The story follows Amanda Hardy, who moves in her estranged dad to start a new life for her senior year of high school. Amanda is determined to stay under-wraps until she starts falling for football player Grant, an easy going guy who' s interested in her. As she starts to let him in she realizes she deserves to find happiness even if she couldn't be truly faithful about something. Things are going well for Amanda as she now has a boyfriend and friends while carry a dark secret. She's transgender and was previously known as Andrew.
Amanda is worried about what will happen if her secret came out. After what she went through in her old school she realizes that in order to survive she can't let her secret slip.
Review: First off there was so much to love about this book! This is an LGBTQA+ book about transgender girl, written by transgender woman and the model on the cover is transgender! A step in the right way publishing. While this came out in 2016 and I'm just discovering it, shame on me, I found this story lovely! While I am writing a book with trans main character it's not from the POV of trans character.
While some parts were fictionalized it really opened my eyes to transgender community, and I hope to find more books about transgender teens as I think it's such an important topic. Some amazing scenes to note was when Amanda's dad thought Grant attacked Amanda but it was a misunderstandinG. Another was when after her GRS, Amanda sees her mom crying over her photos and accepts that even though she has lost Andrew she has Amanda. Such a powerful scene!
Also this was not a typical story where transgender faces bullying. Instead it was about hope and love and being who you are. I totally fell for Grant.
Two things I didn't like. First off the ending. It really left me hanging. I have no clue what happens it could have elaborated on that! Also it was the flashbacks, the flashbacks were unorganized going from six years ago to three years ago to four months ago.
Other than that I highly recommend reading this!
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