A review by kpeninger
Ace by Angela Chen

challenging emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

5.0

What a fantastic book. This isn't just a basic primer on what asexuality is (though, if you don't know what it is, it will still help you understand it), but also an amazing examination of how asexuality challenges many preconceived notions of what sex means, what relationships mean, what love means - and in a GOOD way. Some of these were things I'd pondered before, and some of the topics discussed really made me reconsider some of my own views on things (the chapter on how we currently think of and define consent and rape, for example, is something I will definitely be pondering for quite a bit). I appreciated that the author made sure to include trans folks, nonbinary folks, and gender nonconforming folks, too, and also made a point of talking to aces of color to examine how the intersection of asexuality and different races comes together. This was a book with a broad scope, and I thought it did a really good job of exploring a lot of different things in a short amount of space.