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enemies to lovers
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ursulaAster Glenn Gray, Enemies to Lovers. A short novella from Kalikoi, a very small press publishing lots of bite-sized f/f. (This review is based on an ARC provided by Kalikoi.)
In Enemies to Lovers, library science grad student Megan realizes that her new crush--the only other grad student in the university writing club--is also her fandom nemesis. But the nemesis relationship is unrequited: Sarah from writing club doesn't understand why they can't be very good friends, even if Sarah doesn't care for the comfort half of hurt/comfort!
The beginning of Enemies to Lovers is half loving descriptions of hot chocolate and half a sketch of Megan and Sarah's fandom, which is based on a (fictional) TV show about a Russian spy. I enjoyed Aster Glenn Gray's novel Honeytrap, an m/m romance about an FBI and a KGB agent appreciating midwestern America together, so I was somewhat distracted early on by the meta-fictional question of how Gennady from Honeytrap would get along with Mishka from Megan's favorite TV show.
The real-world plot of Enemies to Lovers shifts into gear when Megan and Sarah end up handcuffed together, due to a writing club exercise gone wrong. The handcuffs are in the book's blurb, but ( I had the mistaken impression they were metaphorical... )
In Enemies to Lovers, library science grad student Megan realizes that her new crush--the only other grad student in the university writing club--is also her fandom nemesis. But the nemesis relationship is unrequited: Sarah from writing club doesn't understand why they can't be very good friends, even if Sarah doesn't care for the comfort half of hurt/comfort!
The beginning of Enemies to Lovers is half loving descriptions of hot chocolate and half a sketch of Megan and Sarah's fandom, which is based on a (fictional) TV show about a Russian spy. I enjoyed Aster Glenn Gray's novel Honeytrap, an m/m romance about an FBI and a KGB agent appreciating midwestern America together, so I was somewhat distracted early on by the meta-fictional question of how Gennady from Honeytrap would get along with Mishka from Megan's favorite TV show.
The real-world plot of Enemies to Lovers shifts into gear when Megan and Sarah end up handcuffed together, due to a writing club exercise gone wrong. The handcuffs are in the book's blurb, but ( I had the mistaken impression they were metaphorical... )
