I changed my mind.

Love Off Limits: A Lesbian Mother's Best Friend Romance by Alexa Woods

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I did not review this at first, because it needded to sink in for a moment to get a clear idea what to say.

In actual fact I want to change my rating to five stars for the following reasons. This book puts the finger on so many bigotries, I can hardly cope.

As a transgender woman I would have been subjected to the general conscription in Germany, had I not become a conscietious objector, which was hard enough in itself. For my service I opted for the Red Cross Ambulance Service in Hamburg, which means I went through a training similar to that of Neera, with the difference, that at the age of nineteen I actually was in charge of peoples lives in my ambulance, something that only may happen to an emergeny room nurse in a dire emergency, when no more doctors are available.

Any woman trained and experienced like Neera, I swear, is more mature through her experiences than any other woman twice her age or more! Been there, done that.

The next thing? Which "normal" heterosexual parents would think it strange, if their 23 year old daughter confessed to have fallen in love with a 38 year old man, even if he was their recently divorced neighbour? Nobody would comment negatively on that, so why, if the lady in question is lesbian and in love with a fifteen years older woman? Bigotry at its finest, I say.

Even if I did not like other of this authors works, this is a courageous and valid effort to describe something controversial but at the same time absolutely natural. For that alone I am willing to give five stars, but I also very much enjoyed the perfectly credible romance between Neera and Scarlet a lot.





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