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Finding My Elf
by David Valdes
Whew this ended so much better than it started! Which honestly does make sense because it's applied to so many holiday books I've read with a Scrooge-type role, like a Christmas grump in a Christmas plot is just gonna be a weight in the story until they learn to get tf out of their own way. I also think it's because I get mixed energy from the whole "chasing after the wrong guy when the right guy is right there waiting for you" story that seems to plague queer YA every few months (@ The Sky Blues, @ 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers, @ Lose You to Find Me), but at least Cam was able to get out of his own way faster than the dummies in these other books lmao. I was also sad because I needed to get out of my OWN way and accept that it wasn't going to be the reality TV story I wanted it to be with alliances and villains and voting off Elf Island.
By the time I got halfway through the story, I was over all of those elements and just really engaged in the story. I wish we'd gotten more of a resolution between Cam and his dad, even the triumphant victory that was Cookie Party was thanks to someone else's meddling. And I wanted both more and less for the whole Leroy storyline lol, like I definitely felt a little gross about the whole thing, Leroy is lowkey gutter trash, but also if you're GONNA BE GUTTER TRASH, GO ALL IN, like babe how are you not embarrassed... The only thing worse than But I loved the end result of the competition, and I did really like Cam and Marco together, they worked for me.
End result is a book I did enjoy and twas the season, but I don't think I'll ever feel inspired to return to. Unless someone makes an audio recording of The Yule Log Song, Fiona was really out there about to get these children charged and booked for sex crimes glksjdf
By the time I got halfway through the story, I was over all of those elements and just really engaged in the story. I wish we'd gotten more of a resolution between Cam and his dad, even the triumphant victory that was Cookie Party was thanks to someone else's meddling. And I wanted both more and less for the whole Leroy storyline lol, like I definitely felt a little gross about the whole thing, Leroy is lowkey gutter trash, but also if you're GONNA BE GUTTER TRASH, GO ALL IN, like babe how are you not embarrassed... The only thing worse than
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being a cheating creep cyberbully is being an INEFFECTIVE CHEATING CREEP CYBERBULLY.End result is a book I did enjoy and twas the season, but I don't think I'll ever feel inspired to return to. Unless someone makes an audio recording of The Yule Log Song, Fiona was really out there about to get these children charged and booked for sex crimes glksjdf