'The Inverts' by Crystal Jeans
'The Inverts' front cover 'The Inverts' by Crystal Jeans - ARC Review *There are NO spoilers in this review!* *TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of drug abuse, sex, loss/death* A huge thank you to Net Galley and Harper Collins UK for accepting my request for this ARC in exchange for my review! Description: 1921: a boy, a girl, and a moonlit midnight kiss. A terrible, repulsive kiss. Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong... and gay. Bart is young, rich, charismatic... and also, definitely, gay. Any doubts are dispelled by, in short order: that ghastly kiss; a torrid encounter for Bettina in the school boiler rooms; and an eye-opening Parisian visit for Bart. Society will never stand for it. What else can they do but enter into a 'lavender marriage' and carry on indulging in their true natures in secret? As the '20s and '30s whizz past in a haze of cigarettes, champagne...