#WhatchaReading ? I just finished Seeing Blind by Poppy Dale, a very sweet, sort of “shop around the corner” romance which is my catnip. Part epistolary, which is also my catnip. Kisses only. Kiss only, really. 😁
One character has prosopagnosia, which is a significant disability for him. Can’t say if it’s an accurate portrayal but it was very interesting.
Slightly disconcerting that it’s set in Manhattan and CA but the author is quite obviously British. 😁
@willaful I have friends who are scientists who said they couldn’t enjoy e.g. Ali Hazelwood’s “Love Hypothesis” because the way the science is portrayed kept knocking them out of the story. So far I’ve been able to get along with the fictional universities in these college hockey series, like Kennedy’s invented Briar U, but for some reason in this book I feel like there are more holes in the scenery than usual.
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@notTheAudience I remember being very annoyed by a Hazelwood book in which an environmental scientist justified her purchases because “duh, recycling!” I.E. the author doesn’t know wtf she’s talking about.
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@willaful @notTheAudience @romancelandia @romancebooks ROFL, I don’t remember that recycling one, but I’ve definitely had ace spectrum issues with Hazelwood on occasion. I still enjoy other parts, but I’m now thankful I’m not knowledgeable enough about the science community to get bothered by it.
I always find it funny which aspects of books will bother me to the ends of times, and which ones I’ll be able to just shrug and accept in order to enjoy the good parts…it surprises me sometimes.
@willaful Briar is supposed to be “Ivy” but then Yale - one of the most recognizable Ivy League schools - “isn’t in their conference.” The courses of study and the fraternity-centric campus culture also aligns more with big state universities than typical Ivy atmosphere; it often feels more like a Southern football school inexplicably plonked into New England. One game description alternates the opponent between Northeastern and Northwestern.
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@willaful The hardest thing to swallow in this book is one of the major hurdles; supposedly one of Briar’s fictional rivals collapsed financially and was absorbed by Briar, so now their hockey teams need to be combined (and somehow this is a problem for the men’s team but not the women?). This isn’t a thing that happens often, so I can’t say it’s not accurately portrayed… but it’s not a thing that happens often.
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@willaful Anyway none of this in any way affects the quality of the story or the relationship between the main characters, and Kennedy is good at a lot of the things that make romances which are fun to read. It’s just like those moments in a movie where the background scenery is clearly from a different city, and you’re like, wait a minute… @romancelandia @romancebooks
@notTheAudience Yes, I know just what you mean. :-)
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