2026-07-25 21:50 UTC
The benefits of watching Asian dramas is that I have an entire internet of friends and MDL to tell me what is good or not.
Not so with random ebooks from the library. 😅 (sure, there is GoodReads and whatnot, but that is too much work)
Anyway, as a romance novel from 2009 (?!), this was entertaining enough, as long as I ignored the fat-shaming and the exoticising of Romani people. 😬
Like a hotdog at a ball game, it was sufficient.
All that to say, I wouldn't turn down reading another.
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@JillsJoy@NerdJoy.social 2026-07-26 20:24
A bucolic kind of story. I especially appreciated the historical and scientific climate environment this was based on: 1816 after a volcano erupted in Fiji and caused the entire rest of the world to have no summer. And the impact of war on people: the participants, the families they left behind, the communities they left, and the families and communities they returned to. No bodices were ripped in this one, but corsets were unlaced. 😏