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sketchonista · 6 months

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book-petals · 6 months

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Review: The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews

The Homewreckers is a breath of fresh air. Some genres are just like that, you find yourself reading some gritty thriller or high fantasy with so much detail you're left satisfied but also with mushy brain. You need something clean and fun to read after, this book is the remedy. It's a nice package; containing a sort of meet cute/enemies (sort of) to lovers, a little mystery and some fun twists, a loveable main character and a trope I've never read before (romcom is a genre I haven't really read a lot of before).

Likes: • A really cute and interesting trope. The setting of this book is in Georgia and the main character finds herself as the leading role in a predicted hit reality show about restoring and flipping homes. • This book doubles as a sort of romcom meets cozy mystery. Two great genres represented well here. • Not really a dull moment. The story had my attention from the first page. • A great story about grief and healing. Hattie has really been through it and within the timeline of this book we get to read about her healing and growing through the process. • The mystery storyline was really good. It could have been a book on it's own, but it felt like the best bonus to The Homewreckers.

Dislikes: • It felt like the characters in this book didn't really have depth. I wanted more emotion and thought with them but it was lacking where it could have been expanded. • Some aspects of the restoration process felt rushed and unrealistic. It was almost like there was a few magic wand moments. • I wasn't really happy with Hattie's romantic choice in the end. She didn't have to choose one or the other and I would have chosen neither, personally. But that also goes back to my first point in dislikes, maybe there was more thought in the author's mind about the characters than what I read.

Overall, I enjoyed The Homewreckers. Mainly for the fun storyline about restoring a home for a reality show and the cozy mystery side story was what made me rate this one higher than I would have without it. Sometimes I start a book blind, so I wasn't expecting it.

My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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openhousedesigns · 2 years

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Elevation Design for a Luxury Resort with Contemporary Landscape

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claudinedelgado · 1 month

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#fotografia #nature #vintage #black and white #sepia #bariloche #argentina #love #poetry #poesia #contemorary

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krokoart · 1 month

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Lookout 004: Giclee Fine Art Print 13X19 KEN ROKO https://krokoart.etsy.com/listing/1689198394

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consumedbythemossyforest · 3 months

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A Friendly Bet

“Come on Micah, why not?” Nash prods, waggling his eyebrows, “It’s just one date! You know you want to.” Micah hunches her shoulders, smothering a grimace, and continues to class. It’s just a joke Micah. You can take a joke. Despite her half-hearted self-encouragement, her heart sinks when she sees Wren blocking the door to her classroom.

“Where do you think you’re going?” he asks.

“To class,” she answers, shouldering her way past the both of them. As she takes her seat, Nash waves at her, and the two boys leave, laughing with their arms slung around the other. She’s not sure how she managed it, but somehow, she had gotten caught up in a bet between her two friends. They had both bet that they could make Micah go on a date before the other could. While she knew that the boys could get competitive, especially when it came to outdoing the other, the lines between playfulness and seriousness were starting to blur. She could no longer tell what exactly their intentions were, and it only made her more anxious about what their reactions would be when she finally figured things out. Micah opens her laptop, types aroace into the search bar, and goes about ignoring whatever her physics teacher is trying to explain.

Thankfully, the next few days pass without incident and Micah starts to let her guard back down. Nash and Wren are spending more and more time together without her, and she is simultaneously relieved and worried about what that might mean. Are they plotting? Have they caught on to what Micah was figuring out about herself? She’s almost certain that she identifies as aroace, but she doesn’t want her friends to scorn her because she ruined their fun, or worse, they think that she’s broken. She’s contemplating all this on her walk home from school, spiraling as her brain races through all the what-ifs.

When she opens her door, she’s immediately pulled from her thoughts at the sight of rose petals littering the floor. It’s surprisingly nice to be back on familiar ground, even when that means she’s the focus of that stupid bet. So, she follows those rose petals to the backyard. Nash is not nearly this thoughtful, this one’s gotta be Wren. And it was. She opens the door to Wren standing there with a bouquet of roses and a teddy bear.

“Micah,” he begins with a flourish, “would you do me the incredible, desperately needed honour, of going out on a date with me?” He places both the teddy and the roses in Micah’s arms as she desperately scrambles for an answer.

“Thanks for the bear. Were you too cheap to go for the chocolates?” she stalls.

“I will have you know that I got these roses for the steep price of stealing them from my neighbour’s rose bush. Don’t diss the roses!” And this is what finally broke Micah. This is how it used to be: just her and Nash and Wren, joking around and having fun. She shouldn’t dread being around them and she misses when they would just hang out. So, she stops after they re-enter her house and Wren turns around, one eyebrow raised, and Micah says,

“I think I need to call a family meeting.”

Wren’s entire demeanour changes from faux-indignant to concerned, and that’s when Micah knows she’s made the right decision. He still cares. “Right now? Do you want me to call Nash?” he asks, clearly worried. Family meetings are only called when something’s really wrong.

“No. Not right now. I need a few days to prepare. How’s Friday?” Wren looks even more worried at that but agrees. No one ever says no to a family meeting.

So, Micah spends the next few days rehearsing what she’s going to say. She prepares answers to every conceivable question and hopes that she’s not making a terrible mistake. When the doorbell rings, she just wants to get it over with, so she ushers the two boys into her living room and just blurts it out, “I’m aroace!” after a few seconds of stunned silence, she starts rambling, “Okay so basically that means that I don’t feel any romantic or sexual attraction. I didn’t know how to bring it up with the whole bet thing going on and–”

“Hey,” Nash cuts her off. She didn’t even realize that he had stood up during her panic-induced ramble until he was right in front of her. “Micah, it’s totally okay. We’re here for you and support you. Come sit down.” He guides her to sit down between the two of them. “We are so sorry if we made you feel uncomfortable with the bet or like you couldn’t trust us with this. You’re our best friend and we always have your back.” At those words, Micah sags back onto the couch, leaning on Wren who wraps his arm around her.

“And since we’re sharing,” Wren says, “Nash and I have some news too.” Micah looks up at him questioningly, and He simply leans over to plant a kiss on Nash’s cheek and suddenly, all that extra time spent without her makes sense.

“Oh,” she says. “Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.” She sits in silence for a second and then asks, “You guys are serious? You’re not just doing this to make me feel better?”

“No Micah. We’re serious.”

“Okay. Okay good.” She thinks for a moment and then adds, “And don’t forget to use protection!” They both groan, and she smiles. And she knows that everything is going to be okay.

#creative writing #short story #writers on tumblr #writing #contemorary #aroace #this one is from last semester but I still think it's alright #get found familied #my take on the love triangle trope because I HATE IT

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racingatthespeedoflove · 7 months

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