A review by touchegiantsquid
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

I loved this one. The coming-of-age romance is heart achingly sweet, tentative, and slow. The writing craft is so good in this book, deftly weaving the external with the internal. I highly recommend this. I had previously read Lo's Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella. That was good, but at times the story lost its grounding -- which worked for a fairy tale. In this book Lo is relentless in grounding all the action, so even though so much of the story is internal as Lily discovers her sexuality and navigates her intersectional out-of-placeness in white lesbian and hetero Chinese American communities, nothing floats - every beat hits.
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