Review by bisexualwentworth - A Little Kissing Between Friends

A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins

3.0

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wish I’d liked this book more. I LOVED D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding. This one just seemed kind of… incomplete?

What I liked:

The characters were fun and vivid.
The diversity was great. I was especially thrilled to have an actually butch main character.
The dialogue was snappy.
I loved the opening chapter and the lens it lent to Cyn’s character.
The discussions about community were really lovely.
The sex scenes were many and varied and all of them were enjoyable.

What I didn’t like:

We didn’t see anything of the characters’ friendship before they got the hots for each other, and the inciting incident for the mutual attraction felt very random, so I kept asking, why now?
SO MUCH TELLING and very little showing of any kind, especially when it came to Jucee and Cyn’s friendship.
The drama with Jackie was resolved off page and that was incredibly dissatisfying for me.
I have a limit for how much miscommunication I can handle, and this book more than hit it. The leads’ inability to communicate drove me up the wall and made it really hard to root for them.

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