cheesepuppy's Reviews (218)

Cute story about Bentley. He’s loving and caring. I’d read more about him

Funny, sad at moments, lots of growth and love 

Cute. Really cute. Not as spicy as Talia’s other books, but that didn’t make me love it any less.

This story reminds me a bit of Celest Ng’s Everything I Never Told You. We start with a dead main character and then read on to find out more.

I loved this book. I started reading it yesterday afternoon and finished it today. All the emotions (shame, love, grief) all felt so real. These emotions are real things our community feels all too often. 

I enjoyed the suspense of trying to figure out how they died and loved the mom’s final reaction to the news. It left me with a little bit of hope in an otherwise sad story. 

I just have one last question that I don’t think was answered. Why the blackouts and seizures? We’re they just to show that secrets would be kept, no matter the situation?

Emezi’s books are already on my TBR. I’m way more excited about reading them now. Their writing felt like home.

Will come back to this later. Got distracted working on other stuff.

I’ve never seen the movie, but wanted to read this. I loved how the story was written just like how the characters speak. 

The transitions, or lack of, made it a little hard to follow the story at some points. I kinda wish there had been a bit more character development. It just seemed like a stereotypical portrayal that they were only in it for sex

The best “not history” history book I have ever read.

A fantastic breakdown where racism came from and how racism was built into the United States. 

It all boiled down to:
Segregation vs assimilation vs anti racism 

such an amazing round up of stories with all sorts of representation. I read all of these and even read some allowed to my spouse. I bookmarked one for them to read tomorrow. This was such an awesome book full of insight. 

Canonically, there is at least one story that includes representation of Latinx, demisexual, deaf, genderqueer, bisexual, and/or pansexual people. There are several stories with representation of Black, chronic pain, invisible illnesses and disabilities, and fat people. 

Beautiful storytelling and a great takeaway

This was an interesting read. I like the flashbacks. I like how we got chunks of the story at different times. I’m intrigued that we still don’t know the main character’s name.

I loved how imperfect she was. I love how she was a whole person with messy feelings and it just felt so super realistic.

Would I want this to be someone’s first LGBTQ+ read? No. The bi representation is too close to false stereotypes.