YA LGBT Books discussion

This is for YA books with significant LGBTQ content released in December 2020 - anyone can post books here (author or not.) If the book is on Goodreads please link it (and maybe show us the cover.) If you read it, feel free to add a short comment or synopsis. Consider also adding the book to our group bookshelf.

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Hey everyone! My second young adult novel Watching for Comets comes out this December 8! Readers are calling it "...adorably gay" and "incredibly beautiful." I'll leave the synopsis below and some early buzz for you to check out as well.

Also, if you preorder the book in any format and submit your proof of purchase on my website at http://jordongreene.com/preorderCampaign you get a bunch of free book swag (including character stickers and a signed bookplate). I hope you'll consider giving it a chance.

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EARLY BUZZ

"It's adorably gay." -Books with Paul, Goodreads

"Incredibly beautiful ... [It] leaves you with a good feeling." -Cara Bucherwahn, Goodreads

"I cannot give this book enough praise for how absolutely wonderful it is." -Grant Turner, Instagram

"...an adorable queer YA romance..." -Jordan, MyGayBookcase (Instagram)

"A touching trip through grief and finding your way back to happiness." -Charlotte Kinzie, Kinzie Things Blog

"A sweet LGTBQ+ story about friendship, healing and finding yourself while letting yourself fall in love again." -Marti M., Goodreads

"...[It's] filled with warmth, humour, romance, and representation." -Brad Emes, Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

TYLER: Life sucks. There′s no point in acting like it doesn′t.

Why else would it make me gay, give me a family that hates who I am, throw me in a town that would rather "my kind" be shipped off, and then decide my boyfriend had to die? Or maybe that last one was my fault... The point is that life sucks. Everything about it sucks.

Oh yeah, and now I′m stuck venting about it all to my archnemesis, Aidan.

AIDAN: You know what? Life hurts sometimes.

It does right now. I miss my friend, and I don′t understand why he had to die. But there′s a part of me that knows he′s looking down from the stars right now, and he wants me to smile again. It might be fake at the moment, but it′s something. The crazy part is I never imagined Tyler would talk to me again, but here I am trying to help him through the same hurt I′m feeling.

I just wish I knew why he hates me so much.

I've preordered it. if the pandemic persists, I may get through my backlog--up to 75 books!

Thanks! And good luck with that.

I'm late posting my late fall/early winter lists, sorry about that, folx; I got really busy assembling a presentation on LGBTQ topics for my county library system.

Week 1, December 1st
A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha

Rising Out by M Azmitia

The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley

The Good Girls by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel by Gabby Rivera

Week 2, December 8th.
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology ed. by Dhonielle Clayton

What If We Were... by Axelle Lenoir

Watching for Comets by Jordon Greene

Week 3, December 15th.
Moonstruck, Vol. 3: Troubled Waters by Grace Ellis

Blue Flag, Vol. 5 by Kaito

The Dubious Gift of Dragon Blood by J. Marshall Freeman