Whelp. This was depressing. This came on my radar as a "Black version of Bridget Jones," so I went into it thinking it would be a rom-com of sorts. Alas: I totally (ignorantly) overlooked the additional baggage a Black protagonist is going to bring into a story like this. If you read it superficially, you would just think, "This woman has low self-esteem, makes terrible decisions, and has entirely too much random/dangerous sex." But the author does a good job showing the broader system/society that has shaped Queenie, and ends up somehow turning it into a story about healing and reclaimed power.