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A review by gingerbread_void
The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown
3.0
I got this book on request from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Alright so lets start out by saying I really wanted to like this book. I love seeing more saphic books coming out but sadly this book has so many issues.
For started this books pacing was so off. I felt like just the last 1/4th of the book really said anything. Nothing ever seemed to happen. I kept waiting and waiting for a build up or a major plot break but it never came. I kept saying it will pick up but it never did. I just felt sort of let down by the end.
The writing also wasn't great. Don't get me wrong I am not a grammar major and I know I make plenty of mistakes in my reviews no matter how hard I try not to. But I am also not a professional writer like Brown. This is not her first novel so one might think her writing would be better but sadly this is not the case. I felt like every other sentence was a run on. There were times I had to reread sentences because her wording was just so weird. It made an already slow book even harder to get though.
Now I could have seen past those things if it wasn't for my major problem with this book. It felt like Brown has some serious internalized homophobia that she seemed to be working out on the page. She wrote many things that were just plain upsetting to see in a saphic book especially one by some who is saphic themselves. If I had read this as a young lesbian I would not have felt better about myself or my identity which is what books like this should do at least in part!
This book really had the potential to be great but Brown was unable to follow through. I was beyond disappointed by this book. I tried so hard to look past issues with this book but sadly there was just to much to over look. I don't think I will be reading anything else by Brown
Alright so lets start out by saying I really wanted to like this book. I love seeing more saphic books coming out but sadly this book has so many issues.
For started this books pacing was so off. I felt like just the last 1/4th of the book really said anything. Nothing ever seemed to happen. I kept waiting and waiting for a build up or a major plot break but it never came. I kept saying it will pick up but it never did. I just felt sort of let down by the end.
The writing also wasn't great. Don't get me wrong I am not a grammar major and I know I make plenty of mistakes in my reviews no matter how hard I try not to. But I am also not a professional writer like Brown. This is not her first novel so one might think her writing would be better but sadly this is not the case. I felt like every other sentence was a run on. There were times I had to reread sentences because her wording was just so weird. It made an already slow book even harder to get though.
Now I could have seen past those things if it wasn't for my major problem with this book. It felt like Brown has some serious internalized homophobia that she seemed to be working out on the page. She wrote many things that were just plain upsetting to see in a saphic book especially one by some who is saphic themselves. If I had read this as a young lesbian I would not have felt better about myself or my identity which is what books like this should do at least in part!
This book really had the potential to be great but Brown was unable to follow through. I was beyond disappointed by this book. I tried so hard to look past issues with this book but sadly there was just to much to over look. I don't think I will be reading anything else by Brown