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I picked up this book to learn more about asexuality, the experiences of aces and how to be a better ally. This book covers these in a very roundabout and unclear way.
- You can tell this book was a passion project from the author. Their intent permeates every page and it is an enthusiastic book in that sense.
- This book is longer than it needed to be. The same points are repeated over and over unhelpfully and whilst the anecdotes are often related, they seem to just appear in the text. I found the structure and the meandering nature of the book frustrating at times.
- My other gripe with this book is the absolute vagueness and skirting around definitions. Almost every time the author attempts to define asexuality, the conclusion essentially comes down to "but there is no official definition for this and every person experiences asexuality differently". Whilst I appreciate this may be the nature of the beast and individual experiences and perceptions vary on almost any subject, it is again frustrating to have this point repeated again and again with no real purpose.
I learnt some of what I set out to learn. It was not terribly exciting, often repetitive and frustrating but it is a good resource for those wishing to understand the asexual experience.
I picked up this book to learn more about asexuality, the experiences of aces and how to be a better ally. This book covers these in a very roundabout and unclear way.
- You can tell this book was a passion project from the author. Their intent permeates every page and it is an enthusiastic book in that sense.
- This book is longer than it needed to be. The same points are repeated over and over unhelpfully and whilst the anecdotes are often related, they seem to just appear in the text. I found the structure and the meandering nature of the book frustrating at times.
- My other gripe with this book is the absolute vagueness and skirting around definitions. Almost every time the author attempts to define asexuality, the conclusion essentially comes down to "but there is no official definition for this and every person experiences asexuality differently". Whilst I appreciate this may be the nature of the beast and individual experiences and perceptions vary on almost any subject, it is again frustrating to have this point repeated again and again with no real purpose.
I learnt some of what I set out to learn. It was not terribly exciting, often repetitive and frustrating but it is a good resource for those wishing to understand the asexual experience.