7/3/2023 0 Comments The Love Factor by Quinn Ivins![]() She never does anything drastic, and I'd say it's more heartbreaking than scary, but it might be a struggle for some to get through. I'd actually go so far as to say that Carmen's portrayal deserves a small CW: she's going to be hard to read for people who have felt they had to stay closeted or risk blowing up their lives. The bigotry on show feels a little over the top for how I remember things, but having grown up in deep red Florida, I can tell you it's not that far off. I was just wrapping up high school and entering college during the year this book covers. And if you're into slow boil tension, um, yeah. Having said that, I do think it was actually really well handled in this book. Molly is a post-grad working on her PhD, who is out and proud, and stumbles across Carmen's secret.īeing a former teacher myself, I'm not into teacher/student romance and the power imbalances there. Carmen is a deeply closeted statistics professor, whose demeanor and decisions come from the constant fear of outing herself in her hostile work environment. Set against the late 90s backdrop of the anti-gay backlash in the US after Ellen came out on her show, this story finds Carmen and Molly navigating casual and overt bigotry in a university PoliSci program. ![]()
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