Back of Book: 

Tuesday’s Blues follows Tuesday Abara, a struggling musician hoping to make it big in the big city of Obscuris, despite spending more time spiraling in self-doubt than actually booking gigs. Her love life hasn’t fared any better, either. She’s been ghosted way more than she’d like to admit, and she’s never had a steady partner. Her current romantic prospect seems to only call her after the sun’s gone down...

When Tuesday's recluse of a roommate disappears under, well, let’s call them "mysterious circumstances", Tuesday’s got to forge a plan to make her rent…and fast. That’s when she summons the monster under her bed.

Shadow’s a centuries-old creature of the night, bound to the mortal world through ancient dark magic...and she’s also the monster who’s lived under Tuesday’s bed her whole life. As Shadow fumbles her way through odd jobs, the two take on a third roommate: Claudette, a bougie, formally rich-witch who's been cut off by her wealthy parents until she passes her Display of Magical Talents Exam.

Together, the trio navigate magical side hustles, supernatural dating disasters, and dwindling finances in their cramped apartment… all while trying to make rent.

Book Number: One 

Genre: Adult | Fantasy | Romance | LGBTQIA+ 

Review: 🌟🌟

A quick read that features an unlikely trio that come together to perform in a battle of the bands competition in the hope of securing rent money. 

Tuesday Abara is a struggling musician who dreams of making a career as a singer in the big city. Unfortunately, her singing always puts her audiences to sleep and it's hard to make ends meet with zero cash flow. When her roommate, Bella, mysteriously disappears, Tuesday knows it's time to go job hunting. Along the way, she meets and unlikely group of friends. With the help of her new friends Shadow and Claudette, Tuesday hopes they can win the local battle of the bands competition and make some money while also progressing her music career. 

I thought the premise of this one sounded fun. After all, it follows a struggling musician who is just trying to pay her ridiculously expensive bills in a world full a magic. However, I found this one to be very disjointed and I didn't really feel a connection to any of the characters.

I think the coolest part about this book is the wide variety of monsters that coexist amongst humans. There are harpies, grim reapers, merfolk, vampires, monsters that live under the bed, witches, chupacabras, and so much more. The diversity of the monsters was really fun, but there is literally no lore for this world nor an established magic system of any kind. 

Tuesday's struggles are honestly super relatable. The world is scary expensive these days and literally paying for rent, groceries, and other essentials is quite literally a conflict in and of itself. It's not a surprise that our thirty-year-old protagonists are struggling to make ends meet while trying to follow their creative endeavors. 

The characters in this one had the potential to be awesome, but they all fell flat for me. Everyone's backstory is so minimal it was hard to get to know any of them. Tuesday has at least a little bit of history with us learning about some of her one-night stands and her dad, but none of this information really made me like her. Shadow is very innocent for a demon that lives under a bed. She knows very little about the world and is learning about all of its wonders. Shadow pretty much seemed like a hot dog addict and that was pretty much it. Claudette is a witch who was formerly very rich but was recently disinherited due to her failing out of college for the third time. Her character may have been cool, but we didn't get to see her for very long. She's a spoiled rich brat though, so chances are I'd still dislike her. I hope that all three of them would gain more depth in future installments, but I don't think I care about this story enough to pursue more books. 

This book ends very suddenly and honestly struggles from pacing the whole way through. This book isn't long, but it feels like I read a story on fast forward and it skimmed over all the bits that could have been really interesting, such as Tuesday's date with Honora. It also struggles to stay in one person's perspective, which could have been alright, except that ninety percent of this book follows Tuesday and nobody else. 

This book included some comics throughout, which would have been fun if they literally connected to anything going on in the book. Literally half the comics were sex scenes, which was also a bummer. I feel they should have been included at the end rather than scattered throughout, because they were random moments that didn't happen during the story's main timeline. 

Overall, I thought the premise of "Tuesday's Blues" sounded cute, but it really let me down in the end. I wasn't a huge fan of any the characters, found the chapters to meander from one event to next willy nilly, and really disliked the humor style. I can't say I enjoyed my time with this one, but I did relate to Tuesday's struggles. The world is expensive and it's hard to keep following one's dreams, but she went about everything in the wrong way. I definitely will be putting this one out of sight out of mind and never thinking about it after the book tour I'm a part of is over.