She cocked her head at me as she looked up from her textbook. Excerpt from Tricky Wisdom by Camryn Eyde It is without a doubt one of the best books that I have read this year. If you want a book that leaves you feeling satisfied, a book that leaves you wanting to start again from the beginning, just to take the journey again, a book that might just change your life a little bit then get this one. I am sitting here trying to think of a con but I just can’t. Often this sort of character growth only really happens in heavy, dramatic novels but Eyde is obviously a genius who had figured out how to change the way lesbian characters are portrayed. It was an exciting transition and I am thrilled to find an author who managed such character complexity in such a light book. This is one of the few novels that I have read with a character who you start hating and end up loving. And secondly, that it flowed so effortlessly that I forgot to read and was able to just enjoy it.Ĭharacters are a huge strength for Eyde, I believe that if this book is anything to go by then she is one of the best character creators in the lesbian genre. Every line meant something and every piece was worth it. That means two things, first is that her novel was not bogged down by unnecessary words. The story was so captivating and the characters so real that I forgot to notice the writing style. I could not put this book down because each line had me tantalized by another aspect of one of the women. Her characters are flawed, stupid and brilliant, beautiful and cruel. We’re all beautiful, intricate, amazing creatures with an enormous capacity to love.”Īdmittedly, this is the only book of Camryn Eyde’s that I have read but she has nailed the complexities of women in this novel. It’s an exciting genre that highlights the wonderful complexities of women.

The CharactersĬamryn Eyde says this about her work: “I write a variety of genres, but the one I’m most passionate about, and the one I spend dreamless nights thinking about, is lesbian romance.

But plans never quite work out as expected. But she is also brilliant and beautiful and ends up changing Darcy’s world when she agrees to pretend to be Darcy’s girlfriend in a scheme to help Darcy win Taylor’s affection. She moves into an off campus apartment with, Olivia, another medical student.

She is deep in the closet and has been in love with her best friend, Taylor, since junior high.Īt the beginning of the book she leaves the small town that she comes from in order to study medicine at Harvard. Tricky Wisdom is the story about Darcy Wright. She generally gives great recommendations so, naturally, I read the book. She told me that she had just finished it and that I absolutely had to read this book. I must give credit to Fiona, one of my tweeps ( twitter community). Tricky Wisdom by Camryn Eyde is a brilliant find.