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simonlorden 's review for:
Marriage of Unconvenience
by Chelsea M. Cameron
This is a sweet romcom where two women who have been best friends since childhood get married in order for one of them to get her inheritance which they can split. I loved how Lo and Cara started out from different places: Lo is already out as queer, and Cara still believes herself to be straight at the beginning of the story. I also liked that going to a therapist to work through your feelings even if you don't have a specific mental illness was normalised and treated as a positive thing.
Note: Lo and Cara both state or at least imply that they are only attracted to women, but they only ever describe themselves as "queer". I don't remember either of them self-describing as a lesbian at any point, hence why I'm not calling them that either.
However, I'm not the first and probably not the last person to say that this book could have used more editing. Others pointed out several inconsistencies, but the one that really bothered me was that the transgender male side character is described as gay in the first chapter, but later he dates girls, and even Lo talks about him finding "the right girl". Also, this is my pet peeve, but the formatting made it difficult to tell who was speaking sometimes. In everything I read, if you have a line of dialogue from character A then an action by character B, then you write them in different lines, but that wasn't what happened here.
Note: Lo and Cara both state or at least imply that they are only attracted to women, but they only ever describe themselves as "queer". I don't remember either of them self-describing as a lesbian at any point, hence why I'm not calling them that either.
However, I'm not the first and probably not the last person to say that this book could have used more editing. Others pointed out several inconsistencies, but the one that really bothered me was that the transgender male side character is described as gay in the first chapter, but later he dates girls, and even Lo talks about him finding "the right girl". Also, this is my pet peeve, but the formatting made it difficult to tell who was speaking sometimes. In everything I read, if you have a line of dialogue from character A then an action by character B, then you write them in different lines, but that wasn't what happened here.