{"id":19833,"date":"2022-02-25T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=19833"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:41:58","slug":"hearts-and-flowers-a-tale-of-hay-fever-and-bad-decor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/19833","title":{"rendered":"Hearts and Flowers: A Tale of Hay Fever and Bad Decor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hearts and Flowers: A Tale of Hay Fever and Bad Decor<\/a><\/em> (2013) Angel Martinez<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Hearts<\/a>This is a very silly story.<\/p>\n

The ballroom looked like a Hallmark store had wandered by and thrown up its innards in a fit of disgust over the excesses of the season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael has been forced to attend a costumed Valentine’s party by his objectively terribly boss.<\/p>\n

Being forced to keep track of his boss’s stable was probably some form of harassment but it was too damn embarrassing to file a complaint with human resources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He hopes to sneak out early, but then cupid’s arrow goes terribly, terribly wrong, and a fluffy pink teddy bear suddenly goes on a rampage.<\/p>\n

And as with her other books I’ve read, it’s also a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

“Good. They’re talking in euphemisms. Our work’s done here.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It had slight parallels to another cupid novella, Aidan Wayne’s Making Love<\/em>, but mostly because of the theme of the reality of a cupid being inept.<\/p>\n

It was silly and fun and quite enjoyable (but the cover (not the one I picked) is pretty awful.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Mischief Corner Books, LLC
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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You never watched Deep Space Nine?\"\" It was the first time Vikash had experienced Greg\u2019s particular talent being useful. He heard emotions, but only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Pill Bugs of Time","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/The-Pill-Bugs-of-Time.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14330,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14330","url_meta":{"origin":19833,"position":3},"title":"All the World’s an Undead Stage","author":"Michelle","date":"May 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"All the World's an Undead Stage (2018) Angel Martinez (Offbeat Crimes) \u201cBest stay elevated,\u201d Carrington murmured when Tim climbed out of his house to stare at him. How Tim managed to look surprised when he had no facial features was one of the mysteries of the universe. \u201cWe decided to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"All the Worlds an Undead Stage","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/All-the-Worlds-an-Undead-Stage.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11982,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11982","url_meta":{"origin":19833,"position":4},"title":"Uncommonly Tidy Poltergeists","author":"Michelle","date":"June 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Uncommonly Tidy Poltergeists (2017) Angel Martinez Taro has to make a confession to his family--and he's afraid they're going to freak out. He's won the biggest power ball in history, and is going to keep it a secret from everyone but them. He is also, after buying his parents a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Uncommonly-Tidy-Poltergeists.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14301,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14301","url_meta":{"origin":19833,"position":5},"title":"Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters","author":"Michelle","date":"May 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters (2016) Angel Martinez (Offbeat Crimes) Between them, in the chair a suspect would take while he was being booked, was a leather jacket. Not odd if the jacket had behaved normally and stayed draped over a chair arm like a good, proper jacket, but this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lime-Gelatin-and-Other-Monsters.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}