This was a fun and super queer Cinderella retelling and just what I needed for the level of attention I could give it at the time. I really liked how This was a fun and super queer Cinderella retelling and just what I needed for the level of attention I could give it at the time. I really liked how queer it was and I really do mean queer in the sense that all the important characters were queer. Despite this, I guess I wasn't fully convinced about using real-world labels in this type of fantasy, but I suppose it's one way like another to convey the exact type of representation you're writing. It's just not something I'm used to but it wasn't unwelcome, it makes it easy to promote it and cater it to everyone who's looking for something specific.
I'm not too into this particular type of forbidden romance trope either, but it ultimately didn't bother me since the characters had little to no interaction before the facts of the book (view spoiler)[so they have absolutely no sisterly bond (as well as sharing 0 blood) (hide spoiler)], and I was just happy to see a cute polyam relationship develop among two women and a nonbinary person. This was also one of the least amatonormative books I've read which I really appreciate....more
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