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Butlers In Love (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck T.

Friends, the word “butling,” (the art of being a butler,) is brand new to my beak-holes, and I learned it from Butlers In Love starring Stacey Farber and Corey Cott. These actors did a flipper-tickling job of playing Emma and Henry, two students at a highly elite butler academy. Not only was there a duck of a lot of intriguing detail about butling, but there was also a unique environment for building duck-pressure (which is the same as human pressure) both in terms of the beak-thrilling romance and the protagonists’ career aspirations. Also, the story taught this duck a beak-to-flippers lesson about following my heart when it comes to my dreams.

Now, although yours truly has given Butlers in Love a full five flippers, I did get a mite ducked off at the beginning. The heat of conflict is rather abrasive, IMDO (in my ducking opinion), and makes both leads look like the kind of humans a duck should steer clear of. But! It’s super-ducking worth sticking with this one, not least because of the original screenplay and stellar performances from Farber and Cott, who do warm up the characters they play. As for the end of the movie, it was satisfying from beak to flippers! My internal pondwater was moons-at-midnight for days.

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About US

Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I’m queer, nonbinary, and intersex, and I use they/them pronouns. My hubby Jake is LGBTQIA+ too, as is our duck, name of Duck—he’s super-ducking awesome. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because we wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?

We used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out, we thought romance didn’t want us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.

Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching.

Want to know more about Star’s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance stories, novels, and novellas with presses like Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from the likes of Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star’s nonfiction about gender identity has appeared in The New York Times and at Huffington Post Personal.

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