ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley “So this was how it felt—to be dealt a blow, to pause, to keep going in spite of it. Not to start over but to continue.” this book follows two women, throughout their teens and twenties, whose paths keep crossing. the star-crossed lovers vibes is so there, but this book is so much more than that too. this is a book ultimately about trauma and grief, but it is also about love and hope. we get to see these main characters be siblings, we get to...

This is maybe a perfect book? It is just lovely: gorgeous, understated, evocative prose; a rich sense of place; a focus on pleasure, beauty, and growth while not forgetting pain, loss, and grief; intricate queer characters whose lives felt so true.LaCour follows two women, Emilie and Sara, from teenagehood to their late twenties, charting their journeys until they have a chance meeting at a restaurant where Sara is consulting as a bartender and Emilie is doing flower arrangements.Although they a...

i only have about 5 things i like in the whole world, and literary fiction and nina lacour are 2 of them.so this better be good.

I have heard about Nina LaCour for a long time and have been meaning to read her novels. When I saw she had an adult novel coming out I thought it was the perfect time to dive in and I wasn't wrong. A beautiful, poignant, deeply felt novel about love and trauma and finding your way to yourself.Sara and Emilie are a lot different and a lot the same. Sara is running away from a difficult childhood and the sudden, suspicious death of her girlfriend. Emilie doesn't feel at home in her family, where

This novel is Nina LaCour’s breakout into adult fiction from YA and I think if you’ve read her previous novels and loved them you’ll be pleased with this one as well. Yerba Buena follows two characters in slightly skewed timelines: Emily, a college student who dissatisfaction with herself and life show up in her ever switching major, and Sarah who after a tragedy in her hometown runs away as a teen to Los Angeles. LaCour’s writing is beautiful and dreamlike. She focuses heavily on descriptions o...

Yerba Buena is LaCour’s first novel for adults and I loved it. The story follows two main characters, Sara and Emilie, from their teenage years through to late twenties. And oof does the novel pack a lot in. Sara’s family life is an extremely broken and damaged one. Full of criminality and harshness from which she runs away age 16.And Emilie’s life, though from the outside appears a good one… but she struggles so much with her sense of identity. Trying to fit in and mould herself to the wants an...

NEW NINA LACOUR BOOK??? Say no more.

Don’t go into this book expecting a romance novel. While there’s a romantic arc, Yerba Buena is more about finding oneself than finding true love, even if that too is part of the journey. As a consequence, the MCs don’t spend that much time on page together for a significant part of the book. Their stories are told as flowing parallels, intersecting here and there, where life takes them. The blurb is slightly misleading in that regard.At sixteen, after tragedy struck, Sara Foster left home and m...

I really enjoyed this story! Yerba Buena is my second LaCour novel, and flows so well from one to the other. LaCour is greta at capturing a vibe that is very melancholic and reflective while including the more hopeful aspects of life such as love and future career/schooling goals. Yerba Buena is a dual POV story between two women who come together in a romance. I really enjoyed reading about the backstories for both characters, though at times the narration bled together, leaving behind two char...

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I'm a big Nina LaCour fan. I've read most of her YA novels and always really enjoy them. I think she has one of the most unique voices when it comes to writing loneliness, melancholy, loss, and ultimately healing. I also seem to have the habit of getting hooked into the feelings of her books reading until well into the night to finish them, because you can't be left hanging. So with all of this I was looking forward to her first adult novel Yerba BuenaYerba Buena is a novel that spans years foll...

On my blog. Rep: biracial Black bi/pan mc, lesbian mc, gay side character, Filipino American side characterCWs: drug abuse, mentions of overdoses, prostitution, child sexual abuse, death of a parentGalley provided by publisherYerba Buena is a book. By which I mean, I read it, but I didn’t really feel any particularly strong way about it. It’s Nina LaCour! I was expecting to love this! But in the end? It was a book. That’s about all I can say.Part of this may just be I was expecting something

That was..... beautiful. Wow. This was so much more than I was expecting. I only requested this audio ARC from NetGalley because Julia Whelan narrates, and I could listen to her perform the encyclopedia, or the dictionary, or my old statistics text book from college. 😜 So I knew going in that this would be well-narrated. What I didn't expect was to become so immersed in the lives of these characters, or to care as much as I did. I give this a 10/10. I loved everything about this story! It's cate...

5/5 stars“In the silence that followed she realized how badly she wanted to have been told a story. She craved the arc of it, the beginning and middle and end. She craved a moral, a meaning, something she could mull over in the dark.”If you know me, or have been following my reviews for a while now, it’s going to come as no surprise that I’ve yet again fallen wholeheartedly and unapologetically in love with yet another Nina Lacour novel. I feel deeply honoured and slightly inadequate to be able

content warnings:(view spoiler)[ loss of a parent, loss of a loved one, depression depiction, grief depiction, talk of overdose, panic attacks, child neglect, abandonment, parental abuse, coercion, sexual assault involving minors, cheating/affair, divorce, power imbalanced relationship (outside of the main relationship), drug addiction and drugs, cancer, colorism, hospital, death, murder, homophobic family mention. (hide spoiler)]This was both widely different from what I envisioned but also exa...

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