![]() Thanks to the publisher for providing an eARC of Love and Other Sins in exchange for an honest review. It’s a fresh and unique perspective full of interesting dialogue, complex dynamics between mother and daughter, and the romance has you pining. From what I saw on tiktok, Emilia Ares wrote this right after high school. Minas life is going according to plan shes acing AP Calc and is perfectly content with her nonexistent social life. : Love and Other Sins today is the last day of the ebook sale Grab yours now before the price for a book that took me 10 years to write goes from the price. It’s an own voice novel about youth and immigration. But it has this special way of making you feel exactly the way you did when something special was happening in your life: that fluttering in your stomach sensation. But only in the end is the full horror of it fully divulged and fleshed out. Content warning: sexual assault, recollections of child abuse, discussions of suicidal thoughts, and mention of miscarriage. The author doesn’t use Oliver’s background as some sick secret that she divulges slowly, she warns us right away that his past will not be easy to swallow. When the two are thrown together through circumstance and develop an unexpected connection, they discover how hard it is to keep the past in the past. That’s partly because he is charming and smart but mostly because you have a clue as to what he has overcome in his life from the start. ![]() You’re routing for him from the beginning. And Oliver’s story is absolutely heartbreaking. ![]() ![]() Mina isn’t a perfect main character at all but that’s what makes her real. ![]() When Mina meets Oliver, she loses her mind a bit but that’s exactly what happens sometimes. ![]()
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