A review by creolelitbelle
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

My rating greatly differs from the masses, but the slowness of this book had me consider DNFing multiple times throughout it. The audio narration is greatly done, but very little happened. Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a solid queer awakening story. It simultaneously fails at trying to be more while also needing to be more dedicated to that purpose and needing to develop more facets that are only flimsily introduced and barely dived into. Lily learns of her own lesbianism and deals with the closedmindedness of her friends and family during an umaccepting time period for anyone LGBTQIA. The snippets of history connections and family pasts of Lily's relatives that are offered could be beneficial somehow, but as written those pieces felt distracting. 
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