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A review by iam
Mud & Lace by Jay Northcote
5.0
I went into Mud & Lace without knowing anything about it, just wanting to binge the series, and I was not prepared for the way it made me feel.
Content warnings include: sex on-page, gender and sexual identity questioning, feminization, characters frequently drink alcohol, dismissive comments about feminine gay men, sports injury.
Like some of the previous books in the series, Mud & Lace has a base setting that, on-paper, sounds like it can very easily turn south. In this case it's a straight guy starting to sleep with a drag queen, who's a gay man under the make-up. Yet Jay Northcote manages to set the context and situation so perfectly it works out wonderfully.
The questioning sexuality plotline was very well done, but the gender questioning part of the plot left a much bigger impression on me. I am non-binary and have done and am still doing quite a bit of gender questioning myself - and Mud & Lace was spot on for that. I have to admit I cried a little, but it was good tears!
I liked both Simon and Charlie as characters, and I loved the background setting for them questioning their identities. It really was that that made the book for me, though the rest of the plot makes for a quite nice romance on its own too.
Content warnings include: sex on-page, gender and sexual identity questioning, feminization, characters frequently drink alcohol, dismissive comments about feminine gay men, sports injury.
Like some of the previous books in the series, Mud & Lace has a base setting that, on-paper, sounds like it can very easily turn south. In this case it's a straight guy starting to sleep with a drag queen, who's a gay man under the make-up. Yet Jay Northcote manages to set the context and situation so perfectly it works out wonderfully.
The questioning sexuality plotline was very well done, but the gender questioning part of the plot left a much bigger impression on me. I am non-binary and have done and am still doing quite a bit of gender questioning myself - and Mud & Lace was spot on for that. I have to admit I cried a little, but it was good tears!
I liked both Simon and Charlie as characters, and I loved the background setting for them questioning their identities. It really was that that made the book for me, though the rest of the plot makes for a quite nice romance on its own too.