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Love in Focus Review

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  Lyla Lee 's first adult romance novel! How was it? Love in Focus is about Gemma Cho, a journalist who just broke up with her boyfriend of seven years. She vows not to not be in another relationship. That is, until her workplace starts a new project for a Valentine's Day issue titled "Modern Love in Focus", and the photographer for the project is none other than Celeste Min, Gemma's ex-girlfriend from college! Gemma and Celeste try to keep things professional at first, but very quickly they realize that they never got over each other. The two end up rekindling their relationship, but they are scared to get close to each other again. It turns out Celeste was carrying a lot of personal baggage with her, too, which is why she suddenly broke up with Gemma several years ago. But as you can imagine, everything ends up working out in the end. I just love how Lyla Lee makes her characters feel so real, and the messages are always really good! This is how romance novels s...

Favorite Authors Part 10: Lyla Lee

  Welcome back to another part of my Favorite Authors series! Here is another one that's a little more recent. The first book I read from Lyla Lee was I'll Be the One back in 2022. I absolutely loved it! Whenever I recommend people a book about K Pop, Korean rep, plus-sized rep, and queer rep, I recommend this one! I then read Flip the Script later in the same year. Also a masterpiece! This one is about K-Dramas and also features plenty of queer representation. Earlier this year I read the first book in her new middle grade series, Gigi Shin is Not a Nerd, and I also had a blast with it! I can't wait for the next book to come out.  I know she has a long running early chapter books series called Mindy Kim. I might read them one day. I heard they are kind of like the Junie B Jones series. As of writing this, Lyla Lee has two new books coming out! One will be an YA romance novel called The Cuffing Game, and the other is her first adult romance novel called Love in Focus. I a...