Veronica Kyrychenko Kyrychenko itibaren 6687 CA Angeren, Netherlands
So you feel like you should like Michelle Tea because her characters are like, young and working class and queer so you feel like you have so much in common you just have to like her books, but in reality she irritates you and makes you feel alienated and her writing style feels simultaneously drug-addled and pretentious? (I FUCKING SAID IT. FINALLY. THAT FEELS GREAT) Then you should read Zoe Whittall. Zoe's characters are queer people in their mid-twenties, floating around between parties, shitty jobs with shitty bosses and relationships that sputter, start and die. There's a trans character but the whole book doesn't circle around the vortex of how awful the trans experience is. The characters ride bikes, go to bars and date ex-girlfriend's roommates. Pretty much only one of them has a real job (paramedic). The setting and characters felt very familiar to me, and there was comfort in that. I felt validated, like yes, this generation of queers did happen and experience life in this way. I never feel that way. This book was entertaining and authentic and I would recommend to anyone interested in contemporary queer lit that doesn't suck.
More of a 1.5 star. Nothing much happen. Katie whining. Owen blushing. Fairygodmother meddling.
Bronte's writing is superb...like eating chocolate!