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by Lucy May Lennox (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Nick: College is supposed to be when you figure out who you are, but it’s not easy when your roommate is your identical twin brother. Nick shares everything with his brother Nate, including a genetic condition that causes visual impairment. Nick feels like Nate is better at everything, including being blind. But when Nick falls for nerdy theater major Abby, he finally starts to strike out on his own.

Abby: That guy in Abby’s lit class is just her type, not only because he’s sweet and gorgeous, but because he’s blind. Abby is a devotee—she’s attracted to people with disabilities. But after her ex rejected her when she came out to him, she’s scared to reveal the truth of her attraction. How can she tell Nick he’s not her first blind boyfriend?

At a big Midwestern state university in the 1990s, Nick and Abby stumble towards adulthood, through awkward parties, regrettable flirtations, frantic cramming, and poorly planned road trips. It’s college life in all its exciting, raunchy, disgusting, hilarious glory, set to a 90s alt-rock soundtrack.

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Winner, Literary Titan Book Award, 2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Good Looking offers a refreshing and nuanced portrayal of disability, challenging stereotypes and offering a heartfelt exploration of personal growth and resilience. Lennox's masterful storytelling leaves a lasting impact, inviting readers to ponder the intricacies of the human experience long after the final page is turned." --Literary Titan

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C99PRDBF
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (August 29, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 29, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1419 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 321 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #237,972 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #75 in Fiction on People with Disabilities
- #112 in Disability Fiction
- #1,486 in General Humorous Fiction

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Lucy May Lennox is a connoisseur of novels featuring men with physical disabilities. After growing frustrated with all the cliches, ignorance and stereotypes, she decided to write her own positive take on disability. She also loves immersing herself in earlier historical periods and imagining the lives of people who don't usually make it into the history books. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest USA with her husband and children.

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Jeanie G. Richmond

Great college peak

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2023

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Loved the look back at this period of time and the realistic, challenging period of college, blindness, relationships. Very real and interesting, fun. The different relationships and interests very fun to untangle. Brings such a realness to so many important topics and people.

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A book about college life in the 90's.. count me in.

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023

A dual POV story surrounding a set of blind twins. It has heart. It has romance. It's funny and a quick read.

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I loved it!

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2023

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I thought this book was so well done. I loved the alternating point of view, and I really felt like I knew Nick and Abby. They were such a great couple, and I was rooting for them the whole time. This is a very different kind of love story, and you will not be disappointed.

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Tammy Thompson

How gross!

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2023

I'm disabled and I can't believe that there are people into that sexually. Let alone write a book about it. Won't be reading this one.

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Ruth Madison

An unusual love story!

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2023

Even within disability romance fiction I've never seen anything like this. Brothers who are both blind! The ways they each manage the world together and separately is very interesting.

I appreciate that the thing keeping the lovers apart is real, believable, and relatable. I completely understand Abby's reluctance since dating another blind man would expose her sexuality quite a bit and she's already sensitive about it because of the previous rejection. But from his point of view she's sending mixed messages.

The only issue I had was I had a hard time keeping Nick and Nate straight! The names are so similar that I got confused at times.

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J Feeney

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

This was a fantastic romance story with a lot of important social issues. But what I really enjoyed besides the romance is the story of identical twins finding themselves in college.

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Funny, chill, heartwarming, and diverse

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2023

If it’s not an oxymoron, I found Good Looking to be a chill page-turner. There are just enough emotional stakes (pinned to sympathetic characters) and suspenseful turns to keep you hunched over the pages and racing to find out what happens next, but there’s an overall sense of youthful goofiness and optimism that keeps it all heart-warming and relaxing.

Our diverse cast are trying to figure themselves out at a big midwestern state school in the 90’s. All-night cramming, near-disastrous road trips, sketchy apartment situations, theatrical performance woes, and of course plenty of romantic entanglements ensue.

Nick (one of our two POV characters) and Nate are identical twin brothers with a degenerative eye condition that means that Nate is entirely blind, and Nick is on his way there. They’re used to condescension, misunderstanding, and patchy support services, but also used to supporting each other, sometimes literally in lockstep, which makes things tough when Nate grows increasingly prickly and distant. (How odd that when he’s not brooding, he’s spending all of his time gaming or working out with his bro Carson…) This leaves Nick, the more low-key and sweet but aimless of the two, to wrestle with his growing insecurities. Will he ever be able to live an independent life? What will happen when his remaining vision goes? And why do all of the girls he tries to date make him feel awkward and left behind?

Our heroine, meanwhile, is Abby, a theater kid with a big personality, but plenty of insecurities of her own. On top of having an apathetic thesis advisor and zero career prospects, Abby is secretly a devotee, someone attracted to people who have disabilities. It means she’s instantly fascinated by Nick and Nate—but also riddled with guilt. Her interests mean she’s unusually knowledgeable about the needs of people with disabilities and on-point when it comes to avoiding ableism. Abby is not interested in infantilizing her romantic interests—like the rest of us, she just wants a kind, confident partner who sees her as an equal. Yet she risks being seen as a predator or a pervert anytime she confesses her unusual physical attractions.

Lucy May Lennox does a wonderful job of interweaving all of her characters’ struggles to explore their identities and get to a place where they can feel confident, loved, and part of a community. There are lots of queer characters (Abby’s eventual “coming out” isn’t the only one!) and fun subplots. After I finished the novel, I was left with that warm, wistful feeling that everyone in the cast was a real person—who I wouldn’t get to see anymore once I closed the book.

While the “will they, won’t they” dynamic between Nick and Abby is the most obvious emotional engine for the plot, I thought that the contrast between Nick and Nate was the most nuanced and interesting character dynamic. I like how it plays out slowly over the entirety of the novel; it's fitting that the novel more or less ends with them hanging out on the couch together. I loved that their most important conversations were awkward and stilted and left a lot unsaid, but were still deeply meaningful to the brothers. And it was lovely and unexpected for Nick to realize at the end that he's allowed to have and enjoy a more visual inclination than Nate (who previously scolded his brother that he needed to go “deep blind”). A lot of disability narratives culminate with a character tragically losing their remaining abilities; instead, Lennox puts the emphasis on Nick getting to explore a new sense of his identity and his blindness relative to his brother's. It felt like a fresh and nuanced take on disability.

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Kitties & Kindles

Loved

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2023

I love the way Lucy May Lennox writes! This was an easy 5 ⭐️. I read The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman and knew I had to read this. Twins that are both blind? Wow. This was about college, blind disabilities and the people who love them. And really so much more. I felt the struggles and the intimacy with these characters. LML writes in such a way that I’m teleported into the story. I don’t know a lot about blindness, but I felt like she did a good job explaining it. I got my romance and my HEA.

I am leaving this review voluntarily.

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LJ

A great read

Reviewed in Germany on August 31, 2023

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This novel beams you right back to 90s’ college life: no mobile phones, smelly dorm rooms, spontaneous road trips and disastrous parties. In the middle of it: the identical twins Nick and Nate, both blind. On top of everything else this means: negotiating with a mediocre Center for Students with Disabilities, struggling to find dining halls and lecture rooms, and trying to keep up on homework when the required tapes haven’t arrived yet. And then there’s Abby. Independent, fierce, creative, with a little secret. She falls head over heels for Nick but hesitates to share the core of her unusual attraction: Nick’s disability.
I love the dynamic between the twins, drifting apart and then, eventually, finding a way back to a new understanding. I like that everyone with a disability in this story is just a normal person with, most of the time, quite normal issues. Abby’s portrayal as a devotee is absolutely fascinating and unusual. I adore the love birds in this story and rooted for them all. This is an entertaining, unique read, with characters carved from real life. Definitely a huge recommendation!

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