SuitabookBridget and Gabe Are Not Okay
Lex Croucher
- Reading
- Read the first book before this sequel, because several relationships and the battle’s consequences continue from it. Allow pauses around distressing scenes, then discuss how official histories can reshape events.
- Themes
- Living after conflict: Bridget experiences flashbacks, nightmares and hypervigilance, while Gabriel has panic attacks and struggles with royal responsibility after the battle. The book presents this favourably.
- Relationships under strain: The characters’ relationships become difficult as trauma, anxiety and grief affect their ability to connect and sustain romance. The book presents this favourably.
- Public history and reform: Gabriel’s reforms face opposition, while official accounts of events are presented as making people appear more heroic than they were. The book presents official histories as agenda-driven, but its broader treatment of the reforms is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether a reader would welcome sustained depictions of panic attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, grief and anxiety, alongside conflict over laws supporting same-sex relationships.