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The Lawrence Browne Affair by Cat Sebastian
4.0

I really like Cat Sebastian.
Also, this trend of using romance to think about how we write mental illness is frankly fascinating.
Because romance is the genre most closely linked with happy endings and a kind of aspirational understanding that obstacles can be overcome, there’s something (depressingly) radical in giving the person who is usually the villain or the tragic hero the chance to be the comic hero.
I also do wonder how much the queer content and the fact that these are gay romances allows for this kind of experimentation. But also I hate dealing with surprise!misogyny and it happens often enough in straight romances that I just avoid then when it’s not genre+romance.