Felix Ever After

I loved this book so, so much.
you could tell that the author knew what they were talking about, and it felt like it was really coming from the heart.
lots of times i was saying “wow, this perfectly describes how i feel about my gender” and i think many people can agree
anyways, without the personal stuff, still loved the sorry and the fun little plot twists.
one negative thing, i despise love triangles

As someone who is apart of the transgender community I can't begin to express how important this representation is in media like this. There needs to be more stories like this.

Felix's character and the struggles that he went through this book made me quickly become attached to him. It's so refreshing to see trans issues being represented in correct and non harmful ways.

It's so refreshing to see characters that are so diverse and real. There was a character that every reader could see themselves in.

“You don't get to use my pain to make your point.”

I think this is something that needs to be highlighted and more importantly be said.

The MCU and stucky being mentioned in this somehow just made this ten times better for me.

This made me feel so hopeful for the future. This is an absolute comfort read.

What a great book about some very prescient issues we are facing right now.

Felix is figuring out his identity and along the way he has to navigate so many road blocks to finding love of himself and love of someone else.

I loved how quickly you are dropped into the action of this book. You get to know the characters instantly and there's no hand wringing about how it introduce the supporting cast. It's a fully explored and vibrant world of these teenage artists.

I also really loved the conversations about art and how it's important to them and they want to create something meaningful and interesting while balancing their own personal interests.

These characters are intensely worried about their future while also trying to live and love in the now. This is a book I wish I had as a teenager.

So many wonderful characters and a mystery at the center that's engaging and interesting. I love a coming of age novel and a queer novel. I hope trans kids can read this and find themselves in Felix.

Wow ein so tolles und wichtiges Buch – ich liebe Felix und die anderen Protagonisten. Dieses Buch hat mich emotional mitgenommen und an einigen Stelle auch sehr wütend gemacht. Es war eine Achterbahnfahrt und einfach nur toll. Die Entwicklung von Felix und das finde zu sich selbst ist wunderbar beschreiben und lässt ihn noch mehr in mein Herz
Bin sehr traurig das es vorbei ist

This book brought me back to high school again. The teenage drama was almost too well done. Wonderfully written book on one persons struggles as he navigates living in a world as a black transgender. The inner turmoil with the main characters gender identity even after starting the transition was a good addition to drive home the fact that so many people struggle tor longer than one mat expect

I loved so much of this #ownvoices book about a trans demiboy figuring out his gender identity, and how to accept the love he deserves.

This book is so obviously written as a love letter to trans teens, and I'm so so happy it exists. As a teenager, I couldn't have even imagined walking into a bookstore and seeing a visibly trans person (with top surgery scars!) on a book cover, especially not in the YA section. We still have a long way to go with representation, but books like this are making such a big difference.

Despite the transphobia in this book, I really appreciate the nuance and delicacy with which it was handled. There are some tough scenes and moments to get through, but it's so clear that the author put so much care into writing them—the kind of care that I think can only come from an LGBTQ+ author. Since everything is from Felix's POV, he is the one controlling the narrative, and the way we see everything. Even when he is deadnamed, we don't actually see his deadname used. We don't need to know the name to know that it happened, it hurts him, and why.

The only reason this isn't a 5-star read for me is because the romance(s) kind of went off the rails, and didn't really play out in a way that felt natural to me. But I might just be too old now to remember what it's like to try to navigate romance and love as a teenager

i actually related to this book so much. i love the way it talked about gender identity, sexual orientation, and racism. i think it really showed how some queer people can still be homophobic to others in the community and that is something that needs more awareness. white cis gay men spitting on the whole fucking community for what ??? i also loved the way felix discovered love and different types of love. this book was just so educative and so beautiful and ezra is my new comfort character

“For trans and nonbinary youth. You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect.” I knew I was going to love Felix Ever After by the dedication alone.

I don't read a lot of character-driven narratives but this was a good one. Felix questioning his identity really struck a cord with me– his internal dilemmas and anxieties on how he should feel, his pain and who he is felt real.

I was so happy that he was able to embrace love and himself in the end.

It was sad. It was funny. It was hopeful.

DNF - PG 21

Okay, this was quick. Look, I already hated Felix in short order. I mean, his grand introduction is getting into an argument that seems to stem from past issues that we have no knowledge about, and I don't automatically assume that the protagonist is in the right.

Then, Felix is so concerned about getting into a good college (Brown, specifically) - but he still stays up until three am every morning and smokes weed. Yeah, really concerned.

I also know that top surgery isn't exactly cheep and that most insurance companies don't pay for it - so I was already wondering about the dichotomy between Felix being able to get top surgery and having to go into debt - or get a scholarship - to afford college before I met his dad. But after? There's no way this man, who dead names Felix, uses the wrong pronouns and does not correct himself.

Felix's dad also ‘[...]some nights, when he's had a little too much whiskey or beer, he'll tell me that I'll always be his daughter, his little girl.' ... This father payed for FTM top surgery? Really? The man who ‘still has a hard time saying my name' and ‘doesn't like saying the name Felix out loud'? This man? (There's a review here that breaks the price and the horrifying implications of finding a doctor that would complete top surgery on a minor down: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3531946150?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1)

I just... No. Cannot suspend disbelief thanks to the terrible person I'm stuck in the head of.