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Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
by Kayla Kaszyca, Sarah Costello
Whew I have a lot of feelings about this one. I had high hopes but there were just one too many issues I wasn't able to look past. I was hoping this book would provide information in a more researched and inclusive way but felt more like a train of thought processing monologue more suitable for a podcast.
This book is written from a very limited scope (i.e. cis white women from the US) and while it's technically a book about asexuality, it really left me underwhelmed considering the potential this kind of book has in the queer/ LGBTQ+ nonfiction genre.
In all honesty, the biggest turn off to this book was the reference to JK Rowling, attempting to breeze past her transphobic behavior in favor of "hope and comfort so many trans people have gotten" from HP. Keeping this in a book written in our current climate is careless and disappointing at best.
*Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me an EARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book is written from a very limited scope (i.e. cis white women from the US) and while it's technically a book about asexuality, it really left me underwhelmed considering the potential this kind of book has in the queer/ LGBTQ+ nonfiction genre.
In all honesty, the biggest turn off to this book was the reference to JK Rowling, attempting to breeze past her transphobic behavior in favor of "hope and comfort so many trans people have gotten" from HP. Keeping this in a book written in our current climate is careless and disappointing at best.
*Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me an EARC in exchange for an honest review.