Since My Policeman should come out as a movie this year a friend and I wanted to read the book in advance, so we made it a buddyread.
And I’m so glad, we decided on that, because I really, really enjoyed this book!
Mostly, how much it made me think about the topic of LGBTQIA+.
Some of those thoughts you can read on my goodreads review, but since I’d primarily like to review the book let me just say that I hope we finally learn to listen to others and try to understand what’s new to us without condemning the people who share their realities.
My Policeman had me grappling with so much! Big thoughts, little thoughts. Huge problems, tiny problems.
And since we have 3 people (2 perspectives) it doesn’t force your mind in one direction. We have three completely different viewpoints and positions which are all conveyed in such a wonderful way.
All three of our MC’s are flawed and their actions and mistaks feel so authentic which shows me that the author really spent some time with those characters.
I don’t like all of them the same and some of their words or actions are really bad. But I see where their hurt, frustration, worldview is coming from and I can empathise which, in turn, makes them very loveable.
It is a very slow book with little direct speech but in my opinion the author found the perfect way of telling the story by sometimes only touching on things and letting the reader fill in the blanks - as many reactions and relationship developments could be guessed at by what came before and what came after.
I really, really enjoyed this style of writing and I even liked the very open ending, as it just fits with the rest so very well.
Maybe I would have liked a little more drama towards the end but it could’ve also seemed displaced, who knows.
This book will, for sure, keep me mulling over things for quite some time to come.
