YA LGBT Books discussion

I'm trying opening these at the beginning of the month:

What YA LGBTQ book would you like to read, or do you think members who haven't read it should try, (and those who have read it can discuss), as our BotM for Nov 2023?

What book made a difference to you, and might to other readers? What sounds interesting, appealing or different that you want to read?

If possible, link the book page on GR and tell us a little about it or why you picked it, or post the blurb.

The titles of past books of the month that we have read are on all the threads in this "Book of the Month" folder, and you can also check with a search of the group's book-of-the-month Bookshelf at - https://www.goodreads.com/group/books... Please do not repeat a book we have read - either as a past Book of the Month or as a Buddy Read (check the Buddy Read folder) - and please only nominate the first book in a series, unless a later book stands alone as a solo read.

Up to two nominations per member. Nominations will be open through Midnight Oct 31, or sooner if we get 12 nominations - the max for voting. Feel free to renominate a book that did not win in a past vote, if it fits this category. (You can find previous nominations in either the old polls (under the "polls" link) or in the "Old BOM Nominations" folder well down the group page.)

Authors please do not nominate your own books - but readers can definitely nominate a member author's work

(We will read Gwen & Art Are Not in Love in Dec, since it comes out very late in the month.)

The first book I would like to nominate is Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker. Blood Debts
The story is about a set of twins called Clement and Cristina and how they went their own ways after their father died and their mother was cursed. It's a story about generational magic set in contemporary setting.

The second book I would like to nominate is The Ghosts We Keep by Mason DeaverThe Ghosts We Keep
I would like to read this book with bookclub another book by the author called I Wish You All the Best. The Ghosts We Keep is a story about mental health and learning to live with the loss of a loved one.

Hey! I'd definitely like to nominate Into the Deep

The MC is queer/autistic, basically she discovers ancient tree magic and ends up underground studying it. A lot of mental health issues/queer and nd characters against an ancient magic setting is actually really powerful i think and I never see it anywhere

Axel wrote: "I would like to read this book with bookclub another book by the author called I Wish You All the Best. ..."

Thanks to you both. And I enjoy Mason Deaver - we did "I Wish You All the Best" as a book of the month a while back and it was very well liked.