Talk:Desire & Decorum, Book 1/@comment-27818075-20181001191506/@comment-34138917-20181005181337

Originally playing through this book, I saw no issues. You really opened my eyes though, I honestly don't know how I could have possibly missed these issues before.

Annabelle seemed like a pretty good LI at first and I was drawn to her, but then she sort of...I don't know, she just got less and less appealing as the story went on, so now I'm going for Hamid, who we almost never see anymore.

In chapter ten when Mr. Chambers and Mr. Konevi kissed in public...yeah, that was honestly a really unnecessarily risky move, and PB definitely could have played it out better. You're totally right, the LGBT issues in this book DO seem pretty forced.

And Duke Richards sexually harassing MC in the street was even more stupid. I mean, did he honestly think he could start pawing at MC outside and no one would catch him? She could have screamed and drawn so much attention, but he still did it anyway.

But ironically, I think this book is probably the most realistic in terms of the LGBT population. The only LGBT characters in this book are MC, Annabelle, Mr. Chambers, and Mr. Konevi. Pixelberry is trying to be inclusive by putting a lot of LGBT characters in the stories, but at times, it feels very forced and unrealistic. As you said, there aren't LGBT people in every small friends group. In real life, I'm the token LGBT person in almost all my friend groups because almost all my friends are straight.

Still, kudos to Pixelberry for trying to be inclusive.