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292 pages, Paperback
Published August 19, 2024
For what it's worth, I think the author should have just named the book "Greysexuality in 300 pages or less", because holy mother of pride, this book was a long ass lecture about sexuality, spectrums and seven hundred+ labels, most of which mean the same thing. I was kind of lost there. It's like the soliloquies never end (pat on the back for using grown-up terms) of Dallas mostly trying to explain to himself - and by extension, me - what he learned from his 15-minute Google search on asexuality.
I'd say the only two things I enjoyed about this were the cute names; they were unique and pretty. And two; the single-parent trope.
1. So many characters.
Why is there so many characters?
Ok, I get that each couple has their own book, but why would you need to introduce so many characters in a book with less than 300 pages? And then there were the small facts about each of them, that didn't help with anything, because it just took up from the main couple. And the fact that I still couldn't figure out their entire relationships.
There was Dallas, Kylen, Bowen, Lane, Frey, Benito (or Baxter or whatever), and then there was Adele. Oh, and let's not forget Bronx - a character we started the book with but then disappeared and reappeared only in the last chapter- and Monty the lawyer. And nevermind the fact that every single one of these characters had a child; Auden, Flora, Briar, Rex, Lucas, Gage which at that point I kind of lost count of who's who and who's the child of whom.
2. EVERYBODY in this book is either gay or a homophobe and a bigot. There was no in-between. I'm confused about how the children came to be honestly.
And what's more funny is that both Dallas and Kylen had sex with women. Kylen was saying it was a drunken mistake (hope he doesn't say that in front of his child someday) and Dallas only had a child because he was having so much forced sex during his honeymoon because he thought "THAT was what people DO on honeymoons do".
So basically, what I'm hearing is that vaginas are awful, so you better not trip and slip into one.
Almost every kid has a disorder/disability.
One has kleptomania, one's hard of hearing, one's visually impaired, and now Flora's neurodivergent. I mean I like diversity when it comes to characters, but this feels more like a competition than anything else.
3. The plot holes/side plot abandonment
If there's one thing I hate about books, it's when the author gets lazy; doesn't finish the book and calls it an open ending. Why?
You can't just decide to cut the book short with a sex scene between two men fingering each other's hairy assholes.
How do you not give me closure on Flora's diagnosis? Is she autistic? Does she have OCD? What was it? Or the situation between Dallas and his Ex-wife. I mean the whole point of the book was to fight for custody. And now with the magic of coitus, we sort of forgo that?
Honestly, this book was a bit of a disappointment.
"I just need you to be on my side right now.”
“I will always be on your side.”
"I’m not asking for anything you’re not willing to give me. But if you want me, and I want you, then just for tonight, let’s be selfish.”
“I’m all yours.”
Dallas shuddered, his gaze locking onto Kylen’s. “You mean that?”
Kylen surged forward, speaking right up against Dallas’s lips. “More than I’ve ever meant anything in my life.”