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A review by raesreadingcorner
Ace and Aro Journeys: A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity by The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project
Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
As someone who is ace/aro, I was really excited to read this book. I was hoping that it would be a brilliant book that I knew a younger me would have loved and appreciated.
While the personal accounts/quotes did help a bit with the writing, the book felt very repetitive and insensitive to ace/aro people.
I genuinely felt a bit uncomfortable when reading it.
It would have been so much nice if they went on the personal route a bit more, seeing if they could source conversations from online forums rather than a lot of the statistics that just felt harsh and weren't explained very well.
I almost DNF'd this book at the HP reference 15% into the book (because please, STOP. If you truly respect and support Trans people ans Jewish people and everyone that that author has offended and continues to harass, you wouldn't even think to add a reference to a book like this.) But I decided to continue on because I wanted it to get better. But in the end DNF'd it halfway through because it didn't get any better.
That being said, some things I did relate to eg the mention of ace/aro people trying to fit in at a young age pretending to have crushes on people to fit in. I did that a lot.
But overall, for anyone who is new to the terms aro and ace, I don't think this is the first book you should pick up. It can be confusing, repetitive and just lacks personal experiences to back up all of the facts that it gives.
I do appreciate the publishers for providing me with an eArc of this book, I'm genuinely sad that I didn't love it as much as I wanted to.
While the personal accounts/quotes did help a bit with the writing, the book felt very repetitive and insensitive to ace/aro people.
I genuinely felt a bit uncomfortable when reading it.
It would have been so much nice if they went on the personal route a bit more, seeing if they could source conversations from online forums rather than a lot of the statistics that just felt harsh and weren't explained very well.
I almost DNF'd this book at the HP reference 15% into the book (because please, STOP. If you truly respect and support Trans people ans Jewish people and everyone that that author has offended and continues to harass, you wouldn't even think to add a reference to a book like this.) But I decided to continue on because I wanted it to get better. But in the end DNF'd it halfway through because it didn't get any better.
That being said, some things I did relate to eg the mention of ace/aro people trying to fit in at a young age pretending to have crushes on people to fit in. I did that a lot.
But overall, for anyone who is new to the terms aro and ace, I don't think this is the first book you should pick up. It can be confusing, repetitive and just lacks personal experiences to back up all of the facts that it gives.
I do appreciate the publishers for providing me with an eArc of this book, I'm genuinely sad that I didn't love it as much as I wanted to.