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Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
by Tanya Boteju
fun fun fun.
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this book was so different and I LOVED THAT. this book follows a girl named Nima who is in love with her friend. she eventually finds out about drag queens and that allows Nima to truly find herself.
plot. I liked the whole discovery of Nima's self. Nima is in love with her best friend and she almost tells her, but the friend admits she has known the entire time. like how rude is that. knowing someone likes you the entire time and persisting to lead them on. there was the character, gordon, who was really mean to Nima, and she even refers (which is a bit of foreshadowing) by saying "sometimes assholes are just hurt souls.". this book really helped me understand the world of drag. I never really understood that this was more of a way of expression, and that drag queens are confined to a certain sexual identity. there's this part in the book where Nima is invited to hang out with winnow. winnow introduces her to Devi and Boyd. Boyd is a drag queen, but he dates girls which Nima has the discovery that drag queens can date girls because she assumes most people that are drag queens are a certain type of person. anyways, Nima and winnow's relationship was so pure but their entire fight was a tad dumb for me because Nima was just scared to really commit. Nima starts to go through a lot. she has her mom write a letter to meet her after she left her without a trace almost 2 years ago, her best friend she was in love with (ginny) kisses her because she was "curious," she gets closer to gordon (her childhood bully maybe) after he reveals that he doesn't feel right in his body and that was cool to watch. she also has a great adult figure in Deidre who is transgender and is comforting to gordon, but also tells Nima to try to become a drag queen and really try to go outside of her comfort zone. Nima finds out that her mom and Jill were closer than friends, and her mom left because Jill didn't want to start dating her because it would hurt her dad and that was a lot. like I could understand that Jill might have had a crush on her, but the fact she left because she didn't want to comfort what happened was sad. anyways, the book ends with Nima getting with winnow and just really becoming herself.
this review sucks (I'm sorry), but this book was a lot of fun. I encouraged reading it.
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this book was so different and I LOVED THAT. this book follows a girl named Nima who is in love with her friend. she eventually finds out about drag queens and that allows Nima to truly find herself.
plot. I liked the whole discovery of Nima's self. Nima is in love with her best friend and she almost tells her, but the friend admits she has known the entire time. like how rude is that. knowing someone likes you the entire time and persisting to lead them on. there was the character, gordon, who was really mean to Nima, and she even refers (which is a bit of foreshadowing) by saying "sometimes assholes are just hurt souls.". this book really helped me understand the world of drag. I never really understood that this was more of a way of expression, and that drag queens are confined to a certain sexual identity. there's this part in the book where Nima is invited to hang out with winnow. winnow introduces her to Devi and Boyd. Boyd is a drag queen, but he dates girls which Nima has the discovery that drag queens can date girls because she assumes most people that are drag queens are a certain type of person. anyways, Nima and winnow's relationship was so pure but their entire fight was a tad dumb for me because Nima was just scared to really commit. Nima starts to go through a lot. she has her mom write a letter to meet her after she left her without a trace almost 2 years ago, her best friend she was in love with (ginny) kisses her because she was "curious," she gets closer to gordon (her childhood bully maybe) after he reveals that he doesn't feel right in his body and that was cool to watch. she also has a great adult figure in Deidre who is transgender and is comforting to gordon, but also tells Nima to try to become a drag queen and really try to go outside of her comfort zone. Nima finds out that her mom and Jill were closer than friends, and her mom left because Jill didn't want to start dating her because it would hurt her dad and that was a lot. like I could understand that Jill might have had a crush on her, but the fact she left because she didn't want to comfort what happened was sad. anyways, the book ends with Nima getting with winnow and just really becoming herself.
this review sucks (I'm sorry), but this book was a lot of fun. I encouraged reading it.