At Your Most Beautiful

Stars: 5 Stars Format: Audiobook Narrator: Angela Dawe Series: Stand Alone Steam Level: Steamy I read this for the 2026 Sapphic Book Bingo Hidden Gems reading challenge for the prompt Main Character is 50+. I read this book a couple of years ago and it was so good that I immediately put it on my list to read again. I’m bummed that I only now got a chance to read it again but I’m very happy that this reading challenge gave me the opportunity to listen to it. Quick Thoughts: - Not only does this fill the Main Character is 50+ prompt but also the Tattooed Main Character prompt - I know I know. This set up is one big giant cliché and if it was a MF couple I probably wouldn’t have picked it up but it’s a FF couple and I just gobbled this up like candy - The time jump here was perfect and actually felt necessary instead of just plot device to skip things the writer doesn’t want to write - Ugh. Now I want another tattoo - Loved that each lady had their own distinct passions. Quinn with photography and Maya with dancing - The drama and issues they had to work through felt realistic for their situation and necessary for them to move forward - Also the sex was smoking hot - Why do people try to insist you’ll change your mind about not wanting kids? - Maya’s family is awesome - I kinda did want to shake Quinn’s parents but they weren’t totally awful - The epilogue was so cute. I loved getting to see how their families, and their lives, were beginning to mesh - Angela…

Harper Bliss never, never disappoints with her books. I loved everything about this one. Quinn and Maya were truly destined to be together. 10 years is a long time wait to see if there would be anything resembling a relationship between the two. Neither ever forgot their time together so long ago but both had moved on. Quinn was so into older women that she let one of them ruin 4 years of her life. Maya couldn't even begin to believe (let alone admit) that she was anything other than straight.....right? I will say that Quinn was the one who really got to my heart. She was so patient, wise and thoughtful. Maya, on the other had, really got my goat at some points. She really loved Quinn but hesitated over things. The age difference and not wanting to or not knowing how to tell her son about her attraction were her main drawbacks. I kind of wanted to shake her to get her attention and yet I did understand her hesitance. This was just a perfect "wait for it" romance and I loved every page of it. Many, many thanks to Harper for once again proving she is the best at age/gap stories.

Harper Bliss has done it again! She is SO good at delving deeply into people and relationships, showing all the mess and inner turmoil of her characters. And she always creates such endearing, believable and realistic stories that I find hard to put down.