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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I LOVE GINNY AND ELSIE SO MUCH. ALL THE STARS.
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Maaan I don't know about this one. I think Meryl Wilsner's writing might just not be for me. I remember feeling very ehhh about the last book by them that I read but then I saw this one recommended, I think for having a fat protagonist, and the premise felt very different so I went for it. The pacing is kind of unhinged? But that means the book successfully isolates the honeymoon piece in a way that makes sense when you step back and look at the book as a whole, which really feels like it is about codependency and learning to break out of it. I'm curious how I'll feel about this one as I move away from it, especially because I really liked the first few chapters! Wilsner really gives us Ginny and Elsie in their flawed totality right off the bat and I loved that, but then the pacing went off the rails and the inevitable romance novel They Can't Communicate happened in a way that really annoyed me. But the codependency piece does kind of make it make sense?
One important thing: Wilsner handles Ginny using multiple pronouns so beautifully. Having read a queer romance novel that tossed out a nb character who used multiple pronouns and then mishandled it, I was really happy to see Wilsner really, fully honor Ginny's identity.
One important thing: Wilsner handles Ginny using multiple pronouns so beautifully. Having read a queer romance novel that tossed out a nb character who used multiple pronouns and then mishandled it, I was really happy to see Wilsner really, fully honor Ginny's identity.
I was excited about this book cause I enjoyed her other books immensely, but this one is coloring her other books in an awful light now.
The two white and queer English speaking FMCs go to an inclusive resort in a Spanish speaking Caribbean country where they get served and catered to by non white people. It already felt icky as they get brought by boat to their cabin over the water and told they can have anything brought to them. Then they walked in on two white queer people having sex in a public waterfall area. I just…imagine if it was two straight people having public sex around a beautiful waterfall in another county that is still experiencing colonization? You know beautiful areas that should be the province of locals are kept from locals and used for wealthy white people at resorts all the time? Making it queer doesn’t make it right or endearing. And then there was the dinner scene.
The server used ‘ladies’ when asking how they anre and one of the MCs LECTURED them about using inclusive language. Are you fucking serious?!!!!! No no no no. You don’t lecture literal servers about this. It is not their job or requirement to know your preferred pronouns. And that’s how I feel about doing that in an English speaking country. Doing that to a server whose first language isn’t English. Are you serious?!!! And I want to be clear, I care about preferred pronouns. Thats something to make sure your boss respects, that your friends and family respect, your doctors. And I get it, it’s way easier to lecture someone who’s job it is to serve you then your own friends and family, but lecturing a server is so disgustingly entitled. It was described like it was empowerment, making this server afraid to speak and endangering their job.
I just… I’m disgusted. I don’t know if the author just has a stereotype about how gender queer people expect their allies to behave (I know a lot of gender queer people who would never!!) or if they believe this is an appropriate way to behave and know some queer people who do. But it reeks of white privileged and entitlement and colonization. -9/4/25
The two white and queer English speaking FMCs go to an inclusive resort in a Spanish speaking Caribbean country where they get served and catered to by non white people. It already felt icky as they get brought by boat to their cabin over the water and told they can have anything brought to them. Then they walked in on two white queer people having sex in a public waterfall area. I just…imagine if it was two straight people having public sex around a beautiful waterfall in another county that is still experiencing colonization? You know beautiful areas that should be the province of locals are kept from locals and used for wealthy white people at resorts all the time? Making it queer doesn’t make it right or endearing. And then there was the dinner scene.
The server used ‘ladies’ when asking how they anre and one of the MCs LECTURED them about using inclusive language. Are you fucking serious?!!!!! No no no no. You don’t lecture literal servers about this. It is not their job or requirement to know your preferred pronouns. And that’s how I feel about doing that in an English speaking country. Doing that to a server whose first language isn’t English. Are you serious?!!! And I want to be clear, I care about preferred pronouns. Thats something to make sure your boss respects, that your friends and family respect, your doctors. And I get it, it’s way easier to lecture someone who’s job it is to serve you then your own friends and family, but lecturing a server is so disgustingly entitled. It was described like it was empowerment, making this server afraid to speak and endangering their job.
I just… I’m disgusted. I don’t know if the author just has a stereotype about how gender queer people expect their allies to behave (I know a lot of gender queer people who would never!!) or if they believe this is an appropriate way to behave and know some queer people who do. But it reeks of white privileged and entitlement and colonization. -9/4/25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Colonisation
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes