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mjarolimek 's review for:
Never Kiss Your Roommate
by Philline Harms
5/5 stars.
More than that. 10000000/5 stars.
This book was the manifestation of all the wonderful and good feelings I’ve felt over the course of my entire life. This book was so good I couldn’t stop smiling as I read through it and as I was finished. This book is so good there aren’t enough adjectives that exist in the English language to describe it. This book is one of the best I’ve read in all the seventeen and a half years I’ve been alive.
I related so much to Evelyn: knowing what you are, but being terrified of how I would be perceived. I could see so much of myself in her, and even though I’m bisexual and she’s a lesbian, the experience was the same. And I too found myself falling in love with Noelle Daniels. But my bisexuality and anxiety was where I related to Seth. I literally am Seth Williams; give me a haircut and different genitalia, and that’s me. I have never seen so much of myself in a character until right now, and not just because I could never resist Jasper Des Lauries. I’ve never felt so validated by a book—which not only validated my sexuality and how I felt about it, but did, in fact, reinforce that I am in love with girls AND boys.
There is a review posted on the back of the book:
“For all the queer people who fell in love with, and felt betrayed by, books about magical boarding schools, Never Kiss Your Roommate is the book they’ve always deserved.”
This could not be more true. This book felt like a warm embrace. I long for the friendships formed between Evelyn, Seth, Noelle, and Jasper—a queer friend group that I don’t constantly need to prove my worth with. I fell in love with this book, with the language, the characters, the story. It wasn’t just a story to me; it felt like coming home.
More than that. 10000000/5 stars.
This book was the manifestation of all the wonderful and good feelings I’ve felt over the course of my entire life. This book was so good I couldn’t stop smiling as I read through it and as I was finished. This book is so good there aren’t enough adjectives that exist in the English language to describe it. This book is one of the best I’ve read in all the seventeen and a half years I’ve been alive.
I related so much to Evelyn: knowing what you are, but being terrified of how I would be perceived. I could see so much of myself in her, and even though I’m bisexual and she’s a lesbian, the experience was the same. And I too found myself falling in love with Noelle Daniels. But my bisexuality and anxiety was where I related to Seth. I literally am Seth Williams; give me a haircut and different genitalia, and that’s me. I have never seen so much of myself in a character until right now, and not just because I could never resist Jasper Des Lauries. I’ve never felt so validated by a book—which not only validated my sexuality and how I felt about it, but did, in fact, reinforce that I am in love with girls AND boys.
There is a review posted on the back of the book:
“For all the queer people who fell in love with, and felt betrayed by, books about magical boarding schools, Never Kiss Your Roommate is the book they’ve always deserved.”
This could not be more true. This book felt like a warm embrace. I long for the friendships formed between Evelyn, Seth, Noelle, and Jasper—a queer friend group that I don’t constantly need to prove my worth with. I fell in love with this book, with the language, the characters, the story. It wasn’t just a story to me; it felt like coming home.