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1. As usual, a cishet white man thinks the romance subplot and Seven’s awkward search for her sexual identity don’t work, whereas queer readers, especially queer women, have repeatedly hailed those elements of this novel as being fairly accurate representations of their lived experiences.

   Jessie Gender After Dark:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saU9MULNM_I

   Kirsten Heffron SCI FI Bulletin”
   https://scifibulletin.com/books/tie-in-fiction/star-trek-review-picard-firewall/

   I trust the opinions of members of the community for whom the book was written over that of someone who clearly is not familiar with that sort of life experience, and I will likewise trust my own understanding of the character and her long-term story arc. As for the core relationship not lasting: to borrow a line from Avengers: Age of Ultron — “A thing isn’t beautiful because it lasts.” Many readers understood perfectly that the bittersweet tale of a first love of a character’s life doesn’t need to be the only love of their life in order to be a meaningful element of the coming-of-age tale, which is exactly what Firewall is.

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