Isn’t actually about asexuality in any way.īooks with confirmed demisexual characters While her romantic relationship happens to be with an asexual woman, the story The story is primarily focused on Astrid and her life, and So the title doesn’t really make sense-the word “ace” isn’tĮven used in the book, and there’s only one ace character (who’s not even the
Girlfriend, Holly, is ace), but asexuality isn’t specifically highlighted orįocused on any more than Astrid’s bisexuality, or any of the other characters’ Of the main character (Astrid)’s relationship (and of course in that her It is “an asexual love story” in that sex isn’t a big part Promise of being a story about asexuality. However, itĮnded up feeling a bit deceptive, because the book doesn’t live up to its With the tagline “an asexual love story” this marketing, combined with theĮxcerpt in Vitality’s sampler, was the reason I bought the book. One major reason is that I feel like the book was titledĪnd the cover designed specifically to appeal to ace readers-I mean, it’sĬalled “Aces” and has a picture of an ace of hearts card on the front, along Overall, I was a bit disappointed with this book from anĪsexual standpoint. And I don’t intend to speak for all aces, but just to explain I want to say upfront that I’m sex-repulsed, which definitely I’ve divided it up with headers to make it easier to just read what you’re
I have a lot of thoughts about it and haven’t found any reviews discussing itįrom an ace perspective, so I decided to write my own. Romantic relationship with an ace woman, through LGBT sampler. I discovered this book, which is about a bi woman in a “Love and sex go hand in hand… until they don’t. So unfortunately, if you’re looking for ace representation in film… this one isn’t it.Īn ace’s review of “Aces” by Kathryn Burns While she still initially expresses that she doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about sex, the film doesn’t allow for any possibility besides her being a repressed, heteroromantic allo girl recovering from a bad relationship. However, the film strips away every reference to queerness–Carrie’s identification as asexual, the non-straightness of the side characters–which leaves Carrie’s arc in the film a blandly straightforward, deeply heteronormative one. The book’s secondary characters include a bisexual woman and a gay man, presenting queerness as a possibility and extending Carrie’s sexuality-related conversations and thoughts beyond just heterosexuality. The protagonist of the 2003 novel Carrie Pilby refers to herself as asexual throughout the book–not as a recognized sexual orientation (given when it was written), but still as an identity label describing the way she feels different from the people around her.
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