#For one the cover (plus the ‘romantasy’ pitch) reads as NA/Adult to me - but this is definitely on the younger end of YA.

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2023 reads / storygraph

The Absinthe Underground

YA La Belle Époque inspired gaslamp fantasy adventure

follows two girls steal posters to pay their rent, when they’re caught stealing one by the subject of the art: a woman who owns an exclusive underground club, who hires them to do a quest into Fae to steal some jewels that would free her

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#The Absinthe Underground #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #I was super hyped for this book bc cover is beautiful and it promised lots of things i love but......execution does not live up to concept #For one the cover (plus the ‘romantasy’ pitch) reads as NA/Adult to me - but this is definitely on the younger end of YA. #The writing is very simple with a lot of telling not showing and I think the marketing does it a disservice. more of a quest than a heist #It is definitely fast paced and easy to read and it’s sweet and fun! #It just has no real stakes or depth and I really think it had the potential for that. #arc formatting was a bit shit also. it's out now though #also just as an aside i saw the author on tiktok talking about how writing f/f in 3rd person hard because they both have she pronouns #so she split it into 2 POVs……..both povs are still in 3rd person?????? #what are you talking about that doesn’t solve the problem (and also is it really that big of a problem.)