Natasha Sipani

The book is simple, smooth, and you will just keep turning the pages to know who's who! I can definitely say, it's worth a buy. Loved it. 👖 This is about the journey of Simon, a teenager and the world around him. Who learns he's gay & is afraid if he will be accepted or not. 👖 He's got really good friends Nick & Leah, and newcomer Abby. Watch out for Martin, which clearly will disturb the reader but the author has given a beautiful ending. 👖 I loved the way the emails are written between Simon (or 'Jacques') & Blue (No spoilers), they are cute & funny & witty. 👖 As the story proceeds, Simon deals with lying to his friends, not coming out, in midst of blackmail, falling in love with blue, his school theater club and also in search of blues identity. 👖 It's the very first LGBT book I've read. I think everyone should read it & eat oreos. Lots of oreos. 👖 Overall, I loved the suspense, the friendship & the romance and just everything about this book. "Sometimes it seems like everyone knows who I am except me" "Why is straight the default?" "I'm glad you find me distracting. It wouldn't be fair, otherwise." Follow me on - @soulful_reader_

I would recommend this book to anyone who would read just for the writing. 🌼 Miles Halter (or 'pudge') is in search of his great perhaps and is interested in famous people's last words. When he moves to Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama, he meets Alaska Young through his roommate chip (or 'colonel') who introduces them. Pudge has his first cigarette, first drink, first bufriedo, gets his first girlfriend, and becomes part of all the pranks. 🌼 Alaska Young is beautiful, witty, funny, a book hoarder and there's never a dull moment with her but she's also incredibly screwed up. She's got a personality with a mystery to it. She challenges pudge to answer an enigmatic question about 'Simon Bolivars' last words about getting out of the Labyrinth of Suffering. 'She loved mysteries so much that she became one' 🌼 Pudge wants to know her, he wants to love her and as the story progresses he realizes that she's a very complicated girl. And nothing can ever be the same again for him. 'She finds him cute but she's got a boy friend'. 🌼 I would have enjoyed this book much more if I read it in my teens, nonetheless it is beautifully written YA fiction and is all about friendship, hearbreaks, self-discovery, sadness, loss and trying to find the answer to getting out of the labyrinth of suffering. "Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters." "If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane" "I like connecting an action with remembering" "At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze" Follow on instagram - @soulful_reader_