A review by jess_esa
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Seán Hewitt, Luke Edward Hall

3.5

300,000 Kisses is a gorgeous book to have and reference, and the watercolors are just stunning. A lot of love has clearly been put into it. Unfortunately, I think it misrepresents itself a little because it's a collection of excerpts rather than stories, and some of the great loves described have absolutely no impact without the context of the full story. It's at its best when it presents poems or epigrams where you're able to read and appreciate the whole or as a reference book to find the stories you're interested in. I really appreciate what they've tried to do with this, and I found some wonderful new things to go and read from here, but it's not exactly what it's presented as.