eloise_bradbooks's Reviews (801)

This was a nice YA contemporary story about Lynda, a driven artist, struggling with a new family dynamic (father remarried and she now has a new step-mother and step-sister who seems to be getting more support than herself) but finding joy in being asked to create art for an otome game that's being created by who she thought was an arrogant classmate but turns out to be very cute and very loveable...
The family-aspect of the story was the most interesting, but I felt like we could have gotten even more step-sister bonding to make it more emotional.
I loved reading about two Asian ace girls (including a biromantic demisexual LI <3), falling in love: yay!!! It's not majorly important to the story, there's no deep discussion about it, but the rep felt so nice. They were cute together although once again, I feel like the romance could have been even cuter than it was.
Altogether, good ideas, good execution, just not quite great enough to be memorable unfortunately...

 Oh my ******* god THIS BOOK IS THE BEST!!
These boys love each other more than anything. They are each other's home and always have been and always will be.
I don't even know what to say it was just unputdownable and so cute and also dealt with some heavier topics but got a pretty amazing happy ending.
This is about finding your family in someone and their loved ones too.
This is a new comfort book. 

Well this was nice and fun and a pretty cool idea for an anthology!
A group of teen aliens crashland on Earth to rescue the captain's brother who is now a famous movie star in the USA.
If you think that sounds kinda crazy, it is. But it's also a lot of fun and a good way to see a bunch of queer teens around the States, interact with a bunch of aliens and realise how aliens can be relatable to us queer folk.

Here's the thing: it did feel a tad bit too easy in the way that every one accepted the alien situation super easily and they were all very happy to help and open up to strangers, I mean... aliens!! And of course each alien landed in a place where a queer teen with similar issues to them were there to help and become their friend over the course of five minutes...
If you're able to look past that, you'll have a great time though.

(One last thing: this could have been an incredible opportunity for found family subplots but it never occured to anyone!?)

Special shout out to One Last Shot Before the End of the World By Julian Winters and A Taste of Country by M.K. England which were stand-out stories for me. 

YES!! What a great read about Charlie, a butch hockey player who gets suspended from school -and therefore hockey- and ends up helping Alexa, a figure skater, with her doubles figure skating competition. The girls despise each other at first. Slowly but surely, after spending so much time together, being forced on dates by Alexa's mom, they grow to care about one another.
It was really sweet, felt realistic (which I often don't get from YA romance-focused books) and purely and simply a joy to read. 

 I loved each story, the humour, the art style, the relationships.. But I don't understand why this is one book with three stories in them? Two of them at least deserved a book dedicated to them... 

Dessins OK, scénario et dialogues pourraient s'améliorer. Là où cette BD est vraiment bien c'est dans son message, dans l'histoire vraie qui est racontée d'un groupe de détenues qui font tout leur possible pour avoir des conditions de vie dignes pendant leur détention.

Objectively, I'm sure this is a great book. But character-driven literary/historical fiction doesn't seem to work for me.
I didn't quite understand the point of the blue skin. It's the title of the book, it's the main character's most stand-out feature, and yet it doesn't really seem to have much of an impact on her life or this story for that matter... (or maybe I missed something? I might have, I didn't seem to care enough about our main character to even remember her name...).
Then again, it actually shows that being a queer Arab Palestinian woman moving to America is much more impactful on someone's life than them being blue. That's pretty powerful.
This was actually the most interesting part of this story. Learning about our MC's aunt Nuha, a Palestinan woman fleeing her country, looking after her family, falling in love with a girl but letting her go for the sake of giving her family a better life. 

 I love these boys so much. They're so sweet, thoughtful, their couple is literal GOALS!
But also this was a little less interesting than the first book...