Felix Ever After audiobook

***read for YA lit course***i’m really thrilled i got the chance to read this for class, because i’ve been meaning to get to it for months. as we know, i don’t rate school books, but i’ve gotta say: this is a gem of a story & the hype is not undeserved! u should read it!!

I would sell my soul to read this for the first time again !♥️

So overwhelmed with love for this cover with a queer poc main character with top surgery scars. It's so visible and incredible I can't handle it.Update 6/20/20:Wow. Wow wow wow. There is such a scope of emotion here that it all overwhelms me. This is the messy queer book that I have needed desperately. It is sad and it is fierce and it is funny and it is hopeful and it is so full of love and full of forgiveness and fucking up and learning from it all. It’s a masterpiece.

I just can't quit YA. Try as I might to rebrand to an Intellectual Adult, whose favorite genre is Literary Fiction and whose to-read list is filled with international award-winners and dusty classics, I can never quite fully get there.Because, in an example of great tragedy and unfairness, only YA has books like this one.Books with effortless diversity and effortful representation and casts of characters that reflect what people really look like and are. And also, yes, really pretty covers with flowers on them.So until general fiction can catch up to the work of authors like Kacen Callender...Catch me reading like a fifteen year old for the foreseeable future.Bottom line: This book is wrenching and difficult and 100% worth the read.----------------pre-reviewum. ouch.review to come / 4 stars (like 4.25?? i don't know)----------------currently-reading updatesdo NOT be fooled by the pretty cover: this book is sad and stressful.but in a good way. probably.----------------tbr reviewlook at me. look me in the eyes.ALL OF THE BOOKS WITH BEAUTIFUL FLOWER PEOPLE ON THE COVER.i will read all of them.

3.8 Generalnie mega spoko książka

Hello this book was perfect and messy and sweet and queer and I loved it so, so, SO much.TW: transphobia, being outed, cyber-bullying

Reread June 5th 2021 Review: Loved this just as much, the second time around! Just such a stunning book!First time reading 11th June 2020 Review:If you liked Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, you’ll love Felix Ever After!This book is going to be a new favorite of mine, I just loved it so much! I absolutely loved the characters, Felix, Ezra and Leah being my favorites. This book also has so much LGBTQIA+ representation, which I loved. I loved the discussions on being transgender and also Felix’s journey with self identity. The book is also set during pride month and the romance is absolutely adorable! I don’t think I have anything negative to say about this book, it was just amazing! Highly recommend that you pick it up! I also read this during a 24 hour readathon and you can check it out here, if you’d like to hear more of my thoughts: https://youtu.be/_xMcY58rFaw

My emotions are everywhere! Such a powerful story about identity, friendship, family, self discovery with realistic characterization! Felix Love wants to experience the true love! He wants to reflect those intimate feelings for creating more passionate art works! He is 17 years old who is chasing his dream to get approval from Brown University to study art! His competitor is Declan, an d friend of his. Now they became strangers because of the choices he made. Most of his friends didn’t understand him. Felix doesn’t want to live with labels such as transgender, queer, black. He has been already trying to define himself ,find his identity. Only Ezra’s friendship keeps his life in balance, he already lost too much, missing his mother! But after Ezra starts dating he feels much lonelier than ever! And a transphobic act at the school changes his life completely! Somebody shared his pre-transition photos with his deadname. This horrifying act brings out his anger, resentment, sadness he has been bottling up for years. Nobody has any right to criticize who he is so he starts working on his revenge plan which drags him into a surprising love triangle. I honestly say this book is truly intense! It is truly emotional, genuine, poignant, sad, heartbreaking. So many times I hear my sobs or I realize tears keep dripping down my cheeks. I couldn’t stop. I think the flawed, honest characters affected me a lot. They made so many mistakes, hurt each other, kept apologizing to start again. They were real, they were heartbroken and they were so easy to resonate with. I loved to read Felix’s journey, his mistakes, his first love, his sadness and loneliness, his search to find his true identity. It’s one of the powerful, thought provocative, extremely heartfelt story I’ve read in this year and I’m so happy to read it!

look up TWsi cant put into words how much i loved this book. this book is literally made for every kind of person. i saw so much of myself within the plot and characters. felix deserves the world and i will die on this hill. this book DELIVERED and gave more ❤️❤️❤️ i legit sat here crying reading this because of how phenomenal it is

Just released my Top 10 Books from 2020 BookTube Video - now that you know this one made the list, click the link to find the rest! The Written Review I'm not flaunting anything. I'm just existing. This is me. I can't hide myself. Felix Love is an art student at an incredibly prestigious high school. He's been through a lot in the past few years - from transitioning to losing his mom (she's not dead...just gone. Moved on.) And he's ready for the next step - college. And to get there, he needs to win a scholarship.But just as things amp up for him...the unthinkable happened. Someone found old pictures of Felix (pretransition) and posted it with his deadname as a gallery of sorts. He's horrified and heartbroken and above all, ready for revenge.After narrowing down the pool of subjects, he quickly finds who he thinks is the culprit. But the longer he spends trying to figure out the best way to extract revenge...the more he begins to doubt his plan, and himself.This was a wonderful book. Really, truly.I loved watching Felix's character grow and change throughout the pages.I adored the love shown in this story...and while my favorite pairing never happened, I still adored the ones that did.The way the author unabashedly covers all the hard-hitting topics was admirable. Just cause they're teens, doesn't mean that they don't have to deal with life's issues and I love the way the author portrayed Felix tackling those head-on.All in all, this was an absolutely fabulous book. Definitely recommend it.YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat @miranda_reads

“But, just because we loved each other, doesn't mean we were meant to be together.And just because you loved one, doesn't mean you can't love another.”It cannot be said often enough: Boys with flower crowns on book covers are my ultimate weakness. This needs to be a thing.The hype is very real for this one. Rave reviews everywhere, all my mutuals praising it in their bookstagram posts - reader, I was scared. But I didn't have to be because I flew through this book. There are some really important messages in there for teenagers everywhere. It also wouldn't hurt the majority of adults to pick this up as well. It's a story about questioning yourself and your identity, about finding strength in a world that is set up for you to fail, it's about love and trust and friendship.What I particularly loved about this novel is that it allows its characters to be messy. Growing up is emotional enough as it is but if you add being trans and Black to that equation, stuff gets tougher. Felix experiences microagressions, bullying and abuse on a daily basis. You can't expect a human being to always be kind and understanding when they try to juggle so many things at the same time. But it also teaches that it's okay to mess up as long as you're willing to swallow your pride, to admit your mistakes and apologise. So yeah, most characters in this book are super flawed, some to the point of being unlikeable but I do have a sweet spot for Ezra and Leah.There were only a few things I didn't love: The constant HP references. The fact that Felix and Ezra were always late, often skipped classes and seemed committed to miss every single deadline (that stuff gives me anxiety, I'm not even kidding). And while I was often frustrated/angry/sad, it didn't hit me quite as hard as I thought it would. I was also lead astray by the book being marketed as a romcom when it centred neither romance nor comedy. At the end of the day this is an incredibly important novel - the fact alone that we have a joyful, Black, trans character with visible scars on the cover makes me want to kiss someone. The underrepresentation of BIPOC & queer characters in YA is a serious issue that tells us just how far publishing still has to go. So for Felix to shine this brightly proves that marginalised voices are worth being heard AND can create commercial success even though everyone keeps telling us otherwise.Find more of my books on Instagram

A phenomenal young adult read which explores identity, race, sexuality/transgender identities, coming of age, bullying, the confusing emotions that teens go through, dreams and determination, friendship and family dynamicsFelix Love is one of the most dynamic ya characters I have ever come across!Even though he tends to be seen as a teen who's not that socially dynamic at school but he's loyal to his friends, family and his dreams. Inspite of all the extreme bullying in the form of revelation of his past and his dead name, he tries his best to deal with everything. Thanks to his mates! The forever support cheerleading team! And yes, his hardworking, awkward dad too!Felix falls in love.Felix falls in love again.I love how the story represented how there's a basic difference between the love we deserve and the love we think we deserve.I love the writing. It's so well written. There's not even a dull moment in the entire book! I love how the ending wrapped up everything so well. The characters are unforgettable and incredibly realistic. The character and plot development too fantastic!

”If the world was perfect, maybe we wouldn’t need labels. But the world isn’t perfect, and labels can really be a source of pride – especially when we’ve got to deal with so much crap.” I rarely say this about books, but every once in a while – when a book is really, really good - I make an exception and actually tell everyone and their grandma that they should read this book! So I’m sure you already guessed it: “Felix Ever After” is exactly that kind of book! It is so, so, so good and I want everyone to read it because it’s not only important but also tackles so many different topics. Every issue, every rep and every single topic that is addressed in here is handled so carefully and with so much respect that I couldn’t help but fall head over heels for this book! Kacen Callender didn’t just write a book, they also wrote characters that will stay with me for a long time and I find myself unable to express how meaningful this is! “Felix Ever After” was such a thought-provoking story and it made me think a lot about my own identity and how others perceive me, how I see myself and how I want to be seen by others. If that makes sense?! My poor Yoongi received a lot of very deep WhatsApp messages (sometimes at the oddest hours) while I read this book because it really made me reflect on my own identity and how I define myself! XDI have no idea if other people who read this made the same experience but for me it was definitely somewhat cathartic?! *lol* Also I think that Kacen might be ARMY because they mentioned BTS twice in this book and the message of “love yourself” is very strong in “Felix Ever After”. And everyone who knows BTS knows that they have been preaching to “love yourself” for years!

i read 5: queer YA & middle grade books

This was so good. I got so emotionally attached to this main character and all of his friends. It’s hard for me to connect to YA novels lately but every now and then I find a gem like this one and it reminds me why I still try. I love Felix, I love his journey of identity and self discovery in this book, and his romantic endeavors in this book. My heart broke for his complicated relationship with his Mom, and his at-times difficult relationship with his Dad. This isn’t the first own voices trans story that I’ve read and it definitely won’t be my last, I hope more books like this one get published, these stories are so important. And Ezra is just 🥺🥺🥺 This story gave me major Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda vibes. Maybe it was the blackmail storyline aspect of it, but I loved it and I thought it was pretty adorable like that book also is.

rep: Black trans demiboy achillean mc, Black Bengali achillean li, lesbian sc, mixed-race Black, Puerto Rican & white gay sc, poc sapphic sc, sapphic sc, gay sc, nonbinary sctw: transphobia (exposing old pictures and deadname, transphobic messages), mentions of past emotional abuse, absent parenti just feel so very, very loved right nowthe thing abt felix ever after is that it is CLEARLY written for trans kids. yeah, bad things happen to felix and yeah, there's quite a lot of transphobia but it's there bc ppl like that are still in the world & not just to teach the readers sth. there's balance here: bad things happen to felix but right from the very start, he has his best friend who's willing to fight the whole damn world for him. it tells trans kids who read it: look, it might be rough, but u WILL be loved!