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"Camilo was figuring things out, he had a plan, and even though it was hard, he was doing what he needed to for himself and for his mother. Like he had been all the years before you came."⁣⁣⁣ •⁣⁣⁣ I'm so glad to say that this second book from Adriana Herrera hit me So. Good. in the feels. 💕 Bec this is a romance, we already know Tom and Camilo would end up together but I absolutely enjoyed the getting-to-that-HEA-journey in this millionaire x working class pairing. Them being perfect for each other didn't really start from the beginning, but by the middle I loved them being together so much that I HURT when the conflict came to break them apart. Bec sometimes it's not a huge external factor that breaks people up, it's the little internal things, human habits that are hard to break, and good intentions with v bad execution. Also, I love Libe SO MUCH! *that's all the non-spoilery things I'll say about it.*⁣⁣⁣ •⁣⁣⁣ As with Dreamers #1, the rich cultural background makes this a standout book for me. It also deals with other heavy things like gentrification, mental health issues, and the protagonists' financial gap in respectful and honest ways. I appreciate how the steamy parts escalate early in the story (like, way early!) and that the steam didn't fizzle at all until the HEA. 🧡⁣⁣⁣ • ⁣⁣⁣ "What made it all feel monumental was the reciprocity. I never felt like I wasn't getting as much as I put in with Tom. It wasn't even tit for tat or that I was keeping track. I just felt balanced. Like he wanted exactly what I gave, and I got as much as I needed. Attention, time, sex, space. Everything just right."⁣⁣⁣ •⁣⁣⁣ Thank you to Carina Press, thru NetGalley, for my free review copy! ❤️⁣⁣⁣ •⁣⁣ American Fairytale (Dreamers #2) by Adriana Herrera⁣⁣ .⁣⁣⁣ .⁣⁣⁣ .⁣⁣⁣ .⁣⁣⁣ #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig #romancetagram⁣⁣⁣ #AmericanFairytale #AdrianaHerrera #DreamersSeries #diverseromance #ownvoices #debutauthor #WOCinRomance #AoC #CarinaPress #diversebooks #diversereads #kindlebooks #GayLit #LGBTReads #PrideReads⁣⁣⁣ (at Meycauayan, Bulacan) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByERnvcAe5D/?igshid=eao5j6c87gx7

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#PrideBookstagram Day 19: American Dreamer and American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera⁣ •⁣ A new favorite of mine, the Dreamers Series puts PoC front and center of the stories (and their amazing covers!) and delivers swoon-worthy romance in contemporary America. The first book, American Dreamer pairs Nesto, a food-truck business owner, and Jude, a librarian who falls in love with Afro-Carribean food, as well as the chef that lovingly prepares it. The second book, American Fairytale is a billionaire romance with age-gap tropes (my kryptonite!!! if we're being honest) with social worker Camilo, getting smitten with the adorable Tom. 💞⁣ ⁣ I loved both these books bec of the representation the non-white heroes and the things they have to face in society in current times, but I loved the second book better bec the pace was more of what I'm comfortable with (it gets really 🔥hot🔥 in the beginning and then they slowly fall in love with each other before they even realized it!!!🥰) and the conflict was more internal between Milo and Tom. But both are really great and agh, the third book, American Love Story was just recently announced and I CANNOT WAIT for it!⁣ •⁣ #PrideLibrary19: Favorite Character - Libertad is my favorite character in American Fairytale! Her sass is magnificent and I just loved every scene with her. As for protagonists, Jude in American Dreamer is the one I relate to the most, but Milo in the other book is the most fun. ☺️⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig ⁣⁣⁣ #LoveWins #ResistTogether ⁣ #DreamersSeries #AmericanDreamer #AmericanFairytale #AdrianaHerrera⁣ #diversebooks #diversereads #QueerLit #PrideMonthBookRecs #PrideReads #Pride #PagesofPride⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/By5IEFsAbpC/?igshid=1dje144cip2o4

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#CurrentlyReading • I’m taking a teeny tiny break from a day packed with errands (and work, huhu) and remembered I should be posting a review of this now but 😭 I haven’t finished reading it yet. I’m about 30% in and already I must tell you, the pacing is a little faster than American Dreamer and heehee, I love the heat! 🔥And the age-gap trope is fantastic. 😊 Hopefully, I get some “me time” this weekend (i.e. lie on my back reading books for an entire weekend! LOL) and finish this *and one more ARC I also should’ve finished by now. 😬 Pls send help.* • Thank you to Carina Press (thru NetGalley) for this free ARC! 💕 Preorder your copies on your favorite book sellers now! (It’s delicious! 😘) • American Fairytale (Dreamers #2) by Adriana Herrera . . . . #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig #romancetagram #AmericanFairytale #AdrianaHerrera #DreamersSeries #diverseromance #ownvoices #WOCinRomance #AoC #CarinaPress #diversebooks #diversereads #kindlebooks #GayLit #LGBTReads #PrideReads (at McDonalds Banga, Meycauayan Bulacan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxg4LKqA__O/?igshid=m4zjvck4ymde

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“Baila conmigo.” • Where do I even begin? 😊 I loved this romance between a chef/food truck business owner and a librarian. The pacing in the first half was a little weird for me bec there were too many people, but I am telling you, even early on, the scenes with Nesto and Jude were swoon worthy! 🥰 • I loved that the conflicts had come from different things and social issues have been handled well, but I especially loved the internal conflict within Jude, bec a lot of his fears I related to. I also hurt so much in that scene with Jude’s family and I thought I’d be so used reading things like those at this point but I still cried a little. Nesto’s career drive made the stakes higher than I expected and ugh, his groveling at the later parts were so delicious to me! • Speaking of delicious, this story is FILLED with Afro-Carribean food references and it’s such a shame that i couldn’t find any near me! I made up for it with local tsokolate and kakanin in this shot but I still want burritos, the tostones and majarete! These food references + the rich use of the Spanish language (some of it I understood, some I Googled) added ~flavor to the romance! • CW for some gay hate, cancer and racism but I think these issues were handled well. It there’s enough aspects of love, loyalty, community and found family to cancel out the bad things. Though some parts were a bit slow for my taste, I enjoyed the whole of it. I am excited for the next book! • Thank you to Carina Press for my review copy! ❤️ (And thank you to @chachicsbooknook too! 😘 . . . . #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig #romancetagram #AmericanDreamer #AdrianaHerrera #DreamersSeries #diverseromance #ownvoices #debutauthor #WOCinRomance #AoC #CarinaPress #diversebooks #diversereads #kindlebooks #GayLit #LGBTReads #PrideReads (at Meycauayan, Bulacan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9KfTRnWvf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eazk24naffp5

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“Baila conmigo.” • Where do I even begin? 😊 I loved this romance between a chef/food truck business owner and a librarian. The pacing in the first half was a little weird for me bec there were too many people, but I am telling you, even early on, the scenes with Nesto and Jude were swoon worthy! 🥰 • I loved that the conflicts had come from different things and social issues have been handled well, but I especially loved the internal conflict within Jude, bec a lot of his fears I related to. I also hurt so much in that scene with Jude’s family and I thought I’d be so used reading things like those at this point but I still cried a little. Nesto’s career drive made the stakes higher than I expected and ugh, his groveling at the later parts were so delicious to me! • Speaking of delicious, this story is FILLED with Afro-Carribean food references and it’s such a shame that i couldn’t find any near me! I made up for it with local tsokolate and kakanin in this shot but I still want burritos, the tostones and majarete! These food references + the rich use of the Spanish language (some of it I understood, some I Googled) added ~flavor to the romance! • CW for some gay hate, cancer and racism but I think these issues were handled well. It there’s enough aspects of love, loyalty, community and found family to cancel out the bad things. Though some parts were a bit slow for my taste, I enjoyed the whole of it. I am excited for the next book! • Thank you to Carina Press for my review copy! ❤️ (And thank you to @chachicsbooknook too! 😘 . . . . #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig #romancetagram #AmericanDreamer #AdrianaHerrera #DreamersSeries #diverseromance #ownvoices #debutauthor #WOCinRomance #AoC #CarinaPress #diversebooks #diversereads #kindlebooks #GayLit #LGBTReads #PrideReads (at Meycauayan, Bulacan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9KfTRnWvf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eazk24naffp5

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“Baila conmigo.” • Where do I even begin? 😊 I loved this romance between a chef/food truck business owner and a librarian. The pacing in the first half was a little weird for me bec there were too many people, but I am telling you, even early on, the scenes with Nesto and Jude were swoon worthy! 🥰 • I loved that the conflicts had come from different things and social issues have been handled well, but I especially loved the internal conflict within Jude, bec a lot of his fears I related to. I also hurt so much in that scene with Jude’s family and I thought I’d be so used reading things like those at this point but I still cried a little. Nesto’s career drive made the stakes higher than I expected and ugh, his groveling at the later parts were so delicious to me! • Speaking of delicious, this story is FILLED with Afro-Carribean food references and it’s such a shame that i couldn’t find any near me! I made up for it with local tsokolate and kakanin in this shot but I still want burritos, the tostones and majarete! These food references + the rich use of the Spanish language (some of it I understood, some I Googled) added ~flavor to the romance! • CW for some gay hate, cancer and racism but I think these issues were handled well. It there’s enough aspects of love, loyalty, community and found family to cancel out the bad things. Though some parts were a bit slow for my taste, I enjoyed the whole of it. I am excited for the next book! • Thank you to Carina Press for my review copy! ❤️ (And thank you to @chachicsbooknook too! 😘 . . . . #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig #romancetagram #AmericanDreamer #AdrianaHerrera #DreamersSeries #diverseromance #ownvoices #debutauthor #WOCinRomance #AoC #CarinaPress #diversebooks #diversereads #kindlebooks #GayLit #LGBTReads #PrideReads (at Meycauayan, Bulacan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9KfTRnWvf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=saz9l0gfggpr

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I’m starting the month with this diverse #OwnVoices romance! ❤️ I’ve already posted American Dreamer when I got it and now I’m so excited to be taken to Ithaca and to be introduced to Nesto’s food truck! I’m happy I’ll get to experience it ~with my eyes, but huhu, where can I find Afro-Carribean food here in the PH? I want my tummy to experience it too! LOL. • I don’t want to impose books on myself this month with a TBR list, but I already have 3 books I want to read and I’m so excited for events happening in a couple of weeks! I’m looking forward to romanceclass’ April Feels Day, to GoT’s final season and to chuck out a huge part of my current WIP in this first draft. Wish me luck. 🍀 . . . . . #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig #romancetagram #AmericanDreamer #AdrianaHerrera #DreamersSeries #diverseromance #debutauthor #WOCinRomance #AoC #CarinaPress #diversebooks #diversereads #kindlebooks #GayLit #LGBTReads #PrideReads #CurrentlyReading (at Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvsg2DenQm6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e0lsxu8tjyyd

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“No one ever said big dreams come easy” • This book was released just early this month and I’ve been seeing it around IG and Twitter (esp with those working on their book bingos like me). I have to admit, I didn’t think it was MM romance at first, but now that I’ve read the blurb, I’m excited! It has a food truck, diverse rep and men falling in love! All the things that would hit jackpot on my personal bingo! LOL 💕 • “For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He’ll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn’t? He’ll have to give up the hustle and return to the day job he hates. He’s got six months to make it happen—the last thing he needs is a distraction. Jude Fuller is proud of the life he’s built on the banks of Cayuga Lake. He has a job he loves and good friends. It’s safe. It’s quiet. And it’s damn lonely. Until he tries Ithaca’s most-talked-about new lunch spot and works up the courage to flirt with the handsome owner. Soon he can’t get enough—of Nesto’s food or of Nesto. For the first time in his life, Jude can finally taste the kind of happiness that’s always been just out of reach. An opportunity too good to pass up could mean a way to stay together and an incredible future for them both…if Nesto can remember happiness isn’t always measured by business success. And if Jude can overcome his past and trust his man will never let him down.” • *my copy was sent for review by the publisher. Thank you, Carina Press! ❤️ . . . . #bookstagram #bibliophile #booknerdPH #bookworm #instabooks #bookish #alwaysreading #bookstagramersPH #booksofig #romancetagram #AmericanDreamer #AdrianaHerrera #DreamersSeries #diverseromance #ownvoices #debutauthor #WOCinRomance #AoC #CarinaPress #diversebooks #diversereads #kindlebooks #GayLit #LGBTReads #PrideReads (at Philippines) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvat9HAHh2Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14b7xzzlxo9tu

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I was featured on Women in Photography, with one Dreamer of the Dreamers série, a real pleasure and proud to be part. Many thanks to Gittel Chase Price. ————————————— Nadia Rabhi photographed sleepers standing with a pillow as dreamers, in all France and a little abroad during one year. ————————————— http://urlz.fr/5NhH