Finally, my first Akwaeke Emezi book. Not the one I'm most interested in, but one that sounded not too stressful. And it really wasn't – I was surprised by how fluffy, calm and cute this story is. It's about love and feeling safe with someone and deciding for that, even if it's the less expected choice, and one that some people disapprove of. The sonewhat stressful part of the story is this friend who has a crush on the main character and is not just upset when she gets together with his dad, but actually turns into a total asshole, violent and misogynist. There's a lot of difficult feelings and grief, but there's also a deep comedy to the whole thing: as a reader I know that these two people are so obviously good for each other, they're both very solidly adults, the side characters don't seem to mind so much, only the guy's kids are super freaked out about how horribly inappropriate this is and how everyone will talk.

It's a very bi story for what it is, but what I liked even more is that next to a story about big unexpected love, it's also a story about relationships that didn't happen, or didn't last long. Also, I'm not a fan of detailed descriptions of penis-in-vagina sex, but it was ok, the rest is good enough that it doesn't matter.