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Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

93 reviews

brookey8888's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • 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

This was amazing. I loved Felix. I loved the friendships/relationships. I also loved the topics this discusses. This is intsalovey and Felix and the characters make dumb decisions but their teenagers. While this does deal heavily with transphobia, this is also really just a story about Felix falling in love with himself and others and I think that is beautiful. I highly recommend this because it’s such an important story to tell. 
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bemsla's review

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • 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

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martereadsbooks's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • 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

5.0

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ciao_potatoes's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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tinana's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative sad medium-paced
  • 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

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rockyroadbutch's review

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emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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smillas_tales's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I have a lot of feelings about this book, and it’s been one of the most difficult to rate this year! I love so many aspects of it, and it sends so many important messages, but for the most part, I just felt that the execution was lacking.

I love Felix and Ezra! I adore their friendship, and them as individuals, even with all their flaws! However, other than the two of them, I didn’t love the character work. It’s amazing to have a book with an almost exclusively queer cast, but they’re all a little black or white. Every character also has a tragic backstory and bad parental relationships, which perpetuates the idea of queer people not being accepted by family, and that’s not a great message to send to young queer readers.

For the most part, I loved Callender’s writing! It has such a nice flow, so I flew through the book! However, the dialogue is a bit unrealistic at times. A couple of times throughout the book, a group of characters had discussions about sexuality and gender identity, and while I really appreciated the nuance to the discussion, it felt out of place. I almost got the impression that Callender couldn’t decide whether to write an essay on gender or a novel, and decided to just mix them. 

One of the things I appreciated most was the discussion about discrimination within the LGBTQ+ community, cause it’s very real, but not often talked about in queer media! 

All of this being said, I loved the ending! The book had a unique take on the love triangle, which I liked, and the conclusion to that aspect of the story was so lovely and believable!
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marie0350_'s review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
  • 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

5.0

This book is absolutely amazing. I cried so hard.
Marisol made me so mad. How can she say she’s an ally when she tells Felix that he’s a misogynist because he’s a trans man and then have the audacity to act like everything is his fault when she gets called out on it? and don’t get me started on Austin. that PoS deserved worse than getting expelled. And he did that because he wanted Ezra? that’s messed up.
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lucy12345's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
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  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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anenbydragon's review against another edition

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emotional reflective tense fast-paced
  • 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

4.75

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