Far From Home is a romance between Rachel, recovering anorexic, deeply in debt and ostensibly straight, and Pari who is in need of a green card. Rachel, from whose point of view the story is told, blurts out "I would marry you," at a party. Pari, who is comfortable financially, thinks this is an idea to explore. Faster than I would have thought such a decision should be made, they hatch a plan and move in together. This plan gives Rachel some financial relief and Pari a marriage leading to citizenship. However, as they do, things get more complicated. In addition to the romance and impending marriage, there is the underlying issue of Rachel's struggle with anorexia.
I found Far From Home a fairly enjoyable, quick read. It progresses much like you might think and I found it very readable. For me, the sex talk was a little more raw than is my cup of tea, but I'm pretty vanilla, so take that with a grain of salt. What I didn't love was that everything happened so quickly. It was pretty close to instalove in my opinion. Yes, these two were living together, but they also spent a lot of time avoiding each other, not building a relationship, even though Rachel is very quickly, it seems, in love. It seemed more like infatuation, which, to be fair, they both sort of acknowledge, but then I didn't really see how it could have moved past that given the interactions we saw. In general, it was the shortness of this book that I felt lead to the things I didn't care for: not quite enough relationship development, not enough character development of secondary characters, not quite enough of Rachel's work situation.
So, as is often the case with books and me, I liked it but didn't love it. If you're working your way through the lesbian romance genre, I wouldn't skip this one. If not, I don't know that this would be one I'd have you seek out.
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