“David Levithan is an icon of queer young adult fiction. Romance, realism, and relationship drama – Levithan's stories are where my love for queer YA was born.” – Alice Oseman
From the New York Times bestselling author of EVERY DAY, this is a queer love story for the ages–told over the course of a couple’s first ten dates.
From the New York Times bestselling author of EVERY DAY, this is a queer love story for the ages–told over the course of a couple’s first ten dates.
When a blue-haired boy (Ryan) meets a pink-haired boy (Avery) at a dance–a queer prom–both feel an inexplicable but powerful connection. Follow them through their first ten dates as they bridge their initial shyness and fall in love–through snowstorms, groundings, meeting parents (Avery’s) and not (Ryan’s), cast parties, heartbreak, and every day and date in between.
Denise
29-1-2025
This was an okay read for me personally and wasn’t able to do much for me but I think it might be a very important read for some. The writing style is not my cup of tea. It spells out a lot and tells you a lot. It feels a bit like a self help/advice book for young queer teens at times. It was too on the nose for me and I personally didn’t get anything out of it. When I started it felt like the kind of book for people who know basically nothing about queerness and what it’s like. So either a queer person’s first queer book or someone who wants to learn about the queer experience. That is definitely not close to where I stand, since me as a queer person am far beyond that point, so it didn’t offer me anything through that. I do think that this can be a really valuable book for young queer teens to read. The beauty, struggles, doubts, intimacy, and awkwardness of a first relationship is portrayed beautifully. I saw a lot of my first relationship in them. Sometimes a bit too much for comfort since my partner was also living with their emotionally abusive parent and learned how to get out of it. So that hit a bit too close to home. But I think it’s so important to have that kind of story in books, so I’m glad it was there. I would have wished it would have gone the extra step to actually call it emotional abuse. With everything being spelt out so much, I think this would have been one of the most important ones to call it by its name. But sadly that didn’t happen. Ryan and Avery are very cute though and I wish them the very best.
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