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misssharpe's review
3.0
This book was .. interesting. I can’t say it was good. The writing for the first half of the book was somewhat insufferable the author uses parentheses way to much. I’m 30 but i feel like this book was maybe written for women of an older generations because I felt like I had to google A LOT of the references.
The MC was hard to like or dislike because college Liselle is so pro black that she listens to Public Enemy and gets mad at her black professor for saying that a white woman was the love of a Black lesbian author/feminist that she admired life. But adult Liselle is married to a white man who she made move here to a nice neighborhood and had Hispanic maids who she refuses to give monetary help who and does not even address the help’s daughter because she don’t want to learn how to say her name correctly!
I learned a lot from this book. I had never heard of Audre Lorde, I didn’t know that Malcom X had a White girlfriend, and I did not know that Eldridge Cleaver wrote about rapes he committed in Soul on Ice.
I did NOT like the Shonda Rhimes Reference:
“There was a round, gap-toothed Black woman who looked like everybody’s aunt running multiple scripted television shows with huge budgets.”
I liked Selena’s character. I even liked Winn once he said “Once a year my sister says she’s going to come home, and then a lot of complicated plans are made, farm animals are slaughtered for burned offerings” …but Liselle did not deserve either one. She should have just stayed alone and worked on herself.
The whole book you are wondering why this short relationship with Selena that only lasted 4 months was so significant. But by the end they show all the cute moments of their relationship (the forever my lady scene was especially cute) and you understand that it is because for both women, that was the only person they felt they could be their true, authentic, ugly selves and still be accepted.
But I have to say, the ending was abrupt an absolute trash and the reader deserved more for their investment.
ALSO I did not like how both Liselle and Selena considered themselves lesbians. Selena had been with multiple men WILLINGLY before and after Liselle (her sleeping with the dude she met while he was waiting for his girlfriend getting an abortion who said his own name when he orgasmed was a hot damn mess!)
And Liselle was married to a WHOLE man and was so attracted to the fine Black FBI guy she didn’t even want to tell him she was married.
I felt like both characters wanted to identify as lesbians because it sounded more feminist then admitting they both are actually Bisexual
The MC was hard to like or dislike because college Liselle is so pro black that she listens to Public Enemy and gets mad at her black professor for saying that a white woman was the love of a Black lesbian author/feminist that she admired life. But adult Liselle is married to a white man who she made move here to a nice neighborhood and had Hispanic maids who she refuses to give monetary help who and does not even address the help’s daughter because she don’t want to learn how to say her name correctly!
I learned a lot from this book. I had never heard of Audre Lorde, I didn’t know that Malcom X had a White girlfriend, and I did not know that Eldridge Cleaver wrote about rapes he committed in Soul on Ice.
I did NOT like the Shonda Rhimes Reference:
“There was a round, gap-toothed Black woman who looked like everybody’s aunt running multiple scripted television shows with huge budgets.”
I liked Selena’s character. I even liked Winn once he said “Once a year my sister says she’s going to come home, and then a lot of complicated plans are made, farm animals are slaughtered for burned offerings” …but Liselle did not deserve either one. She should have just stayed alone and worked on herself.
The whole book you are wondering why this short relationship with Selena that only lasted 4 months was so significant. But by the end they show all the cute moments of their relationship (the forever my lady scene was especially cute) and you understand that it is because for both women, that was the only person they felt they could be their true, authentic, ugly selves and still be accepted.
But I have to say, the ending was abrupt an absolute trash and the reader deserved more for their investment.
ALSO I did not like how both Liselle and Selena considered themselves lesbians. Selena had been with multiple men WILLINGLY before and after Liselle (her sleeping with the dude she met while he was waiting for his girlfriend getting an abortion who said his own name when he orgasmed was a hot damn mess!)
And Liselle was married to a WHOLE man and was so attracted to the fine Black FBI guy she didn’t even want to tell him she was married.
I felt like both characters wanted to identify as lesbians because it sounded more feminist then admitting they both are actually Bisexual
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