Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2022
Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2022
Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum (January 4th)
Lethal Lit follows Tig Torres, a Cuban American teen detective, in her hometown of Hollow Falls. In season one of the hit podcast, Tig used her smarts and fearlessness to track down the infamous “Lit Killer,” a serial killer who staged his murders after death scenes from famous books. But there’s no rest for courageous, mystery-solving teens in a place…
Personal Opinion: This book is short and sweet. Not too much drama, some decent comedy, overall just a relaxing read. Janey Worthing was found in a bag as a baby by her father. She doesn’t know who her biological family is but it doesn’t matter because she already has everything she needs. Still, when her best friend Algie steals her spit for a DNA test, they find a match. And Janey has to grapple with whether or not she wants to discover her bio family or not.
Do I Own This Book? Nope.
Spoilers Below For My Likes & Dislikes:
Likes:
- Janey is automatically a sympathetic protagonist. She was abandoned as a baby in a bag. But she has a very loving family and she loves them very deeply, regardless of how dorky her dad can be. She also wants to be a social worker so she can help kids like her. Ones that lost their homes and need to be placed elsewhere. She’s kind, funny, and she genuinely wants the best for people.
- Algie is less sympathetic with his heartbreaker streak but he loves Janey and that much is obvious from the page. He wants to help her whenever he can and not just because he caused the #BagBabyBabe incident. But because he truly adores her. He wants what’s best for her.
- Gwen was a bit of a question mark for me at first but the fact that she donates her wealthy allowance and wants to be a social worker to put out good in the universe makes me respect her so much.
- Cecil is just plain adorable. Honestly, Janey’s entire family (including Sandra and Emily) are adorable. But Cecil had the most appearances and he was just adorably awkward for shouting random shit. And for keeping a diary. And yet despite those adorable traits, he was the one who became Algie’s savior at the bowling alley.
- Raina is hilarious. She is the weird girl representation that we need. But also, she might legit be psychic and that’s cool too.
Dislikes:
- This book might be too short for my tastes? I don’t know, I guess I expected more. Like, I’m not completely sure how/why Janey and Gwen fell in love. Okay, the promposal was cute as shit but it was mostly Algie’s idea. I guess seeing them chat while watching Rings of Saturn was cute too. I don’t know, I just feel like the romantic relationships could’ve been developed further. But I’m not necessarily mad at what we got.
- I don’t like heartbreakers like Algie. He can have his opinions on monogamy but did he really have to make out with a guy while taking another guy to a dance? Like that’s just rude and disrespectful.
- When 100% of the cast is white and 50% of that is rich, I get kind of bored. Not to say the story was boring in any way. I found it to be very humorous and sweet. I just personally want to see more stories with POC.
Thoughts: again, another book i really wanted to like, considering how it’s inspired by the importance of being earnest (which is my favorite oscar wilde play), and again, it’s another book that fell short. i think the best way i can describe it is: extremely, epically weird. it’s SUCH a weird book, right down to the characters themselves. the protagonist and her best friend are not actually good as friends, and the main romance is bland and underdeveloped. the secondary romance is so uncomfortable sometimes?? there’s a lot of emphasis placed on how innocent one of the characters in the relationship is compared to the other character and the result is a very icky situation that i didn’t like reading about. not to mention that the book actually had typos in it, which makes me think it wasn’t actually edited. the ending was cute but it felt unearned. the writing is okay, i guess? i don’t know, i think the overall issue is that it could have been more and i would have liked for it to have been more, but it wasn’t, and that just makes me so sad.
The Loophole by Naz Kutub
Syyed is pining for his ex, who left home to—save the world? He doesn’t know much more, except to wish he’d gone along when Farouk asked. But Sy is shy and timid, from a controlling Indian Muslim family, and wants most to make a life and home with people he loves. Then he meets Reggie, an heiress—is she magical or just rich?—who, in exchange for his kindness, offers to…
Fave Five: Queer Reimaginings of 19th Century Literature
Fave Five: Queer Reimaginings of 19th Century Literature
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A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee (YA, Treasure Island)
The Wife in the Attic by Rose Lerner (Jane Eyre)
Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim (YA, The Count of Monte Cristo)
Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (Pride and Prejudice)
Fresh by Margot Wood (YA, Emma)
Bonus, coming in 2022: Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond,…
Creating a post for all of the media that I've enjoyed this year that has had multiple formats and has consumed an abundance of my time. Will update as I find more.
(Shout out to Kyria45, I think it's impolite to @ them? But check them out, they're great on here and youtube)
photographs were never meant to last forever like those files on your phone. if you think they'll never fade, you don't work as hard to keep your memories from fading.
