Ummm…yeah…I loved this book. But you knew I was going to say that because I’m blogging about it, right? It’s fabulous. I read half last night and the other half today and thought about it whenever I wasn’t reading. This book is about a girl who feels like a boy; a transgender. She decides she has to start living as a boy in spite of the rough road ahead. The thing I loved about this book, aside from the great writing (so funny too), is that it always seemed truthful, but it never seemed tragic. Sometimes when I read books where characters have to do something really, really emotionally difficult and it’s simply torturous for both the character and the reader, I just think…Okay…yes, I buy this, but it can’t always be like this, can it? Some people must have reasonably decent experiences. Here is a believable, yet reasonably decent experience. I like this book’s hope. And I like all the characters too. Very well done. Of course, Ellen Wittlinger writes some amazing stuff (which is why I snagged it off the shelf at the library even though I have a whole pile of ARCs to read still). If you’re not hip to E.W. already, you should get right on that!
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