eloise_bradbooks's reviews
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 Oh my ******* god THIS BOOK IS THE BEST!!
These boys love each other more than anything. They are each other's home and always have been and always will be.
I don't even know what to say it was just unputdownable and so cute and also dealt with some heavier topics but got a pretty amazing happy ending.
This is about finding your family in someone and their loved ones too.
This is a new comfort book. 

Well this was nice and fun and a pretty cool idea for an anthology!
A group of teen aliens crashland on Earth to rescue the captain's brother who is now a famous movie star in the USA.
If you think that sounds kinda crazy, it is. But it's also a lot of fun and a good way to see a bunch of queer teens around the States, interact with a bunch of aliens and realise how aliens can be relatable to us queer folk.

Here's the thing: it did feel a tad bit too easy in the way that every one accepted the alien situation super easily and they were all very happy to help and open up to strangers, I mean... aliens!! And of course each alien landed in a place where a queer teen with similar issues to them were there to help and become their friend over the course of five minutes...
If you're able to look past that, you'll have a great time though.

(One last thing: this could have been an incredible opportunity for found family subplots but it never occured to anyone!?)

Special shout out to One Last Shot Before the End of the World By Julian Winters and A Taste of Country by M.K. England which were stand-out stories for me. 

YES!! What a great read about Charlie, a butch hockey player who gets suspended from school -and therefore hockey- and ends up helping Alexa, a figure skater, with her doubles figure skating competition. The girls despise each other at first. Slowly but surely, after spending so much time together, being forced on dates by Alexa's mom, they grow to care about one another.
It was really sweet, felt realistic (which I often don't get from YA romance-focused books) and purely and simply a joy to read. 

 I loved each story, the humour, the art style, the relationships.. But I don't understand why this is one book with three stories in them? Two of them at least deserved a book dedicated to them... 

Dessins OK, scénario et dialogues pourraient s'améliorer. Là où cette BD est vraiment bien c'est dans son message, dans l'histoire vraie qui est racontée d'un groupe de détenues qui font tout leur possible pour avoir des conditions de vie dignes pendant leur détention.

Objectively, I'm sure this is a great book. But character-driven literary/historical fiction doesn't seem to work for me.
I didn't quite understand the point of the blue skin. It's the title of the book, it's the main character's most stand-out feature, and yet it doesn't really seem to have much of an impact on her life or this story for that matter... (or maybe I missed something? I might have, I didn't seem to care enough about our main character to even remember her name...).
Then again, it actually shows that being a queer Arab Palestinian woman moving to America is much more impactful on someone's life than them being blue. That's pretty powerful.
This was actually the most interesting part of this story. Learning about our MC's aunt Nuha, a Palestinan woman fleeing her country, looking after her family, falling in love with a girl but letting her go for the sake of giving her family a better life. 

 I love these boys so much. They're so sweet, thoughtful, their couple is literal GOALS!
But also this was a little less interesting than the first book... 

 C'est très difficile pour moi de "noter" ce roman graphique. A la fois je suis ravie qu'une BD parle aussi ouvertement de l'asexualité, à la fois je suis déçue.
J'attends depuis des années qu'on puisse voir l'asexualité répandue, connue, comprise et célébrée dans les médias. En voyant cette BD, j'avais tellement d'attentes qu'il était sûrement impossible de les atteindre.
A en croire la 4e de couverture, je m'attendais à ce que l'asexualité soit l'élément central à cette histoire. Or, ce couple traverse beaucoup de choses, l'asexualité n'est qu'un élément parmi tant d'autres qu'ils essaient de comprendre dans leur relation. En soit ce n'est pas une mauvaise chose, c'est juste une petite déception par rapport à mes attentes. La complexité de cette sexualité et l'impact qu'elle peut avoir sur une personne et sur son couple n'est finalement pas assez développée...