eloise_bradbooks's reviews
765 reviews

This was a very solid YA horror read, with a chilling atmosphere and a plot to keep you turning every page til you get to the end of it.
There was a little something that was missing for me to give it a 5-star rating, to make it really memorable. Maybe a little more surprise? A little more development between characters? I'm not sure. 
But it felt like a good book with one little bit of spark missing for me.

Ah bah oui c'était bien. Une jolie introduction à ce qui semblent être de bons personnages et un entremonde intriguant. C'est dommage que ce soit si cours, il me faut la suite de suite ! 

Loved it, can't wait to see where it goes.

A beautiful story about love and finding a home. About casual racism and what undocumented people have to face in the US. About art and meaning.
I also loved how Ander being non binary and using they/them pronouns is never questioned. There isn't any transphobia or any kind of queerphobia for that matter. This book focuses on Ander's journey of figuring out what they want in life, and about trying to keep their boyfriend as safe as possible while knowing their future together is fragile.
It gave us the perfect dose of tough truths, horrible situations, empowering hope and strong love.

This was a really good YA sapphic graphic novel where a girl gets caught between two classmates who are in a complicated relationship.
I really appreciated the story altogether, the pacing felt perfect, and the characters complicated enough to be interesting beyond the simple romance.
I would have preferred to not have characters be so mean though... It felt unnecessary and could even lead to not understanding how they could end up romantically involved.
I still found myself fully invested and appreciative of such levelled queerness in a YA graphic like this.

Well this was a pure delight. Brilliant art (nice manga inspiration in there), very funny, loveable characters and a story to warm your heart.
I must admit, living in France and loving cheese, it felt reeeally weird that everyone's names were different varieties of cheese. Its' funny but maybe a little too much for me.

I was hooked from early on, I got attached to the characters and the story. 
The spice was also VERY GOOD 🔥
I need the second book so desperately but why do I have to wait so long???

It is one thing to love a book, a book series or a specific character.
It is a whole other thing to have known a character for over a decade, to have followed through the worst things imaginable, to have read about his sadness and despair and shame (again, for fifteen years!), to then have him have his own journey of acceptance and relief and joy and love.
There is no feeling better than this.
And no other book will make me feel this again. I can guarantee that.

Nico Di Angelo, you deserve all the beautiful things this book gave you.
And to all the Nicos reading this book, 

A very strong, powerful and needed book about finding the strength to accept painful truths, about standing up to disgusting men, condoning sexual assault and fighting against r*pe culture, about female empowerment and sorority.
A strong point is also the diversity within this friend group (MC is Latina, queer, autistic, with selective mutism, secondary characters include non binary SC, black SCs, sapphic/bi SCs).
I hope many people get to read books like this one, to know they're not alone, or to understand what it could feel like to go through this, and to see how the system can work well in some ways, but not in other ways...
Ultimately though, it isn't just a book to learn about sexual assault. It's also about friendship, possibily accepting romance after trauma, family issues and coming of age.