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Disappoint Me
Disappoint Me: From the author of BELLIES | Nicola Dinan
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'A genuine literary talent, a gimlet-eyed cartographer of the human heart' Sharlene Teo Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. Shes living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Years Eve party and wakes up in hospital alone, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. Enter Vincent, corporate lawyer and hobby baker. His trad friendship group may as well speak a different language to Max, and his Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman. Its uncertain terrain, but Vincent cares for Max in a way shed long given up on as a foolish fantasy. Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage. On his gap year in Thailand a decade prior, he vies for the attention of a gorgeous traveller, Alex, with secrets of her own. Is Vincent really the new face of the Enlightened Man, or will the ghosts of his past sabotage his and Maxs happiness?
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This book sucked me in completely for a few days and it became the book that I thought about most about when I was not reading it. Loved the dual POVs for Max and Vincent, it was a great way to give us a more in-depth look at these 2 very complex characters. Loved, loved the ending!

This is my first time reading the author and I can‘t wait to read Bellies now.

I highly recommend this book!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #arc Pub Date: 5/27/25

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Amor4Libros @Lesliereadsalot @Cathythoughts I hope you enjoy it when you get to it! 🤗 1w
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My Kindle will be attached to my hand until I finish this book! #arc

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I started looking at all the amazing 2025 and wow do I have a ton of books I am excited for!
Part one Jan - March

January:
Sophomore book from Trans author Nicola Dinan (Bellies) called Disappoint Me (I hope this is the cover -it is one of my favorite paintings)
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A new adult sci-fi book from Bindi author Nnedi Okorafor: Death of the Author

ChaoticMissAdventures February: I thought Cristina Rivera Garza's NF book about the loss of her sister (Liliana's Invincible Summer), was really well done, so would like to pick up this older fiction book of here that is finally being released in English - Death Takes Me also in February I am anxiously waiting Omar El Akkad's NF book about the genocide in Gaza. I was able to see him in conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates and I think the book is very important. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures March is the MONTH! SO many books I am excited for. I was lucky to get a copy of Bob The Drag Queens book about Harriet Tubman coming back and wanting to make an album, it was fun. Stephen Graham Jones new book seems to be more in line with The Only Good Indians- but add vampires! Lalami's The Dream Hotel sounds intense -what if the gov can prosecute you for your dreams?? I don't normally read short stories, but I am all here for Torrey Peters! 1mo
BarbaraBB My most anticipated book for 2025 (March I think) is 1mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB yes! She is a crowd favorite author, I have read the Wolves one and have Migrations I love her focus on nature. 1mo
Librariana I love that Bob's book made it to your list! I had heard him mention it on... Delta's podcast, maybe? Or perhaps while he was chatting with Katya during Trixie's time away? Either way, I think he's brilliant and hilarious! I love the dynamics between him and Monét! 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @Librariana I am interested in the discourse that will come out of it. I loved the idea but the execution was a bit lacking for me. I feel like he tried to relate being a closeted gay man with being enslaved? Which was ... Interesting. But as a white cis lady I am waiting for other voices on it. 1mo
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