Asexual Awareness Week may have ended over the weekend, but our search for ace and aro representation never ceases! Today we have a roundup review of five YA novels published this year that feature characters on the ace and/or aro spectrum.
Month: October 2017
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Katherine Tegen Books, June 2017
Reviewed from hardcover
(Note: some spoilers ahead, so tread carefully)
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue has been getting a fair amount of popular attention this year, and rightly so! A New York Times bestseller with four starred reviews and a delightful amount of fanfiction, Mackenzi Lee’s sophomore novel is by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, liberating and life-affirming.
History Is All You Left Me / They Both Die at the End
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Soho Teen, Jan 2017
Reviewed from hardcover
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
HarperTeen, Sept 2017
Reviewed from ARC
Adam Silvera has not one but two eligible YA books out this year. Both feature queer cis male characters, both deal with death and life in the face of it, both have received numerous starred reviews, both are well worth discussing. And I’m tackling both in one post for the sake of expediency.
Wild Beauty
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
Feiwal and Friends, Oct 2017
Reviewed from ARC
**Mild Spoilers Ahead**
We talk about contenders (for the most part) in these individual posts. We talk about books that pull at us, books that swallow us, books “of exceptional merit” (whatever that might mean). We talk about books like Wild Beauty. I offer the full disclosure that queer fairy tales will always capture my attention, and knowing already what McLemore can do with a little magic and some flowers, I have been excited for this YA novel since the Publisher’s Weekly Rights Report announcement last year. I’m so thrilled to talk about it as part of the importance of visibility and self-determination that National Coming Out Day recognizes.
Medal on My Mind 