Katie Lynch

-terrible writing: overly descriptive and dramatic; sorely lacking a zealous editor with a red pen
-also: soooo cheesy!
-the love scenes sound like something a fanciful teenager might write
-their relationship first went too slowly, then too fast; tbh the most romantic moment in the book was when Sutton touched Jane's hand for the first time
-what is the likelihood that in a Chinese-American community described as very "traditional," where in fact everyone not so long ago disapproved of Jane's mother marrying a white man, not one person would display the slightest homophobia or disapproval of Jane dating a woman? (also white, for that matter)
-it's nice to read a book where not everyone is a white American, but alas, the author's proximity to Chinese culture is having a Chinese-American wife
-the introduction of Chinese phrases and culture was done in the tedious "'Po Po' means 'maternal grandmother' in Chinese" kind of way; would have preferred to have it woven seamlessly into the story
-don't rock the boat: even a lesbian romance needs to have a few hetero storylines in the background, because love is love, and it's all the same, I guess?
-I hated the way Sutton's dad is presented as "having affairs" and "cheating on his wife" and "betraying his family," even though it's very clear that the women patients he had sex with were coerced into it, not seduced (i.e., rape and sexual abuse, not sultry, taboo romance)
-what luck that the book features the Chinese New Year opening into the Year of the Monkey, just when it was actually happening in real life, lol
-lesbian book by a lesbian author, yay. but why on earth does the copyright section list "man-woman relationships -- fiction" as one of the subjects??… (mehr)