Let's Talk About Love
Jun. 9th, 2020 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunOver the weekend, I picked up and finished the first book I've finished since before we were sent home to work in mid-March. I got the recommendation from Smart Bitches Trashy Books, it was cheap to pick up the ebook from B&N at the time, so it was easy choice to try and pick up something that was something of an easy, low engaging read. Romance isn't really my genre of choice, but I often find them easy and quick and requiring very little effort from me.
Let's Talk About Love by Clair Kann
Let's Talk About Love is about a college woman named Alice who is biromantic asexual. It begins with her breakup with her girlfriend and centers on her struggles with her own asexuality, especially after this breakup.
There's a lot of positive in this book. The author does not shy away at all from the themes in the book. The struggle with her asexuality is at the forefront of his novel, despite the romance that comes into play. Alice is strong in who she is in many ways: a black woman, a huge nerd, desperately loyal to her good friends. She also has a lot of growing up to do, and even though I'm many years older than her, I found her struggles pretty relatable, even if they didn't match my own exactly.
This was a short read and I think I would've enjoyed more of it. The beginning really tosses you headfirst into everything messy in Alice's life. I would've loved to see more build up to her as a character, more backstory maybe, and more detailed moments in her life with her roommates/friends after her breakup. There's a portion about midway through where she's not talking to her best friend for a period of time and it's a strange dynamic that I felt could've been explored a lot more, given how we're introduced to their relationship early on.
I rated it a solid 3 on GoodReads because while I enjoyed it, it was both too short and a little to twee for my liking. But I think the exploration and explanations of asexuality and biromantic were really good. The support for mental health was well done overall just a solid, but solid read if you're a fan of romance.
I do appreciate the length for one thing, it made me sit and read and finish a book for the first time in along time. It made me want to go back to the books hanging in limbo that I haven't finished yet, because the pandemic interrupted my regular reading time. Short, engaging novels have that effect sometime. I plan to pick back up Polaris Rising from Jessie Mihalick again (other romance, but a sci-fi one). I was about a quarter of the way through it before when I stopped reading, so it's high time I went back.
Let's Talk About Love by Clair Kann
Let's Talk About Love is about a college woman named Alice who is biromantic asexual. It begins with her breakup with her girlfriend and centers on her struggles with her own asexuality, especially after this breakup. There's a lot of positive in this book. The author does not shy away at all from the themes in the book. The struggle with her asexuality is at the forefront of his novel, despite the romance that comes into play. Alice is strong in who she is in many ways: a black woman, a huge nerd, desperately loyal to her good friends. She also has a lot of growing up to do, and even though I'm many years older than her, I found her struggles pretty relatable, even if they didn't match my own exactly.
This was a short read and I think I would've enjoyed more of it. The beginning really tosses you headfirst into everything messy in Alice's life. I would've loved to see more build up to her as a character, more backstory maybe, and more detailed moments in her life with her roommates/friends after her breakup. There's a portion about midway through where she's not talking to her best friend for a period of time and it's a strange dynamic that I felt could've been explored a lot more, given how we're introduced to their relationship early on.
I rated it a solid 3 on GoodReads because while I enjoyed it, it was both too short and a little to twee for my liking. But I think the exploration and explanations of asexuality and biromantic were really good. The support for mental health was well done overall just a solid, but solid read if you're a fan of romance.
I do appreciate the length for one thing, it made me sit and read and finish a book for the first time in along time. It made me want to go back to the books hanging in limbo that I haven't finished yet, because the pandemic interrupted my regular reading time. Short, engaging novels have that effect sometime. I plan to pick back up Polaris Rising from Jessie Mihalick again (other romance, but a sci-fi one). I was about a quarter of the way through it before when I stopped reading, so it's high time I went back.
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Date: 2020-06-11 05:54 am (UTC)