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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Boy Queen by George Lester

Robin hopes to be a performer, it's his dream and as a proud gay teen when his life plans fall off course, it's his friend Natalie who helps his realise his new way of life, drag!

With a supportive group of friends and his mum despite her worries over homophobes who could cause trouble for Robin, he sets out on discovering his passion for drag after his birthday at a gay club inspired him.

There's also the matter of Connor, his kind of yes kind of not boyfriend who is known as Secret Boyfriend due to not being outly gay but with some terrible friends.

So when a kind, cute shy new guy starts at their school he and Robin grow closer as Robin's drag act gets planned and showtime looms imminently!

This was such a great book I love that YA is branching out showing young teens that drag is a great expressive thing for them and that it's fun! Robin was a great character and I wish this was a series to see what action came from starting drag for him!

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Sunday, 23 June 2019

The Switch Up by Katy Cannon

Willa is forced by her parents to go to Italy to stay with a relative despite having her summer planned to be in London on a theatre course.

Her mum is an actress in LA while her dad is away shooting in Edinburgh.

Meanwhile at the airport, she meets Alice and the pair get mistaken for sisters. Leading Willa and Alice to talking about their plans and hatching the idea to swap places for the next few weeks.

Alice lost her mum to cancer but her marine biologist dad is away working sending her to stay with his girlfriend in London.

As the story progresses, the pair swap info online alike they swapped possessions and keep on impersonating the other they're playing.

Alice's friend Hal recognizes Willa isn't her so she ropes him in to her plan meanwhile Alice visits the waterfall her mum told her about while her dad or rather Willa's dad turns up randomly...their game is up.

The location choices were great who wouldn't want to be in Italy or London two of the greatest cities in the world to explore and especially how the girls families didn't recognise the girls were different was shocking but understandable after so many years apart.

Like a modern parent trap this book was super fun and keeps you on your toes reading on in eager suspense about each girls summer and the outcome it'll be good or bad.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

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Goodreads Quotes

Eve beinguniquebeingme’s quotes

"You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes."— Rosemarie Urquico

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