Book Details
Title: Saving Graces
Author: Ruby Landers
Publisher: Independently Published
Publication Date: September 4, 2024
Genre(s): Adult, LGBT, Romance
Pages: 592
Bookshop Affiliate Purchase Link: https://bookshop.org/a/67041/9780648640271
Title: Saving Graces
Author: Ruby Landers
Publisher: Independently Published
Publication Date: September 4, 2024
Genre(s): Adult, LGBT, Romance
Pages: 592
Bookshop Affiliate Purchase Link: https://bookshop.org/a/67041/9780648640271
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Reading Details
Finish Date: January 24, 2024
Format: Digital
Representation: Sapphic
Trigger/Content Warnings: Mentions of transphobia and transphobic violence, mention of suicide, emotional abuse within family, mention of conversion therapy
Finish Date: January 24, 2024
Format: Digital
Representation: Sapphic
Trigger/Content Warnings: Mentions of transphobia and transphobic violence, mention of suicide, emotional abuse within family, mention of conversion therapy
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Rating: 5
Favorite Quote/Scene:
"Above all, you matter."
Review:
This is the final book of the Grace Notes trilogy and I am going to miss this world and these characters. I have spent so many hours with them and in their heads that it’s a little unreal that I’m done with them now. I am again very, very thankful that I got to beta read this book for Ruby. It was honestly one hell of a book.
Every book Ruby writes has me more and more obsessed with her characters. The stars of this book are Rosalie, Savannah’s friend, and Kinsey, a new member of Cassidy’s band. I love Kinsey. At first, I was a bit worried that she might be a bit too…polished, but I ended the book y realizing that that wasn’t quite it. She’s not perfect or polished. She’s someone who has learned a need for boundaries and how to set them for herself. She enforces them at times when Rosalie almost goes past them. But she also makes her own mistakes by jumping to conclusions or not fully allowing for honest communication with Rosalie. Rosalie is another shark altogether. This woman is a kind of a hot mess but it’s also clear why because she has dealt with some serious shit in her life, especially since she also runs The Center, and she has not done therapy to work through that. She has a lot of fear and insecurities regarding things that have happened in her past and she allows that to color her future. I love her deeply even when I want to shake her and beg her to go to therapy and take care of herself as much as she takes care of other people.
The connection between the two is a bit instant. They are attracted to each other, but that’s also all that Rosalie thinks it can be. They can’t be anything more serious. When the two are forced into the same proximity for weeks, things get a bit complicated. As time goes on and the two continue to talk though, things get deeper and become more serious whether they acknowledge that or not. I thought Ruby worked really hard at writing a book where it is clear the characters like each other but that they’ve got some serious things to work through before they can be together.
I have complicated feelings regarding this book. I absolutely adored it. Every second, every page of it. But I also had to immediately message Ruby after reading the ending because WTF was that??? However, I might have just had a lot of emotions in store at the ending of this book and they didn’t take to that ending well.
I might be a bit biased about Ruby's books, I'm aware of that. But I find that each book I read, I love more than the last. Ruby's writing only seems to be getting better and better to me. The stories more engaging, the characters more lifelike. It's fascinating and so exciting! This book in particular was a heavy read, but a needed one. It didn't shy away from the dark times, it embraced their existence but also made it clear that that's not all that exists. There is more. There will be light again.
Favorite Quote/Scene:
"Above all, you matter."
Review:
This is the final book of the Grace Notes trilogy and I am going to miss this world and these characters. I have spent so many hours with them and in their heads that it’s a little unreal that I’m done with them now. I am again very, very thankful that I got to beta read this book for Ruby. It was honestly one hell of a book.
Every book Ruby writes has me more and more obsessed with her characters. The stars of this book are Rosalie, Savannah’s friend, and Kinsey, a new member of Cassidy’s band. I love Kinsey. At first, I was a bit worried that she might be a bit too…polished, but I ended the book y realizing that that wasn’t quite it. She’s not perfect or polished. She’s someone who has learned a need for boundaries and how to set them for herself. She enforces them at times when Rosalie almost goes past them. But she also makes her own mistakes by jumping to conclusions or not fully allowing for honest communication with Rosalie. Rosalie is another shark altogether. This woman is a kind of a hot mess but it’s also clear why because she has dealt with some serious shit in her life, especially since she also runs The Center, and she has not done therapy to work through that. She has a lot of fear and insecurities regarding things that have happened in her past and she allows that to color her future. I love her deeply even when I want to shake her and beg her to go to therapy and take care of herself as much as she takes care of other people.
The connection between the two is a bit instant. They are attracted to each other, but that’s also all that Rosalie thinks it can be. They can’t be anything more serious. When the two are forced into the same proximity for weeks, things get a bit complicated. As time goes on and the two continue to talk though, things get deeper and become more serious whether they acknowledge that or not. I thought Ruby worked really hard at writing a book where it is clear the characters like each other but that they’ve got some serious things to work through before they can be together.
I have complicated feelings regarding this book. I absolutely adored it. Every second, every page of it. But I also had to immediately message Ruby after reading the ending because WTF was that??? However, I might have just had a lot of emotions in store at the ending of this book and they didn’t take to that ending well.
I might be a bit biased about Ruby's books, I'm aware of that. But I find that each book I read, I love more than the last. Ruby's writing only seems to be getting better and better to me. The stories more engaging, the characters more lifelike. It's fascinating and so exciting! This book in particular was a heavy read, but a needed one. It didn't shy away from the dark times, it embraced their existence but also made it clear that that's not all that exists. There is more. There will be light again.
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