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If you like lots of angst in your YA and stories about teenagers being assholes and doing stupid things, you will like this more than I did.

May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor

December 11, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was disappointed by this one, I don’t think through any fault of the book. I was really looking forward to it because of the premise, but it wasn’t really to my tastes, though I think what the author did with it was interesting. It just didn’t resonate with me. So what we’ve got here is two exes both running for homecoming king. Jeremy is trans (and newly out) and a cheerleader, and Lukas is the boyfriend dumped over the summer. They used to be […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: coming-of-age, LGBTQIA, may the best man win, trans author, trans protagonist, YA, ya contemporary, Young Adult, Z.R. Ellor

narfna's CBR13 Review No:183 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: coming-of-age, LGBTQIA, may the best man win, trans author, trans protagonist, YA, ya contemporary, Young Adult, Z.R. Ellor ·
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