{"id":14269,"date":"2021-05-01T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=14269"},"modified":"2023-02-27T21:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:06:51","slug":"for-better-or-worse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14269","title":{"rendered":"For Better or Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3t8mBvJ\">For Better or Worse<\/a><\/em> (2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/Cooper_R.php\">R. Cooper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3t8mBvJ\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/For-Better-or-Worse.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"For Better or Worse\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/For-Better-or-Worse.jpg?w=317&amp;ssl=1 317w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/For-Better-or-Worse.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything looks like friendly teasing if you don\u2019t know what sexual tension is. I get confused.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>To this day he could remember the exact feeling of relief at discovering terms like demisexual and gray ace, and his immediate need to know more, and then still, always, that faint shame of not being what he was supposed to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jimmy could sound like someone spoiling for a fight, but he never was. He just felt a lot, about everything, and liked to talk about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The last thing Jimmy needed was all-day access to espresso, which Javier had refrained from telling him, but Jimmy had read in his expression anyway and thrown a dishtowel at him for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Better or Worse (2017) R. Cooper Everything looks like friendly teasing if you don\u2019t know what sexual tension is. I get confused.\u201d To this day he could remember the exact feeling of relief at discovering terms like demisexual and gray ace, and his immediate need to know more, and then still, always, that faint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,189,668,292,148,41,26,56],"tags":[197,544,200],"class_list":["post-14269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-ace","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-demi","tag-mm","tag-r-cooper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3I9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24931,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24931","url_meta":{"origin":14269,"position":0},"title":"For Better or Worse","author":"Michelle","date":"September 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"For Better or Worse (2017) R. 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