Reviews on what makes you beautiful

Still, I'm glad it exists for the representation it provides, and I'm glad it was on full display at my tiny public library. More queer content in mainstream, please!! My biggest gripe, and this just might be me, is that every single queer book these days that is set in the modern day, has the young queer protagonists in musical theatre.

It's a tired stereotype and I'm over it. Not all queers like musical theatre. It's a quick read, less than pages, and had a lot of potential, but like another reviewer said, this was clearly not ready to be published and needed a lot of extra work, as it felt unfinished. May 25, Karen Roettger added it. This book fulfilled my PopSugar Challenge of a book by a trans or non-binary author.

Feb 08, april added it Shelves: lgbtq , young-adult , ebooks , Can't believe I had to read about a rainbow bondage bear with my own two eyes. View 1 comment. Jun 22, Audrey rated it did not like it. This book could have had a little bit more work put into it before it was published. Apr 16, Carla rated it it was ok Shelves: openly-lgbtqia-authors , lgbtqia-characters. I enjoyed this book and recommend giving it a read despite my low rating.

It was a fun read and I never disliked it. The characters were sweet, and the book was very much a feel-good story. The cast was delightfully representative, with trans characters, nonbinary characters, characters with diverse sexualities, Asian American and black characters, and autistic characters.

I hope I enjoyed this book and recommend giving it a read despite my low rating. I hope to see more work from this author in the future! I have this book a low rating for a few reasons and I should note that I don't always enjoy general fiction, and absolutely hated YA general fiction when I was a teenager, so some of these things might not bother someone who enjoys this genre : The characters felt underdeveloped.

The conversations often felt awkward and forced. The main character's identity exploration seemed to go from resistant to transitioned way too quickly for the complex feelings that had been established early on. The fight in the music room and the outcome of the fight felt really contrived to me. The obsession the main character had over a crush made the sudden developments at the end of the book feel forced and super weird.

Everyone's reactions to the casting of the play felt super weird, and nothing wound up happening with the play, so the whole situation felt like it had a lot of potential and fizzled. Feb 16, Emlikescake rated it liked it.

But the writing in this was just I read a lot of YA novels, but this was bland and lacked any subtlety whatsoever. I felt like the author stood there beating my mind with the same prose and the same language and the same illustrations over and over and over again to make their point.

Apr 22, Karen rated it it was ok. I was expecting this to be fairly afterschool-special-y, like bare bones of a plot designed to tell us what it's like to be Asian and trans, and it was. It also had unidimensional transphobic parents who only appeared briefly to say offensive things, an eclectic group of instant friends who always understand exactly what the main character needed, unrealistic dialogue, and every sexuality and gender identity that the author could fit in the brief novel.

No real character development. Normally I I was expecting this to be fairly afterschool-special-y, like bare bones of a plot designed to tell us what it's like to be Asian and trans, and it was.

Normally I feel like if a book shows an underrepresented identity I can cut it some slack on not being that good, because it can still serve a role. But I thought this one was pretty bad. Dec 22, Jess rated it it was ok Shelves: didn-t-finish.

Here's the thing I was really excited to read this. I like the ideas the author was trying to portray and I like the story line. But the wording is not great. The novel should have been worked on a little more and maybe been to an editor or a different editor if there was one. I was 50 pages in and unable to finish. Not often I can give up on a book like this.

Jun 01, Chase rated it really liked it. This was a funny, coming-of-age, life lesson novel. But things don't go as planned in the Arizona desert, because sweet Mikey just wants to be friends.

Feeling rejected, Charlie, an artist, is drawn into a destructive new relationship with her sexy older co-worker, a "semifamous" local musician who's obviously a junkie alcoholic. Through intense, diarylike chapters chronicling Charlie's journey, the author captures the brutal and heartbreaking way "girls who write their pain on their bodies" scar and mar themselves, either succumbing or surviving.

Like most issue books, this is not an easy read, but it's poignant and transcendent as Charlie breaks more and more before piecing herself back together. Riveting, brutal and beautifully told. Instead, she humanizes them and their painful contradictions by including nostalgic images that showcase the love shared among Cady, her two cousins closest in age, and Gat, the Heathcliff-esque figure she has always loved. Though increasingly disenchanted with the Sinclair legacy of self-absorption, the four believe family redemption is possible—if they have the courage to act.

Lockhart ; illustrated by Manuel Preitano. Already have an account? Log in. Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials. Sign Up. Thoughtful and affirming. Are you joking? There's no way these boys won't be a hit. They attract crowds of screaming fans everywhere they go and this is such a feel-good track we'd be amazed if it doesn't go straight to number one.

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