Lowkey feels like this book is banking on aesthetics rather than the tangibility of the plot elements or the world building. Still gonna push through though bc i have to give my fellow med student Raya her flowers

I've recently read The Sunbearer Trials, Celestial Monsters, and Cemetery Boys, all by Aiden Thomas. They're phenomenal, I highly recommend! But now, I crave more like these books.

I need more cozy adventurous YA fantasy in my life, so if anyone has any recommendations, or wants to share their favourites in the genre, feel free to share! Bonus points if they have diverse casts and queer rep! 🤩🏳️‍🌈

Athlete romances seem to be all the rage right now. But I don’t think i’ve seen any with a swimmer. Does anyone know of any?

Straight or LGBTQ+? Honestly, i’d even be curious about some good non-romance ones. I think the only ones ive read were by Matt Christopher as a kid.

i just scroll through the forums or reviews of my favorite books (especially the underrated ones, most especially the ones with little to no posts yet ) and like the posts i agree with, or even when i don't agree with it but they make a very good point/critique 😭

lowkey it still falls under doomscrolling to me (because i'm still, unfortunately, scrolling through my phone) but at least it's not doomscrolling through short form videos 😩 plus i get good insight from well-thought out posts and a bit of fangirling and freaking out from very excited posts 🙂‍↕️

no judgement zone here! i’m always curious about this and what made the book so bad to someone

mine is between if he had been with me and a thousand boy kisses. these books i was so excited to read but when i did, i absolutely hated them. i cringed way too hard during both of them. i know they are supposed to be heartbreaking, but it’s hard to be hurt by a book that made me want to chuck it across the room because of how bad it was