![]() Thanks to the publisher for providing an eARC of Love and Other Sins in exchange for an honest review. It’s a fresh and unique perspective full of interesting dialogue, complex dynamics between mother and daughter, and the romance has you pining. From what I saw on tiktok, Emilia Ares wrote this right after high school. It’s an own voice novel about youth and immigration. But it has this special way of making you feel exactly the way you did when something special was happening in your life: that fluttering in your stomach sensation. This young adult romance will make you laugh and cry and give you hope for tomorrow because there are people like Mina and Oliver who refuse to let themselves be defined by their pasts or circumstances. But only in the end is the full horror of it fully divulged and fleshed out. Love and Other Sins is a moving story about what it means to be young and vulnerable in today's society. The author doesn’t use Oliver’s background as some sick secret that she divulges slowly, she warns us right away that his past will not be easy to swallow. That’s partly because he is charming and smart but mostly because you have a clue as to what he has overcome in his life from the start. You’re routing for him from the beginning. And Oliver’s story is absolutely heartbreaking. Mina isn’t a perfect main character at all but that’s what makes her real. ![]() When Mina meets Oliver, she loses her mind a bit but that’s exactly what happens sometimes. Minas life is going according to plan shes acing AP Calc and is perfectly content with her nonexistent social life. ![]()
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