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A review by mesy_mark
Stray City by Chelsey Johnson
3.0
This is an okay book. Okay in the way it does feature a lesbian protagonist but what I wasn't expecting was half the book to be completely about the heterosexual relationship Andy had with Ryan. I thought maybe by the 1/4th mark that yes this relationship is all and good but it could end here and [pick up into raising the adorable child that came from that relationship.
I did like how the reality of life found that yes there is judgement from all groups and that you can be excluded from things s they change over time, like being kicked out of the Lesbian Mafia. I don't mean this as a jab at the lesbian community, I just mean this as a way that even though it is a good community not all aspects of the community is great. I also didn't like the constant hetero privilege whining, some of it was good for the book I just felt that some of it was a little bit too much.
The characters were memorable for the most part. Some part of the mafia was a little bit hard to separate when push came to shove and I thought that the ending character Beatriz could have used some more pages to get to know her better cause I loved that butch babe!. Overall I was engaged in this book. But I felt that the book rushed the ending of getting to know Lucia and thus meeting her bio father.
I did like how the reality of life found that yes there is judgement from all groups and that you can be excluded from things s they change over time, like being kicked out of the Lesbian Mafia. I don't mean this as a jab at the lesbian community, I just mean this as a way that even though it is a good community not all aspects of the community is great. I also didn't like the constant hetero privilege whining, some of it was good for the book I just felt that some of it was a little bit too much.
The characters were memorable for the most part. Some part of the mafia was a little bit hard to separate when push came to shove and I thought that the ending character Beatriz could have used some more pages to get to know her better cause I loved that butch babe!. Overall I was engaged in this book. But I felt that the book rushed the ending of getting to know Lucia and thus meeting her bio father.