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Twelfth Knight
by Alexene Farol Follmuth
emotional
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Thank you to NetGalley and Tor Teen for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book? That comes out on Tuesday? ROMCOM PERFECTION. CHEF’S KISS. Obsessed is an understatement, and no, I will not back down from these sentiments!! If you love 2000s Shakespeare retelling romcoms like me, this book was made for us, bestie!!!! Follmuth truly delivered and gave us this wonderful book to start out the summer.
The banter? Hilarious, charming, and made me laugh out loud throughout the book. The romance? A slow burn of two complete opposite people—Vi being a grumpy gamer, and Jack being a sunshine football star. When Jack gets a knee injury that takes him out for the football season, he begins to play Twelfth Knight and befriends a peer who he is told is Bash, Vi’s extroverted theater brother, but in reality, it’s Vi who plays as a male character. While Jack begins to take his role more seriously as president of the student body with more responsibility, Vi agrees to help him figure out what’s going on with his girlfriend who keeps dodging his questions. He is the bane of her existence, people!!!!! NEED I SAY MORE?
As they spend more time together, they begin to realize, much to Vi’s dismay, that they make a good team that can maybe lead to something more?… They both slowly reveal to each other who they are and begin to have real, genuine feelings for each other. I love how they handled the “third act breakup,” and what Jack says 😭😭😭 I don’t have it in my quotes on this post, because you really need to experience that moment for yourselves. Everything that came out of their mouths??? I was in 100000%.
And the relationships in this book — with Bash, Olivia, Vi’s mom, Antonia, etc — I loved it all so much. There is such an important theme of realizing that it’s okay to have moments of joy and find people who make you believe in yourself and love you for you.
I could not look away. If this became a movie I would EAT IT UP. I would have a movie ticket preordered SO FAST.
It was an HONOR to read this ARC, and I highly recommend it!!
This book? That comes out on Tuesday? ROMCOM PERFECTION. CHEF’S KISS. Obsessed is an understatement, and no, I will not back down from these sentiments!! If you love 2000s Shakespeare retelling romcoms like me, this book was made for us, bestie!!!! Follmuth truly delivered and gave us this wonderful book to start out the summer.
The banter? Hilarious, charming, and made me laugh out loud throughout the book. The romance? A slow burn of two complete opposite people—Vi being a grumpy gamer, and Jack being a sunshine football star. When Jack gets a knee injury that takes him out for the football season, he begins to play Twelfth Knight and befriends a peer who he is told is Bash, Vi’s extroverted theater brother, but in reality, it’s Vi who plays as a male character. While Jack begins to take his role more seriously as president of the student body with more responsibility, Vi agrees to help him figure out what’s going on with his girlfriend who keeps dodging his questions. He is the bane of her existence, people!!!!! NEED I SAY MORE?
As they spend more time together, they begin to realize, much to Vi’s dismay, that they make a good team that can maybe lead to something more?… They both slowly reveal to each other who they are and begin to have real, genuine feelings for each other. I love how they handled the “third act breakup,” and what Jack says 😭😭😭 I don’t have it in my quotes on this post, because you really need to experience that moment for yourselves. Everything that came out of their mouths??? I was in 100000%.
And the relationships in this book — with Bash, Olivia, Vi’s mom, Antonia, etc — I loved it all so much. There is such an important theme of realizing that it’s okay to have moments of joy and find people who make you believe in yourself and love you for you.
I could not look away. If this became a movie I would EAT IT UP. I would have a movie ticket preordered SO FAST.
It was an HONOR to read this ARC, and I highly recommend it!!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism