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I absolutely loved this book! It follows musician Georgina on her journey to accepting her bi-sexuality, it shows the good, the and and the ugly. Whilst dealing with these big feelings she’s dealing with complicated emotions and mourning her father. The book truly had me gripped from the beginning, and that ending?! I need another book!

cosmicola's review

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2.0

rozumiem, czym chciała być ta książka. z przykrością muszę stwierdzić, że jej się to nie udało. odkrywanie swojej orientacji, bycie bi curious, próbowanie nowych rzeczy i poszerzanie horyzontów miało odczarować stereotyp osób biseksualnych, a w rezultacie… tylko go wzmocnił. spirala kłamstw, niezdecydowanie, udawanie kogoś, kim się nie jest, podwójna tożsamość:-/ początkowo książka spodobała mi się właśnie ze względu na poszukiwanie swojej orientacji i siebie, a w końcu wyszła z tego kolejna, stereotypowa opowieść. jestem zawiedziona.

molly99's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted

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

4.0

fenna_kwakernaak's review against another edition

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emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

chrissiedawson's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

sharonleavy's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Gina plans to go home, pour some wine, and watch Friends. Her best friend Soph has other ideas - she wants Gina to come with her to a local gay club to see a lesbian rock band. Gina reluctantly agrees - and finds herself in the unenviable position of questioning her sexuality at age 26, seven years into a long term relationship with a man.

Right - I'll start with the Pros:

- It's nice to see a book about questioning your sexuality in your twenties. Often this kind of storyline is limited to YA books, and this one does a great job of conveying the confusion and feelings of being torn between two worlds when someone realises that they're not straight after decades of assuming they were. The author speaks about how several things can contribute to this - from lack of representation to internalised homophobia, biphobia within the queer community, or a reluctance to assign labels or make a grand declaration.

"You don't need to declare anything about yourself, or do anything you don't want to do."

Preach, sis.

- A gay bar that remains Halloween themed ALL YEAR ROUND???

GIMME.

- Gina's colleague, Alexa. I adored her, she reminded me of Fleabag's sister, who remains one of my favourite supporting characters of all time.

UNFORTUNATELY.

This descended into fucking chaos from Part Two onwards. The solution that Gina & Douglas came up with for Gina's desire to explore her queer side was just ludicrous to me. I felt that it fed into stereotypes about bisexual women wanting the best of both worlds, when there are many, many bisexual, queer & questioning women who are in perfectly happy long term relationships or marriages with men. Some of us even have children. It just made me feel icky that the notion of Gina coming to terms with her sexuality had to include so many grand gestures. Also the "butch" makeover - can we not.

Kit was just the worst, and why did nobody tell Sophie that calling her YouTube channel SophSnob just sounds like Soph's Knob? What kind of mate are you, Gina?!

Two stars for Part One - it had great potential.
The rest was a mess.
Also, this was sold as a rom-com. It's not a rom-com.

Thanks to the publisher for the Netgalley ARC, sorry I couldn't be more positive about this one, it's a shame because I was looking forward to it.

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