"Strong arms, cologne, and two beating hearts"

Sometimes, more often than I'd like, I sit to review a book I've just read and I know I won't have the words to express the feels. That's why I'm a reader and not a writer, and that's definitely the case with Char Dafoe's "A Jade's Diamond".

Nayvee is a non-binary streetwalker. Trystan is a "male of center" lesbian entrepreneur. Theirs is an unlikely match, think "Pretty Woman" with more grit and angst and violence. Both Nayvee and Tristan use they/their as personal pronouns which took some getting used to reading, but it works.

Five "damp in all the right places" stars. Very recommended, with a potential trigger warning for 'an “off-screen” act of violence as told from the point of view of a main character.' ( )