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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I jsut reread Natalie Zina Walschots Hench, about a young woman who finds herself working as a temp on the Villain side doing spreadsheets.  She is terribly injured by a "hero" and gets laid off, and starts working on tallying the human cost of heroes.  And goes on from there.  I loved it as much the second time!  Re-read because it was published in 2020 and the sequel, Villain, just came out a couple of weeks ago so that's on my to read list.

I just started American Fantasy by Emma Staub.  It's got a fairly low raiting for goodreads, so I'm curious to see how it goes (I'm only on page 50).  A 40 (50?) something woman goes on a 4 day cruise dedicated to fans of an aging boy band (think New Kids on the BLock on a cruise today) where guests can interact and hang out with the boy band.  She ends up befriending one of the band members.  If this was a straight romance book by a well known romance author, the concept would be a home run.  So very curious why the low rating.  The blurb says it's a richly textured, uplifting story about the magic of revisiting youthful feelings, and the even greater magic of starting anew.  [/quote]

I read American Fantasy. Almost a DNF for me. Stupid.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say “stupid,” but it definitely wasn’t for me. I think I may have commented in the May thread that American Fantasy might hit differently if you are a fan of boy bands, cruises, or both. As someone just a few years too old for the Justin Timberlake-era boy bands and who has never been on a cruise, I didn’t find anything that spoke to me. YMMV[/quote]

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