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yarncrone

I like my books escapist af and as queer as possible. Accomplished knitter, novice hockey player, dog guardian. Neurospicy. HEA or bust! 🏳️‍🌈🦄🏴‍☠️

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Pride 2025
Sapphic Across Genres
Dia de los Muertos 2025
Fall 2025 Readalong
Winter 2026 Readalong
Level 7
My Taste
We Could Be So Good
A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)
Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1)
Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)
Madison Square Murders (Memento Mori, #1)
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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  • Seal the Deal (Kings of Heart Book 4)
    yarncrone
    May 24, 2026
    4.0
    Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

    I really enjoyed this book, with some caveats. I have loved Andrew throughout the series and enjoyed getting to know him better in this book. There were some beautiful moments of negotiating consent and some lovely explorations of intimacy, both sexual and non. I liked spending time in this budding ace relationship.

    As with the other books in this series, traumas of various types underlie much of the character development and motivation, which can be so healing to read - but none of it is particularly well explored. There’s no nuance or depth to it, so it feels like a plot mechanism rather than the delicious exploration of the human condition that it can be (yes, even in romance novels).

    There’s also some pretty glaring editorial misses. The wrong name in a sentence. Extra or missing words. Words that sound similar to one another used incorrectly… Easy fixes that removed from the reading experience.

    A sweet easy read, even if it does rely on stupid fake dating. Andrew is a gem and could totally pull someone rad without the need for fake anything.o

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