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elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia
Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexism
Minor: Emotional abuse and Domestic abuse
caramelie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
J’ai retiré 0,25 pour les quelques répétitions qui n’ont en rien changé le fait que ce livre va rester avec moi très longtemps.
Ce livre m’a fait ressentir des émotions similaires à, voire plus intenses que, I Wish All the Best. Je recommande donc aux personnes qui ont aimé I Wish You All the Best de lire Felix Ever After et aux personnes qui ont aimé Felix Ever After de lire I Wish You All The Best.
Graphic: Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Bullying
Moderate: Gaslighting
Minor: Alcohol, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Drug use, Racism, Classism, and Deadnaming
castle_samj's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Cursing and Transphobia
Moderate: Stalking, Alcohol, Homophobia, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Dysphoria
Minor: Body shaming
wardenred's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
“The issue is that we’ve never really gotten to see our own stories,” Declan tells me. “We have to make those stories ourselves.“
Ugh. Kids these days. How I envy them sometimes. I wish I had books like this growing up!
This was an absolutely lovely story with so much packed into it, and such a wonderful balance between dealing with the pain transphobia causes and experiencing the joy of self-discovery and settling into your skin. I found Felix an extremely relatable character between his struggles to figure out the details of his gender identity, and his worries about possibly having one marginalization too many, and how he reacted to his mother abandoning him by gravitating toward the choices that will get him hurt when it comes to feelings, and the whole big damn mess he created with that love triangle / catfishing scheme. A lot of it threw me right back into my own messy teenage years.
I really loved how flawed and messy in that uniquely teenage way all the central characters were, and how alive they all felt on the page. At the same time, some of those emotional peaks, especially in the second half of the book, sometimes made it difficult to stay immerse—which I think wasn’t so much the book’s flaw as just my experience as an adult reader. I had to remind myself that yeah, that’s exactly what teens can be like. Everything is always so extreme, so larger than life, and nope, they can’t just temper down the feelings and talk it out because they’re *still learning how to do that.* Communication is a skill, and the characters in this book definitely work on developing it in a realistic, relatable way.
There were also some structural tricks here I really liked, such as the very first scene doing so much foreshadowing in terms of everything from plot to theme, or specific scenes kind of mirroring each other, like the one where Felix has an important face-to-face conversation with Ezra while texting Declan and the one where he has an equally important face-to-face interaction with Declan while pretty much talking to Ezra in his head. At the same time, in the late part of the story, if I’m very strict, I have to admit there were some parts where the structure got sloppy-ish as the emotions heightened. I really don’t want to be strict, though. I just want to be happy this book exists. <3
Graphic: Deadnaming, Alcohol, Bullying, Transphobia, and Abandonment
drawahardline's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Outing, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, and Homophobia
Moderate: Abandonment
byalexisrae's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Abandonment, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Bullying
tinysierra's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Flawed messy characters
Trans/
Discussions of privilege and classism
Abandonment
Transphobia
Tropes:
Love triangle
Personally not a fan of the underage drinking
The audiobook narrator worked well for Felix. But the audiobook version I listened to still had Harry Potter references which could be triggering.
Graphic: Transphobia
Minor: Abandonment, Classism, and Alcohol
alexbooksandmore's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I was happy to read a book that was effortlessly diverse in characters, with strong development and a love triangle, lol :))
I truly enjoyed the last chapters I was so emotional, i cried rivers, and sty till late night to finish it.
Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Abandonment
melist6's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Classism, Bullying, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia
Moderate: Deadnaming, Grief, Alcohol, and Abandonment
Minor: Child abuse, Addiction, and Dysphoria
arielwip's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Bullying, Homophobia, Outing, and Transphobia
Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Drug use and Classism
I found Felix a bit