Only Mostly Devastated: Sophie Gonzales

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However, that's not the case as one of them is not out. What could be more terrible than that? Nothing, except that this love interest begins to avoid the main character and laugh at mean jokes made about him. That my friend is when shit begins to get real....

Bardzo słodkie, bardzo przyjemne, kocham Olliego i to, że umiał pokazać „pazura” gdy było to potrzebne. I really liked Ollie. The situation he is in is actually very relatable, if you've ever been in love with somebody who needs to work their feelings out at their own pace (on positive side) or anybody who was somehow unavailable and wanted to keep your relationship 'secret'/'private' no matter what you wanted or how much it hurt you (the worst case scenario, but yes, I've been there and many other people also have). It is easy to get blinded by heartbreak, embarrassment, or anger, and sometimes it is healthier to walk away. Other times it is important to look carefully and objectively whether the other person is trying and whether your situations are compatible. Thanks for the heads up! I actually removed The House in the Cerulean Sea because it's adult fiction, not YA. The story is very well crafted.It's sweet with a bit of angst,funny,with a serious side.Two highly likeable MCs,and great supporting characters. Ollie's 'old' friends disappear after one video call...clearly they had a very meaningful relationship with Ollie.Ollie, our main character, is one of these characters I want to protect and hug and just wonderful. He’s kind and yet socially awkward a tiny little bit, he’s caring and just so relatable in the way he views things and life. He makes mistakes and assumptions and is really far from perfect, but despite his flaws, you just want him to be okay and happy. I really wanted him to be happy. El personaje de Ollie es el típico personaje que no suele caerme bien. Es intenso, le da demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, y sinceramente, no tiene un par de huevos para enfrentarse a las situaciones algo complicadas. Pero su arco es tan bueno… No solo la mentalidad, sino su personalidad, consiguen evolucionar durante la novela hasta llegar a tener unas importantes y muy bonitas reflexiones sobre la vida y la muerte, el amor, la sexualidad… De verdad que me ha parecido una de las mejores partes de la novela: ver cómo Ollie evolucionaba tanto y tan bien. I’ve been on the hunt for books like Mamma Mia! my whole life. I always joke that I watched Mamma Mia! too many times in my formative years and that’s why I’m obsessed with Pierce Brosnan in white linen pants, ABBA, and literally every musical that has ever been made. My birthday after the film came out was Mamma Mia!–themed, with plates and napkins plastered with the cast and everything. I talked through the entire movie. How my friends remained my friends after that, I haven’t a clue.

Also: Here are some other books that are queer af written by authors who are also queer af. Add them, read them, boost them. Because the only way to get more queer books out there is to support the ones that already exist. That's how capitalism works, boys, gals and nonbinary pals. I felt like the ending was a bit abrupt but, overall, I enjoyed this highschool drama-y novel! Review to come Ollie's is an amusing narrator. He is fairly awkward, very sweet, and has a lovely sense of humour. He shows self-awareness and self-respect (two things that are often MIA in a YA main character). While he does use acronyms (I had to google D and M) and makes plenty of references to popular culture, these were well incorporated into the narrative (they didn't come across as just random insertions). If anything they made him into a believable teenager. Okay. I could do this. This wasn’t a big deal. It was just a guy texting another guy. A guy who knew all my biggest secrets, had spent the better part of seven weeks making out with me, and had Seen. Me. Naked™. Sophie Gonzales writes young adult queer contemporary fiction with memorable characters, biting wit and endless heart.Outrageously funny and terribly sweet, ONLY MOSTLY DEVASTATEDwill tugat your heartstrings until they break, then weave you new ones made of pure gold." All I'd needed was a Destiny's Child song playing as an overture and it would've been the greatest "screw you" since Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind."

So maybe a little bit of clinginess from me was justified. As long as it didn’t come across as clingy, of course. Note to self: carry bass around everywhere and break into impromptu solo whenever anyone tries to force you into conversation."The cheesy moments. That's to be expected in most contemporary books but I still had to call it out. It was late afternoon, on the very last Wednesday of August, when I realized Disney had been lying to me for quite some time about Happily Ever Afters. Because, you see, I was four days into mine, and my prince was nowhere to be found. Gone. Vanished." Throughout the book, Will repeatedly prioritizes his friendship with the guys over Ollie’s feelings, and always tries to apologize for it afterwards. While this admittedly gets frustrating pretty fast, I can also understand where both Ollie and Will are coming from. As someone who’s comfortable in his identity and who has already come out to his family, Ollie doesn’t care what people think about who he wants to make out with, but over the course of the book he realizes that his experience is not universal. Not everyone has the same support system that he does, and people require support manifested in different ways. While it’s slow-moving at best, Ollie and Will take steps towards individual progress that allow them to eventually take steps together as a couple, and I think that’s an important message in and of itself. The storyline starts well enough but soon fell into a predictable path. We have a certain number of subplots following Ollie's friends and his aunt which were so thinly rendered as to have little impact on the overall story.

LGBT: There are too few LGBT books out there that truly represent what it's like to be LGBT (I am bi, myself). But I absolutely loved the different representations in this book, the closeted, the openly out and the confused. It felt like a very real representation and it really hit home for me over and over again ❤️It was the very last Wednesday of August when I realized Disney had been lying to me about Happily Ever Afters. Because, you see, I was four days into mine, and my prince was nowhere to be found. Wait. So Aunt Linda hadn’t passed away? The relief hit me so hard I almost missed Mom’s next words, too dizzy with happiness to focus. The power of this fun Grease retelling is that it normalizes the spectrum of sexual orientations. Recommended for all teens." - School Library Journal Ollie Di Fiore is happy and secure in his sexuality. As his favourite Aunt Linda points out he has a supportive family, great friends, and a wonderful school. He doesn't even know how easy his coming out was compared to other people's. Ollie and his family spend their summer at a lake in North Carolina, and this is where he meets and falls in love with Will- 'sweet, thoughtful, and respectful' Will. Then suddenly Will starts ignoring Ollie's texts and it's clear whatever undefined relationship they had is over.