A review by oliviawhitton
The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

4.0

This book was great. I understand people’s exhaustion with the homophobia depicted in the book, but regardless of what we like to tell ourselves in 2021, this type of intense, cruel homophobia exists in our society and it feels good to see characters who experience that get a happy ending. The plot was great and I really loved the main characters. Almost every peripheral character was fleshed out and had discernible character traits. Would I prefer that two queer women could be in a relationship without scrutiny? Yes. Is that the truth of our society? No. There are WLW stories out there that don’t contain the bigotry and homophobia present in this book, but this book had a clear narrative that was built upon those biases.