Name: Felix Ever After
Rating: 4.334765625 (384 reviews)
ISBN: 9780062820259

Kacen Callender

Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.


Felix Ever After

kitkat

GRQCIAS A DIOS SE HA QUEDADO CON EZRA (era mi fav)

This Books has been on my TBR list for a while, and it took a Buddy read with a friend to give me the push to finally pick this one up!

Seventeen-year-old Felix Love is a trans, biracial high school senior at an expensive private art academy in Brooklyn, New York. He's taking a summer program to try and build up his painting portfolio to apply to Brown in the coming year. Felix is shaken and horrified when someone posts up a whole gallery of photos of himself pre-transition, labelled with his deadname, in his school's lobby. He jumps to the conclusion that it was his rival, and the story goes from here.

Whilst I did enjoy the storyline of Felix's continued exploration of his identity and his growing self-confidence in artmaking. But what I found grinding and annoying throughout the story was Felix’s rather negative attitude and just seeing the negative in everything; I can see that with what he has gone through this is properly to be expected.

This book is important, and I really learnt about the struggles of trans & queer people. Which is something I need to read more about since I am not trans but want to understand more. Felix helped me with that.

Ian Brakspear

This Books has been on my TBR list for a while, and it took a Buddy read with a friend to give me the push to finally pick this one up!

 

Seventeen-year-old Felix Love is a trans, biracial high school senior at an expensive private art academy in Brooklyn, New York. He's taking a summer program to try and build up his painting portfolio to apply to Brown in the coming year. Felix is shaken and horrified when someone posts up a whole gallery of photos of himself pre-transition, labelled with his deadname, in his school's lobby. He jumps to the conclusion that it was his rival, and the story goes from here.

 

Whilst I did enjoy the storyline of Felix's continued exploration of his identity and his growing self-confidence in artmaking. But what I found grinding and annoying throughout the story was Felix’s rather negative attitude and just seeing the negative in everything; I can see that with what he has gone through this is properly to be expected.

 

This book is important, and I really learnt about the struggles of trans & queer people. Which is something I need to read more about since I am not trans but want to understand more. Felix helped me with that.

I love this book. I think I can recognize myself in a lot of things that Felix went through which is why I love this book so much. I think its a good book for someone whos questioning their gender identity :) 

Laura

Sarah Sammis

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender is set in New York, primarily on Manhattan island. Felix Love has never been in love. He's too focused on his art and getting into Brown. He needs a killer portfolio but now his efforts are being sabotaged by someone at school who has deadnamed him and hung pre-surgery photos from his locked Instagram account.

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Stefan R. Schmid

Ich fand das Buch stellenweise unplausibel oder zu flach und war dann überrascht davon, wie stark der Sog dieser Story war und tief in verschiedene Themen eingestiegen wird. Und dann wiederum gab es einige Stellen, die dem Rest des Buches nicht gerechnet wurden - was super schade ist, weil dieses Buch ziemlich viel Potenzial hatte, mein Lieblings-queer-YA-Roman zu werden. Ich freue mich auf jeden Fall auf die Serie zum Buch, denn dieses Buch ist ein enorm guter Startpunkt für mehr.

Tatiana

Felix Ever After: 4/5


  “I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist.”

Premise:
Felix Ever After is a coming of age story following a transgender boy named Felix, and all he wants is to be loved and to feel love. One day, an anonymous student starts sending bigoted messages to Felix and publicly posting pictures of Felix before his transition and his dead name. Felix hatches a plot for revenge but inadvertently a love triangle instead. As Felix navigates his new confusing love life, he starts to question his own identity as well.

Felix Ever After is such a sweet story about self-discovery and finding the love you deserve.


  “Even if a creator made a character to be straight, they put those characters out into the world. So those characters are mine now. And I say that Steve and Bucky are gay as hell.”

Writing & Plot:
The writing is pretty standard and easy to follow with good length chapters. This is an easy and fun read, especially for pride month. I think this caters to a slightly older audience because it regularly talks of drugs, alcohol, and abuse, so make sure to look up trigger warnings before reading it.

I enjoyed the plot as well; I think the characters were very true to their age which I also appreciated. The one part of the plot I didn't love was the kind of "insta-love" trope we see between Felix and Ezra. I thought this could have been explored more thoroughly on Felix's side. Furthermore, the love triangle portion, I don't think, was for me. I was not a huge fan of how Felix treated Declan. 

Lastly, I wish the ending was explained a bit more and gave more of a conclusion. There are quite a few plot points left untouched, and I wish the ending tied up more loose ends.

Characters:
I always am a fan of books where characters realistically act their age. There is frequent use of drugs and alcohol in Felix Ever After but I think it added to the overall atmosphere. I enjoyed that the teenagers acted like Gen Z teenagers, and nothing was sugarcoated. For a book so short, I think the characters were very dynamic, and all had an important role to play. 


  “It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance.”

Conclusion:
This book is a great quick read that will get you out of any reading slump, and I enjoyed the characters and plot quite a bit. I think a few pieces could have been done better or were not for me, but overall, this is a fantastic book that is all about self-love and acceptance.

Victoria

2.5

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I want so much to like this book; after all, I actually love these types of stories. I want books with characters that I can relate to as a lesbian POC. However, the attitude of Felix really quite pissed me off. (Mild spoilers ahead.)

(view spoiler)[The way he treated his father – the person who paid and pays for his shots and top surgery – is just beyond me. Maybe it's some kind of cultural difference (me being an Asian who was born and raised and still lives here) but I just can't wrap my head around that. Why is it so difficult for Felix – or anyone else, for that matter – to understand that parents, regardless of how understanding and accepting they are, will always take a long time to let go of the idea of their child that they had in their head for the first how many ever years of their lives? It's especially difficult for these parents to let go of the name that they gave their child cause what if there's a sentiment behind it? It's just annoying how Felix just completely disregarded all that and just immediately wanted his Dad to be 100% okay and accepting with everything. Not cool. (hide spoiler)]

Bottomline, I just think he's a spoiled brat and I can't get behind that. But I did love the discussions in this book. Those were definitely worth reading.

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Currently reading:
Just barely 50% through this book and I’m hating this MC so much. The spoiled brat thing is not cute. I’m hoping for some character growth here soon!

menna

this is so fucking beautiful??? im in love with everything about it

Shareca

Felix Ever After
Kacen Callender
★★★★

translife.org

In ‘Felix Ever After,’ Callender explores issues related to identity, pre-and-post-transgender struggles, family dynamics, and discovering love for the first time. In high school, I had no idea what being any other sexuality or identity was like, much like Felix and his friends. Being at an age when sexuality was changing, but not dramatically in 2008, it was challenging to experience both at the same time. Even being Black was strange, let alone wanting someone of a different gender altogether. Felix shows us what it means to be seen in terms of gender, individuality, and cultural and ethnic diversity 🥺😌

Callender creates a wonderfully compelling character in Felix as well as Declan and Ezra (and many others), who I enjoyed. The story of Felix is both poignant and subtle as well as emotional and sweet; each of the characters is well-rounded, and they all contribute to Felix's development in an engaging way. Callender uses Felix to inform as well as understand; being in high school is tough, but understanding one's own identity is even harder. This novel left me with a lot to think about and my mind feels empowered.

Felix is this more 'grown up' version of YA that I appreciate; the prose is easy to read and the language is 'hip.' In this high school world, they smoke weed, drink alcohol, and live as adults; it gives the impression that high school is, in fact, the gap that separates teenage years from your upcoming adult life. Usually, it isn't shown this way and I enjoyed it. Some of the characters' decisions were 'childish', but they were accurately depicted. All of the characters' actions matched their ages.

For classroom discussion of identity, how to know, why it's okay to not know, and how to navigate the experiences of who you are, who you might be, and where you might be, this would be an excellent choice. As it explains so much in a way that is comforting, you feel understood or, at the very least, seen.

Felix Ever After

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