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Two reviews
May. 22nd, 2020 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
el_stapladorI won a BookCrossing sweepstake of lesbian books a little while ago, so I have several FFFridays worth to keep me going. Here are the first two.
Keeping You A Secret, Julie Anne Peters
One of those books that was pretty groundbreaking in its time, one of a handful of titles that came up when I looked for stories for teens with a f/f relationship at its centre. And this is a solid story that holds up well enough in comparison with those that followed, but from this distance it no longer seems like anything particularly out of the ordinary: another romance, another coming out story, another account of homophobia both institutional and personal. I'd love to have read it a decade ago, or more.
As for the second, the protagonist's identity as a lesbian is a big reveal part-way in (though it's fairly obvious if you know you're looking for it) so I'm putting everything including the title under a cut.
( it came out in 1993, but just to be on the safe side )
Keeping You A Secret, Julie Anne Peters
One of those books that was pretty groundbreaking in its time, one of a handful of titles that came up when I looked for stories for teens with a f/f relationship at its centre. And this is a solid story that holds up well enough in comparison with those that followed, but from this distance it no longer seems like anything particularly out of the ordinary: another romance, another coming out story, another account of homophobia both institutional and personal. I'd love to have read it a decade ago, or more.
As for the second, the protagonist's identity as a lesbian is a big reveal part-way in (though it's fairly obvious if you know you're looking for it) so I'm putting everything including the title under a cut.
( it came out in 1993, but just to be on the safe side )
