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#WhatchaReading ? I just finished Seeing Blind by Poppy Dale, a very sweet, sort of "shop around the corner" romance which is my catnip. Part epistol (romancelandia.club)

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#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. 😁

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[–] notTheAudience@romancelandia.club 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@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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[–] notTheAudience@romancelandia.club 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@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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[–] notTheAudience@romancelandia.club 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@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

[–] willaful@romancelandia.club 1 points 11 months ago

@notTheAudience Yes, I know just what you mean. :-)

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