2 Stars might be kind, but good lord there’s a serious lack of WLW stories out there and it only took part of an afternoon to read. That being said, I’ll go back to my ff if this is my alternate.

At one point I seriously questioned if I had opened a different book - parents went from tragically killed to a drug addict mother and an absent father?

How we go from not seeing our parents and not agreeing with their overly religious (but seriously lacking) Christian values and awful 1950’s housewife of a mom that has no ambitions for herself and admits to only being married for appearances, because it’s “what you’re supposed to do”and a father that’s non-communicative, unappreciative, and distant - to living with them again? Did you have absolutely no friends in the entire city that you lived for a minimum of 3 years that you could turn to? Were you really looking for a job - there’s plenty out there to tie you over until a job in your field becomes available… Whether she admits it or not, she was living out her parents life in her former relationship - loveless, noncommunicative, living together for convenience, and only the male figure worked to sustain their household.

The story had so many time jumps it felt incomplete in each fragment. The idea is there, but not enough time was really given to forge out a plot. Reads more like “I romanticize what it must be like to be in a lesbian relationship and pine for one, but I’ve never been in one.” Oh, and misleading - if that’s what people are calling steamy, oof. Oof again, I’m sorry but you’re missing out on what’s really out there to consume and be had.