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Samantha Sotto Yambao: Water Moon (2025, Random House Worlds)

A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on …

It’s a romance!

It’s not bad but it’s Very Hetero and rather overwritten. I liked the setting, but the plot is essentially 100% deus ex machina.

I’m also always a bit wary of any story dealing with concepts like duty and fate by firmly mega-affirming the primacy of Freedom.