And want to go take a nap on my cat's belly. GIANT CATS WHO TALK SMACK, HIT THE 'NIP, AND GO GALLIVANTING WITH YOU. I don't know quite know if they're supposed to be like actual big cats (panthers, tigers, etc), but I could not help picturing giant versions of house cats, in particular my own. While I'm all about all three of them finding happily ever after together, I did find the extensive in-universe justification for the second wedding(s) a little, '.really?' Like, get married! Totally! Everyone gets married to each other! Fancy dresses and suits galore! But multiple pages outlining how the marriage contract is legal even though the relationships themselves may be illegal? It kind of sucked the punch out of the characters finally being in a place where they are emotionally ready to pledge their troth to each other all the way around.īUT REALLY, IT'S ABOUT THE GIANT CATS. SpoilerIs this really a spoiler? I mean, you kinda know from the front cover that they're all three going to end up with each other.

It's lovely in how the heroine's neurodivergency is handled by her love interests there's some excellent secret!pining, and the fantasy worldbuilding is interesting. It's got a very fanfic-like sensibility (a la, in a lot of ways), particulalry in the way it's long and leisurely in its treatment of both worldbuilding, religion-building, and.emotional-arc-building(?), as it's got a lot of romance novel trappings but doesn't hit the beats in quite the way most romance novels do. Queer poly second-world fantasy/historicalish romance WITH GIANT CATS YOU CAN RIDE.

A Rational Arrangement by L. Rowyn