Queer rep: The MC is a lesbian with a girlfriend and her best friend uses they/them pronouns various queer secondary/minor characters 2: Some Enchanted Eveningby Grace Ellis, Shae Beagle, Kat Fajardo (2019) It wasn’t a bad book, but it was unpolished. I don’t think it needs to be an exact 50/50 split, but this felt so lopsided – 80/20? 90/10? – that I wondered why we were even getting both perspectives. It also felt like an odd choice to have two POV characters, but split the narration so unevenly between them. The writing felt somewhat stilted at times, and although I like quirky characters, the quirkiness here tended to feel a little forced. But the whole thing just fell a little flat for me. The escape scenes, both training and performing, were entertaining and managed to be nerve-wracking even in print the cast of secondary characters was interesting (even the minor characters were enjoyable – I liked the hecklers at the Salon Postale a lot) and putting excerpts from Akiko’s diary between chapters added another dimension to the story. Thoughts: This had an interesting premise: 17-year-old Mattie is secretly obsessed with escapology, and she gets the agoraphobic Miyu, daughter of a deceased world-famous escape artist, Akiko Miyaki, to start training her – all while hiding her passion from friends, family, and schoolmates.
Queer rep: A secondary POV character is gay The Art of Escapingby Erin Callahan (2018) All titles are linked to their Goodreads page. Bite-sized reviews of the LGBTQ books I’ve read in the past week.
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