The other protagonist (or just love interest considering how little agency she has) is portrayed as being a "bitch" and/or having made a mistake for having decided that she could get over a traumatic sexual assault best by exercising some choice and being consulted not by passively/submissively letting her more dominant partner handle the situation. She seems to have no vulnerabilities, her cocky demeanour seems to hide an even cockier heart. She is controlling to the point of emotional abuse of her partner (even though she meets her every need (apart for the need for choice/agency) and acts tenderly. But coming back to the "butch" character with the odd name that is almost a given of these books, I found her one of the most unlikeable protagonists I have ever met. I feel like going on a side rant about the depictions of lesbian relationships as butch/femme binaries and the invisibility of lesbians like me in most of these books in general. A clear case for the argument that queer is not always good.
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