Published October 2025
★★
A brief young adult romance set in South Africa. My library recently started purchasing large numbers of indie/self-published ebooks, which is a decision that intrigues me—I'm both glad that indie authors have the potential to get more of an audience and appalled by some of the blatantly, and blatantly terrible, AI covers. (The cover comment is not about this book, but if you've seen the sort I'm talking about...you know.) I'm very curious about what their criteria are (and also, perhaps, what the overall reception is), but I have nobody to ask, so...here we are.
Anyway, all of this is to say that I read this out of curiosity, and as far as I can tell it's a self-published book by a young writer. Young characters with big emotions and family drama and family money and a lot of angst and hormones. Reminds me a little of some of the fanfic I read as a teenager, not so much for the plot as for the angst/emotions and general writing style. Would have been a better fit for me as an also angsty teenager; as it is, I'm glad to have gotten to read something outside the mainstream but am unlikely to continue with the series.
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