Review frustrations

Hm. I’m a little miffed right now. I waited a few months for a “big time” reviewer to view one of the novels. This person is widely known and has help from several of her teen/young adult daughters in reviewing e-books. I was pretty excited when she e-mailed me that she added my book to their list for review. Here we are several months later, and I get an email from the young woman who read my book. She loved it! She found it funny, and a pleasure to follow along the main character’s journey. She didn’t want to put it down at the end of the allotted reading time. I was thrilled!. But (there’s that word) unfortunately, I will not be allowed to post the review and I will get another e-mail explaining why from the mother. Hm… Well this morning, lo and behold, there is the email. I was berated for not disclosing that the book contained not one, but two gay couples. She is stating that I need to immediately change my listing from Women’s Fiction genre to LGBT… WHAT? These characters are friends, and are support characters to my protagonist! The story is a young woman’s journey and these, along with many other support characters, belong in the story so I don’t know what the problem is! She has since withdrawn her offer to review each of my other books as I was not honest in the disclosure on this novel. Shake my head… Okay, so be it. I thanked her for her time, I e-mailed the young woman and thanked her for the review. I will not be changing the genre of the novel, not now now ever. I am sorry the mother had an issue with a few of my protag’s friends, and I can do without the review thank you.