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luxxybee97's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
3.5 stars
tl;dr – be gay and do crime etc.
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I honestly wasn’t sold too much on the first story, unfortunately, but when Cherry Potts began to focus more on quotidian reality, I felt that Mosaic of Air began to become just a bit more tangible. The later fables of elemental ladies and historical royal dramas were strong in their own ways, but it was Potts’ keen insight into the daily lives of lesbian women in the 80s and 90s that, I felt, left the most impact. Her navigation of the constraints of compulsive heterosexuality and gender norms in general is achingly realistic, and it’s done in such a way, with such normal, human characters with normal, human emotions and normal, human desires, that you instantly relate to them, instantly want them to break free of the binds both subtle and explicit that have locked them into an existence that they don’t want. Yet despite the similarities of their circumstance, many of her characters don’t feel like carbon copies – they are each unique.
d_a_n_a's review
2.5
i really liked a few of the stories but the majority just felt like a chore to read. dnf
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