Boy Can Cheer, the second book in the Lee Corcoran series, follows Lee Corcoran, a sophomore boy in high school whose life is not going as planned. In the first book, Boy for the Cheer, Lee became involved in a girls cheerleading program where he was reluctantly introduced to crossdressing. Lee finds that he enjoys the softer side of clothing. Circumstances seem to be forcing Lee to wear a feminine wardrobe in more situations. Even his summer seems destined to steal any attempt at masculinity.
In Boy Can Cheer, Lee’s choices in clothing and long hair lead to more complications in his life. Lee enters the dating scene and begins exploration of the relationships between boys and girls while finding himself further immersed in the cheerleading program.
When one of the competition cheerleaders gets injured before a major competition, they need a replacement who knows and can perform all the programs.
Every crossdresser has their own story of how their fetish developed. They also have a personal story on how they integrate crossdressing into their life. This story deals with a reluctant crossdresser who tries not to sacrifice his manhood while enjoying his unusual choice in clothing. As a sophomore, he finds himself pulled further into the feminine world than he believes he wants to go.
This story is a continuation of Boy for the Cheer and many of the characters may be better understood if you have read the first installment.
This book tries to deal with crossdressing as part of a real life. In many ways, Lee has a life many real world crossdressers only dream of.
Given the ages of the characters, the story does not involve explicit sex. Young adult readers should be comfortable reading this book.
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The Cheerleader series follows Lee Corcoran as he grows, matures, and experiences life from pre-high school through college. The main characters in this story will be recurring in other installments in the series. The long-term series involves romance and the second installment introduces Teen romance and exploration. Enjoy Daring Diane
Keywords: cross-dressing, reluctant feminization, cheerleader, romance, coming of age
When Marti finds Lee’s underwear choices thrilling and his cheer outfits as well. It would have helped the story if we understood in depth what she was thinking and feeling. Same when she suddenly has a problem with his dressing decisions at the pool, actually it’s even more important because it feels like she did a complete 180 in how she felt about Lee cross dressing. Then also Lee blames himself for this first reaction like he’s at fault, but this isn’t explored further and just resolves on its own with out any good explanation, and frankly, given how he constantly thinks he isn’t important, that he basically doesn’t have any confidence in his worth, that this is a deep seated issue for him and needs to be explored and resolved in depth and would take a great deal of time not to mention that there are some character traits particularly in book one that I associate with a trauma response. He sees a counselor but we don’t know what’s going on there or how he’s really helped by it.
Also, Lee’s gender identity isn’t explored at all, his expression is, but not his gender identity. He has through books 1 and 2 had some deeply ingrained fears around feminine gender expression which indicates fears of being perceived and treated as female or as “a man in a dress”. He states his gender identity is boy, but there’s no real exploration of his thought process around this, he states he doesn’t want to be a girl, but is happiest when he’s presenting and being a girl which is apparent gender euphoria. It’s fine that he identifies as a boy, but we need to understand why and how he thinks about it, and feels about it.
Then finally there’s the attempted kidnapping and assault that even though it was thwarted before it happened seemed to get brushed under the rug and we don’t see or really understand how the characters are processing and reacting to it. And this desperately needs to be explored as it feels dismissive of the experience of the women at the pool.
This book is absolutely amazing. In fact, the entire series is. And unlike in most series, the books don't get repetitive and there are always new situations happening to enjoy and read about. Barring this latest book which just came out, I have read each book in this series two or more times.
Basically this series is the story about two extraordinary good best friends and next door neighbors who met when they were seven. The series focuses on how the two of them in high school create a competitive cheer leading team that wins at national's in just four years. This accomplishment is mixed in with playing baseball, making friends, being lifeguards, dating, running a kids fitness camp, sleepovers, enjoying family life, modelling for magazines and so on. Despite all of these accomplishments, the series primarily focuses on what it is like to have good friends, a good family and to do the right thing in life.
Please note that while the books in the series form one continuous story they can be read as stand-alone novels because the author thoroughly covers the background story at the beginning of each book. Of course, this means that after I've read each new book as they are published I have wound up waiting impatiently for the next book to come out.
Note: This review covers the first six books in the series.
Well, I read this on the heels of reading the first book. It's consistent at least. Same narrative format, same lack of dialogue, same Mary Sue character who is perfect in every way. Same lack of problems for the main characters. There were a few predictable items in the romance he had going, and one event near the end, and predictably they were fixed with a wave of the wand.
It's good writing, but it's not literature. It's an average fantasy, Mary Sue, self insertion, tale that has good points, a lot of them. Others have hit those good points already, so I'm letting you know what is what in the rest of the book.
This is the second book in the series, and the story gets more interesting, love, romance, and the awareness that even though he insists he's a boy, he has discovered a wonderful life by being one of the girls. Some of this is hard to read, because I identify so much with Lee. At the same time this part of the series brings back some painful memories too.
Well it certainly is better the second time through. Good plot, good details no punishment , a believable story. Truly draws you in makes you feel a part of it would recommend
I love all of these books apart from the odd mistake and occasional spelling mistakes this series of books are amazing and I look forward to every new book.