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mels_reading_log's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
This is a friends to lovers romance where the people in the couple are 50ish year old introverts who met through an online gaming guild. I love a romance novel that gives me a couple that’s not just young, hot and cis! This book is all about accepting yourself and finding your people who will love you no matter what.
Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Outing, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Grief and Injury/Injury detail
annahamburger's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Outing
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail
amy_in_the_city's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
As someone on the ace spectrum, I appreciated that this book had a main character, especially an older character, discovering that they were demisexual. However, the book got some things wrong about asexuality. At one point, Maggie explains that "Ace is also called 'graysexual.'" A quick Google search would have confirmed that those two terms don't mean the same thing and that "graysexual" is actually just one of many different types of asexuality. It's clear from other terms used in explaining asexuality that the author did research various terminology. It just seems like she got confused at some point with a couple of terms, but I wish there had been a sensitivity reader or an editor that could have caught this before it made it into the final book. I also thought Aiden seemed pretty clearly demiromantic as well, but this was never brought up and his demiromantic traits were lumped in with his demisexual traits. Terminology issues aside, I thought the demisexuality was represented well, and Aiden felt authentically demi in how he experienced the world and in how he reacted to learning there was a word for how he was.
Overall, this was a cute romance, and I had a great time reading it!
Graphic: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Outing
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Grief, Car accident, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Alcohol
readbykatherine's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Homophobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Outing
Minor: Emotional abuse, Racism, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
callidoralblack's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Biphobia, Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Outing
Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail
wilybooklover's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Outing
Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Racism, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail