This was a delight to read! If you want a book that is light and entertaining and kind to its characters, you really can't go wrong with this one. It'This was a delight to read! If you want a book that is light and entertaining and kind to its characters, you really can't go wrong with this one. It's a book about community-building and the power of friendship and about the way a coffee shop can become the touchstone of a place. It's also a book about life being what you make of it, about shaping your own destiny regardless of what others think you should want to do with your life. I had the most fun reading this book. Highly recommend it for the next time you want to sit down with a hot drink and some biscotti or pain au chocolate....more
I count myself incredibly lucky to have gotten an ARC of this. A Taste of Gold and Iron is a beautiful book. I have rarely (possibly never) seen such I count myself incredibly lucky to have gotten an ARC of this. A Taste of Gold and Iron is a beautiful book. I have rarely (possibly never) seen such well-handled casual queer representation or such realistic anxiety in a character. No canonically queer people die in this book, and it manages to be a book populated with many queer characters that avoids falling into any of the common queer angst narratives. I loved almost every one of these characters, and if this book had been just character-driven with no more plot than the interpersonal relationships at play here, I'd have read it and loved it for that. However, this is a full-service book and comes complete with a plot about counterfeiting that was so gripping and well-thought-out that I would probably have read the book for that alone too. (This is the more impressive side of things, because I don't tend to read for plot if I don't care about the characters.) In addition to all of these things, the writing is both so beautiful that I found myself wanting to stop and read it out loud and also so hilarious that I kept scaring my cat cackling at it.
This is one of those books that I hate to review because there are so many fantastic things that I can't decide which ones to highlight. It is absolutely superlative.
I cannot wait for this book to come out so I can grab everyone I know and shake them until they read it. Please, everybody, read this book. This is how it's done. Alexandra Rowland is a magician....more
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