A review by aruarian_melody
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else by Kayla Kaszyca, Sarah Costello

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

2.0

I'm so grateful to the publisher for supporting this wave of books on ace/aro identities and I have also enjoyed episodes of the podcast by the authors before. Still, this book wasn't at all what I was hoping for. Who is the audience for this? It is simultaneously too general and too specific, as it skips over the most important and interesting aspects (like the split attraction model) that would make it easier to understand the gist of the topic. Quite often they would say "we could write so much about this but we won't" - why? The book is super short, a little more depth wouldn't even have led to a large/challenging book. Instead, they include half a page on why not abandoning Harry Potter as a fandom is valid, despite criticism of JKR. I would have loved some actual recommendations in the media section, instead of this defence of JKR out of left field (by two cis people). Overall, this skimmed the surface of many topics and taught me more about the authors than about asexuality and aromanticism. I appreciate the effort, but the podcast is probably the better medium for their style of storytelling.