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A review by dawn_chen
If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So
5.0
A: For me it's this book IF You Still Recognize Me (5000⭐). This book involving an estranged childhood friend who moved oceans away but then meeting each other again just to realize you're both queer and the Feelings(TM) You had for each other is NOT PLATONIC literally is me. Except it's one sided as always.
I also love the inclusion of the fandom culture but in a healthy and non-cringey way (unlike in Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell) and how it calls out a lot of fandom's obsession with shipping white cis male characters together without paying queer women characters of color barely any attention.
The generational aspect of this story is also really amazingly done. There is an ongoing mystery of the mc's family history and also the history of a pair of queer women one of whom is the mc's crush's old "girlpal".
That begs the question. When can I have enough courage to ask my childhood best friend if she's sapphic because she sure hell make my gaydar go off the charts and how do I say I like her without it ending in the dumpster fire.
I also love the inclusion of the fandom culture but in a healthy and non-cringey way (unlike in Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell) and how it calls out a lot of fandom's obsession with shipping white cis male characters together without paying queer women characters of color barely any attention.
The generational aspect of this story is also really amazingly done. There is an ongoing mystery of the mc's family history and also the history of a pair of queer women one of whom is the mc's crush's old "girlpal".
That begs the question. When can I have enough courage to ask my childhood best friend if she's sapphic because she sure hell make my gaydar go off the charts and how do I say I like her without it ending in the dumpster fire.