Harvey
As an autistic person this book made me feel very seen. Ik this isn't a story about autism but the experience is very similar and it especially hard to conform to a society in which you do not understand a single thing about.
i actually related to this book so much. i love the way it talked about gender identity, sexual orientation, and racism. i think it really showed how some queer people can still be homophobic to others in the community and that is something that needs more awareness. white cis gay men spitting on the whole fucking community for what ??? i also loved the way felix discovered love and different types of love. this book was just so educative and so beautiful and ezra is my new comfort character
i <3 this series so much and cant wait for the next one. it really made me aware of things like eating disorders and it's just such a cute but educative story
this book put me into a reading slump. i struggled to read even 20 pages at a time. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHY ??? i think the fantasy wore me out
this book felt like a labyrinth i was desperately trying to escape. so many subplots inside of one, weird ending: ezra was the villain. or was he? was it atlas? callum? parisa? to be honest, i do not know. i do not have the intelligence to even begin to comprehend this book but all i can tell you is that it was quite naturally gay, as if every character was bisexual on default. nico and libby = academic rivals to lovers. tristan and callum had so much tension; i was yearning for them to kiss. i believe it is slightly homophobic that tristan libby and parisa had a whole threesome scene (fuck was that about ???) yet we couldn't even have ONE tristan x callum kiss
This feels like CMBYN if you remove the grooming, honestly. The yearn for equally returned love and the yearning to just be happy, despite it all. Despite knowing you cant live in a country that persecutes you, you still try to. To live in hushed silence and to learn quietly not to speak out about anything. You have to make your path based on lies. You have to make up a character just to live. I love the quote “you cant make people love you the way you want them to” because it's so heartbreaking as a gay person to live like that. To see someone and know you won't get a happy ending, not being able to love someone freely and them not loving you back. Being gay feels like a rejection. Nobody wants you, and everybody's looking for you. It feels like a hunt where you're the prey. This book perfectly encapsulates that awful feeling, and the awful realisation of trying to get on with life despite all the lies and the secrets. Beautiful.
3 1/2 stars.
This would be better if it embraced queerness rather than portraying it in a perversive light, if Claudia and Louis had been strictly father and daughter, and if the characters had been more diverse. Not every vampire is white and/or European!
Just watch the show if you want gay vampires :-)
suffice to say i did not understand this book at all, and i think that's what makes it good. the fact that i did not understand it made it beautiful, more real. i felt like there were so many explorations of things, like race, loss, and to be queer. i loved the metaphors and the word play and the way that, to me, nothing made sense. i feel too dumb to comprehend this book and that makes it 10x better. i feel like the timeline was scattered, i never knew how old he was in the scene i was reading (if it was not specified) and everything was just there, splayed out onto the page, into a non-chronological mess of events. it was trevor this, then back to lan, and then to himself. it was all over the place and i think that sudden switch from scene to scene made things good. the book was harsh and sometimes said things literally, while other times not saying anything explicit at all. i wanna be able to write like this one day.
“My father never reads books, but he's read yours.” A beautiful story about a love that couldn't have endured, “tomorrow there will be emptiness”. There's something so tenderly sad about this, how he meets his son twenty years later. The son knows, understands the relationship between him and his father. It is so beautiful that their love could be seen by others, even when they had tried to hide from it themselves.
i bought this book on a whim because someone complimented the smut in it. i was not let down; indeed, i was very much satisfied by the smut. i feel this book had a very perfect balance of love and lust, also to love and lust at the same time. it was so romantic yet slutty. JOHNVIN 4 LIFE!!!! it almost felt like second-hand yearning: i was so immersed in the book that i felt it was me there, wishing i could be with my gay lover in freedom, without judgement. i loved when guy went in depth about such things, but what i loved more is how phillip didn't promise him anything fairytale-like. he didn't promise guy a happy ending: he said they could have something, yet there'd be a price. i felt for them so much because whilst nowadays it's more open, there's still the inner guilt of being gay and being viewed as different and separate from the world.
this is impressive writing but not my kind of book at all. it was a nightmare to get through. the “romance” - if you can even call if that - was the only bearable part of the book. it definitely made me more aware about the dystopian genre and about dystopias and sexism itself, but just not my type of read.
i had such high hopes for this like wow fantasy lgbts!!! but oh my god it fell so flat for me. the characters were giving preteen romance and GOD hannah just infuriated me. she was so 2012 even 2012 would be offended. like WAKE UP we're not acting emo
I loved this cute little mystery story but I could not keep track of their names for my LIFE
it was so beautiful and sad omg. elio is a bit of a weird character but i love him nonetheless Xx the quotes in this are just so like ??? they make you question everything.
this has to be my favourite classic so far. i loved the way it was written, simply beautiful. the theme of nature and the contrast of man and monster. the portrayal of how someone is judged on their exterior rather than their interior, and the metaphorical meanings behind the obvious. i think there were gay undertones in this. do not act surprised bc u knew this was coming. i think in every classic there are some queer parts. with this, i think frankenstein and henry were literal soulmates. i mean???? henry's last words to frankenstein??? gay. also, walton's affections for frankenstein. he didn't know him all that well but was completely enamoured by him. he didn't know how to describe frankenstein to his sister bc he didn't believe he'd do him justice. boy have i news for you. relating the main theme of this book with queerness, i recently discovered the theory behind how queer people can sometimes relate to the otherness of monsters. how we, as queer people, are placed in the category of “other” and are judged for who we are. i think to remember that theory whilst reading this book makes it that much more impactful.
ok so ! this book was very good. half the time i had no bloody clue what they were on about but it's okay because gay people !!! magic !!! an amazing combo !!!! first time i r read smut in a book HELP
Grant is the most underrated president of the 19th century. This book helps to keep him alive in the memory of 21st century readers :-)
