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Expected 13 Oct 26250 pages, Paperback
Expected publication October 13, 2026
About the author
Nancy Jo Cullen
11 books21 followersNancy Jo Cullen’s fiction and poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2018, The Journey Prize, The Puritan, Grain, filling Station, Plenitude, Prairie Fire, This Magazine, Room and Arc Poetry Magazine. Her first novel, The Western Alienation Merit Badge is published by Wolsak and Wynn. Her short story collection, Canary, (Biblioasis) was the winner of the 2012 Metcalfe Rooke prize.
She has published 3 collections of poetry with Calgary’s Frontenac House Press and is mid-way through her fourth collection of poetry.
Nancy is the 2010 winner of the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging Gay Writer. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.
A transplanted westerner, she now lives in Kingston, Ontario.
She has published 3 collections of poetry with Calgary’s Frontenac House Press and is mid-way through her fourth collection of poetry.
Nancy is the 2010 winner of the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging Gay Writer. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.
A transplanted westerner, she now lives in Kingston, Ontario.
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This book should definitely be labeled as a romance, first and foremost. Once I realized it was a romance novel, I changed my expectations. It's not terrible. It's just not what I was expecting based on the tags.
I was kind of disappointed by how little time was spent with Perry. I thought he would be more involved than he was in the story and I was honestly more interested in his story over the story of the two exes pretending not to still be interested in each other. So much history is hinted throughout with Perry but the book never dives into it which is disappointing.
I think my biggest issue with the book was just the lack of exploring all of the little things that kept getting hinted throughout it. Nuggets of interesting facts about the characters would be dropped and it would sound like this was supposed to be something really important about why they are the way they are but then it was never explored any further. The reader is just supposed to be okay with not knowing more about it or just accept that XYZ happened but not knowing how/why. The 3 person POV also hindered things a bit.
There were several editing errors that were missed. Some of these were just grammatical errors or missing/extra/incorrect words but at one point (around 48% of the way through the book), it says that Perry took a picture of the dog to send to Perry. Around 85-90%, the POV switches up in the middle of the paragraph from Frida to Charlie. I had to reread the same sentences a few times to make sure I wasn't missing something vital. I read this on a Kindle so I'm not sure if all of these errors exist in the standard version but they were pretty distracting.
This book should definitely be labeled as a romance, first and foremost. Once I realized it was a romance novel, I changed my expectations. It's not terrible. It's just not what I was expecting based on the tags.
I was kind of disappointed by how little time was spent with Perry. I thought he would be more involved than he was in the story and I was honestly more interested in his story over the story of the two exes pretending not to still be interested in each other. So much history is hinted throughout with Perry but the book never dives into it which is disappointing.
I think my biggest issue with the book was just the lack of exploring all of the little things that kept getting hinted throughout it. Nuggets of interesting facts about the characters would be dropped and it would sound like this was supposed to be something really important about why they are the way they are but then it was never explored any further. The reader is just supposed to be okay with not knowing more about it or just accept that XYZ happened but not knowing how/why. The 3 person POV also hindered things a bit.
There were several editing errors that were missed. Some of these were just grammatical errors or missing/extra/incorrect words but at one point (around 48% of the way through the book), it says that Perry took a picture of the dog to send to Perry. Around 85-90%, the POV switches up in the middle of the paragraph from Frida to Charlie. I had to reread the same sentences a few times to make sure I wasn't missing something vital. I read this on a Kindle so I'm not sure if all of these errors exist in the standard version but they were pretty distracting.
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