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aroaessidhe · 4 months ago

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2025 reads / storygraph

This Love

contemporary fiction, set over a decade

a stubborn butch lesbian who breaks a lot of hearts and wants to do something important with her life, and a pan guy who’s moved from New York with his mother to escape his abusive father and a bad relationship with a professor - meet in their final year of university and quickly become close friends

they both dream of settling down and having kids - and decide that if they don’t find partners (or even if they do), they’ll do it together

over the years they navigate their relationships with their parents, new relationships, diverging life paths and media careers, and while their lives don’t go to plan, an unconventional family develops out of their strong friendship

#this love #lotte jeffs #aroaessidhe 2025 reads #oughh this was a lot #I’m always searching for more stories centering platonic relationships (esp m/f ones) that give them as much #development and complexity and messiness as romance stories get. this definitely delivers on that!#they’re messy complicated characters with a messy complicated relationship that’s not always easy #but it’s worth it #(I didn’t enjoy reading the parts where they grew apart :( but also I so appreciate a story giving that sort of complex narrative to a frie #It explores a lot of queer experiences and unconventional families.#as someone with very opposite feelings about wanting kids I definitely didn’t relate to that aspect of the narrative so much #but it was interesting to read that perspective.#the sort of. nonlinear bits and twist ending could have been expanded upon a bit more imo #“Since when do you not care about labels; you're obsessed with them. look at your spice rack. you have a label maker” lmao #sapphic books #this is not a very good summary or review LOL

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