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Les Failles

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Musique - Recueil de nouvelles

Tino H. Charroux, Weggen, Lux, Thomas Di Franco, Naël Legrand, Ysael, Anne-Laure Guillaumat, Ana Zaharova, Karine Rennberg

4.75

adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Un recueil de nouvelles magnifiquement illustré. C’est beau, c’est queer, c’est drôle, c’est triste, c’est génial. Un gros coup de cœur sur « Vivre sans moi » qui m’a fais pleurer

TW: PTSD, Depression, Toxic parents

Content Warnings

The Girl from the Sea

Molly Knox Ostertag

5.0

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I loved it. I loved, I almost cried, I was flustered. Bravo les lesbiennes

Content Warnings

Nick and Charlie

Alice Oseman

4.0

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Not my favorite Alice Oseman book. But clearly it’s a good book, and an important one in Charlie and Nick’s relationship development

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

Matt Cain

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Holy, mother of…

This book was, no sorry, is awesome. The story of a 64 years old closeted man who’s life starts to crumbles. He has just a few months left before he has to retire, and his cat, only friend and family, dies. At the same time he finds old letters from the only man he ever loved. So he decides to search for him, and apologize to him. And for this, he starts to open to people, he comes-out to some, finds a community, finds friends. And he even helps Nicole, a single young black mother, struggling with her boyfriend. And she’s not the only one he helps, he just discovers than the world changed and, he’s also changing for the best.

This book is just a 5/5 stars. It’s beautiful, well written, touching, heartfelt, emotional. It gives hope, and it helps us remembering why we should live our lives. For the one who couldn’t, for the one who lived in the 50/60’s and after. For the ones who had to stay closeted their entire life, for the ones who died, for the ones that couldn’t love.

This story also show us, that it’s never too late to live your life. There’s always hope, you can always love the person you are meant to be. Second chances are possible. There will always be people that will accept you and who you are, no matter what.

You will always find a community.

I had never read a book with a protagonist this old (always with YA or NA books), but it was not a disappointment, it allowed me to reflect on some aspect of my life. Also, even if the story is set between December and March, this is the perfect story for pride month.

Oh and the narrator? Perfect for it. His voice was wonderful, and he made me feel so many emotions at once.

Content Warnings

Love Me for Who I Am 01

Kata Konayama, Kata Konayama

4.0

Blue Flag, Tome 04

Kaito

5.0

WoW

Bloom into you, Tome 4

Nakatani Nio

4.0

Plot or Character Driven: Character

I Was Born for This

Alice Oseman

5.0

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My first Alice Oseman’s novel. I loved it. Okay at first I cringed. Because I was like Angel. Not with a band (it was Supernatural and it’s cast for me). And looking back I’m like « how could I be like that ». But yeah I lived for this fandom, it was something as big as the Ark for Angel. But I grew up. Just like Angel did. And that’s what I really love about this book. The characters and their evolution.

Both Angel and Jimmy have their problems. They are great protagonists. They have their doubt, they strength, their flaws. They are human. Well all the characters in this book are really human. You can’t hate them. I’m really glad I started Oseman’s novels with this one.

I loved the relationships between everyone and the way toxic fan culture is described.

Anyway it’s a 5/5 stars.

Content Warnings

Amours croisées

Laura Nsafou

3.5

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Une histoire douce amère sur l’amour et toutes les façons d’aimer. Les dessins sont magnifiques et les personnages assez attachants. Par contre j’ai vraiment eu du mal avec la mauvaise communication

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