another 2.5⭐ *sigh*

i listened to the audiobook, which is pretty short, and that's the only reason why i finished it tbh.

while it does what it says on the tin, 'acts of service' is painfully dull and says very little. i feel that the main character, eve, paints herself as a lesbian, but is bisexual, and the novel very much feels like a male centred heteronormative book. eve has a girlfriend but begins seeing an m/f couple, in which the girl, olivia, does not acknowledge her in any way during their sexual encounters and has essentially no relationship with her. there is a rapport between eve and the guy, nathan, who is, plainly sexist, and a dominant figure to them both. i feel that lillian fisherman was attempting to laud some sexually liberating feminist statement, but this was not done in any persuasive way. olivia is a meek, passive character and eve is equally without agency. i actually really liked the writing, which is why it's not a flat out two stars, but the plot was lack lustre and the characters insipid. the bones of the story were there without the flesh.