Another Kind Of Love is not any worse than any other lesbian pulp fiction I've read and yet some reviews for it on places like Goodreads are pretty bad. The thing about l.p.f. is that it both reminds modern lesbians that things have gotten much better and that some things (especially ostracization from family and friends) have sadly stayed the same.
Given the self-hatred so rampant in much of lesbian pulp and how much hate there still is out there for us (think of recent "religious liberty" legislation), some of us still like to read these titles. They can ring more true than today's romance novels that almost always end happily.
In Another Kind Of Love there are quotes that jump out at me, though I haven't finished the novel yet and, for all I know, things end horribly. Besides these quotes, the doubt and self-recriminations the main character experiences get to me a lot.
-“People-starved,” Laura said aloud, “that’s what I was. Just plain people-starved.” She turned the phrase over in her mind and savored it as something significant. . . .
-Laura felt her throat constrict with sympathy. My God, that poor kid. She felt an overwhelming need to help Ginny, to offer her friendship, to take care of her.
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