Ess Jay

Brava, Nicole! I LOVED this book.

I applied for an advanced e-reader copy ONE DAY before the Due Date and thankfully, I was captivated from the start and whipped right through the 400* pages.

I’ve read what I consider to be a solid amount of fantasy, romantasy, and romance, and still found so much NEW in this book - and found it to be a clever winding of all three genres together with unique elements from each. The character “transformation” [to avoid spoilers] had me in equal parts laughing out loud, personally very curious, secondhand-embarassed at others, and all the while rooting for both of them throughout!

Nicole LaBrocca wove in some really unique parts that stood out to me well - in particular, the amount of time and attention and care she took to describe in internal sensations association with being in such different forms and sizes, and the striking level of intimacy that can still be achieved by bodies so dissimilar. Not QUITE the same here, but this oddly gave me hope that one day I may also feel ready to explore the emotional world again, after adapting to a very daily life-changing chronic illness.

Though hike me up those dunes and I’m outta there ✌️

I’m bummed I started this far in! But will 100% still plan on going back to read the author previous work!

Thank you, Nicole!