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A review by peeled_grape
Stop Kiss by Diana Son
2.0
A very fast read. It was okay, I guess. It feels cliché. It's a romance story. There are two people. They fall in love. Something happens that gets in the way of their love.
I hate that it's set "Now." Son doesn't set a year, it's just set as "Now." First of all: Why? If you're not straight, then it just makes it feel like stuff like what happened to Sara will never not happen because it will always take place now and will never change. Is this for straight people, then, to get them to Do Something to stop hate crimes/homophobia/etc.? I hate that most literature I've seen around the LGBTQ+ community is centered on homophobia, or that most of its message is directed at straight people. Oh, look, more gay people getting beat up. How edgy. How original. What I would like is happy homosexual couples, or, at least, ones that exist without being a big deal to the other characters -- the kind of relationship that just exists, and it's normal, and that's it, the normalcy given to heterosexual relationships. Yeah, homophobia is real, and this stuff happens, but this exists in so many stories that I literally never want to see it again. (It's also worth noting that every time I've seen this shit, it comes from straight writers. Can y'all stop.) I know this was written in 2000, but if you want this to take place in the perpetual Now, then it gets my criticism of Now.
I hate that it's set "Now." Son doesn't set a year, it's just set as "Now." First of all: Why? If you're not straight, then it just makes it feel like stuff like what happened to Sara will never not happen because it will always take place now and will never change. Is this for straight people, then, to get them to Do Something to stop hate crimes/homophobia/etc.? I hate that most literature I've seen around the LGBTQ+ community is centered on homophobia, or that most of its message is directed at straight people. Oh, look, more gay people getting beat up. How edgy. How original. What I would like is happy homosexual couples, or, at least, ones that exist without being a big deal to the other characters -- the kind of relationship that just exists, and it's normal, and that's it, the normalcy given to heterosexual relationships. Yeah, homophobia is real, and this stuff happens, but this exists in so many stories that I literally never want to see it again. (It's also worth noting that every time I've seen this shit, it comes from straight writers. Can y'all stop.) I know this was written in 2000, but if you want this to take place in the perpetual Now, then it gets my criticism of Now.