Then once they do really 'go' there it has a few BDSM elements, arm/hand pinning, biting to draw blood, leaving marks, which never does make me feel comfortable. But despite that, the whole idea of being attracted to yourself brought up some weirdness, which was barely touched on, or discussed. It does that thing I hate in romance, where panties are soaking just from basic looks, and I really do have to wonder if that's something that happens IRL. While Karol has short hair, wears suits, and has tattoos and working class swagger and musculature hiding underneath.

Lina being very femme, curls, dresses, makeup, stockings - the whole 40's femme bombshell. It was strange to think about two women who are in many ways identical, as twins - and a ruse they utilize - but yet are different in style and body. It goes against all the rules for them to even meet, let alone get involved in each others lives, or alternate worlds, but Karol and her butch dapper energy has Lina going crazy, right from the get go. What we find out is, Lina wasn't expecting to come face to face with another version of herself. That her very first solo mission going off-world wouldn't be assisted more by her mentor, or the person she is going to meet vetted far more thoroughly. But how that comes about, is very poorly framed, and a bit unbelievable, to me. She's technically still in training, and about to embark on her first 'mission' as it were. MC Lina is working as a cartographer for a mysterious organization dealing with maps that correlate to the multi-verse.

Johnny's Girls is the first novel of a new sapphic retrofuturistic mystery series, Ranger Paraversum.It deals with parallel universe theory, set in Croatia 1945, towards the end of WW2.

For her, the answer is about to become tricky.īecause Karol, the parallel world engineer looking for her help in a missing persons case, is everything she never thought she could be.Ĭoincidentally, the engineer is also Lina's exact copy, a one in a million doppelgänger-the one person you're never supposed to meet.Īs the two women team up to find a murderer in this decadent dieselpunk mystery, they will soon discover there's more to each other than the surface likeness which the eye can see-making this, unfortunately, a matter for the heart to resolve.Īnd accepting her heart's desires was never Lina's strong suit. Could you fall for someone who looks just like you?Īn apprentice Cartographer, working for a secret society in a city which has just barely made it out of World War II, Lina is just about to embark on her first job assignment in a parallel world.

Johnny's Girls by Vesna Kurilić