories. This is just the first one I had touched on (for now) and I'm giving this review in exchange for so an amazingly opportunity.
If you're after those words I said before (lovely, sapphic, wholesome, romantic), you're already on board. But if you're not and are still waiting for something to convince you, unless you totally despise the romantic genre, you will love this book. I love this book. Though it says romance everywhere, it not only shows the romantic love, you get to see lots of filial and friendly love. I loved to see the relationship between some parents and their children. I am totally in for the one between best friends (like, I would do everything to have something like that). I wasn't fond of more than one, but I loved the progress of going to a healthy relationship and I'm not loving anything more than healthy things lately. Give me something healthy (or on the way to being healthy) and I'm already sold off.
It's not angst-free, and I panicked for my romantic love due to that. Everything was great, and suddenly, everything was wrong! And in its way to worse! For too much time that I was growing desperate, but I have to say that in those tumultuous times, I found my favorite character, aside for the protagonists. The details that were showing, what that meant... I loved all of it.
Honestly, though, this book accompanied me for a little time during a bad month. When everything was feeling wrong and suffocating, the book filled me with wholesomeness and love. With all the attraction symptoms (which I still feel from time to time and I simply adore the feelings). Being giggly and hopeful and nervous and also confused, with all the expectations and opportunities, I like being like this because I feel powerful and inspired. And I was able to have that for a while, even if it only lasted the time I had the book in my hands (and the time it wasn't angsty, of course). But that time was enough, and I love the book for it.
Note: For the first time since I started reviewing, I decided to not edit or revise my words to avoid repetition because I'm sure that word is the only one enough to help me express the emotion I want to release. Please, take that into consideration while reading.
I have to start by saying that I have loved the brief time in which I have been part of Blanche Maze's ARC reader team. Since before starting to read her lovely, sapphic, wholesome, romantic story, I knew I would love to be in contact with her and that increased the probability of me loving her stories. This is just the first one I had touched on (for now) and I'm giving this review in exchange for so an amazingly opportunity.
If you're after those words I said before (lovely, sapphic, wholesome, romantic), you're already on board. But if you're not and are still waiting for something to convince you, unless you totally despise the romantic genre, you will love this book. I love this book. Though it says romance everywhere, it not only shows the romantic love, you get to see lots of filial and friendly love. I loved to see the relationship between some parents and their children. I am totally in for the one between best friends (like, I would do everything to have something like that). I wasn't fond of more than one, but I loved the progress of going to a healthy relationship and I'm not loving anything more than healthy things lately. Give me something healthy (or on the way to being healthy) and I'm already sold off.
It's not angst-free, and I panicked for my romantic love due to that. Everything was great, and suddenly, everything was wrong! And in its way to worse! For too much time that I was growing desperate, but I have to say that in those tumultuous times, I found my favorite character, aside for the protagonists. The details that were showing, what that meant... I loved all of it.
Honestly, though, this book accompanied me for a little time during a bad month. When everything was feeling wrong and suffocating, the book filled me with wholesomeness and love. With all the attraction symptoms (which I still feel from time to time and I simply adore the feelings). Being giggly and hopeful and nervous and also confused, with all the expectations and opportunities, I like being like this because I feel powerful and inspired. And I was able to have that for a while, even if it only lasted the time I had the book in my hands (and the time it wasn't angsty, of course). But that time was enough, and I love the book for it.