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Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore
4.0
emotional hopeful tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

...this is fix-it fic for The Great Gatsby and I am HERE for it.
Anyway, this is why it's important for books to come out of copyright after the author dies, so that writers like McLemore can have fun with texts like this.
It's a completely different book and also it's so obviously a response rather than a retelling and it basically upends the entire original. In a good way. I was delighted.