Blank Spaces

This is a challenging book for a reader raised on the belief that a HEA requires a monogamous couple who pledge absolute fidelity to each other. But in our brave new world of the 21st century, who can say that there's only one type of happy ending? Cass Lennox does a great job of bringing the two MCs together and gradually showing how they fill in each other's “blank spaces,” but given that Vaughan is just realizing he is asexual and Jonah needs to have lots of sex, their idea of happy couplehood is a little different from the fairy tales we were raised on. I'm still not sure it works for me as a romance, but it sure is a well-written love story, if the difference makes any sense. Plus the secondary characters are lively, the Toronto setting feels authentic and an important part of the story, and Vaughan's explanation of abstract art made more sense than anything else I've ever read. I can see how this book won't work for everyone, but it will stay with me for a while, and that's more than I can say about most of the books I read with traditional HEAs.