Review: Relationship Material

Relationship Material by Jenya Keefe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a really great book. It takes a hard topic and navigates how someone overcomes (or tries to overcome) the trauma and builds a new life, while still dealing with the aftermath.
Evan is a wonderful, full.-fledged, complex character and I was drawn to him like moth to flame. Or much like Malcolm is drawn to him. The author doesn't shy away from the hardships of his life and we get to see how he struggles with himself and his sense of worthiness and how he finally allows himself to love and be loved. The author does a wondeful job showing us his journey and also showing us Malcolm journey of being a patient partner but not a push-over. There are many heated moments and also some wondeful shy glances and cute moments.
It is a great book that balances it all and I'm grateful to have read it.
My one and only thing to point out is that this is not a light-hearted book. It deals with several hard topics: abuse, trauma, eating disorders, chronic anxiety and there are several descriptions of some of these things in the book. Some of them are more detailed and some are not, but they are at the front and center of the story. They add to it and the author does a wonderful job treating it with the respect they deserve... but I was blindsided by it. And I think these topics to warrant a content warning of some sort so people can make a conscious decision and walk into this book with the correct frame of mind to enjoy the story and not being blindsided by something that might be triggering for them.

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