Battle Scars
by Meghan O'Brien
Pages: 230
Date: December 15 2009
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Review
Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0
Read: November 21 2014
Quite good book. I was going over my email right after I finished and noticed that I'd bought it at 12:55 pm. Meaning that I couldn't get myself to stop reading and it was finished in less than four hours (it was 4:50 pm when I wrote this line).
There was a particular 'theme' that gets into these books for some reason. Repeatedly used. That of a straight woman who suddenly realizes that she might actually not be as straight as she thought, at least for "you". "Lesbian for you". That popped up in this book. I don't particularly like that type of book, and was beginning to get a little worried, but enough back story, and story, moved it out of that realm. Out of that theme. (One of the annoying 'things' about that theme, beyond it popping up so much, is that these books never seem to consider the idea that anyone could be, you know, bisexual. Nooo, everyone's either 100% straight, gay, or "gay for you" (which would make them, I guess, 99% straight, and 1% gay, but because "you" are involved, they are all in on this "gay thing")).
So, two things I tend to steer clear of if I can. That 'straight woman realizing she isn't actually straight hooking up with a lesbian woman who doesn't want to be burned by a straight woman who is just experimenting' theme. And the one I didn't mention yet. Sex. I tend to mostly skim those scenes. Mostly because it never seems believable. So, both were there. Yet I loved the book. I even liked the sex scenes.
