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Book Reviews, Fiction

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy

15th June 2018
Dumplin’ (Dumplin’ #1) by Julie Murphy
- Publisher: Balzer + Bray, 2015
- Genre: Young Adult
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 384 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)
If you go in there and you decide that this isn’t for you, then you never have to go back. But you owe yourself the chance, you hear me?

The message this book tried to convey is clear enough, but the details of the plot are not. Some of the conversations were slightly unnatural and the sense of time was a bit weird. The characters would change subjects without proper pauses and a several-minute drive would be over in a 10-sentence talk. I was left in confusion.
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Starting from Scratch by Jay Northcote

12th June 2018
Starting from Scratch (Housemates #5) by Jay Northcote
- Publisher: Jaybird Press, 2017
- Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 196 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
accurate trans portrayal, hot sex, awesome people

Most people were obsessed with genitals. Gay guys were all about the dick and straight guys were all about tits and pussy. It was something you took for granted, a fact of life, until you realised you were trans and then suddenly began to see gender through a totally different lens. Definitions of masculinity and femininity became more flexible, less rigid, and not so focused on body parts.

This is my first attempt to read a sort-of-erotic M/M romance fiction, and also a first novel with a trans lead.
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Book Reviews, Fiction

Keeping Long Island by Courtney Peppernell

8th June 2018
Keeping Long Island by Courtney Peppernell
- Publisher: Pepper Books, 2017
- Genre: Romance, LGBTQ+
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 268 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
Wow.

This book deserves so much more attention! I finished it in less than a day and was left feeling very, very loved. It was written in a similar format as The Perks of Being a Wallflower was, as both protagonists dealt with mental health issues by writing letters to strangers, but that is not to say that these books were at all alike in contents.
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Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

5th June 2018
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women (Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls #1) by Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo
- Publisher: Timbuktu Labs, 2016
- Genre: Children’s Literature
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 212 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
This book had me smiling and close to happy tears on various occasions. It is wonderful to have such a compilation of female individuals’ stories in such plain language. Everyone should read about these wonderful people around the world who are willing to fight the system just to pursue their dreams.
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Book Reviews, Fiction

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

1st June 2018
The Upside of Unrequited (Simonverse #2) by Becky Albertalli
- Publisher: Balzer + Bray, 2017
- Genre: Young Adult
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 336 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)
It was an okay yet sweet YA book. I enjoyed some of the scenes but not really the whole plot.
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