Disappoint Me is a riveting novel about trans identity and love
party, her night in hospital becomes the catalyst for major personal changes. First thing’s first: she gets back on the apps, ventures out of her queer-world bubble and gives heteronormativity the good old college try.Having developed a protective dating app policy of waiting for men to swipe right on her and then filtering out the outwardly dodgy ones, Max soon meets Vincent, a fellow lawyer with Chinese heritage, and embarks on a romance with the potential to reshape her world.
Split into two timelines, the novel both follows Max as she embarks on her relationship with Vincent in the present, and tracks Vincent inin 2012, where he is enamoured with a beautiful woman called Alex who has a private history of her own.is concerned with dichotomies: between what the characters do and “should” want, what they have done and what they should have done.
After a certain point, one wonders how many misfortunes can befall a single group of people, but it is a mark of Dinan’s skill that the novel never feels tough going.is not yet another example of the “trauma plot” phenomenon – each hardship illuminates another aspect of the characters’ inner lives, either among themselves or to the reader.
Yet there are times when you wish that all these misdeeds would not land so lightly. We move on a little too swiftly, for example, from Simone’s eventual professional fall from grace and public skewering.and in the world, Vincent also gets off easy. It is disappointing to see him essentially given the last word, a finality he perhaps does not deserve and one which deflates the careful narrative balance of the novel.
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