lost_hitsu 's review for:

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

3.0

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I'm absolutely for having more aspec books to choose from, but this was just very confused - half an overly detailed memoir of the two authors' life stories (not sure including the entire family tree of one of them contributes something to the project) with a few other aspecs' anecdotes thrown in, and half a lukewarm attempt at aspec 101 that is written for someone to whom the authors need to explain what a lens is, and which is full of redundant repetitions and constant reassurances that "of course this does not mean that we think [allos are just sex-obsessed maniacs]". I'm not saying podcast hosts can't be good book writers, just that maybe rethinking whether the content of the podcast lends itself to a book format should be considered first.