Top 5...#13

Hello there internet! As today is National Coming Out Day i thought i would celebrate it by looking back at my favourite LGBT books/characters. This was easily one of the hardest top five's i think i have ever done, but i love all of the books mentioned SO MUCH.

Here we go!!

5: Boys: An Anthology by Various Authors

This book is something new for my top five series as it's a non-fiction book, and my gosh is it an amazing one. This book is made up of different stories by different guys in the LGBT community, all of them true, and all of them wonderfully written. I cannot stress how much love i have for this book.

4: Alec and Magnus (The Mortal Instruments series) by Cassandra Clare

The relationship that develops between Alec and Magnus, as well as  the individual character developments of them both, are basically my favourite parts of this whole series. I adore Alec. I love Magnus. And my gosh am i the number one supporter of their relationship! They make me laugh, make me cry, and make me go awwwwwh far too many times. I love them and i hope more 'popular' YA series carry on to have equally amazing LGBT characters. 

3: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

I love, love, love this book. I love Paul. Noah is as cute as hell. Tony breaks my heart. And Infinite Darlene was everything missing in YA. I adore how this book isn't set at a school with a few LGBT teens who are struggling with their sexuality/bullying (as pretty much all of the LGBT books i had read before were) but rather it was the classic, funny, heart warming contemporary romance YA we all love, but everyone is LGBT...and it's fantastic!!

2: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green

I bloody love this book. I love the differences in the characters, i love Tiny, i love everything. This book is truly one that just warms my little heart, and is easily my favourite thing either author has ever done. The way this book mixes the classic YA boy likes best friend who is a girl and the great boy meets another boy online and weird friendships and romances appear, alongside slight Holden Caulfield vibes from one of the Will Grayson's...it's fantastic.

1: Something Like Winter by Jay Bell

*Insert all of Jay Bell's books under this heading* Seriously though, Jay Bell is the king of LGBT books, and the king of my reading heart. He can do no wrong. Something Like Winter is my favourtie book of his, but in all honesty it's pretty much the same as asking someone to pick their favourite child. All of Jay Bell's books have a special place in my heart, and the relationships in SLW are just perfect. Every character in this book i love. Every relationship warms my heart and stresses me out in their own way, and it has everything i want in a book. So if you're ever in the mood for some good writing with excellent LGBT characters - Jay Bell is your man!

Happy Coming Out Day.

Stay Happy. Stay Safe.

I love you.

Meghan xx

Like And Subscribe - Book Review

Two posts in one day?! Well aren't i the productive one today!

This review is slightly different to the other reviews i have done on this blog so far because it's of a short story, something i'm not usually a big fan of...well i've definitely changed my mind!

Like and Subscribe is an amazing short story from the ridiculously amazing Jay Bell, and let me tell you, it is just as great as his other work! The story is about a guy called Evan, and it tells the story of how he came to learn the truth about love. omg it's good.

I feel like anyone who has ever been subscribed to a YouTuber should read this story and see how much like reality it is! I think Evan perfectly captures the essence of being a YouTube fanboy/fangirl, and that Tony is the perfect example of how we can never really know what our favourite YouTubers are like no matter how much we love and adore them.

I love the evolution between Evan and Tony's boyfriend Orlando, and how Evan starts to see how the persona that Tony puts on for his YouTube audience is far from what he is like in reality. Something that a lot of YouTube lovers need to see, because not everyone on YouTube is as perfect as they seem.

Honestly, Jay Bell is fast becoming one of my favourite authors and every new thing i read by him the more in love i fall with his writing! I cannot wait to read more! In fact, i'm going to wrap up this post and go read his short story Language Lessons...I AM EXCITED!

Meghan x

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Something Like Winter - Book Review

Hello there again people of the internet! I'm back again today with another review for you all! Up this time is Something Like Winter by Jay Bell, which is the sequel to the wonderful Something Like Summer, here we go!!

Something Like Winter was everything i ever could have wanted in a sequel and oh so much more! All the aspects that i completely fell in love with during Something Like Summer were still there, but there were also these other amazing parts that i never knew i wanted. The parts that were 100% Something Like Winter were possibly the parts of this book that i loved the most, and the whole book was simply perfect.

Something Like Winter tells the story of Tim from Something Like Summer, and shows us his perspective of that first year with Ben, as well as all the other times that their characters came together in Something Like Summer, but with oh so much more. The parts of the book that told the story of Tim without Ben, something i longed for while reading Something Like Summer, were so brilliantly and beautifully written, and i even loved the characters that i hated. Tim's story was a perfect blend of familiar and original, mixing the best parts of his story with Ben with a story so uniquely his own in such a beautiful and heartbreaking way.

The new characters were all amazing, all of them being this amazing blend of good and bad characteristics that Jay Bell seems to have mastered. Getting to know the characters from Something Like Summer that i felt i knew so well in a whole new way was amazing, as was getting to know characters who i wanted to know more about the first time round. *cough*ERIC*cough* I never wanted this book to end!

Since i finished Something Like Winter i haven't prepared enough mentally yet to take on Something Like Autumn and Something Like Spring, but omg i cannot wait to get stuck into them both! As soon as i finish my current book i will be all over Something Like Autumn! I miss the characters, i miss Jay Bell's writing, and i miss being so involved in a story.

It's such a wonderfully perfect series so far, and i cannot suggest it enough! If you decide to give this series a chance, i promise you will not regret it one little bit!!

Meghan x

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Something Like Summer - Book Review

Hello there internet!! How are we all today? Oh good! :)

I'm here today with another book review, and it is one i am VERY excited about! The book is Something Like Summer by Jay Bell. I read this book about two weeks ago in one sitting, and i have wanted to type up my review ever since, however the almighty power of university work has pushed back everything i want to do. Hopefully that's cooled down for a bit now!

Anyway, on to the review!! (I am warning you now, there may be a lot of OMG!!!!'s and AHHH I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!!'s...you have been warned!)

OH. MY. GOD. I am so in love with this book! 

Much like with Boy Meets Boy  i read this in one sitting and i have absolutely fell in love with every single second of it! As soon as i finished it i bought the other three books in the series, two short stories by the same author, and then immediately missed the story. I don't think i've fell so in love with a book in a long time.

The story follows a guy called Ben, who falls for the new, straight, guy at his school - Tim. The first part of this book focuses on the first year that they met and the friendship, relationship, heartache, that happened in that first year. This part made me want to reach into my kindle, pull them out of 1996 Texas and give them the biggest hugs ever. Also to shake some damn sense into them both! When this section of the book ended, i cried. I haven't cried to a book in a long, long time, and it doesn't really happen very often. It was so beautifully written and wow it was just so perfect and heartbreaking. 

Then in part two of the book, Ben is in college in Chicago, and his love life hasn't gotten any better since part one. BUT THEN something happens that means he has to go back to Texas, and on the flight he meets a flight attendant called Jace, and wow Ben falls in love and all seems like it's actually going well for once! Hurrah! He moves to Austin to live with his best friend, and life is good...BUT THEN uh oh who does Ben see in a coffee shop....TIM!! (OMG RIGHT) Ugh i love this part of the book so so so so so much!!

There is then a part three...which i am not going to discuss in this review, because to do that i'd have to spoil things that are major plot lines in part two. And i think that this part is so beautifully written, and oh so heartbreaking, that it's something that you should go into blind and just get lost in the story because it's just perfect!

I'm currently just over halfway through the second book Something Like Winter  and i am just as much in love with this book as i was the first. I cannot wait to read the rest of the series (there's also Something Like Autumn and Something Like Spring) and also get into the short stories of Jay Bell's because i am so in love with the way he writes!

Meghan x

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