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A review by cass_lit
More to Love by Georgina Kiersten
2.0
I loved the diversity in this — there was great queer rep, body diversity, male leads of color. I like a happy ending. Unfortunately, that’s about where my enjoyment of this ended.
As is the curse of many novellas, this was so insta-lovey. They fell in love within a month of “dating” (aka, they’d been on one date? and it’s not like they’d known each other’s name long before that either!). Emmy was defending Jamir as his bf to his ex (that was a weird plot line) with “he’s not a stranger he’s my boyfriend!” And I’m like… he kind of actually is a stranger. I didn’t necessarily believe in their love, both of them felt one-dimensional, and their problems all resolved themselves too easily.
Also, the Korean rep coming from a Black author felt a little fetishy to me. I am not Korean so take this with a grain of salt, but to me it felt like the author was throwing in Korean here and there just to prove they knew something about Korean culture. And the acknowledgement didn’t help my feelings on that part of the novella — they literally thank “a real fat queer Korean man” they scrolled past on Twitter for creating Emmy and this book.
Finally, I don’t know if this is a product of the ebook I was reading or the work itself, but it needed some proofreading and editing. There were random words placed where they obviously shouldn’t be and sometimes a sentence would just end in the middle of it? No period or anything. Or we’d be told it’s Emmy’s POV but we’re actually following Jamir.
As is the curse of many novellas, this was so insta-lovey. They fell in love within a month of “dating” (aka, they’d been on one date? and it’s not like they’d known each other’s name long before that either!). Emmy was defending Jamir as his bf to his ex (that was a weird plot line) with “he’s not a stranger he’s my boyfriend!” And I’m like… he kind of actually is a stranger. I didn’t necessarily believe in their love, both of them felt one-dimensional, and their problems all resolved themselves too easily.
Also, the Korean rep coming from a Black author felt a little fetishy to me. I am not Korean so take this with a grain of salt, but to me it felt like the author was throwing in Korean here and there just to prove they knew something about Korean culture. And the acknowledgement didn’t help my feelings on that part of the novella — they literally thank “a real fat queer Korean man” they scrolled past on Twitter for creating Emmy and this book.
Finally, I don’t know if this is a product of the ebook I was reading or the work itself, but it needed some proofreading and editing. There were random words placed where they obviously shouldn’t be and sometimes a sentence would just end in the middle of it? No period or anything. Or we’d be told it’s Emmy’s POV but we’re actually following Jamir.