A boy called Rainbow, by Robin Knight
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I hold SO much respect for Robin Knight and the work he has done in MM romance. I really enjoy his perspective, writing style (I finished this book in a single day, I couldn’t put it down) and actively within the community. I enjoy his character building and themes.
Unfortunately, I wanted to give this book a higher rating, but from a Deaf perspective, I couldn’t.
This is my review from a Deaf perspective.
I liked many parts of this book.
- Easy to read.
- Setting themes.
- The highlight of artist through history, really tickled at my art history heart.
As a Deaf person myself, I was excited for the inclusion of Deaf culture and erotic MM and romance. Ultimately. I’m disappointed in the representation. It’s still full of a lot of harmful stereotypical wording that hearing people tend to lean on. Especially for something within romance.
I say it again and again. It is not romantic that a Deaf person felt the need to use their voice to convey some sort of message or acts of Love.
And as it was stated the Mc was learning asl. But still blabbered away with the “oh Rainbow can read lips it’s totally fine” mentality. (All of them did, but I digress).
I enjoyed the story to a point. I will be looking at other works by this author.