kh530 's review for:

Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor

3.0

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This book was incredibly boring for literally 3/4 of the book. I hate to say it, but it’s true. Through that 3/4s the only characters I really liked were Alex and Gwendolyn, and Gwendolyn didn’t have nearly enough page time. This makes me sad to say because the queer rep in this book is great. We have MULTIPLE aromantic-spec characters—that NEVER happens. We have a NB trans masc character, who literally saved the show as I was about to DNF the book. We have Queer platonic partnerships! However, great queer rep can’t save a book when the plot is boring and the characters are mostly uninteresting. What saves this book is the last 1/4. The end of the book was seriously GREAT. The scene with Alex and Ingrid was literally me and my own QPP. And just for that it gets 3 stars instead of the 2 it probably deserves. That ending was WONDERFUL, it was. But this isn’t a four star book, no matter how hard my queer rep loving soul tries to say otherwise.