Review also found on my blog.


content warnings: homophobia, sexism
representation: lesbian protagonist, questioning protagonist, f/f main relationship, lesbian main and side characters, side gay man of colour


I wasn’t necessarily expecting to like this, but I was still holding out a little hope. Alas, here we are.

This book follows Katie, who has recently broken up with her fiance and doesn’t really know what to do with her life, and at the start of the book meets the gorgeous Cassidy. Cassidy is a confident lesbian who has a reputation as a player among her friend group, but meeting Katie might change that.

If that sounds like a cheesy romcom, then you’re assumption is right, but that’s not a bad thing! I was so excited for a cheesy sapphic romcom, but this ended up feeling like a teen romcom in all the wrong ways.

Let’s start there: these characters don’t feel like adults. They drink, swear and have sex, but when it comes to emotions and the decisions they make, they remind me of sixteen year olds. This wasn’t helped by the fact that the characters seemed like a compiled list of tropes as opposed to real people, which in turn meant that the romance was extremely lacking.

Being a romance, there needs to be a conflict. I’m usually not too hard on bad conflicts in romance’s because I understand that it’s just a brief thing needed to keep the plot going, and if I like the characters and the relationship enough then I’ll just look past it. But the conflict in this book felt so contrived, and then only lasted for a chapter! It’s literally resolved within twenty pages!

Overall, the writing is nothing special, and the book didn’t get interesting until 90 pages in (keeping in mind this book is under 300 pages). This book also came across very cis white lesbian with the biphobic comments made (namely that Katie can only be straight or a lesbian), the weird discussions of femininity and masculinity, and every character being white except for Cassidy’s tailor (who shows up for one scene and is just an exotic gay stereotype).

I did appreciate how sex-positive this book is and how it shows Katie going to websites and shops run by queer women to discover more about the culture as opposed to just watching lesbian porn, but that really was the main redeeming factor. The only other decent things were how well-written the sex scenes were, and even they were fade to black!

I wouldn’t recommend picking this up. If you’re looking for a cute lesbian romcom then read Everything Leads to You, or really anything other than this.