A review by althea
The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History by Rachel Smith, Barbara Vesey

3.0

This was so, so, so wonderful! I love reading about our queer elders and the lives they lived, especially the loves they had and this was no difference. An invaluable book with letters dating back centuries, some of these really hit right in the heart - "Dear Sappho" especially made me sob and I had to show it to my girlfriend! I do wish there was some analysis of the first few letters as the language therein was really quite difficult to understand, even as a native English speaker, and it was a bit bizarre at the end having letters from people born in 1999 at the end, seeing as they're younger than me and does that really count as throughout history?! But all in all, a lovely collection that I will be making my girlfriend read in the future!

Thanks to Ilex Press and Netgalley for an eARC copy in return for an honest review!