A review by readsforlove
Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki

4.0

This is a must read for any members of the ace community. It's one of those books that I needed to take breaks from because of emotions, lol. This captures so thoroughly the sheer /confusion/ of discovering your identity as being ace. This is not an identity I heard about from anyone other than my one ace friend growing up, and even then I didn't hear the term until I was 16. It's less talked about, in part because many people find it so hard to understand, and media sure does love its romances. But this explores love and romance and challenges what life long relationships "should" look like, all the while asking: why don't we just make our own way in the world, living as we want, and loving as we choose? While there is a lot of intro-to-asexualty stuff in this book, I do recommend reading another more lighthearted ace book as well if you've never read any books with ace representation, like Rick by Alex Gino or The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen. But overall, this book had a lot of important messages threaded through a fun main character and intriguing side characters. 

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