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  Photo Credit: Filip Mroz, Unsplash. I may have a bit of a problem.  When I decided to stop liking football (because I have a really fragile heart; I don’t understand how I can start liking a team and after they’ve won a few times they just start to flop like mad), I replaced my source of pain with tennis. Tennis has not been much better. My greatest heartbreak came in 2021 (and I will not elaborate), but at least it taught me to just like the game, and not care about the players.  I mean, I still care about the players. But if the one I’m rooting for doesn’t win, I move on. I genuinely just shrug, go, ‘And so? Mchew,’ and eat whatever I was eating before I saw the news.  But tennis is fun. When I started following it, like, really following it, it awed me to think that pretty much every week, except for slam weeks, there could be up to five tournaments going on. Players would start the year on hardcourts in New Zealand and Australia, transition to hardcourts and cl...

  3.5 stars out of 5 I had mixed feelings about this collection. Romantic Realms: Hearts at War is an anthology of 10 clean, enemies-to-lovers, romantic fantasy, longish-short stories, no steamy scenes here. I’ll review each of the stories in the order I finished reading them, so if you plan to read the entire review, strap in, and apologies, because this is going to be long! Hehe. “Faerie Boots: Beyond the Faerie Wall,” by Michelle Helen Fritz A woman finds out her cat is really a faerie. This story had some really good descriptions and expressions. I cracked up a few times at some of the nicknames Emerlyn invented for Alaric! Their speech was a little dated, though. I get that the language was deliberately aged to fit a certain historical period, but sometimes that led to flowery speech, and dialogue that came out a little unnatural. Still, I was charmed by the idea of a cat/faerie. “Fatal Hearts,” by Evelina Griggs Two otherworldly assassins must team up to take down a final b...