Amazing how a week away from the computer makes me feel so far out of the loop with classes. I’m tired, sore, really tired, did I say tired? Everything you would expect with a newborn. She slept a whole three hours straight last night, the longest so far and I’m pretty excited about it. Crossing my fingers that tonight is another repeat of that. Despite all of that, I managed to finish a complete book! It’s my LGBT pick, so I can cross another square off!
This is not your classic romance story. It’s no “Notebook” and it’s much more complicated. Holland is the kind of girl who has it all and is the all-american perfection. She gets good grades, she’s the student body president at her school, she has the boyfriend every girl desire and is in line to get into the shiny ivy league college. Yes, from the outside, it seems like she’s the girl that has it all together but things are not always as they seem. When Cece comes to school, the turmoil that has always been there starts to chun again and she can’t push aside what she’s really feeling. Holland, the perfect girl, has feelings for another girl. How will the world react? Most importantly how will those closet to Holland react and treat her? Holland must decide between her true self and the self she portrays to the world.
I’m not particularly drawn to romance novels, gay or straight, so it took some convincing myself to pick one that revolved around the topic. For me, it wasn’t so much the romance that drew me into the book but how the character had deep inner conflicts resulting from a particular love. I really like when characters have a moment of realization and have to decide if they will be true to that, or continue on with life as it already is. Holland had many of those moments. Be who I am, or be who I think the world wants me to be. It’s a good book for any teenager that struggles with self imagine both gay or straight. I also liked how it focused on women’s sexuality. A majority of the LGBT books I looked at focused on gay males, so props to the writer for giving the gay female a voice in literature.
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