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A review by caprivoyant
Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann
3.25
This is a lighthearted, New Adult novel focused on Alice—a young, Black, biromantic, asexual woman—navigating college, family, and (of course) relationships.
Overall, it was a sweet book! I don’t know if I got what I thought I would when I picked it up (I assumed my own ace-ness would feel validated), but I’m not upset I read it. I just wish that instead of talking about how asexuality is a spectrum… these pages showed that. 💔
Asexuality is a spectrum. If you know 12 people who identify as ace, you’ll have 12 different unique experiences, 12 different definitions of that word. You have people who have different boundaries, different desires, and different hopes for their own relationships. It doesn’t make any one of us more or less ace than another... 💜🤍🖤
And! On this same note of ace-spectrumness, there are a lot of folks in the aspec community who LOVE this book. L O V E it. And feel validated by Alice's experience, so don’t take my review as Ace gospel! If this sounds like a book that’s up your alley, please read it. Just know that Alice’s experience doesn’t speak for us all.
⚠️ Well, nuts. Look at me not taking notes on content AGAIN. I'll do my best in the CW section.
Overall, it was a sweet book! I don’t know if I got what I thought I would when I picked it up (I assumed my own ace-ness would feel validated), but I’m not upset I read it. I just wish that instead of talking about how asexuality is a spectrum… these pages showed that. 💔
Asexuality is a spectrum. If you know 12 people who identify as ace, you’ll have 12 different unique experiences, 12 different definitions of that word. You have people who have different boundaries, different desires, and different hopes for their own relationships. It doesn’t make any one of us more or less ace than another... 💜🤍🖤
And! On this same note of ace-spectrumness, there are a lot of folks in the aspec community who LOVE this book. L O V E it. And feel validated by Alice's experience, so don’t take my review as Ace gospel! If this sounds like a book that’s up your alley, please read it. Just know that Alice’s experience doesn’t speak for us all.
⚠️ Well, nuts. Look at me not taking notes on content AGAIN. I'll do my best in the CW section.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia
Minor: Infidelity and Sexual assault