Cupid's Revenge

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As a lover of Wibke Brueggmann's debut novel, Love Is For Losers, I jumped at the chance to read her newest release, and it's safe to say that my excitement was well placed. i went into this expecting mainly a romance, but it is so much more than that (although the romance is amazing). teddy and tilly’s friendship is so nice, even when they fight at some points. and the storyline with tilly’s grandpa broke my heart, but i loved the moments of happiness with him.

We’d been neighbors all our lives; our parents are—well, were—literally BFFs, and Teddy and I were born only four months apart. And even though our mothers insist this was merely a coincidence rather than the result of meticulous reproductive planning, we knew the truth.This cute YA book is about a theatre group who are doing a variety play to raise money for acting. The main character, Tilly (Matilda) joins up with her BFF, Teddy (Theodore) who is only joining up because he knows the girl, Katherine Cooper-Bunting is auditioning and begs Tilly to come along and help him get the girl. The whole thing was kind of Teddy’s fault, because if it hadn’t been for his ridiculous plan, I’d never even have known about the existence of Katherine Cooper-Bunting.

Lastly, I loved all the fanfiction talk. It was so funny when Teddy mentioned about how fanfiction dynamics worked and also his love for Care Bears. I was going to stay way away from all that, even after what happened in church. And maybe even after that, but you know Cupid: He’ll get you when you least expect it. I opened my mouth, and she did the same, and then we were properly kissing with tongues and everything, and I thought how she tasted of strawberries, and that I hadn't been that physically hot in all my life. Like, my skin was on fire. And I wanted to get inside her, like, deeper and deeper, and she seemed to want the same, because she was pulling me closer and closer and closer, and I thought my head would explode. Or I would faint. Or just die." At times, however, the story did feel a bit repetitive to me. I think that’s due in part to the miscommunication trope, which isn’t my favorite in rom-coms. Just talk to each other already! Especially when it came to Teddy and Tilly. I know grief partly factored into it, I just wish they had been able to work things out sooner. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and Wibke Brueggmann is certainly earning her new spot on my 'must read everything she ever publishes' list!

Overall, this was just an amazing read and I'm happy to have read it. Definitely one of my favorite sapphic reads of the year. The play portrays Leontius, the Duke of Lycia, suppressing the customary worship of the god Cupid, the patron deity of the land, in response to the pleadings of his son and daughter, Leucippus and Hisdaspes. In revenge, Cupid (who functions as a chorus in the play, comparable to the choric figures in the tragedies of Seneca or the personification of Revenge in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) oversees the ruin and death of the royal family and their retainers through some very unwise amorous entanglements. As he is dying in the play's bloody final scene, Leucippus reverses his father's edict against Cupid. I realize this is a mixed bag - some will enjoy, some will dislike her and thus have less of a good time with the book. I think it's worth the risk to try it out, also because the book does my favourite thing and provides a marvellous larger cast of individually great characters. The author so pins down their personalities and offers wonderful interactions and situation comedy. Also nice to see that a book actually covers the corona pandemic. Naturally, she trips and falls for her best friend’s crush, the girl no one expected to be a lesbian too. Though just how long are they able to keep their stolen kisses a secret? And the relationships, both romantic and platonic were so wholesome. I loved how there wasn’t really any homophobia with any of the characters. I also quite liked how this book ended, the relationships were great.

Thank you so much to Pridebooktours, paacmillan and Wibke Brueggemann for this ARC in exchange for an honest review! I absolutely adore the humor and the overall writing style of this book. The pace was great, the plot was entertaining, the characters had good personalities, and the setting was portrayed quite nicely. Thanks to NetGalley and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux for an advanced copy of Cupid’s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann to review! I am officially into reviewing 2024 books, which feels both weird and exciting. And it looks like there are some great books coming out this January you’ll want to keep your eyes on! this author does really great realistic teenage protagonists - Tilly is fun and snarky, but also immature and self-absorbed. She isn't cruel, but she can be thoughtless and hurt others without meaning to, and obviously with the plot of this book, you know she handles the situation with her best friend crushing on her love interest badly, but it's so believable how she wanted to avoid confrontation and couldn't work out a better way to handle it.

Tilly's best friend Teddy has a new crush, a girl named Katherine Cooper-Bunting. But not long after trying to wingwoman Teddy, Tilly finds out she also has a crush on Miss Cooper-Bunting. The relationships, be them romantic, familial or platonic, were the real highlight of Cupid's Revenge, and it showed so much throughout the story just how important these connections are, especially during the hardest moments. She's left with two options, and neither of them are things that she wants. She either hurts her best friend, or she loses what could potentially be her only chance of an epic high school romance. Sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking, Cupid's Revenge counterbalances seriousness with absurdity. Gareth Williams' original score provides an anchor for the movement, which when combined invites audiences to be swept up into the beat and pace of the work. In their own words "Cupid's Revenge is a joyful dancing outburst against the forces that masquerade as love. A look at love in the context of now, both big and small, where it really is and what it really means". For fans of Casey McQuiston and Alice Oseman, a girl falls for her best friend’s crush in Cupid’s Revenge , a queer young adult rom-com from Wibke Brueggemann that’s equal parts hilarious and swoon-worthy.

Here’s the story,” he said, and looked at his phone. “It is now sixteen forty-seven. At seventeen hundred hours, Katherine Cooper-Bunting is going to arrive for her last piano lesson before taking a summer break, and we have to find out what she’s doing for said break, so we can accidentally on purpose run into her, so I can ask her out, because I’m fiercely in love with her.”I am 30+ years old but I enjoy teen novels as a form of nostalgia. I was not a drama school kid when i was a teenager, but I had a lot of friends who were. It felt like I was in high school again!