YA contemporary queer rom-commish hate-to-love story. Originated, or so the rumour goes, as a Rory/Paris *Gilmore Girls* fanfic, and you can see those roots, but it has been turned into quite good YA. I thought one of the central characters (Rachel) felt a bit over-the-top and a bit caricatured early on, though less so as …
The latest from Mariko Tamaki, a writer of prose and comics whose work I have enjoyed for a long time. This one is a graphic novel – teen heartbreak in slow motion, and a young woman’s move from bad decisions and the drama of her dysfunctional on-again-off-again first queer love to a friend- and community-rich …
YA contemporary. Teen Sana Kiyohara’s family moves from the US midwest to California, where she has to deal with a new and very different school environment, a new love interest, and her sneaking suspicion that her dad is having an affair. I have mixed feelings about this one. I like that it visibly weaves the …