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Love & Other Disasters
by Anita Kelly
I had a lot of fun with this book! Dahlia and London were both great and well-balanced characters to pin the story on, and their romance arc at least pertaining to their time on the show was super believable and lovely. I think I wanted more from the TV show aspect of it all, we had the briefest glimpse into but I wanted that to go so much further in terms of how both of the MCs dealt with it. As far as I'm aware, London never even knew, which is a huge miss, I feel like their whole approach to the show could've been different based on that. That said, I AM glad that the show itself wasn't a villain or open antagonist to London's coming out. I messaged my friend who had just read the book when I was about 100 pages in saying "If they air the first episode and they decided to edit out London's coming out and this whole story turns into London having to advocate for themself and their narrative, imma be pissed" and it thankfully wasn't that at all. Yes bigotry and transphobia did still exist, both on screen and off, but the romcom aspects of Dahlia and London did have enough room to take center stage.
But yes, very solid story, pretty mild spice, and I loved reading about a nonbinary character who had so much more to their story than just that identity. There are absolutely things I would've wanted to see added to make this narrative more one that I was going to LOVE, but all of those pertain to focusing more on the reality TV aspect because that's the shit that fascinates me. It was still a very very good book without that.
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the show manufacturing the #TeamLondon vs #TeamLizzie outcome for the final two narrativeBut yes, very solid story, pretty mild spice, and I loved reading about a nonbinary character who had so much more to their story than just that identity. There are absolutely things I would've wanted to see added to make this narrative more one that I was going to LOVE, but all of those pertain to focusing more on the reality TV aspect because that's the shit that fascinates me. It was still a very very good book without that.