Bad Words by Rioghnach Robinson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I wish there were more romance books like this. I loved how this book took its time diving deeper into each of the characters and showing us their insecurities and enough of their backgrounds that you couldn’t help but root for them.
I also love how it’s about how media doesn’t always help matters by sensationalizing things and people also don’t help by taking sides without information. Projecting our own ideas of right and wrong into a “reel” online without knowing any of the real details behind the people and even the story.
And how people and careers and publishing can all be so fragile. How we are always trying to prove something to our parents, to ourselves, to the people we don’t know. How words can have so much power. And how through the lens of time and experience everything can change shape. And how we are never one thing.
with gratitude to netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
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