Fortitude Smashed (The Camellia Clock Cycle)

by Taylor Brooke

Camellia Clock Cycle (1)

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"When scientists stumbled across a human hormone anomaly present during moments of emotional intimacy, further research created the ability to harness the direction of living energy and pinpoint when two lines will merge. Personalized chips are now implanted beneath the thumbnails of every infant, where glowing numbers count down to the moment they will meet their soul mate. Fate is now a calculation. But loving someone isn't. When Shannon Wurther, the youngest detective in Southern show more California, finds himself face-to-face with Aiden Maar, the reckless art thief Shannon's precinct has been chasing for months, they are both stunned. Their Camellia Clocks have timed out, and the men are left with a choice: love one another, or defy fate."--Amazon.com. show less

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Ordinarily, I balk at paying this much for a romance novel.

But this is ART.

Before I got even a quarter of the way in, I bought the sequel. This author's prose is watercolor sketches bursting into stunning 3D and startling mindscapes ART. The Acknowledgments at the end indicate the team behind Brooke's work, but we know how that goes. Without the author, novels don't happen at all.

This is a version of the enemies to lovers trope immediately intriguing. The Camellia Clock may be a dorky premise, but I swiftly didn't care, then admired how the author presented it The personalities in this novel are powerful, complicated and complex. The rep of anxiety and depression is lovely. Not simple, not easy. Lovely. Grief does damage left to show more fester - a visceral truth for more than one of these people. The pillow fort scene is among my favorite in all of fiction. Intense, surgical, powerful. And sweet, eventually.

This story remains strongly artfully great to the last word. I am so glad book 2 is available.
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Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+, Science Fiction, Romance
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813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
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PS3602 .R64278 .F67Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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