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This was a lot of fun and had me snickering. I somehow missed that it was a portal fantasy when I received the ARC from the author (I got one of those, all opinions still my own) which I guess the Wonderland part should've been a clue but I still wasn't expecting it to start in Oregon.
The humor in this is really good. It's fast paced, keeps moving, and the characters and gadgets are very fun.
The leads do fall in love very quickly but in kind of an idiots in love way that makes it work, like these two have two brain cells a piece. His are dividing between inventing and flirting. Hers between revenge and flirting.
Clean, though the characters do have a healthy appreciation for each other's "physicality" which I personally like, but I've seen some readers get pearl clutchy about, so I'll…
Ex-personal trainer Maddie Upton seeks revenge on the jerks who sabotaged her promising career. She's laid low in Oregon for a year, and payback is mere hours away.Her perfect vengeance plans were on track until she fell into a steampunk Wonderland with a giant chessboard that makes people disappear and corsets she can't lace by herself.Enter Simon - genius mechanic and chronic flirt - who needs to get his sister out of prison. Maddie needs a way out of this maddening place ASAP. She'll help him with the jailbreak; he'll help her get home. Simple enough.But Wonderland isn't simple. Besides…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
This is a good deal of fun, fast paced, heartfelt, with some fun references and a lot of twists on Christmas lore. Claire is a fun character whose snarky first person narrative really carries this and it makes good use of a soft magic system that borrows from without owing too much to any particular Christmas lore.
Light religious elements, light romantic elements (kisses only)
For Claire Samson, the only way to survive Christmas this year is to escape it.
High-achieving Australian medical student Claire Samson has struggled to enjoy Christmas in recent years, but this is the first Christmas she will be all alone, with her parents overseas and her grandfather in a coma. Claire is desperate to quit med school, but medicine was Grandpa’s dream for her, and her rural hometown desperately needs more doctors—doctors which could have changed her grandfather’s prognosis.
Just when Claire thinks Christmas will be unbearable, a steam train straight out of Platform 9 ¾ appears . . .…
