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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Finding Hope in Confronting the Past and the Present

The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

August 28, 2022 by Abi Leave a Comment

A lot of the queer fiction I have been recently has featured characters living in either New York or the Pacific North West, or both. Places with widespread acceptance of queerness, or at least enough that the characters are rarely under threat for it within the text, regardless of the real world. The Secret of You and Me on the other hand, draws much of it’s power from the inverse, from a lack of acceptance in community, of what it feels like when you are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: best friends, late in life lesbian, Lesbians, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, lovers to enemies to lovers, Melissa Lenhardt

Abi's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: best friends, late in life lesbian, Lesbians, LGBTQ, LGBTQ author, lovers to enemies to lovers, Melissa Lenhardt ·
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    I'm not generally into shifter romances, but the title really is awesome.
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    That is definitely NOT what I am looking for in a romance.
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    Definitely skipping that one. Never read it.
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