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A review by vagaybond
The Fake Mate by Lana Ferguson
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.75
1. genuinely impressed that my public library had an omegaverse smut audiobook. het, but still.
2. the gay best friend was. really badly written. he kept saying stuff about "men" while separating himself from them as a category, and it felt like that era where people thought transness was a notch further than a 6 on the kinsey scale lmao. the protagonist did stereotype him more than once, to which he responded things like, "Don't put me in a box!" and it felt really trite and not particularly genuine. parker only exists for the purpose of set dressing. yes, he has a relationship. does he have anything else going on in his life? anything he needs a friend for? or is he solely there to help make a straight woman's life a little better while dealing with these microaggressions?
3. no diversity at all besides that, that I noticed.
4. the falling action was really predictable, but I still thought it was satisfactory.
5. this wasn't particularly special, nor was it particularly bad in any way other than aforementioned in nº2 and nº3 here. solidly mid.
but I am a sucker for some of the tropes here and I did enjoy reading it.
2. the gay best friend was. really badly written. he kept saying stuff about "men" while separating himself from them as a category, and it felt like that era where people thought transness was a notch further than a 6 on the kinsey scale lmao. the protagonist did stereotype him more than once, to which he responded things like, "Don't put me in a box!" and it felt really trite and not particularly genuine. parker only exists for the purpose of set dressing. yes, he has a relationship. does he have anything else going on in his life? anything he needs a friend for? or is he solely there to help make a straight woman's life a little better while dealing with these microaggressions?
3. no diversity at all besides that, that I noticed.
4. the falling action was really predictable, but I still thought it was satisfactory.
5. this wasn't particularly special, nor was it particularly bad in any way other than aforementioned in nº2 and nº3 here. solidly mid.
but I am a sucker for some of the tropes here and I did enjoy reading it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Abandonment