![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Femme Like Her (Fiona Zedde)
Jan. 15th, 2021 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
workday_dreamerFemme Like Her is a contemporary romance about Nailah getting over her issues about dating other femmes to allow herself to find true happiness with a partner. It is a little more complicated than that but that's the jumping off point.
I really loved this book. It grabbed me pretty quickly from the opening and didn't leave me hanging around to find out if I liked it or not. I was a little, not so much worried but uncertain towards the beginning about how I felt about the love interest, Scottie. She is very forward and I didn't know quite where the story was going with it? This was just after the beginning of the book, so I was already hooked but I didn't know if the story was going to make me regret that. None of Fiona Zedde's books that I've read ever had but there's always a first time. But the story took a bit of a turn and spent time dealing with that opening and how it all played out.
The supporting cast is quite strong, I feel. Nailah's Jamaican immigrant parents were particularly great. The perfect mix of loving and slightly embarrassing. There was a scene towards the end of the book between Nailah and her mother that had me having to close my kindle for a bit because it hit me right in the emotional centre of my being and made me cry. Fiona Zedde's other books have had that as well, this mix of eroticism and deep feeling that sneaks up on you at unexpected moments that I really like. I highly recommend this book.
I really loved this book. It grabbed me pretty quickly from the opening and didn't leave me hanging around to find out if I liked it or not. I was a little, not so much worried but uncertain towards the beginning about how I felt about the love interest, Scottie. She is very forward and I didn't know quite where the story was going with it? This was just after the beginning of the book, so I was already hooked but I didn't know if the story was going to make me regret that. None of Fiona Zedde's books that I've read ever had but there's always a first time. But the story took a bit of a turn and spent time dealing with that opening and how it all played out.
The supporting cast is quite strong, I feel. Nailah's Jamaican immigrant parents were particularly great. The perfect mix of loving and slightly embarrassing. There was a scene towards the end of the book between Nailah and her mother that had me having to close my kindle for a bit because it hit me right in the emotional centre of my being and made me cry. Fiona Zedde's other books have had that as well, this mix of eroticism and deep feeling that sneaks up on you at unexpected moments that I really like. I highly recommend this book.
