#the dos and donuts of love

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Books About Pie (and Other Desserts)

Happy Pi Day! The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta (Speculative Agender/Transmasc YA Romance) Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp (Bi Cozy Mystery) In the Case of Heartbreak by Courtney Kae (M/M Romance) The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar (Contemporary F/F YA Romance) Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall (Bi M/F Romance)

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2023 reads // twitter thread

The Dos and Donuts of Love

sapphic YA contemporary about a Bangladeshi-Irish girl whose parents own a donut shop, who gets on a televised baking competition

her rival contestants include her ex, whose parents own a rival shop, and a possible new crush

[derpcakes]

Queer YA Spotlight: The Dos and Donuts of Love

remise: Shireen is ecstatic when she gets to compete on the very first season of the Junior Irish Baking Show—she’ll get to show off her skills with desserts, it will mean a new wave of interest in her parents’ struggling donut shop, and one of the judges is her all-time favourite celebrity baker, Padma Bollywood. But this sweet news takes a bitter turn when Shireen realises she’s not only competing against her ex-girlfriend but a potential new crush.

Rainbow rep: a plus-sized Bangladeshi lesbian protagonist; her lesbian Taiwanese ex-girlfriend

Content considerations: grating day-to-day racism and fatphobia, including online harassment; discussion of racism in the media; entitled obnoxious white people; depictions of panic attacks

Adiba Jaigirdar’s rom-coms always end up on my Best Of book lists, but I’ve never given one its own dedicated post. I feel this needs to change, and what better way to bring this about than with her fluffiest and most sincere contemporary YA yet?

Keep reading...

[based-and-rinpilled]

NIAMH LYCNH YOU WILL BE DEALT WITH

[remusfinglupin]

February Wrap-Up

- Maurice: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Odyssey: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Dos and Donuts of Love: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- Antigone: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

- The Well of Loneliness (finishing in March)

[girlwholikestoread]

Shireen: Because everything about her is still too familiar. In my mind, she's still the girl I love

Me: 😃

Shireen: Loved.

Me: 😕

[bloodmaarked]

➫ monthly book round-up: january 2024

books read: 7 [1 DNF] average rating: 3.75 average speed: 9.7 days total pages: 2,835 yearly goal progress: 6/50 best of the month: confessions of an alleged good girl, joya goffney worst of the month: wild and wicked things, francesca may

4.5* reads:

confessions of an alleged good girl, joya goffney

the moon represents my heart, pim wangtechawat

just sayin': my life in words, malorie blackman

4* reads:

the toll, neal shusterman

2.5* reads

the dos and donuts of love, adiba jaigirdar

where sleeping girls lie, faridah àbíké-íyímídé

DNFs

wild and wicked things, francesca may

currently reading:

knife skills for beginners, orlando murrin

[alexsfictionaddiction]

Review: The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

I'm still obsessed with how cute this cover is and I'm delighted to say that the story inside matches it perfectly. The Dos and Donuts of Love was compulsive reading for me and I'm excited to read more from the same author.

Teen baker Shireen had just broken up with her girlfriend Chris when she finds out that she has been selected as a contestant on The Junior Irish Baking Show. The winner will receive a huge cash prize that will do wonders for Shireen's parents' donut shop. However, it appears that Chris is also going to be on the show. There's also the cute, bubbly Niamh who instantly befriends Shireen. How will Shireen concentrate on winning when the competition seems to be extremely hot?

There is a trigger warning for fatphobia at the start of the book but I felt that readers should be aware before they invest their money into buying a copy. It isn't a huge theme in the book and it is talked about as a cultural attitude rather than as a malicious mindset. I enjoyed how Shireen never comments on how unhappy she is with her body or how ugly she feels because it would have been so easy to slip those comments in. Instead, we definitely get a beautiful, happy, plus-sized heroine.

I did smile at the name Padma Bollywood because I think anyone who has ever seen an episode of The Great British Bake Off will know exactly who she's inspired by. In my opinion, she's definitely an improvement on her real world counterpart though!

I really enjoyed watching the connection between Shireen and Chris and how it seemed to change so often. Sometimes I could see the traces of their former romance. Sometimes I could feel the tension between them. Sometimes they seemed to be great friends. It was a real rollercoaster to be with them but isn't that always the case with teenage girls?

The Dos and Donuts of Love is an adorable sweet treat of a book. It immediately made me want to find all of the old series of Bake Off and binge them all. There is a bit of a twist in the story too which I didn't exactly see coming but it kept me glued to the pages. Themes of race and celebrity are also really prominent, which keep it from being too much of the soft, fluffy story that it ultimately is. A delicious, sapphic YA romance!

[thatfanfictionchick]

Literally just set a reminder in my phone to ask my library to get this book when it comes out in June.

[reedreadsbooks]

finished The Do’s and Donut’s of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar last night! first audiobook i ever read and i think audiobooks might be a solution to contemporary romance for me? because i don’t usually go for straight-up romances but i really loved this and the experience of listening to it was great. I borrowed the audiobook of Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins from my library so we’ll see if this trend continues or if Do’s and Donut’s is just a stand out book for me.

[candidcover]

(via The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar)

The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar is a sweet romance combining desserts and drama. Following a reality baking competition, this one contains a lovable main character as well as thoughtful conversations about racism in this space. Those who love food-related books as much as I do will not want to miss this one!

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pt 2. or i guess, this is the part 1 and that's the part 2 if you want to be chronological about it. swatch paints her nails and gets her caught up on butler drama ♥

[ratxiety]

He has a really good arm

[c-kiddo]

i love when jester does a sending spell so bad she surprises herself and i also love when caduceus says a sentence so jumbled and weird he surprises himself . genuinely very charming

[neverforgetyouremyfavorite]

holding paul matthews in my hands like a bug or perhaps a small frog

[blood-gulch]

it's that time of the year again