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My Best Friend's Honeymoon
by Meryl Wilsner
Okay, I loved this! Part of me isn't surprised because I've really enjoyed all of the author's books and expected I'd like their new one, but it's always a nice bonus when I like something as much as I did this. I read it about a month ago but wanted to save my post for Pride month because even though I read and share about queer books all year round, I wanted to highlight some more recent ones I've loved among some other faves. And this book is so delightfully queer.
It's full of a cast of queer folk including a lesbian Non-binary MC, a pan FMC, and many side characters. We get multiple queer-friendly locations (queer friendly resort, drag trivia night, etc.). There's a lot of excellent queer spice, including some things that aren't often represented in romance. But most importantly, at least to me as a later in life queer whose life is sort of isolated in this way, it showed every day life and what may seem like simple occurences to others that felt big and important to see, for me. Elsie reminisces on when she, as an elementary school kid, truthfully told that her crush was another girl without thinking there was any problem with that, and then her supposed friends and others othering and bullying her. Ginny goes to their first drag trivia night and bonds with older queer people. They both experience some firsts with each other, including Elsie's first real sapphic sexual encounter.
Overall, I loved their friend dynamic, that they've been best friends since kids and really in love with each other (or at the very least ignoring feelings), that they go together on what was supposed to be Elsie's honeymoon when she breaks it off with her just fine fiance after he surprises her by planning the entire wedding, and that we see their vacation bubble bliss when they first explore things and also how reality smacks them in the face back home because they both have things they need to figure out on their own.
Well done, again, to Meryl Wilsner. Your stories are important and I'm so glad I get to read them.
It's full of a cast of queer folk including a lesbian Non-binary MC, a pan FMC, and many side characters. We get multiple queer-friendly locations (queer friendly resort, drag trivia night, etc.). There's a lot of excellent queer spice, including some things that aren't often represented in romance. But most importantly, at least to me as a later in life queer whose life is sort of isolated in this way, it showed every day life and what may seem like simple occurences to others that felt big and important to see, for me. Elsie reminisces on when she, as an elementary school kid, truthfully told that her crush was another girl without thinking there was any problem with that, and then her supposed friends and others othering and bullying her. Ginny goes to their first drag trivia night and bonds with older queer people. They both experience some firsts with each other, including Elsie's first real sapphic sexual encounter.
Overall, I loved their friend dynamic, that they've been best friends since kids and really in love with each other (or at the very least ignoring feelings), that they go together on what was supposed to be Elsie's honeymoon when she breaks it off with her just fine fiance after he surprises her by planning the entire wedding, and that we see their vacation bubble bliss when they first explore things and also how reality smacks them in the face back home because they both have things they need to figure out on their own.
Well done, again, to Meryl Wilsner. Your stories are important and I'm so glad I get to read them.