Amo que sea contado desde dos puntos de vista. Muy cute

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I'M NOT CRYING WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

I don't know if I'm becoming more generous with my 5 stars or if I've been lucky with my reading lately, but here's another one. I could have finished this all in one go, but decided to stop halfway through last night and take a break, and finished it this morning. This book hurts at times but I loved these characters, and it was worth it in the end.

4.5 stars

I really enjoyed this book and breezes through it! I loved the story and resonated with a lot of the coming out and mental health aspects from my own teenage years. There were just a few things that I had problems with- mainly the timeline because their ages/ school years didn’t match up with how the school districts that I am close to operate. I just got a little confused and hung up on that. I wish this book would have been a little longer so that we could have gotten to know some of the side characters a bit better. I don’t think that would have taken away from the snapshot approach of this book. Overall, I really enjoyed it and I know I will continue to think about it in the future.

Surprise (non) quand un livre qui parle d’adolescence et de transidentité est écrit par une concernée ça passe pas par l’apitoiement pour ses parents, sans être naïf pour autant.
Le livre, qui plus est, est malin dans sa forme : deux personnages qui se connaissent depuis la naissance, que l’on retrouve sur 5 ans le jour de leur anniversaire (13 ans - 18ans). Y’a beaucoup de choses positives à en dire (narration, points de vue, critique de la masculinité toxique qui amène homophobie et transphobie), et déjà le fait qu’il existe et soit dispo !

4,25

This book made me cry like 5 times. So beautiful.

4.75, but I have no problem rounding up
The ending was so tender, and loving, and beautiful, I cried!!! Love is real!!!!!!! I felt like the structure of the book being their birthday from 13-18 was a really interesting choice, and for the most part worked really well for me, but I feel like a bit of characterization and plot was lost because obviously a lot happens in a year the we the reader are no seeing. However, just a really impactful read, that really has so much empathy and love for the main two characters, and such an insightful look into the life of a trans teen, with all the pain, and love tenderness that comes with that

This book is a treasure. Morgan and Eric's story is fascinating and heartbreaking and surprisingly wonderful.

Eric is a truly great example of non-toxic masculinity. He has so much love in his heart and such a connection to Morgan that nothing else has mattered but that love and respect of Morgan.

Watching Morgan constantly choose to bury her true self down and think that maybe she just never tried to be a boy enough is so heartbreakingly real that I felt my own soul crushing.

This book does a great job of showcasing that even if you happen to have a support system it won't matter if you can't come to terms with things yourself. I hope a solid takeaway for readers who are struggling that they learn to ask for help instead of letting whatever it is eat away at you and desperately wishing someone would see you need help. PLEASE PLEASE ask for help and if you feel you can't talk to family their are so many free hotlines you can talk to someone. You are not alone no matter how easy it is to feel that way.

Morgan and Eric are best friends, born on the same day in the same hospital, and they’ve spent every birthday together. At the beginning of this beautiful book, it’s their thirteenth birthday and Morgan thinks about telling Eric the truth: that she (I’m going to use she/her pronouns for Morgan here, though characters throughout the book use he/him) is a girl and not the boy everyone assumes she is. Many years and many misunderstandings pass by before this fundamental truth of her identity is revealed and properly understood (by Eric OR Morgan), and in the meantime you read about both of them trying to understand one another even though they know each other better than anyone. Morgan’s journey of discovery is handled beautifully and heartbreakingly well, and the realities for many (sadly, most) trans kids are not swept under the rug. This will be an important book for many people.

I will be honest: despite the brutal parts here, there is also a little rosy colored edge on the proceedings. I’m not against a book with a happy ending, but it almost feels a little too happy. It’s nice to see good things happen to worthy people and it’s nice to see a trans girl get her love story. There’s honesty to it based off the way Eric and his genuine love and respect for Morgan are portrayed from the time they’re both children, but things slot into place maybe a tiny bit too quickly and tidily. It’s not really a complaint; just an observation. I’ll be ecstatic to sell this book.