Love & Other Curses
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Love & Other Curses

“I’m pretty sure I’m the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye.” The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations—if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies. Sam doesn’t plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. He’ll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad; cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands); and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club. But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that. As Sam’s birthday approaches and he still hasn’t quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets. A mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he’s only seen in a dream might have the answers he’s been looking for—but time is running out to save the people he cares about.
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Sarah Sammis@pussreboots
4 stars
Apr 4, 2024

Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford is a queer coming of age tale set in a small Upstate New York town. Sam Weyward is part of a cursed family. If he falls in love before his seventeenth birthday, he's doomed to die. He has nine weeks left and he's not expecting to fall in love, that is until a new guy comes to visit for the summer. Sam's life is compartmentalized. He works days with his father at the Eezy-Freeze. He spends his evenings at the local gay bar where he experiments with finding a drag persona. He spends his nights making random phone calls — until he finds a friend who is an aspiring musician. 66CC99 - marginalized uhoria labyrinth http://pussreboots.com/blog/2020/comm...

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Emma Kamer@emmakamer
2 stars
Mar 16, 2022

I expected more romance. Sam and his family were fun characters, but I wasn't a fan of Tom. It was easy to read, but the plot was pretty boring. The plot twist was fun and unexpected. The topics discussed in the book are topics that are good to write about.

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Teodora Nagy@leny_born_from_starlight
3 stars
Jul 8, 2023
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Zoey Mikalatos@zoeymik
3 stars
Aug 29, 2022
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Teodora Nagy@teodora_nagy
3 stars
Aug 13, 2022
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Chandler Primak@chandlerhayden
4 stars
Jan 11, 2022