trans novel

I wrote a recent post about the novel A Lady for a Duke. In case it wasn’t apparent from the hoity-toity language I used to describe the plot and such, I loved the book!

It is 400+ pages of exquisite writing, where you got the sense that every sentence was crafted with care. It is also a beautiful story, told well, and features, as its star, a remarkable trans woman and an even more remarkable relationship between her and her lifelong best friend.

I am rehashing all this because I was searching for another book to read, and I came by chance upon a Reddit discussion on that book, and several of the commenters chose to compare it to A Lady for a Duke. I was taken aback by the attitude of these commenters who would dismiss this book as unreadable or unworthy because (spoiler alert!) it contains a sex scene – or perhaps the sex scene – that is not their cup of tea.

Honestly, it’s not mine either.