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For the Love of April French
4/5. Cute romance about a rich black software guy meeting a white transwoman at a kink bar. A lot of wish fulfillment (not derogatory) and sweetness and learning to love yourself so you can be loved. They both have work to do – he on levelling up his trans allyship and working on some complicated issues re kink practice, and her on some really fundamental stuff about self-value and a little bit levelling up her allyship on race. This is one of those books that manages to be pretty stark about some hard things like the pain and dysphoria of almost never being able to pass, but retaining a core of sweetness to the story. It’s a good, thoughtful book that I liked despite it spending a lot of time on kink practices that do nothing for me (sugaring, orgasm control). Recommended.
Content notes: Transphobia, recollections of unsafe BDSM.
4/5. Cute romance about a rich black software guy meeting a white transwoman at a kink bar. A lot of wish fulfillment (not derogatory) and sweetness and learning to love yourself so you can be loved. They both have work to do – he on levelling up his trans allyship and working on some complicated issues re kink practice, and her on some really fundamental stuff about self-value and a little bit levelling up her allyship on race. This is one of those books that manages to be pretty stark about some hard things like the pain and dysphoria of almost never being able to pass, but retaining a core of sweetness to the story. It’s a good, thoughtful book that I liked despite it spending a lot of time on kink practices that do nothing for me (sugaring, orgasm control). Recommended.
Content notes: Transphobia, recollections of unsafe BDSM.
