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Violet Hill #2
Double Exposure
Anna Corcoran's life is hectic, but that's how she likes it. Between her jobs at the Violet Hill Cafe, the local library, and doing publicity work for authors, she doesn't have much time for anything else. Until Lacey Cole walks into the cafe and she feels like she's been knocked off her axis.
Lacey's a photographer and writer and wants to do a profile on the cafe, including an interview with Anna. She's game, but after spending a few days with Lacey, Anna is falling. Hard. The only problem is that Lacey isn't going to be sticking around. She floats from town to town, never staying in one place.
But as they get closer and closer, Anna wonders if maybe this would be the one time when Lacey would decide to stay put. With her.
Lacey's a photographer and writer and wants to do a profile on the cafe, including an interview with Anna. She's game, but after spending a few days with Lacey, Anna is falling. Hard. The only problem is that Lacey isn't going to be sticking around. She floats from town to town, never staying in one place.
But as they get closer and closer, Anna wonders if maybe this would be the one time when Lacey would decide to stay put. With her.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 28, 2017
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Chelsea M. Cameron
114 books4,885 followersChelsea M. Cameron is a New York Times/USA Today/Internationally Best Selling author from Maine who now lives and works in Boston. She's a red velvet cake enthusiast, obsessive tea drinker, former cheerleader, and world's worst video gamer. When not writing, she enjoys watching infomercials, eating brunch in bed, tweeting, and playing fetch with her cat, Sassenach. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Maine, Orono that she promptly abandoned to write about the people in her own head. More often than not, these people turn out to be just as weird as she is.
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June 28, 2018
“Double Exposure (Violet Hill #2)” is the second of three novella length (2 hours) stories that feature friends and family members who work at, or frequent, an LGBTQ friendly cafe.
“Double Exposure” reminded me of Georgia Beer’s “Dare to Stay (Puppy Love #3)”. In both books, one MC only intends to be in town for a brief period, and the second MC must decide whether to allow herself to fall and risk probable heartbreak.
MC Anna is aggressively flirtatious….with just about anyone, as she’s pansexual…but she doesn’t want a committed relationship. MC Lacey shares her concern about commitments; they each wonder how to know if someone is right for the rest of your life.
Commitment issues aside, both MCs recognize the chemistry between them as they work together on a project for the Violet Hill Cafe.
It turns out that Anna’s pansexuality works out well for them, because the gorgeous Lacey is actually a trans woman, with her original body part. Anna doesn’t mind at all, and their sex isn’t graphic.
I liked “Double Exposure” much more than I did the first book in the series. We learn much more of the characters, and their attraction and growing relationship felt much more real than did the “hi again after 9 years, I’m gay too, let’s have sex and move in together” story of “Second Kiss”.
Once again, the narrator did an excellent job. I rate “Double Exposure” 3.75 stars, rounded to 4*.
“Double Exposure” reminded me of Georgia Beer’s “Dare to Stay (Puppy Love #3)”. In both books, one MC only intends to be in town for a brief period, and the second MC must decide whether to allow herself to fall and risk probable heartbreak.
MC Anna is aggressively flirtatious….with just about anyone, as she’s pansexual…but she doesn’t want a committed relationship. MC Lacey shares her concern about commitments; they each wonder how to know if someone is right for the rest of your life.
Commitment issues aside, both MCs recognize the chemistry between them as they work together on a project for the Violet Hill Cafe.
It turns out that Anna’s pansexuality works out well for them, because the gorgeous Lacey is actually a trans woman, with her original body part. Anna doesn’t mind at all, and their sex isn’t graphic.
I liked “Double Exposure” much more than I did the first book in the series. We learn much more of the characters, and their attraction and growing relationship felt much more real than did the “hi again after 9 years, I’m gay too, let’s have sex and move in together” story of “Second Kiss”.
Once again, the narrator did an excellent job. I rate “Double Exposure” 3.75 stars, rounded to 4*.
June 4, 2018
THIS STORY MADE ME SO HAPPY HOLLY SHIT.
Now that it's been said, let's move on to an actual review. We follow the story of Anna, who is pansexual and working at the café Violet Hill, and Lacey, a transgender bisexual woman, who wants to write a paper about this said café. Violet Hill is a queer café, a safe place for people who needs one, and a family.
I loved this small story. I loved it so much with all my heart! Anna and Lacey are immediately attracted to each other, but they both have issues with commitment, it's never been their thing and I liked that they actually talked about it. They talked about everything, their bodies, their lives, they built a nice relationship in which they were both comfortable.
This story embodies body positivity. Lacey takes boudoir pictures and her goal is to make people see how gorgeous they truly are, to make them love their body. She also talked about her body, how she felt about it and surgeries. She felt comfortable enough with Anna to talk about something extremely intimate.
I really, really, really recommend this story. Please, do yourself the favour.
4.5
Now that it's been said, let's move on to an actual review. We follow the story of Anna, who is pansexual and working at the café Violet Hill, and Lacey, a transgender bisexual woman, who wants to write a paper about this said café. Violet Hill is a queer café, a safe place for people who needs one, and a family.
I loved this small story. I loved it so much with all my heart! Anna and Lacey are immediately attracted to each other, but they both have issues with commitment, it's never been their thing and I liked that they actually talked about it. They talked about everything, their bodies, their lives, they built a nice relationship in which they were both comfortable.
This story embodies body positivity. Lacey takes boudoir pictures and her goal is to make people see how gorgeous they truly are, to make them love their body. She also talked about her body, how she felt about it and surgeries. She felt comfortable enough with Anna to talk about something extremely intimate.
I really, really, really recommend this story. Please, do yourself the favour.
4.5
July 4, 2018
Actual rating: 4. 5 stars
Full review originally posted on my blog: Word Wonders
This one was my least favourite and yet, I still loved it so so much. I mean… 4.5 stars, who am I kidding? I adored it too! But that first one was a hard one to beat.
Double Exposure follows Anna, a pansexual girl that we get to meet in book 1 because she’s friends with Daisy AND they work at the same café. She meets Lacey, a trans bisexual girl and they immediately click, there’s a lot of tension and chemistry between the two, downside? Both of them have trouble with commitment, in different ways, but they get each other. Their relationship progressed in such a natural way and it all went by super smoothly. THE CRUSH PHASE!!! Which Anna tried to deny HAHA. Then the awkwardness and shyness which is followed by them eventually getting comfortable with each other, hours long conversations that go well into the night.
I really really loved how it wasn’t all head first, they both decided to take it one step at a time and give their relationship the space and time it needed to grow by the end of the book. They’re also just so silly and goofy around each other? And those moments feel so intimate to me, they’re some of my favourites to read about. Also, Anna being all nervous and gittery around Lacey as well as her losing her composure was so relatable to me that I couldn’t help but laugh everytime
Full review originally posted on my blog: Word Wonders
This one was my least favourite and yet, I still loved it so so much. I mean… 4.5 stars, who am I kidding? I adored it too! But that first one was a hard one to beat.
Double Exposure follows Anna, a pansexual girl that we get to meet in book 1 because she’s friends with Daisy AND they work at the same café. She meets Lacey, a trans bisexual girl and they immediately click, there’s a lot of tension and chemistry between the two, downside? Both of them have trouble with commitment, in different ways, but they get each other. Their relationship progressed in such a natural way and it all went by super smoothly. THE CRUSH PHASE!!! Which Anna tried to deny HAHA. Then the awkwardness and shyness which is followed by them eventually getting comfortable with each other, hours long conversations that go well into the night.
I really really loved how it wasn’t all head first, they both decided to take it one step at a time and give their relationship the space and time it needed to grow by the end of the book. They’re also just so silly and goofy around each other? And those moments feel so intimate to me, they’re some of my favourites to read about. Also, Anna being all nervous and gittery around Lacey as well as her losing her composure was so relatable to me that I couldn’t help but laugh everytime
December 14, 2017
3.5 stars
This was a cute novella. Two girls meet and the feelings start happening, also featuring a black cat and photo shoots.
The main character is Anna, she's cis pan young woman with purple hair, and her love interest is Lacey, who's trans bi photographer and a cat owner.
Double Exposure is a lovely quick read but I just wished there were more too it.
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This was a cute novella. Two girls meet and the feelings start happening, also featuring a black cat and photo shoots.
The main character is Anna, she's cis pan young woman with purple hair, and her love interest is Lacey, who's trans bi photographer and a cat owner.
Double Exposure is a lovely quick read but I just wished there were more too it.
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December 8, 2017
This was incredibly cute and lovely but there were some fatphobic comments so :/
January 13, 2018
Check out my blog for more reviews and other bookish posts! This is a spoiler-free review!
Double Exposure is a companion to Second Kiss. You don’t have to read the entire series if you don’t want to, each novella focusses on another character. Anna is the protagonist in this one and she is pansexual.
I identify as bisexual, but this novella really made me doubt all over again. So after reading this, I decided to identify as both bisexual AND pansexual from now on. Maybe one day I will be able to figure myself out, but that’s what I feel most comfortable with at the moment.
Anyway, I do feel the need to mention that this pansexual character has had a lot of casual sex and not many serious relationship. This is usually a harmful and stereotypical trope, though I don’t think it was the case in this novella.
Lacey, the love interest, is a trans bisexual woman. I love that Anna didn’t assume that meant that Lacey was into girls. That made it clear that for example not all bisexuals are attracted to cis women, but their identity is still valid.
I also liked that the trans character didn’t need surgeries in order to be validated as a woman. It doesn’t matter what your body looks like, if you want to be a woman, you are a woman.
Each novella probably has some pacing issues because it isn’t easy to tell a fleshed-out story in less than 100 pages. So I found the romance in Double Exposure quite rushed, yet it at the same time dragged because the characters made things complicated while the reader just knew everything was going to work out in the end.
Unfortunately, Anna wasn’t as body positive when it came to herself. There were a few hurtful sentences that I didn’t like:
“I hope that she didn’t notice the cellulite on my ass, or the stretch marks on my thighs or that weird little scar […].”
“I’d spent at least an hour in the shower last night getting rid of every offending hair that I could find.”
She refers to these as ‘flaws’. Cellulite, stretch marks, body hair… are natural and we shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed for having them.
Even though Double Exposure made me second-guess my sexuality, I didn’t enjoy this one as much as Second Kiss. First of all, I didn’t connect with it. The characters would be laughing their asses off and I’d be sitting there, reading it with a straight face. I just didn’t care… Furthermore, reading how they were attracted to one another made me uncomfortable. When Lacey was taking photographs of Anna, she got really turned on when she saw her in lingerie. That concerned me. Does she always get turned on while photographing her clients?
Double Exposure is a companion to Second Kiss. You don’t have to read the entire series if you don’t want to, each novella focusses on another character. Anna is the protagonist in this one and she is pansexual.
I identify as bisexual, but this novella really made me doubt all over again. So after reading this, I decided to identify as both bisexual AND pansexual from now on. Maybe one day I will be able to figure myself out, but that’s what I feel most comfortable with at the moment.
Anyway, I do feel the need to mention that this pansexual character has had a lot of casual sex and not many serious relationship. This is usually a harmful and stereotypical trope, though I don’t think it was the case in this novella.
Lacey, the love interest, is a trans bisexual woman. I love that Anna didn’t assume that meant that Lacey was into girls. That made it clear that for example not all bisexuals are attracted to cis women, but their identity is still valid.
I also liked that the trans character didn’t need surgeries in order to be validated as a woman. It doesn’t matter what your body looks like, if you want to be a woman, you are a woman.
Each novella probably has some pacing issues because it isn’t easy to tell a fleshed-out story in less than 100 pages. So I found the romance in Double Exposure quite rushed, yet it at the same time dragged because the characters made things complicated while the reader just knew everything was going to work out in the end.
Unfortunately, Anna wasn’t as body positive when it came to herself. There were a few hurtful sentences that I didn’t like:
“I hope that she didn’t notice the cellulite on my ass, or the stretch marks on my thighs or that weird little scar […].”
“I’d spent at least an hour in the shower last night getting rid of every offending hair that I could find.”
She refers to these as ‘flaws’. Cellulite, stretch marks, body hair… are natural and we shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed for having them.
Even though Double Exposure made me second-guess my sexuality, I didn’t enjoy this one as much as Second Kiss. First of all, I didn’t connect with it. The characters would be laughing their asses off and I’d be sitting there, reading it with a straight face. I just didn’t care… Furthermore, reading how they were attracted to one another made me uncomfortable. When Lacey was taking photographs of Anna, she got really turned on when she saw her in lingerie. That concerned me. Does she always get turned on while photographing her clients?
February 7, 2017
Cute and fluffy.
Not a lot of meat to it, in terms of characterization. Was hoping to care more about the characters as people & as a couple. Was also hoping to care more about the queer cafe setting and chosen family, but it just didn't get deep enough for me.
That said, it's the first trans f/cis f romance I've read that doesn't feel super soaked in cissexism and I really appreciate that it exists in the world. It is very much a book that's NOT about the trans character's transness, which I also appreciate. The cis MC is also not new to dating trans folks, which I gotta say I really appreciate & have almost never seen in trans romance. I want more romance like this, where a MC's transness is not a big Thing or a learning experience for their love interest.
I do wish that the trans character had other trans folks in her life, but that didn't seem as odd as it usually does, cuz she's so transient & we don't get to meet anyone in her life. Seems more of a thing where deeper characterization would bring a lot to the story, than a thing where the author is isolating the trans character.
The sex scene worked pretty well for me. It's kind of low heat, not really intended to be erotic. It doesn't fall into common cissexist tropes, which is rare, and I am really grateful for. It feels pretty real.
My one concern about the sex in this book was that it felt a bit odd that sex came so late in the story especially given the situation; it didn't sit quite right for me. I do think that is more of a characterization issue than something like author avoidance. The reason they waited didn't feel contrived, I just wasn't connected with these characters romantic arc enough to get why sex felt like something they wanted to wait for. And unlike other stories centering trans women characters that delay sex til the end, the sex scene actually felt right for the story, realistic and respectful, and not steeped in cissexism, if a little more low heat than is my own taste.
The editing seemed rushed. There was enough word repetition that it distracted me and there were quite a few moments when I wasn't sure who was talking, which was even more distracting.
Trigger Warnings:
Not a lot of meat to it, in terms of characterization. Was hoping to care more about the characters as people & as a couple. Was also hoping to care more about the queer cafe setting and chosen family, but it just didn't get deep enough for me.
That said, it's the first trans f/cis f romance I've read that doesn't feel super soaked in cissexism and I really appreciate that it exists in the world. It is very much a book that's NOT about the trans character's transness, which I also appreciate. The cis MC is also not new to dating trans folks, which I gotta say I really appreciate & have almost never seen in trans romance. I want more romance like this, where a MC's transness is not a big Thing or a learning experience for their love interest.
I do wish that the trans character had other trans folks in her life, but that didn't seem as odd as it usually does, cuz she's so transient & we don't get to meet anyone in her life. Seems more of a thing where deeper characterization would bring a lot to the story, than a thing where the author is isolating the trans character.
The sex scene worked pretty well for me. It's kind of low heat, not really intended to be erotic. It doesn't fall into common cissexist tropes, which is rare, and I am really grateful for. It feels pretty real.
My one concern about the sex in this book was that it felt a bit odd that sex came so late in the story especially given the situation; it didn't sit quite right for me. I do think that is more of a characterization issue than something like author avoidance. The reason they waited didn't feel contrived, I just wasn't connected with these characters romantic arc enough to get why sex felt like something they wanted to wait for. And unlike other stories centering trans women characters that delay sex til the end, the sex scene actually felt right for the story, realistic and respectful, and not steeped in cissexism, if a little more low heat than is my own taste.
The editing seemed rushed. There was enough word repetition that it distracted me and there were quite a few moments when I wasn't sure who was talking, which was even more distracting.
Trigger Warnings:
January 29, 2017
Oh my god I needed this SO much. A happy ending with a trans girl in a relationship with another girl? More!
June 10, 2017
Aawwww this story is sooooo sweet!!! I don't know in which cave I've been living before discovering queer books but now I NEED ALL OF THEM.
December 14, 2017
Actual Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Full review to come on Books and Ladders!
Full review to come on Books and Ladders!
March 15, 2017
3.5 stars!
“I wanted to stare into those eyes and pick out every single color in them and then paint my walls those colors.”
Like the first book this was cute as hell. All the happy, squishy feels.
I really loved the bones of this book. Anna was so awkward and nervous when it came to Lacey and it was fucking precious.
I loved Lacey and her confidence and strength. I loved her even in her vulnerable moments. Especially then
I loved that the both of them just wanted to be together, were willing to take it slow when it got too scary for the other one.
They are so damn cute.
“She still took my breath away when she kissed me. Every single time. I didn’t know when or if I’d ever find someone who kissed me like that ever again.”
I loved the story and the characters, but again I couldn't fully connect with the writing. There's something... Stiff? about the writing. I'm not sure but it's hard for me to fully connect with the writing. But I really enjoy these novellas. They're so lovely.
“I wanted to stare into those eyes and pick out every single color in them and then paint my walls those colors.”
Like the first book this was cute as hell. All the happy, squishy feels.
I really loved the bones of this book. Anna was so awkward and nervous when it came to Lacey and it was fucking precious.
I loved Lacey and her confidence and strength. I loved her even in her vulnerable moments. Especially then
I loved that the both of them just wanted to be together, were willing to take it slow when it got too scary for the other one.
They are so damn cute.
“She still took my breath away when she kissed me. Every single time. I didn’t know when or if I’d ever find someone who kissed me like that ever again.”
I loved the story and the characters, but again I couldn't fully connect with the writing. There's something... Stiff? about the writing. I'm not sure but it's hard for me to fully connect with the writing. But I really enjoy these novellas. They're so lovely.
January 3, 2018
I liked the tone of this one better and I'm glad Annie was the next girl we could read about! I'm head over heels with how diverse these short stories are, with our pansexual mc and her trans bi LI. With the fact that nothing was assumed, like that being bi doesn't automatically mean you're into women, for everyone. And reading the word disabled, even if only for a very minor side character, made me feel included.
I was definitely rooting for them and it was lovely to see things grow.
edited to add a TW for fatphobic comments that aren't challenged
I was definitely rooting for them and it was lovely to see things grow.
edited to add a TW for fatphobic comments that aren't challenged
January 4, 2021
A very sweet romance about a trans photographer and rolling stone falling for a homebody local barista. It's single POV, from Anna the barista's viewpoint. I liked this book a lot but would've enjoyed more with Lacey's perspective in play. I realize as a cis author this can be daunting but it would add a lot, for me. Overall, an adorable quick read from a great author who I am happy to see including a trans heroine.
April 25, 2017
DOUBLE EXPOSURE IS SERIOUSLY THE CUTEST <3 I could read about Lacey and Anna for ever and ever. Seriously, I need more than a just short story. Give me an entire book. Several books, please *_*
I need more cute f/f stories with happy endings. I need more stories with trans girls happy and in love, with positive rep for pan and bi characters, and with adorable cats as well.
I need more cute f/f stories with happy endings. I need more stories with trans girls happy and in love, with positive rep for pan and bi characters, and with adorable cats as well.
September 25, 2017
Rep: pansexual MC, bisexual MC, transgender MC
Warnings: fatmisia / body shaming
Warnings: fatmisia / body shaming
June 23, 2018
“So, who better to tell the stories of queer people than a queer person?”
Review originally posted here.
This was such a sweet, fluffy story between a pansexual girl and a transgender, bisexual girl. I can't wait to read the third novella in this series.
June 15, 2022
I wasn't the most keen on Anna's mental narration; it was quite repetitive. However I did really enjoy the setting, which was a queer coffee shop and a photography studio in a small quiet town in Maine.
I also liked the love interest's character, Lacey. Lacey is a trans woman and I thought this was written really naturally.
If you want to read some fluff between a pan barista and a trans woman who shoots boudoir scenes, this is the book for you!
I also liked the love interest's character, Lacey. Lacey is a trans woman and I thought this was written really naturally.
If you want to read some fluff between a pan barista and a trans woman who shoots boudoir scenes, this is the book for you!
October 5, 2017
Super cute and easy read.
I loved it!
I loved it!
December 19, 2017
This is my fav in the series yet. Anna and Lacey work together on a project involving the Cafe and soon they grow closer, admitting being attracted to each other. Their relationship heads toward uncertain territory as Lacey is due to move on soon with her ever nomadic lifestyle taking her everywhere as a photographer.
Great representation in this novella with a bisexual trans woman MC and a pansexual MC.
Great representation in this novella with a bisexual trans woman MC and a pansexual MC.
January 31, 2017
More cute and fluffy.
I could read more books with trans girls happy and in love.
I could read more books with trans girls happy and in love.
May 9, 2024
CW: mentioned homophobia, sexual content
Second of this queer novella series that I accidentally read the first two books of instead of the 3rd.
After reading the first novella, I can see a very clear style from Cameron. Her narrators sound pretty much the same. They all have a bit of a sarcastic attitude and experience gay panic when they come into contact with their love interest. I liked the style in Second Kiss, but reading an almost identical version in Second Exposure fell a bit flat. The narration also repeated itself a lot, with Anna constantly saying she’s attracted to pretty people in the beginning. Then there was a lot of repetition of sexy and cute. Also the author is a big fan of characters calling each other by their full names: Daisy Grace, Molly Madison, Lacey Cole, Anna Corcoran. I hardly remember characters names unless I love a book, but I remember all these because they were repeated so often.
Not a big fan of the insta-love trope. It just isn’t believable to me. That’s lust, not love, and I can’t even relate to that. I actually sort of thought Anna was pansexual, aromantic from the first novella, since she mentioned romance wasn’t for her, but this book completely had Anna doing the opposite—she actually catches feelings/lust way fast. It’s the relationships she wasn’t sure were for her. So I felt a little let down at that. The characters feel shallow.
Not my favorite, but it has sexy scenes and queer rep: bisexual/trans and pansexual.
Second of this queer novella series that I accidentally read the first two books of instead of the 3rd.
After reading the first novella, I can see a very clear style from Cameron. Her narrators sound pretty much the same. They all have a bit of a sarcastic attitude and experience gay panic when they come into contact with their love interest. I liked the style in Second Kiss, but reading an almost identical version in Second Exposure fell a bit flat. The narration also repeated itself a lot, with Anna constantly saying she’s attracted to pretty people in the beginning. Then there was a lot of repetition of sexy and cute. Also the author is a big fan of characters calling each other by their full names: Daisy Grace, Molly Madison, Lacey Cole, Anna Corcoran. I hardly remember characters names unless I love a book, but I remember all these because they were repeated so often.
Not a big fan of the insta-love trope. It just isn’t believable to me. That’s lust, not love, and I can’t even relate to that. I actually sort of thought Anna was pansexual, aromantic from the first novella, since she mentioned romance wasn’t for her, but this book completely had Anna doing the opposite—she actually catches feelings/lust way fast. It’s the relationships she wasn’t sure were for her. So I felt a little let down at that. The characters feel shallow.
Not my favorite, but it has sexy scenes and queer rep: bisexual/trans and pansexual.
January 4, 2018
This is an adorable meet cute -- small-town girl falls for glam out-of-towner. :) Or, the well-travelled woman meets that special someone who makes her feel like she might belong somewhere more permanently. <3
Anna is a twenty-something working her butt off at the Violet Hill cafe ... when in walks the beautiful photographer Lacey. Instant crush! Lacey wants to do a piece on the cafe, and she wants to interview Anna. As Anna convinces her media-shy bosses to do the piece, she knows her enthusiasm for Lacey and her work goes beyond professional interest. But Lacey is a travelling photojournalist, and Anna doesn't know if she's ready to commit her feelings to someone who's going to leave.
As a millennial, I found Anna extremely relatable. She is clearly happy where she is, but has an air of being frazzled that I've definitely experienced. She works hard, and while she's settled nicely in Violet Hill, there's this sense that she's frantically moving around and doesn't take much time to enjoy herself because she's so busy. She mentions that as a pansexual woman, she is attracted to people of all genders; however, while she forms crushes easily, she is afraid of forming emotional connections because she's been burned by heartbreak in the past. She's a little shy, a little vulnerable, a little self-conscious.
My favorite thing was how open they were. They talked about themselves, their body confidence issues, their work, their boundaries, and what they wanted their relationship to be in a healthy way.
[***spoiler***] For instance, when they are kissing, Anna stops and they set physical boundaries in an attempt to create some emotional distance. [***end spoiler***]
I had too many feelsssss to just leave a brief goodreads review!!! Full review is linked to my blog here: https://lauraplusthevoices.blogspot.c...
Trigger warnings: a character makes an ageist/age-disparaging comment; there's one sex scene; a character mentions past panmisia and rejection by her parents; character describes past queermisia against the cafe. (-misia here meaning hate/dislike.)
Anna is a twenty-something working her butt off at the Violet Hill cafe ... when in walks the beautiful photographer Lacey. Instant crush! Lacey wants to do a piece on the cafe, and she wants to interview Anna. As Anna convinces her media-shy bosses to do the piece, she knows her enthusiasm for Lacey and her work goes beyond professional interest. But Lacey is a travelling photojournalist, and Anna doesn't know if she's ready to commit her feelings to someone who's going to leave.
As a millennial, I found Anna extremely relatable. She is clearly happy where she is, but has an air of being frazzled that I've definitely experienced. She works hard, and while she's settled nicely in Violet Hill, there's this sense that she's frantically moving around and doesn't take much time to enjoy herself because she's so busy. She mentions that as a pansexual woman, she is attracted to people of all genders; however, while she forms crushes easily, she is afraid of forming emotional connections because she's been burned by heartbreak in the past. She's a little shy, a little vulnerable, a little self-conscious.
My favorite thing was how open they were. They talked about themselves, their body confidence issues, their work, their boundaries, and what they wanted their relationship to be in a healthy way.
[***spoiler***] For instance, when they are kissing, Anna stops and they set physical boundaries in an attempt to create some emotional distance. [***end spoiler***]
I had too many feelsssss to just leave a brief goodreads review!!! Full review is linked to my blog here: https://lauraplusthevoices.blogspot.c...
Trigger warnings: a character makes an ageist/age-disparaging comment; there's one sex scene; a character mentions past panmisia and rejection by her parents; character describes past queermisia against the cafe. (-misia here meaning hate/dislike.)
December 22, 2017
I think I like this one more than the first one, because not only is there conflict in this love story, in the form of the 2 girls not knowing if they can actually be in a relationship, but there is awesome diverse representation. The main character is pansexual, and has dated trans people and people of many gender identities. It’s not every day I see a pansexual character in a relationship with someone who isn’t just male or female. So that was awesome to see. Also, the love interest is revealed to be trans in such a normal casual way, and the mc isn’t the least bit surprised or anything.
February 16, 2018
“Because they’re a safe place for people to be. For queer teens. For adults who don’t feel that they can come out. For people who are so far in the closet they hate themselves. For people to see that, contrary to popular culture, you can be gay or trans or pansexual and happy. That there is a life for you, and a place for you. People who are like you. You’re not alone.”
Esta historia fue linda y me gusto mucho, pero, sin duda, la primera historia se mantiene como mi favorita.
July 1, 2018
I just wasn’t feeling invested and I think it’s because I really didn’t feel like I knew these people beyond pan cis and bi trans. - Matt
It wasn’t even insta love, it was the main character saying she was already feeling something for Lacey after they’d talked for like ten minutes – and most of them about how Lacey wanted her tea. - Laura
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It wasn’t even insta love, it was the main character saying she was already feeling something for Lacey after they’d talked for like ten minutes – and most of them about how Lacey wanted her tea. - Laura
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December 19, 2017
A cute little story. I thought the bi and pan rep was lovely and very well done. The writing style is a bit stilted, though, and the narration gets too stuck in Anna's head. I wish there was less of her telling the reader what she is feeling and thinking, and more chance to actually experience it with her.
May 30, 2018
Anna arbeitet gerne im Violet Hill Café. Dort trifft sie auf Lacey, eine Fotograferin, die einen Bericht über das Café machen möchte und daher Anna zu sich einlädt, damit die ihr mehr über das Café erzählt.
Lacey ist eine wandernde Seele und Anna kann sie nicht einschätzen.
Das es ein Happy End geben wird, ist nicht die Frage - nur wie?
Lacey ist eine wandernde Seele und Anna kann sie nicht einschätzen.
Das es ein Happy End geben wird, ist nicht die Frage - nur wie?
June 28, 2018
Chelsea Cameron continues her work in lesbian fiction with a pretty good entry, like all of the Violet Hill series though, it's short and feels a little over dramatic at points. But it's still pretty good. Also the love interest is trans this time!
December 14, 2017
cute story. loved reading about a pan girl falling in love with a trans girl buuuuuut, insta-love. it makes me crazy!
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