Being dumped is one thing causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. And their breakup might take the bakery down with it. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin. And everyone who eats Syd's breakup brownies. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. "What's done is done."Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Hard to actual imagine.A Lambda Literary Award Winner Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin's queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical-and makes everyone who eats them break up. Thought that part made it a bit out there and not grounded in reality. ( which like amazing utopia, fantasy world, but like if that’s the case make it more clear instead of depicting Austin’ Texas as some inclusive queer Mecca. Spoiler: also didn’t like that they made the sister ACE/AERO instead of maybe she was just a private person? Just felt forced the way the author made a point that everyone was part of the LGBTQ community. Yes love the usage and awareness of pronouns but what’s the point of asking pronouns and making a point to discuss them if you aren’t going to actually use them? Really that was my biggest issue with the book. Just was kinda annoying to follow and kinda just blanketed everyone. Not everyone wants to use gender neutral pronouns/ Spoiler *like Harley specifically said “he/him” yet he was always referred to with they/them. Made it difficult to follow at times because I wasn’t sure who was being referred to 2. Every single character was referred to with gender neural pronouns regardless of how they actually identified and that 1. The LGBTQ “representation” it was a bit much. I am part of the LGBTQ community and not speaking on behalf of all of us, just this is my take.
Liked the story line, didn’t like the way queerness was depicted.
Loved the representation and recognition of all the different ways to be part of the LGBTQ community.
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