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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
really beautifully written, the amt of detail, you could tell it was written with love. did not give it a 5 bc there was a lack of character development and the ending ran flat, however it was very slice of life-y type story.
The narrative voice was too removed while being overly descriptive, Mickey was so passive as a character, and reviews were not encouraging. I might have enjoyed this more reading it physically over the audiobook, but I wasn’t having a good enough time to seek out a physical copy.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wanted to like it but found Mickey completely insufferable especially with the T storyline
funny
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you like character studies you will like this one. If you’re here for plot more over than characters, this one’s not for you if you like characters more than plot, this one is for you. It’s well written and very humorous. It’s gay. Gotta love that.
This is definitely one of the stories of like RuPaul says “if you don’t love yourself how the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
The only reason it doesn’t get a full five stars for me is because at the beginning, I love the book thought it was going to be a five star but closer to the end, I stopped, loving it as much, and then I started liking it again. So that’s the reason for one star down.
Here some quotes I liked
“Stop licking me.” “Oh please, you like it,” Lex countered, giving the other cheek a lick for good measure and kissing her there, too.”
“And then there was the warmth. Lex was sunshine. The kind that tanned your hands while driving and kissed your face on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Subtle, but unmissable. Warm.”
“Mickey, on the other hand, had an innate talent for knowing how to read a room and a good handle on the mechanics of politics and privilege, which made her perpetually angry, weary, and jaded, always simmering at a low boil.”
“She was stalking everyone these days, and the heaviness told her it was because there was nothing in her own life worth paying attention to.”
“Mickey could see that they had spent much of their relationship mothering each other, filling in the holes that the women who birthed them had left behind.”
“Getting sick doesn’t stop you from being a shitty person. The timing was really convenient though.”
“There wasn’t enough pasta or forehead kisses or lazy mornings in bed to make up for not being seen by the person she had believed to be her reflection.”
“Halloween parties are dangerous things, especially for white people who have been given a theme.”
“Sometimes heartbreak makes you bold. At least it had that effect on Mickey, who, after weeks of avoiding her father’s house, decided to walk right up to its once-red door and knock.”
This is definitely one of the stories of like RuPaul says “if you don’t love yourself how the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
The only reason it doesn’t get a full five stars for me is because at the beginning, I love the book thought it was going to be a five star but closer to the end, I stopped, loving it as much, and then I started liking it again. So that’s the reason for one star down.
Here some quotes I liked
“Stop licking me.” “Oh please, you like it,” Lex countered, giving the other cheek a lick for good measure and kissing her there, too.”
“And then there was the warmth. Lex was sunshine. The kind that tanned your hands while driving and kissed your face on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Subtle, but unmissable. Warm.”
“Mickey, on the other hand, had an innate talent for knowing how to read a room and a good handle on the mechanics of politics and privilege, which made her perpetually angry, weary, and jaded, always simmering at a low boil.”
“She was stalking everyone these days, and the heaviness told her it was because there was nothing in her own life worth paying attention to.”
“Mickey could see that they had spent much of their relationship mothering each other, filling in the holes that the women who birthed them had left behind.”
“Getting sick doesn’t stop you from being a shitty person. The timing was really convenient though.”
“There wasn’t enough pasta or forehead kisses or lazy mornings in bed to make up for not being seen by the person she had believed to be her reflection.”
“Halloween parties are dangerous things, especially for white people who have been given a theme.”
“Sometimes heartbreak makes you bold. At least it had that effect on Mickey, who, after weeks of avoiding her father’s house, decided to walk right up to its once-red door and knock.”
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very messy and stressful. The dialogue was really well done. I had to sit with this trifling lead for so long, but I enjoyed the writing and characters. People are so flawed but it was very engaging.
I enjoyed the depictions of Black women in media. I related a lot to being in those predominantly white spaces. It definitely showed that writer was a culture writer.
A fun, messy ride. Lex deserved better
I enjoyed the depictions of Black women in media. I related a lot to being in those predominantly white spaces. It definitely showed that writer was a culture writer.
A fun, messy ride. Lex deserved better
emotional
sad
medium-paced
My major gripe with this book is that the blurb is misleading. It's not that the things detailed in the blurb don't happen, they do, it's that they're such a small part of the general nothingburger that is this book.
While I do not like to criticize how people respond or react to racism especially in its more covert forms, the premise of this book sets you up for rage and anger and then you get into the book and nothing happens. The letter that supposedly details our main character's experience in her work place and her anger about it all, only gets about 15 pages towards the halfway mark and then it's not discussed again up until the very end of the book.
I wanted to see discussions about race, racism, sexism and all it's intersectionality in our mc's experience as a gay, black woman who's place and ideas in media are always dismissed as being "too Black." This book had all the ingredients to be something amazing and instead we got 70% that just followed Mickey running around with her childhood situationship while ignoring her girlfriend of 5 years lol.
The ending further upset me because nothing is actually resolved. It just made an already bad book have an even worse ending and I hated it.
While I do not like to criticize how people respond or react to racism especially in its more covert forms, the premise of this book sets you up for rage and anger and then you get into the book and nothing happens. The letter that supposedly details our main character's experience in her work place and her anger about it all, only gets about 15 pages towards the halfway mark and then it's not discussed again up until the very end of the book.
I wanted to see discussions about race, racism, sexism and all it's intersectionality in our mc's experience as a gay, black woman who's place and ideas in media are always dismissed as being "too Black." This book had all the ingredients to be something amazing and instead we got 70% that just followed Mickey running around with her childhood situationship while ignoring her girlfriend of 5 years lol.
The ending further upset me because nothing is actually resolved. It just made an already bad book have an even worse ending and I hated it.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
slow-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
Loved reading an authentically-voiced young Black queer woman and all of the people in her life.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
OK but not my cup of tea. This isn't my first contemporary title of this type and I wonder if they're just not for me; I didn't connect with any of the others either. They were fine I guess; I just couldn't relate.