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Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. This book should be front and center on every endcap and cash wrap in every single bookstore!!! There should be no excuses for this to not be made into a rom-com starring Keke Palmer and some cute struggling Japanese or Japanese-American actor who deserves a chance to become America's new Bae. Hollywood, make it happen and don't you DARE pull that colorist nonsense you're so fond of. Anyway, Alice is the kind of queer PoC representation we've long needed in not just YA, but in fiction as a whole.
She's not here to serve as a trauma llama to "explain" why sex as such isn't her raison d'etre. It was whatever someone wanted it to be and should be respected as such. For Alice, it was staying up late and talking about nothing and everything and anything because you didn't want to sleep--you'd miss them too much. She's stuck trying to please her loving yet strict and unbending parents aided and abetted by her older sister and brother , all of whom insist she go to law school despite the fact that her heart isn't in it.
Add to that a slow shift in the friendship between rough and tumble lifelong best friend Feenie and her fiancee, Ryan. In short, just another day in the life. And Alice is a huge geek! Yay for Black geek girls!!! One thing I truly appreciated about Let's Talk About Love is the depiction of an upper-middle class Black family who expect their children to excel. This might not be a huge deal to most readers, but when the media at large has gone out of its way to show Black families as dysfunctional, poverty stricken and criminally minded, having images of strong, loving and functional Black families is a breath of fresh air.
Especially because many of us actually live such lives, regardless of economic status. So Alice has just broken up with her girlfriend Margot because she didn't understand why Alice just wasn't interested in the physical act of sex. And while Alice herself didn't lack the vocabulary to explain that love and sex were different, that she could still love and desire romance, it was also difficult for her to make such a thing make sense.
Granted that our society places such an emphasis upon sex as a huge part of romantic relationships, I understood Alice's fears, though I'm far from ACE. But that didn't mean she liked being alone. That didn't mean she wasn't lonely. That didn't mean she didn't want romance and didn't want to fall in love. It didn't mean she couldn't love someone just as fiercely as they loved her. Not just "Hi, I'm the new boy next door" gorgeous, but the kind of gorgeous that would make you want to slap your mama.
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The kind of gorgeous you'd stab your best friend of twenty years in the back, set her house on fire, and drive off into the sunset with her husband for. Have sex in the break room at work even though you know there are security cameras in there gorgeous. Alice's "Cutie Code" went haywire and she found herself watching him while she's supposed to be working Alice works at a library - I knew we were book bae.
Apparently, Takumi is just as taken with Alice and enjoys being around her. Their growing friendship obviously complicates things. How does she tell Hottie Mac Sexypants that she's not interested in sex, but that she still likes him? How does she make it make sense to her, and why does she feel she has to constantly explain her existence? Hence her trip to Dr. Again, showing Black people as seeking out and utilizing therapy. We don't see that enough and it matters. There is a multitude of shades of gray in between.
Being potentially sexually attracted to one particular person isn't as outlandish as you've convinced yourself it is. Such as having to explain her hair and why she doesn't want anyone touching it I know the pain girlfriend, and my rule of thumb is keep your damn hands off my hair because I'm not your pet. She also dealt with the not-compliment "you're pretty cute for a Black girl.
And piggybacked onto that is "I've never been with a Black girl before", to which Alice responds: And later, one of my complaints with her was she didn't take Feenie to the mat for having ditched her. In fact, she spent a great deal of the book thinking it was her fault. Where have we heard this before? Anyway, back to Takumi. He babysits his twin nieces, is kind of a health nut cooking genius and somehow manages to get Alice into doing things like paragliding. Unfortunately the closer they become, the more confused and scared Alice becomes.
The elephant in the room is her asexuality and she has no idea if it will end what feels right to her. And as much as her best friend Feenie is truly ride or die, there were times I wanted to snatch that girl's ponytail and put some common sense in her. Then again, true best friends can fight one minute then be ready to bury a body the next. That's Alice and Feenie.
Of course, the book is chock full of diverse characters who are fully realized. Alice's struggle to understand herself and to find what makes her happy is something we can all relate to, regardless of what the character looks like. Too bad some readers see "Black character" and think "oh it's probably going to have street slang and I can't relate though I just finished a book about a wealthy shape-shifting vampire dominant.
To tell you how much I loved this book, I'm purchasing the hardcover to sit nicely on my physical PoC on the Covers bookshelves. I love looking at all that wonderful diversity and thinking how far we've come, as well as the journey we still need to take. Why the fight for WeNeedDiverseBooks and ownvoices has to continue. Needless to say, there are more books featuring awesome PoC heroines, so this year will be awesome!
A beautiful, dark-skinned black girl with an afro. She's in a dress! Joy radiates from this cover and it's one of my favorites of I'd pick up the book for the cover alone.
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Now let's talk about the story. Alice is a biromantic asexual. She's smart and confused and deeply loving, and she's simply an amazing character. I loved her voice, her thoughts, the way she moved through the world. She falls hard for her co-worker, who is also brown! A possible interracial relationship where one of the partners isn't white? I love seeing a book about a black girl that doesn't involve slavery, basketball, gangs, drugs, and all the other typical Black Pain Narratives.
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This is not to say those stories are not needed or important. But sometimes, a girl's problems are what to major in. How to please her parents. What to do about the boy she may or may not be crushing hard on. How to do all of the above and still be true to herself and her happiness. Sometimes, a girl just wants to Be without being a Lesson. It's amazing and wonderful to see a black, queer girl written by a black author get to explore the things we've seen in mostly white contemporaries for years and years, and I enjoyed this book so, so, so much.
I desperately want more from this author.
I love Alice so much. I love her trying to figure out how to grow up, choose what she wants to do, maintain the friendships and family relationships she cares about, navigate various kinds of attraction and potential romantic relationships and what she wants in that regard. I love how she feels about her job, how she relates to TV shows and movies and that she writes about them!
She's a really well-written character, she feels like she has history that you mostly don't feel like you're missing because it's integrated well , and I want to give her all the hugs. Feenie feels like few other characters I've read, and I'm so glad Alice has her. I don't know that I was fully satisfied with their relationship arc in the book, but Feenie is a delight and important in so many ways.
Ryan is a sweetheart, and I appreciated that Alice has a relationship with him that's not just through Feenie. Moschoula is a very minor character, but every time she appeared was great. We got a lot of Essie at the library early, and I was disappointed when there was a long stretch of the book without her and the library.
Alice's family relationships are complicated. I liked where her relationship with her parents goes. Her relationships with Aisha and Adam, her siblings, are more static and not addressed as much.