Oof, I’ve said it a million times already but this year was a weird one and I felt it on both the blogging and reading front. Most challenging thing about blogging or your reading life this year? I guess one of the best moments I felt was when I came back from my extended hiatus to find that there were still people following my blog? 😂 I still feel the imposter syndrome pretty often, especially when things felt really tough this year, but yeah… I’m just thankful for all of you who engage with this weird third-culture kid across the sea! ❤️ I don’t know if I can really say whether I had a “best” moment because my blogging and reading life felt pretty low-key in 2021.

There were none this year (but are there ever any events? no… lol) 🥲īest moment of bookish/blogging life in 2021? (author signings, festivals, virtual events, etc.)? I didn’t take a lot of bookish-related photos this year but I did do a book look for my stop on the Cast in Firelight blog tour, a photo of my newly reorganised bookshelf (that didn’t last long lol) and another photo of one of the (very) few hauls I did this year!īest bookish event that you participated in But there were kittens, a matchmaking grandmother, and Hibbert’s wit, so it wasn’t all bad.Favourite bookish-related photo you took in 2021? Did it feel like the middle of a romance novel instead of an entire story? A little. Was this the Christmas novella I was expecting? Not really. Will is adorable and sweet, and Abbie is prickly and scared, and watching them open up to each other is lovely. I liked them both, and Hibbert did a good job of making them feel like fully fleshed-out characters, even with the low page count. At times it’s laugh out loud funny, and I was rooting for Will and Abbie to figure it out. However, that being said, Wrapped Up in You is Talia Hibbert. All in all, I’m just not sure it was successful (or maybe I’m just selfish and wanted more). Especially when the main action takes place over about two days. (They don’t really get together until the epilogue.) But these characters have years of backstory to be able to get to this point, and trying to smash all of that into a 127 page novella is a feat. And here’s why that was a problem for me: the majority of the novella is spent with Will trying to convince Abbie of his feelings, and Abbie trying to avoid her feelings. My major issue is length – at 127 pages, this novella is short. Wrapped Up in You falls somewhere in the middle in that I liked it, but I didn’t love it.

Stay with me.”Īs much as I have absolutely loved some of the Talia Hibbert that I have read, her books tend to be hit or miss for me. “But that’s, like, stage six of the plan. Although I should be clear, I am hoping we will eventually have sex.” He paused. “Oh, sex? You think we’re having sex? We’ve never had sex.

Talia hibbert wrapped up in you