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★★★★☆ 4.12 • Goodreads

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  • Queer Family Drama
  • Irreverent Satire

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If Detransition, Baby hooked you with unapologetically messy queer chaos, Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly refuses respectability even harder

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Sibling rivalry meets queer chaos brilliantly
  • Biting satire skewers woke performativity hard
  • Messy sex & jealousy portrayed unflinchingly
  • No neat endings—just glorious human wreckage

If Detransition, Baby taught you that the best queer fiction refuses to be respectable, Greta & Valdin doubles down with sibling chaos that's horny, sharp, and ruthlessly funny. Rebecca K Reilly delivers flawed queer characters whose messy desires and identity contradictions feel bracingly real—no sanitized narratives, no performative wokeness, just biting humor that skewers intra-community gatekeeping while staying emotionally raw.

...flawed queer characters whose messy desires and identity contradictions feel bracingly real...

Here's queer family drama that won't resolve into tidy lessons about love or belonging. The prose crackles with the same unflinching frankness about sex, jealousy, and cultural commodification that made Peters' work impossible to put down.

This is what happens when irreverence meets emotional depth without apologizing for either.

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What Readers Are Saying

"I am 1000% obsessed with this book...possibly the funniest thing I have ever read..." Anita Kelly, Goodreads
"a sparkling warm-hearted delight...searching for identity, connection, family, and love" Jenna, Goodreads
"funny and timely...endearing and messy and very earnest" Kristen Bookrvws, Goodreads

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