thank you to netgalley and random house for providing me with an e-arc in exchange for an honest review :) 

 

okay okay okay okay. um i don’t even know where to start. i could not put this down!!!! camille kellogg i owe you my life for this one. and you’re telling me this is a debut?!?!? 

 

just as you are follows liz, someone who is struggling with gender presentation, her love life, her career, and so many other things that queer twenty-somethings are actually going through. i am so grateful that this book exists!!! as someone who struggles with gender presentation, liz was so goddamn real and important!!!! 

 

the general plot of the book follows the shut down of the magazine that liz and her roommates write for. the magazine is bought by two wealthy lesbians which brings me to daria fitzgerald, butch icon, kinda grumpy kinda the sweetest person on the planet. their love story is very much pride and prejudice inspired and flowed well from hate to love. 

 

obviously, being a romance, the love story took center stage but it wasn’t afraid to touch on the importance of queer + trans media. just as you are is an ode to the queer community and is full of queer love and queer joy!!!! 5/5 stars from me!!