A review by queerandtalkative
In at the Deep End by Kate Davies

dark funny sad tense
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.25

DNF 20%, I enjoyed it up until the events that occurred after her gay awakening. I am queer and didn’t really like the commentary on “how easy it is to be a lesbian nowadays” because it’s not lol… seems like an over simplistic and privileged view of queerness. i enjoyed the comedy but I did not like that the dialogue didn’t feel like real characters but rather like skits that didn’t mesh well together as a book. Books that talk about assault in such graphic detail NEED trigger warnings. There’s too many victims/survivors that deal with enough triggers in their everyday life to go into a story that promotes itself as “lighthearted comedy” to turn into a abuse sexual assault story without warning. I hope the author does better in the future. I think there’s potential for good comedy, I can’t speak on the more serious topics.
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