Felix Love has never been in love - and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it's like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What's worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he's one marginalisation too many - Black, queer and transgender - to ever get his own happily-ever-after.
When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages - after publicly posting Felix's deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned - Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn't count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi-love triangle . . .
But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.
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We push open the apartment building's glass door, out into the yellow sunshine that's a little too cheerful and bright. ONE
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(@FaberBooks, 18 May 2021, ebook, 373 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @OverDriveInc, # POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book about gender identity)
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This is a new author for me. Felix Ever After had me weeping like a baby soaking my screen with salty goodness. I loved it. Felix is a great character. You really get to know him, his friends, his struggles with his trans identity which isn't helped when someone targets him. I loved being inside his head. This gave me all the feels.