Reviewed by Marieke
TITLE: Why We Fight 
SERIES: At First Sight #4
AUTHOR: TJ Klune
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2019
LENGTH: 341 pages
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Do you believe in love at first sight?
Corey Ellis sure doesn’t. Oh, everyone around him seems to have found their happy ending, but he’s far too busy to worry about such things. He’ll have plenty of time for romance after he survives his last summer before graduation. So what if he can’t get his former professor, Jeremy Olsen, out of his head? It’s nothing more than hero worship. And that’s the way it should stay.
Except bigender Corey—aka Kori—is interning at Phoenix House for the summer, a LGBTQI youth center. A center that recently hired an interim director until someone can be found to fill the position permanently.
Because life is extraordinarily unfair, the director just so happens to be a certain former professor, now turned current boss.
Desperate to keep things professional as he and Jeremy grow closer, Corey makes a major mistake: he turns to his friends, Paul Auster and Sanford Stewart for help.
But Paul and Sandy have some ideas of their own….
Set in the summer of 2016, Why We Fight is a celebration of queer life and being true to oneself… no matter the cost.
REVIEW:
Corey/Kori hasn’t had an easy childhood, living in the foster system and being bigendered made him hard to understand for the people in Arizona. Then at seventeen he meets Sandy, aka Helena Handbasket, and things get better. He figures out that he’s also a she sometimes and that’s just fine. After going to Dartmouth and meeting Tyson (Bear, Otter and the Kid), he decides Tucson is home after all. When he studies for his Master in Sociology, he meets hot Professor Olsen, who happens to be at Paul and Vince’s wedding at the end of Until You.
The story starts as Corey starts his first day of internship at Phoenix House, and finds out the old director has quit and Jeremy Olsen is taking his place for the summer. Okay, the book doesn’t actually start with that, because TJ Klune would never be so mundane. First you get a whole lot of Nana, Larry and Matty, a murder plot and an intervention.
I can’t read a At First Sight book without crying from laughing too hard, so that happened again. What didn’t happen this time, was actual crying from all the feelings. There were a whole lot of feelings given and going on in the story, but weirdly enough, they didn’t make me cry this time. That’s the only reason this book wasn’t a five-star rating.
Corey/Kori had me intrigued in other books, largely because the bigender thing. I was very curious how the author was going to make understand and feel that part. The thing is, it wasn’t at all that big a part of this story. More like a part of Corey/Kori and completely naturally incorporated into his character. I didn’t know if I should be disappointed that it’s not a major revelation or awed that it feels so smooth and normal. I’m going with awed.
How can you describe a TJ Klune story, without spoilers? It’s hard, almost impossible. It’s one part extreme situations that happened out of nowhere and have nothing to do with anything. One part twisted personalities trying to co-exist and meddle in each other’s business, and one part FEELZ. You can’t put it down once you start reading.
Jeremy is thirteen years older but seeing them interact you wouldn’t notice. He’s young at heart and body…Oh, his body…
The only downside to Jeremy is how slow he makes his move. If you want fast paced romance, this is not it. If you want fast paced conversations and weird brain gymnastics which eventually leads to a HEA, the this is the book for you.
Charlie has a bigger part in this final book in the series, and he’s even more awesome than you could ever imagine. He’s hardcore, people. Like, badass and shit.
Robert, Charlie’s gentleman, fits right in. I would’ve loved a little more background from him, but that’s just my opinion. He’s good for Charlie and that’s all that matters!
Paul and Vince are still married and still have sex face. Need I say more?
Sandy and Darren will never change, neither will Nana or Larry and Matty. They don’t have as big of a part in this as in the previous books, but they do what they need to do, keeping the family together and happy.
Even though it makes me sad that this was the last book and the series has come to an end, it’s a great ending. There are no real loose endings or people I like to see paired off. It’s really done.
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