A review by auntiewhispers
The Antidote for Everything by Kimmery Martin

2.0

1.5 but I'm rounding up. There were things I liked about this book: a well developed friendship, a woman in a heavily male dominated STEM field, and a focus on LGBTQ+ issues. But there were so many things that really didn't work for me and ended up just leaving me frustrated. For a book that's main plot centers around the discrimination of LGTBQ+ people, specifically trans people, it was a really strange choice to have the main narrator be a straight cis woman. I would have been much more interested in a protagonist that was actually a member of the community being affected. Going off this, the romantic relationship between Mark and Georgia was... weird. It just seemed so randomly thrown in and in reality, it was a pretty basic heterosexual romance with no real meaning to the main plot and message of the book. Overall, I REALLY wanted to like this book and it seemingly checked a ton of boxes for me but it just really fell flat in the end.