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📕 Title: Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon
✏️ Author: Annie Mare
📖 Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi
⭐ Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
📝 Sapphic Romance

📖 BOOK BLURB 📖

A multiverse novel about two women who fall in love despite living in worlds that are five months apart, as they try to find a timeline that doesn’t end in disaster, in this debut novel by Annie Mare.

✍🏽 MY REVIEW ✍🏽

I really love the “opposites attract” pairing of a Tressa Fay, who has a more artistic job as a hair salon owner, and Meryl, who is an engineer. Their conversations are infused with quippy humor and lots of chemistry. It’s an insta-love romance but more of a slow burn as far as physical moments, with a few open door scenes. The side characters get their own romantic subplots, which were so sweet, and I loved the queernormative nature of this book.

This novel explores the confusing logistics of multiverse theory and the characters draw on real scientific theories in their attempts to explain the phenomenon. Trying to alter the past causes butterfly effects, leading to perplexing Schrödinger’s Cat situations. Though I can’t say that it’s entirely logical in its application, the use of hard science fiction sets this novel apart from other stories that use the same plot device in more of a soft sense.

I did wish that the novel leaned more into the romance and less into the speculative aspects. The multiple and ever changing timelines can get confusing at times and I kept flipping back to earlier chapters to reference previous iterations of the timeline, trying to make sense of it all, and then the resolution felt anticlimactic. Despite this, I enjoyed this fun and unique novel.