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So, this is one of those books that I had no idea it even existed until I saw it. It’s The Problem with Perfect by Philip William Stover, and I saw it when I got the Hayley Kiyoko book that I also recently read. The blurb says that when LGBTQ style icon Chase Myles goes missing before the live Pride broadcast for his hit TV show, producer Ethan Wells’ career hangs in the balance. Ethan tracks down Chase’s estranged twin brother, Beau, to pass him off for Chase for a week – but finds a hairy, rugged mountain man, the complete opposite of his brother… Can Ethan transform Beau into Chase, fool his bosses and save his job? And when Beau turns out to be caring, romantic and everything that his twin is not, does he really want Chase back anyway? I’ll be real, that concept from the blurb sounded absolutely insane, but somehow also very Hallmark. I don’t know what it was, I think the absolutely feral nature of reading this that convinced me to buy it. I will also say, I read this entire boo...

  So today I’m talking about Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko… As in the singer… Now I already knew who Hayley Kiyoko was. I listen to her music, and I’ve even seen her live. Fully had no idea that she had a book out, though. I was at the point where I was almost out of books on my shelf that I hadn’t read, so just went looking for new stuff, and then I just saw this one, with Kiyoko’s name attached, and was kind of gagged. The blurb says that it’s summertime and 17-year-old Coley is alone, again. Forced to move to middle-of-nowhere Oregon after losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the attraction is immediate. Coley worries she isn’t worthy of love. Up until now, everyone she’s loved has left her. And Sonya’s never been with a girl before. What if by opening her heart, Coley’s risking it all? The first chapter is literally two pages. It’s this narrator saying that their mum is gone, and a dad that’s barely holding...