I appreciated the good intentions to write a supportive and inclusive book that sheds a light on homophobia and the many ways it can negatively affect the health and well-being of a community that has zero social support. There were attempts to make the narrative sound very "woke" and politicize it by portraying certain complex beliefs as the obviously proper ones for any reasonable person to have according to the author.Īll of those issues just turned it into a pretty odd mix for me. The relationships between the characters developed too quick and lacked background, lacked build-up. There were parts that sounded like they were taken out from a "Home alone" movie.
There were some parts of the story that felt unrealistic, especially the end. Every single one of them (with maybe one tiny exception) was a homophobic, racist, abusive PoS. There wasn't a single decent male character. And although I really appreciated the rare opportunity to read about queer women in their 70s, there were a lot of things that just didn't sit right with me. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book. Visit her website at for information about her first four novels-The Moonstone Girls, Crystal's House of Queers, Some Laneys Died, and Someone To Kiss My Scars. Where the edge between is sometimes too alluring. Where danger from the land and its animals exhilarates the senses, forcing her to appreciate the difference between life and death. Where fish swim hundreds of miles up rivers past bear claws and nets and wheels and lines of rubber-clad combat fishers, arriving humped and ragged, dying as they spawn. Where the burst of life during summer is urgent under twenty-four-hour daylight, lush and decadent. Where she feels the constant rush toward winter as the sunlight wanes for six months of the year, seven minutes each day, bringing crushing cold that lingers even as the sun climbs again. Brooke Skipstone is a multi-award-winning author who lives in Alaska where she watches the mountains change colors with the seasons from her balcony.
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