Teal’s Reviews > Lavender House > Status Update

"He shakes his head, then strokes his beard."

Wait a second. This guy, one of the main suspects, has been on page how many times — let's just say a lot, because the MC lives in the same house as him — and now, 3/4 of the way through, we're being told for the first time that he has a beard?

Not to mention, it's 1952? And he's a businessman, in fact basically a CEO? Uhhhhh.... I'm gonna say no. What a weird glitch.

Don't know what I'm going to do now. DNF? Skip ahead? Wait a few days (can't wait too long, it's a library book) then push myself to continue? There's a reason why I don't read books about queer characters in the 1950s, but I went against my usual judgement in order to give this a chance. I'm invested enough in the mystery now that I don't really want to DNF... but I don't know if I can bear to keep reading, either.

Oof, huge anachronism. 😖