On the one hand, at the beginning this seemed like it was going to be a pretty straightforward lesbian romance, but, as I got more into it,it changed in interesting and different ways.

At its core it's about Charley. There's also Neely and Joanna, who play a big role as well as Tricia (oh Tricia, I had such a love/hate relationship with that character).

It all started as quite the knot of characters. Tricia broke Charley's heart and Charley is gun shy about another relationship. Then she meets Joanna in the YMCA locker room where they both exercise. Joanna is a home health nurse.

Around the same time she also accepts a date from the much younger Neely, who is a writer (like Charley) and the guard at the Y.

From there it gets more complicated, but, in a way that I would definitely call 'adult'. i.e. while there was drama in these pages, it wasn't overblown, it wasn't the angst and unbalanced relationships (at least when it came to the relationships we were supposed to like) of some books I've read in the past.

It was a fun read.At times it seemed just a teeny bit too much explain-y, and that would jerk me out of the narrative, but, it thankfully didn't happen to often. Really awesome for a first book for sure.

I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )