The entire first print run of the UK paperback will have AMAZING flowery sprayed edges. I love it with my whole heart even if it destroyed me at times. It is highly recommended for anyone who might be thinking about their own gender or sexuality, or just generally likes to read widely.

This really is a brilliant book throughout, and one that transcends over its status as a YA novel. They are a treasure and I can’t wait to see where their career takes them next. Not many authors show that range and sustained level of quality throughout all of their ventures, I am impressed. It is really to Kacen’s credit that they can manage to write such excellent books in a variety of genres – I haven’t read their middle grade books, but I really liked Queen of the Conquered and King of the Rising, the duology is nominated for the Subjective Kind of Chaos Awards, and you can read my review for King here. What are our relationships with our friends at their core? Who are we, really? And who do we value most? While I obviously can’t speak to the portrayal of the black or transgender experience, this twenty-eight year old queer got reaffirmed in queerness and discovered new things about myself that I was not able to put into words before. While the setting of it is deeply rooted in its YA story, the issues that Felix faces are universal, and are ones that confront adults in their twenties, even their thirties just as much. Felix’ struggles with coming to terms with his identity and figuring out who he is deep down are extremely relatable and dig deeper than your average contemporary YA novel. I love it with my whole heart, but it also led to much questioning of my whole identity – in a good way. īut as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.

What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages – after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned – Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalisation too many – Black, queer and transgender – to ever get his own happily-ever-after. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. SUMMARY: Felix Love has never been in love – and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony.

Felix ever after book review