Kate Genet

An absolutely beautiful read with lots of sincerity and raw emotion, Don't Go There (more than aptly titled) handles the love story and other potentially sensitive issues with a very impressive delicacy. Looking back at what I Kindle highlighted, I see that the most stark and striking passages all relate to the novel's central theme of knowing what is love and what is not and how (sometimes, no matter how hard you struggle) some feelings just cannot be fought. This kind of stuff may happen far more often in fiction than real life, but it's no less wonderful for it...I hope Kate Genet continues to write more romances as her first foray into the genre is top-notch! :)… (mehr)

The story in Psychopathia revolves around twins, a brother and sister, who visit an abandon asylum on lark with two friends. While the twins are off on their own they are chased and attacked by a glowing ball of light. When the four return to the cottage they are renting for the summer strange things begin to happen. I do not want to include any spoilers so I will just say what chased them at the asylum caught one of them. The explanation for the "being" and how he came to be was not satisfactory. Nor was the story line that involved the possession. I am willing to try another book by the author.… (mehr)

It was neat to read a lesbian fiction both by an author from somewhere and set in a place I hadn't read before (at least not lesbian fiction). Though, granted, I did not immediately catch on to where exactly I was on earth. And it was only in the author afterword that I realized I was in New Zealand. Though I had fairly quickly realized I was in that area of the world. I just thought I was in Australia. Before I realized one of the main characters moved from Sydney back to her home town, I was wondering why the other main character was talking so funny.

Right, so. I hadn't read this author before, though I had two other of her works on my maybe pile. Neither of those two being straight forward contemporary lesbian fiction, like this book here.

This book here stars broken 25 year old painter and an abused 17 year old school student. The painter is quite depressing and drinks a lot. The 17 year old, despite her circumstances, is a lot more upbeat than you would expect. Being mostly friendless, constantly bullied by other members of her school, and constantly abused by her brother (mental and physical, but not sexually).

Oddly, considering our massive age differences and places in life, I rather liked the 17 year old Fliss. And, strangely, Teresa's personality . . . well, no not necessarily personality. Just something about her that reminded me greatly of someone I know. Which, in itself is strange and rarely if ever happens.

This had something in it that is the reason why I've yet to actually read one of the other books I've got on my maybe pile. That other book starts off with a woman and man in a sexual episode. This one doesn't have that, but it does have multiple sexual scenes that I frankly wanted no part of. As in, both in that other book, and in this one, those scenes were not between the main characters. They were sex making and not love making, and I just do not/did not want to read that. So, that's one negative with the book. To a certain extent, that's the main one.

ETA: I don't normally comment on covers, but I will this time. I like the cover on the edition I read. All other editions, though, have a different cover. Which looks, to me, like it might be a cover on a vampire book, maybe lesbian vampire, but still vampire. There are no vampires in this book. One woman is leaning over another like she is about to bite into her. And the cover appears to be written in blood.… (mehr)