Ms Rancourt knows this is a romance but still makes sure the world building is on point while allowing the MCs to take us on their journey shaped by their time - and what a journey it is. If you'd like to learn a few things about an era that is not often explored without being overcome by reds under the beds or conservative facts, and the junior senator from Wisconsin, then this is your book. This is a quality piece of writing and I can't recommend it highly enough to those readers who enjoy queer or gay historical romance with depth and breadth and a great sense of time and place, never letting you forget where you are. So I can laugh and feel old all at the same time thanks to Liv Rancourt, and be reminded that everything old is new again. and Dobie Gilles (and Maynard G Krebs), if I'm thinking about America, which this book is set in. They were around in the 1950's and this book reminds me of hipsters and greasers. But you know what's funny? And I think this every now and then when someone posts something about 'those damn hipsters' like they're new, or the worst thing in the world, which they aren't. I think I'll stick with the term retro, that sounds way better. I'm a child of the 1950s and I don't want to think I fit into some historical period, but it's been sixty two years since the 1955 Sea Follies in Seattle, the backdrop of this particular story.

Aqua Follies by Liv Rancourt