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A review by blackrabbitrun
This Heart Holds Many: My Life as the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family by Koe Creation
2.0
As a nonbinary, polyamorous millennial I was very much looking forward to this book... but in the end it took me almost two months to drudge through 200 pages, because I just couldn't connect with anything in it, and because the narrative voice is honestly kind of annoying.
Creation alternates between some genuinely helpful and interesting description of their own upbringing with multiple parents - by far the most interesting part of the book - and complaints about how, urgh, I'm having to explain this to the normies again because they don't understand anything about how good and loving and ~*~special~*~ polyamorous families are. The latter half of the book, meanwhile, mainly describes the ongoing identity crisis of a teenager and young adult spectacularly under-equipped for achieving adult emotional independence, which I would've cared more about if I hadn't been so annoyed by that point.
My main takeaways from this book are that the allosexual, alloromantic concept of polyamory is profoundly odd, and that people who repeatedly reference their own geek cred and high intelligence make me want to scream into a pillow, and not in the fun way.
Would recommend for people who want to combine sexually active nonmonogamy with raising a family, with instructions to skip anything past chapter four.
Creation alternates between some genuinely helpful and interesting description of their own upbringing with multiple parents - by far the most interesting part of the book - and complaints about how, urgh, I'm having to explain this to the normies again because they don't understand anything about how good and loving and ~*~special~*~ polyamorous families are. The latter half of the book, meanwhile, mainly describes the ongoing identity crisis of a teenager and young adult spectacularly under-equipped for achieving adult emotional independence, which I would've cared more about if I hadn't been so annoyed by that point.
My main takeaways from this book are that the allosexual, alloromantic concept of polyamory is profoundly odd, and that people who repeatedly reference their own geek cred and high intelligence make me want to scream into a pillow, and not in the fun way.
Would recommend for people who want to combine sexually active nonmonogamy with raising a family, with instructions to skip anything past chapter four.