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3.49 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
DNF 20%, I enjoyed it up until the events that occurred after her gay awakening. I am queer and didn’t really like the commentary on “how easy it is to be a lesbian nowadays” because it’s not lol… seems like an over simplistic and privileged view of queerness. i enjoyed the comedy but I did not like that the dialogue didn’t feel like real characters but rather like skits that didn’t mesh well together as a book. Books that talk about assault in such graphic detail NEED trigger warnings. There’s too many victims/survivors that deal with enough triggers in their everyday life to go into a story that promotes itself as “lighthearted comedy” to turn into a abuse sexual assault story without warning. I hope the author does better in the future. I think there’s potential for good comedy, I can’t speak on the more serious topics.
Oikein viihdyttävä teos. Julia kituu seksittömässä elämänvaiheessa ja päätyy huonoon yhden illan juttuun. Seksi on kehnoa ja kun itsevarma lesbotaiteilija flirttailee Julian kanssa, Julia päätyy kokeilemaan seksiä naisen kanssa ja löytää itsestään lesbon.
Julia heittäytyy Lontoon queer-maailmaan syvään päähän, saa elämäänsä uutta potkua ja löytää itselleen kumppanin. Villin queer-elämän sivussa ihmetellään työkuvioita, pyöritetään ystävyyssuhteita, koitetaan kestää vanhempia ja käydään terapiassa.
Syvään päähän on vähän lesboversio Bridget Jonesista. Kirjassa on kunnon annos draamaa, huumoria ja kiertelemätöntä lesboseksiä. Hyvää viihdettä.
Julia heittäytyy Lontoon queer-maailmaan syvään päähän, saa elämäänsä uutta potkua ja löytää itselleen kumppanin. Villin queer-elämän sivussa ihmetellään työkuvioita, pyöritetään ystävyyssuhteita, koitetaan kestää vanhempia ja käydään terapiassa.
Syvään päähän on vähän lesboversio Bridget Jonesista. Kirjassa on kunnon annos draamaa, huumoria ja kiertelemätöntä lesboseksiä. Hyvää viihdettä.
I hate romance. Consider this my come to Jesus with myself about the genre as a whole.
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really, really wanted to like this. I was hesitant when I saw that the author of another book I didn't like had blurbed this one, but I really enjoyed the first few chapters. The tone was light and fun and felt like a romcom. The protagonist, Julia, got a little annoying when she realized she was gay and thought "I'm a lesbian and I need someone to be a lesbian with" every three seconds, but fine.
Then Julia met Sam and the writing went way downhill for me. We see an abusive relationship, which I do think is important, but ugh. A secondary character is non-binary, and trans people are mentioned throughout the book, but whenever anyone talked about sex or womanhood, it was not inclusive and very cisnormative.
-- Apparently you can only "fuck" with penetration (Julia says she went down on a woman but "didn't fuck her" and as someone who doesn't like being fingered, that's not true at all)
-- All mentions of womanhood mentioned vaginas
-- Sam, the abusive girlfriend, says she wants to try an SM fantasy, and it's a rape fantasy in which she's a Mexican man. Because, you know, we don't have enough white people (hello 45) calling Mexicans rapists and using terrible fucking accents and saying every third word in Spanish
-- Alice, the roommate, tries to say something about how suffragettes weren't inclusive (because they weren't and it's a very good point to bring up), and Cat, THE BLACK WOMAN, tells her she doesn't need to worry about being woke all the time. This is some white bullshit right here, having the one fucking black character tell a white woman not to worry about being woke. Bullshit.
-- Part of the abuse involves Sam never really caring if Julia wants sex or wants a specific sexual act, which I know was part of the story but there should have been a liiiiiiittle more about how that's not okay
Terrible portrayal of my community and I hated it. I should have known when I saw the blurb.
Then Julia met Sam and the writing went way downhill for me. We see an abusive relationship, which I do think is important, but ugh. A secondary character is non-binary, and trans people are mentioned throughout the book, but whenever anyone talked about sex or womanhood, it was not inclusive and very cisnormative.
-- Apparently you can only "fuck" with penetration (Julia says she went down on a woman but "didn't fuck her" and as someone who doesn't like being fingered, that's not true at all)
-- All mentions of womanhood mentioned vaginas
-- Sam, the abusive girlfriend, says she wants to try an SM fantasy, and it's a rape fantasy in which she's a Mexican man. Because, you know, we don't have enough white people (hello 45) calling Mexicans rapists and using terrible fucking accents and saying every third word in Spanish
-- Alice, the roommate, tries to say something about how suffragettes weren't inclusive (because they weren't and it's a very good point to bring up), and Cat, THE BLACK WOMAN, tells her she doesn't need to worry about being woke all the time. This is some white bullshit right here, having the one fucking black character tell a white woman not to worry about being woke. Bullshit.
-- Part of the abuse involves Sam never really caring if Julia wants sex or wants a specific sexual act, which I know was part of the story but there should have been a liiiiiiittle more about how that's not okay
Terrible portrayal of my community and I hated it. I should have known when I saw the blurb.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
sad
tense
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
DNF 20%, I enjoyed it up until the events that occurred after her gay awakening. I am queer and didn’t really like the commentary on “how easy it is to be a lesbian nowadays” because it’s not lol… seems like an over simplistic and privileged view of queerness. i enjoyed the comedy but I did not like that the dialogue didn’t feel like real characters but rather like skits that didn’t mesh well together as a book. Books that talk about assault in such graphic detail NEED trigger warnings. There’s too many victims/survivors that deal with enough triggers in their everyday life to go into a story that promotes itself as “lighthearted comedy” to turn into a abuse sexual assault story without warning. I hope the author does better in the future. I think there’s potential for good comedy, I can’t speak on the more serious topics.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault