![]() Yes, I did need to suspend disbelief for such a plot device, but I laughed from the start (G Benson has some sharp skills with internal and external dialogue), and also dug how much nurse Hayden loathes the cold surgeon Sam. Third, marriage equality means that the Harlequin romance trope of the fake marriage leading to real love has legitimately come to lesfic. ![]() When she answers a Craigslist advert for someone seeking a wife-for-hire, she shrugs away the possible gender of Sam. Second, Hayden is matter-of-fact pansexual. Although I’ve adopted this pronoun myself in real life daily conversations with non-binary friends and people of unknown gender identities, I could practically feel my reading brain recalibrating itself. ![]() This book is the first I’ve read in which “they” is written in firmly as a third person singular pronoun. ![]() It says something about the strength of the gender binary that I fought my own anxiety until Luce’s sex-assigned-at-birth was revealed yes, I was disappointed in myself. ![]() Luce isn’t the central character, but they have a life beyond pronouns in the story. Rarely do I want to write a book review before I’ve completed the first chapter of a book, but I was 2% into Who’d Have Thought by G Benson when I started lining up my squees of delight.įirst, this novel includes an actual, living, breathing, “they” pronoun-using non-binary character. ![]()
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