So. I recently read The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson, which was such a great book. I really enjoyed it. However, I'm not quite sure why but I felt like the authors were trying to hint at something romantic going on between Iris and Alice, or the beginnings of such a thing. There was a lot of describing how the two of them held hands sometimes and comforted each other in this way that I personally felt was a bit more than platonic. Of course, I know that such things can certainly be just that, platonic, but it just felt like more than that while I was reading it. I honestly sometimes felt like I was being queerbaited, if thats a thing, like if its possible to be queerbaited, but I felt really strange reading it. Alice and Iris just seem to have so much chemistry and do a lot of hand holding and there's so much stuff about how after they fought they really missed each other. I don't know whether I'm just reading into things too much, but it really seems like there's something going on there to me.