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Pop star Leontyne Blake might sing about love, but she stopped believing in it a long time ago. What women want is her image, not the real her. When her father has a stroke, she flees the spotlight and returns to her tiny Missouri hometown. In her childhood home, she meets small-town nurse Holly Drummond, who isn’t impressed by Leo’s fame at all. That isn’t the only thing that makes Holly different from other women. She’s also asexual. For her, dating is a minefield of expectations that she has decided to avoid. Can the tentative friendship between a burned-out pop star and a woman not interested in sex develop into something more despite their diverse expectations? A lesbian romance about seeking the perfect rhythm between two very different people—and finding happiness where they least expect it. Word Count: 107,000 words
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This was so validating and comforting to read as an asexual romantic person. Personally, "famous person falls for "normal" person" isn't a trope that I normally enjoy, but seeing a relationship in which the allosexual person was so not-aphobic to their ace partner was so wonderful I didn't care which romance trope the book decided to use. On top of that, I felt that the romance was well-built and actually took an appropriate amount of time, at least six weeks, to develop, which can be a rarity in the romance genre. As a caregiver myself with a nurse for a mom, a few of the inaccuracies on that front irritated me slightly, but the plot wasn't dependent on those aspects so I was able to ignore them fairly easily.
If you want a goopy, soppy, slightly silly, sit-on-the-roof-together, long and slow (this is a 400 pager) lesbian romance between an allosexual and an asexual with very little angst, this is the book for you.
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