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A review by kaitrates
Out On a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Let's get this out of the way: it was 5 stars before the epilogue and on all future reads the epilogue will not exist (the same way I always stop Ragnorock early when everyone is happy). 10 years is way too big of a time jump and there's no way her likely grant-funded camp would be making that much $$$$ for Bo to quit and be a stay at home dad for 3 kiddos. Just....no.
Ok now that's out of the way OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!! Y'all I LOVED THIS BOOK!
It has so many of the things I love in it:
-disabled joy, love, and sex
-nuanced depictions of disability that take into account all the feels of it
-fully fleshed out disabled characters
-messy characters whose broken emotional parts fit
-healing happening in relationship and none of this love yourself first BS
-a breeding kink...y'all when he pushed the cum back in WHEW BOY they better not remove that part when it gets traditionally published
-a great cast of side characters who I loved just as much as our MCs.
Win and Bo meet at a halloween party and have the hottest one night stand...that also happens to be deeply meaningful to each of them. Win finds out she's pregnant (also s/o for the built-in repro health lesson here!) and Bo surprises her by being ALL IN (and when you find out WHY?! OMG). What follows is: forced proximity, trying to hide feelings (but failing), so many disability jokes that probably seem crass to pre-disabled folx (but if you get it, you *get* it), SO MANY FEELS....and, eventually, more hot sex.
Seriously, in all the convos about the book I never heard people talk about the spicy scenes and they showed UP. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Anyway, I'm officially in the group of people screaming about how good this book is and how even if you hate the accidental pregnancy trope to try it anyway and honestly I can't wait to buy a copy with the new cover by our QUEEN Leni Kaufmann. *bows*
Ok now that's out of the way OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!! Y'all I LOVED THIS BOOK!
It has so many of the things I love in it:
-disabled joy, love, and sex
-nuanced depictions of disability that take into account all the feels of it
-fully fleshed out disabled characters
-messy characters whose broken emotional parts fit
-healing happening in relationship and none of this love yourself first BS
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-a great cast of side characters who I loved just as much as our MCs.
Win and Bo meet at a halloween party and have the hottest one night stand...that also happens to be deeply meaningful to each of them. Win finds out she's pregnant (also s/o for the built-in repro health lesson here!) and Bo surprises her by being ALL IN (and when you find out WHY?! OMG). What follows is: forced proximity, trying to hide feelings (but failing), so many disability jokes that probably seem crass to pre-disabled folx (but if you get it, you *get* it), SO MANY FEELS....and, eventually, more hot sex.
Seriously, in all the convos about the book I never heard people talk about the spicy scenes and they showed UP. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Anyway, I'm officially in the group of people screaming about how good this book is and how even if you hate the accidental pregnancy trope to try it anyway and honestly I can't wait to buy a copy with the new cover by our QUEEN Leni Kaufmann. *bows*
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer and Sexual content