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A review by stefhyena
All at Sea by Cheyenne Blue
5.0
Possible bias here because I loved that it was recognisably set in Australia, had environmentalists and nurses and i am relieved because for much of the book I was worried it was heading for a very very wrong ending- and that got avoided.
It's a romance novel, so the primary relationship in it (of course) is Stevie and Kaz. Kaz uses her boat for protesting against people polluting the ocean, on land she chains herself to bulldozers (a bit of a stereotype but sometimes true) and gets arrested and beaten up. I like her even if she is a bossy know-it-all that really irrirated me at one point. She has a cat called Sinbad, an ex-girlfriend who has a child, and a my-way-or-the-highway attitude.
Stevie has a need to be independent- bossy parents and a little sister who needs protecting. She knows aged care is horribly underpaid but she went to uni for 3 years to work in it anyway. She can be stubborn like that.
There's a cat called Sinbad who just does what cats do and is no match for the kookaburras. There's a political party that the protagonists wont support because they are anti-marriage equality and pro-mining. Hmmmmm. I wonder who that could be? ;)
I just really loved getting a leftist, Australian, lesbian book. It was pretty much the escapism I need this week and a nice slow burn at first.
It's a romance novel, so the primary relationship in it (of course) is Stevie and Kaz. Kaz uses her boat for protesting against people polluting the ocean, on land she chains herself to bulldozers (a bit of a stereotype but sometimes true) and gets arrested and beaten up. I like her even if she is a bossy know-it-all that really irrirated me at one point. She has a cat called Sinbad, an ex-girlfriend who has a child, and a my-way-or-the-highway attitude.
Stevie has a need to be independent- bossy parents and a little sister who needs protecting. She knows aged care is horribly underpaid but she went to uni for 3 years to work in it anyway. She can be stubborn like that.
There's a cat called Sinbad who just does what cats do and is no match for the kookaburras. There's a political party that the protagonists wont support because they are anti-marriage equality and pro-mining. Hmmmmm. I wonder who that could be? ;)
I just really loved getting a leftist, Australian, lesbian book. It was pretty much the escapism I need this week and a nice slow burn at first.