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And a woman with a to-do list was unstoppable.”

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If there’s one thing you need to know about Nellie Wilson’s books, it’s that she writes hot nerds falling in love. And she delivers EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I will never grow tired of the nerds her brain creates because her stories are so unique, honest, and shockingly realistic. 

Phoebe doesn’t like to ruffle anyone’s feathers. She’s gotten herself far enough in her life that she has a graduate degree, a job that overworks her, and a reputation for doling out advice to others that she conveniently doesn’t apply to her own life. Which is why, when she realizes she wants the love everyone around her seems to have, she she seizes the day. Declan asked Phoebe out six years ago, breaking his rule as a bartender not to date customers. She didn’t respond at all, so he took the hint. But now she’s proposed he help her discover what she wants and needs when it comes to love and…well. He’s not going to say no. 

📚 Friends to Lovers 

📚 Late Bloomer Sex Lessons 

📚 Queer MC’s

📚 Found Family 

📚 Boundary setting 

📚 MILLENNIAL NERDS IN LOVEEEEEEEEE

📚NEWSIES REFERENCES 

EDUCATED releases August 8!! If you want to start reading about hot needs right away, check  out her other books on KU! Thank you, Nellie, for gifting me an ARC of Educated 🫶 

“I know you always talked about how I saved your life. But I really think, Ben, that you were the one who saved mine.”

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SOMETHING WILD & WONDERFUL is such a magical, magnetic, and a beautiful story of finding love in unexpected places. I started giggling on page two and I knew I was a GONER for Alexei and Ben. This book checks every box I want in a contemporary romance: fun concept (hiking PCT trail), diverse cast, multifaceted intimacy, humor, and emotional depth in characters. 

Alexei is hiking the Pacific Crest Trail to find out who the new version of himself, Alexei 2.0, could be. Ben Caravalho is hiking to take a break from men and get away from making bad decisions. A rattlesnake on the trail brings them together the first time, and as they make their separate treks through the 2,500 mile trail, their journeys intertwine. But maybe this is just the trail. Maybe none of it’s real outside this grand adventure. Or maybe they’ve found exactly what they need while trying to get lost. 

🏕️ Queer Romance 

🏕️ Portuguese and Russian MCs

🏕️ Autistic MC

🏕️ A BLUSHING NERD

🏕️ Introvert x Extrovert

🏕️ Strangers to lovers 

🏕️ Forced Proximity 

🏕️ FOUND FAMILY 

🏕️ They write letters to each other 🥹

⚠️CW: familial estrangement due to queer identity, homophobic language, religion and strict religious upbringing.