Kaisa Ilmonen’s Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff opens slowly, with the first two chapters presenting introductions to the theoretical and critical fields in which it is located and to the works that it engages. Although it could be dismissed as the paraphernalia of a dissertation, which is in the tradition of Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book clearly reproduces, the introduction offers a clear, thorough, wide-ranging, and at the same time remarkably concise overview of the key critical terms at play: the Caribbean, Postcolonial Studies, Caribbean studies, identity, intersectionality, creole, and queer. The introduction may be a bit more of what Ilmonen herself calls a “heavy methodological toolbox” than is needed by an audience interested in the reading of “intersectionality and sexual modernity” in the novels of Michelle Cliff, but it will be of great service to students in Caribbean, postcolonial, and queer studies courses – indeed the introduction could easily be used as part of a course packet or a reader for such a course. The second chapter of Queer Rebellion opens as the beginning of the analysis, laying out a strong argument for “fiction or history,” although its main substance is a set of thorough summaries of Cliff’s works and of the criticism that has engaged them.