This book has two perspectives that eventually run into each other, Nova and Kate. They don't meet like "normal" people do: they meet at the neurological department of a hospital. Kate is there for a head injury she sustained when she tripped backwards, but claims her husband Tony had nothing to do with it. Nova is there because she is just learning to see. After an experimental operation she can see for the first time in her life, theoretically, if it wasn't for the fact that seeing is a learned skill.
The two women become acquaintances, friends, and eventually girlfriends, while helping each other through the problems of their lives.
But what sounds like a sweet lgbt romance has some very very dark sides and at times the novel feels more like a thriller than literary fiction or romance. There are some MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS I need to make you aware of, although they are slightly spoilery: alcoholism, drugs, medicine abuse, homophobia, domestic violence (emotional, physical, sexual), violence and torture, stalking, attempted sexual assault, attempted suicide, animal cruelty.
The lgbt representation is totally not essential to the plot which makes it better, because real life people have no reason to be gay, they simply are.
The novel is disorientating and difficult at times but I mean that in the best possible way.
It's both fluffy and hard to stomach but if you aren't sensitive about any of these topics then I can totally recommend checking it out.
The two women become acquaintances, friends, and eventually girlfriends, while helping each other through the problems of their lives.
But what sounds like a sweet lgbt romance has some very very dark sides and at times the novel feels more like a thriller than literary fiction or romance. There are some MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS I need to make you aware of, although they are slightly spoilery: alcoholism, drugs, medicine abuse, homophobia, domestic violence (emotional, physical, sexual), violence and torture, stalking, attempted sexual assault, attempted suicide, animal cruelty.
The lgbt representation is totally not essential to the plot which makes it better, because real life people have no reason to be gay, they simply are.
The novel is disorientating and difficult at times but I mean that in the best possible way.
It's both fluffy and hard to stomach but if you aren't sensitive about any of these topics then I can totally recommend checking it out.